Despite the fact that innovation portfolio management is an important driver of innovation excellence, it has been relatively overlooked by many companies. Yet, by employing it, firms may realize shorter and leaner innovation processes, thereby strengthening their competitive position. This article explains the key steps that managers can take to implement or enhance their organizations' innova...

The theory of constraints is an approach to production planning and control that emphasizes on the constraints to increase throughput by effectively managing constraint resources. One application in theory of constraints is product mix decision. Product mix influences the performance measures in multi-product manufacturing system. This paper presents an alternative approach by using of goal pro...

Software Product Line (SPL) are the answer to the rising demand for configurable and cross-platform systems. For such a system with just 33 configurable features, there are already more possible derivable variants than humans on our planet. Maintaining and analyzing these highly configurable software systems can be a difficult task. It is not uncommon that performance-related issues, especially...

Background: Large software development organizations require effective means of quantifying excellence of products and improvement areas. A good quantification of excellence supports organizations in retaining market leadership. In addition, a good quantification of improvement areas is needed to continuously increase performance of products and processes. Objective: In this chapter we present ...

This paper elaborates on why and how business relationships develop through an indepth study of a world-leading industrial tooling company (ITC). The study of the ITC focuses on the development of a “preferred supplier” concept, developed in the UK subsidiary since the mid-1990’s. The aim was to capture business volume at customers through greatly increased embeddedness from a legal, technical ...

IEEE 802.16 is a standard for Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) air interface. 802.16e supports mobile broadband wireless access, which is an additional feature over its predecessors, which support fixed wireless access. Binary Convolutional Turbo Coding (CTC) is used as mandatory Forward Error Correction method in 802.16e. In this paper the performance of a simple and efficient optional coding s...

The European Space Agency (ESA) ERS-2 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has successfully operated for more than 12 years. The performance of the ERS-SAR is routinely assessed via a variety of quality assessment and calibration measures. This paper gives the latest ERS-2 SAR quality assessment and calibration results, including elevation antenna pattern estimation and monitoring, updates to ERS-2 S...