A hydraulic project may be small or large, simple or complex, and single or multiple purposed, and it should provide the functions to accomplish the optimum development of related water and hydropower resources. In many cases, the project will be multi-purposed. For this reason, the investigations may comprise a large number of matters, and some or all of them will influence the selection of th...

As technical division of the Lufthansa Group, Lufthansa Technik and its 30 subsidiaries have to fulfill a wide variety of legislative and normative requirements. To demonstrate and ensure compliance with these requirements, Lufthansa Technik introduced the process-oriented integrated management system IQ MOVE and modeled a wide range of its processes in a plain and simple to understand methodol...

This research studies the characteristics of the Mexican pork sector; adoption status of quality management systems, and product destinations. Ninety six percent of fifty enterprises have fully answered a questionnaire. Ninety percent are small and medium-sized, the rest are large-sized firms. Nineteen percent of them have totally adopted HACCP, sixty three percent are implementing or planning ...

Learning processes do not occur only within, but also between enterprises. There is, therefore, a need for inter-organizational in addition to intra-organizational knowledge management. Since much of the communication and interaction among organizations takes place on the internet, it is logical to use internet applications to support the relating knowledge management tasks. The paper derives t...

Because of increased job requirements, workforce flexibility and lifelong learning, corporate training services have grown into a key approach for improving organizational performance. Transfer-of-training is a key output of these services, defined as the application and generalization of new competences at work acquired in training. Today corporate trainings focus on blended learning by combin...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to suggest principles and framework for comprehensive societal knowledge management (SKM) for countries to provide acceptable conditions for their citizens and businesses and to participate equitable in the globalized knowledge economy. Design/methodology/approach – Foundations for SKM principles and framework are based on requirements and practical experi...

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How does e-learning support group work in university information and communication technology (ICT) education within a blended learning environment? While face-to-face interaction was possible for oncampus student group work, distance education students could only perform their group work online. This research adopted a qualitative case study approach. It explored the e-learning use by students...

Applying Concurrent Engineering in a company has a significant influence on the way information is dealt with. This influence is discernible for information on orders, products and resources. The impact of this influence on the product is determined, from which an extended role for the product information structure comes forward. On this product information structure, the overall product life c...

Currently a large scale infrastructural mall development of 48000 m is being constructed adjacent to the Mooi River in the central business district of the city of Potchefstroom. This development is facing significant environmental and social challenges due to the highly sensitive environment in which the development is being constructed. In projects like the Mooirivier Mall Development the act...