The characteristics of today's competitive environment, such as the speed with which products are designed, manufactured, and distributed, and the need for higher responsiveness and lower operational cost, are forcing companies to search for innovative ways to do business. The concept of agile manufacturing has been proposed in response to these challenges for companies. This ...

The automaton known as ‘Langton’s ant’ exhibits a dynamical transition from a disordered phase to an ordered phase where the particle dynamics (the ant) produces a regular periodic pattern (called ‘highway’). Despite the simplicity of its basic algorithm, Langton’s ant has remained a puzzle in terms of analytical description. Here I show that the highway dynamics obeys a discrete equation where...

Abstract Due to the fast-paced nature of software industry and success small agile projects, researchers practitioners are interested in scaling processes larger projects. Agile development (ASD) has been growing popularity for over two decades. With small-scale transformation, organizations started focus on agile. There is a scarcity literature this field making it harder find plausible eviden...

Agile software development is finding a new dimension in software development process models. As tools and techniques used to develop software has been changed drastically. Software development processes need to keep pace with changing technologies and new demands from clients. Today’s changing business needs have given rise to adaption of structures, strategies, and policies to suit the new en...

In a world of fast changing environments for business, the need for innovation is one of the most stable items. On the other hand, innovation is influenced by more and more factors, like increasing products and service complexity ore growing numbers of partners, involved into a single product innovation. This paper introduces interoperability problems related to simultaneous business and produc...

Supply chain management has become one of the most popular approaches to enhance the global competitiveness of business corporations today. Firms must have clear strategic thinking in order to effectively organize such complicated activities, resources, communications, and processes. An emerging body of literature offers a framework that identifies three kinds of supply chain strategies: lean s...