Process Flowcharting: A Skill That Adds Value

Further Evidence that Solar Adds Value to Real Estate

Vietnam: smuggling adds value.

Internal British American Tobacco (BAT) documents 1 have been explicit about the knowledge of cigarette smuggling into Vietnam. In one document , Vietnam Status Report (12 May 1995), it was stated: " Cigarette imports were banned 6 years ago. Smuggled sales into Vietnam are currently estimated at approximately 7 bn [bil-lion] p.a. although prior to a crack-down in 1990 (when all smuggling was v...

Towards a Flowcharting System for Automated Process Invention

Ironically, while automated programming has had a long and varied history in Artificial Intelligence research, automating the creative art of programming has rarely been studied within Computational Creativity research. In many senses, software writing software represents a very exciting potential avenue for research, as it addresses directly issues related to novelty, surprise, innovation at p...

Competitive Intelligence Adds Value:: Five Intelligence Attitudes

The authors report on the growing importance of competitive intelligence as a management practice in the majority of leading companies. Reviewing the history and definition of competitive intelligence, they then go on to distinguish types of competitive intelligence, to analyse the competitive intelligence process, and identify five categories of attitudes towards competitive intelligence. The ...

Ethnography, fidelity, and the evidence that anthropology adds: supplementing the fidelity process in a clinical trial of supported employment.

This discussion considers the role and findings of ethnographic research within a clinical trial of supported employment for veterans with spinal cord injury. Contributing to qualitative evaluation research and to debates over anthropological evidence vis-à-vis clinical trials, we demonstrate how enactors of a randomized controlled trial can simultaneously attend to both the trial's evidentiary...