abstract the purpose of this study was to investigate the simple and multiple relationships between the practices of the strategic human resources management and technical innovation in the public universities of isfahan. through classified random sampling, a sample of 480 faculty members from those universities in isfahan was selected. to collect data, strategic human resource management pract...

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The dairy transportation problem (DTP) consists of determining the best routes to be performed for collecting milk from farms and delivering it to processing plants. We study the particular case of the province of Quebec, where the Fédération des producteurs de lait du Québec is responsible for negotiating the transportation costs on behalf of producers. Several issues are highlighted in the ac...

The brief history of application frameworks has been focused primarily on technical issues. That is changing today, as more and more organizations are recognizing the potential of application framework investments to improve their strategic position in the markets they serve. But to realize this potential, an approach firmly grounded in the disciplines of business strategy is needed. Value Base...

General Morphological Analysis (GMA), pioneered by Fritz Zwicky at the California Institute of Technology in the 1930s and 40s, was developed as a method for structuring and investigating the total set of relationships contained in multi-dimensional, non-quantifiable, problem complexes. During the past 15 years, GMA has been extended, computerized and applied in developing futures scenarios, st...