Product data management is an engineering oriented information system. Engineering change request, engineering change notice, and engineering change control workflow in a product data management system are usually utilized starting from the detail product design phase. Lack of guidelines to identify configuration items and design change control workflow is one of the major reasons for not using...

Anyone in a leadership position is well aware that any type of change within their organization is never easy but is a normal part of progress; such change is especially commonplace in the dynamic nature of the current health care landscape. Despite that knowledge, how best to manage change is often unclear and/or ill-defined. This is particularly troublesome when one considers that a given cha...

This paper argues that, while change must be well managed, it also requires effective leadership to be successfully introduced and sustained. An integrative model of leadership for change is proposed, reflecting its cognitive, spiritual, emotional and behavioural dimensions and requirements. The model comprises vision, values, strategy, empowerment, and motivation and inspiration. The paper con...

In this paper, we analyze the problems of keeping up with diagrammatic changes being made within a collaborative software design tool. With these graphical tools, one software engineer may specify possible software architectures e.g., through a UML editor. A second software engineer may then modify the diagram. The problem is how the original engineer can track what changes had been made. Most ...

As software evolves, maintenance practices require a process of accommodating changing requirements while minimizing the cost of implementing those changes. Over time, incompatibilities between design assumptions and the operational environment become more pronounced, requiring some regions of the implementation to require repeated modification. These regions are considered to be “unstable”, an...

Multi-Disciplinary Engineering (MDEng) environments involve a wide range of models, processes and tools that were not designed to cooperate together. The Ontology-Based Information Integration (OBII) approach has been proposed to address the integration issue within such environments. However, knowledge changes management and analysis (KCMA) process within the environment are not covered within...