Product Leadership: A product has several components, the inner components that craft the product, the external components like sales, marketing, inventory, procurement, customer service etc. The product leadership defines the features and functionalities of the product, the roadmap and timelines of the product delivery & its deployment. Product leadership needs to be very well connected to the...

Nowadays, forward-thinking companies move beyond conventional structures of organizations and consider all parties the supply chain. The objective this paper is to present an adaptive network data envelopment analysis (DEA) model evaluate overall divisional efficiency sustainable chains in presence desirable undesirable outputs. Our DEA can assess given managerial natural disposability. Also, i...

Formal quality-improvement (QI) projects require that participants are educated in QI methods to provide them with the capability to carry out successful, meaningful work. However, orchestrating a portfolio of projects that addresses the strategic mission of the institution requires an extension of basic QI training to provide the division or business unit with the capacity to successfully deve...

Building a robust and effective human-agent team is difficult, as teams can fail for many reasons. In this study, we investigated the performance of human-agent teams with divisional and functional team structure under different level of task load uncertainty. Divisional teams show robustness against uncertainly but can lead to poorer performance. Three reasons related to team coordination were...

INTRODUCTION Chagas disease is considered as emerging in the Brazilian Amazon, usually occurring in acute outbreaks. METHODS We describe 17 cases of acute Chagas disease in Rio Negro, Amazonas. RESULTS There were 15 males (average age, 31.3 years), all positive for Trypanosoma cruzi in fresh blood smear examination, and 14 positive by xenodiagnosis and PCR. The top clinical manifestations w...

A multi-divisional firm can engage in ”winner-picking” to redistribute scarce funds efficiently across divisions. But there is a conflict between rewarding winners (investing) and producing resources internally to reward winners (incentives). Managers in winning divisions are tempted to free-ride on resources produced by managers in loosing division whose incentives to produce resources, antici...