Decision making and problem solving are especially important skills for business and life. As an innovation leading corporate, Sony has gradually lost their superiority in innovation and core competences under more and more intensive competition environment. This report is made to investigate Sony current procedure on its solving problems and making decision, analyze approaches and tools used b...

We study the e¤ects of on-the-job skill accumulation on average hours worked by age and the volatility of hours over the life cycle in a calibrated general equilibrium model. Two forms of skill accumulation are considered: learning by doing and on-the-job training. In our economy with learning by doing, individuals supply more labor early in the life cycle and less as they approach retirement t...

Information federations promise an enhanced collaboration between individual stakeholders in the life cycle of commercial products, including software and hardware products from arbitrary business sectors. However, information sharing across corporate borders must be controlled by tailored mechanisms for enforcing individual business confidentiality and integrity requirements. One influential c...

This position paper suggests an approach for building software systems using patterns, right from business architecture to software architecture. Further, the approach incorporates a concurrent and iterative development process to ensure that the business architecture and software architecture are aligned, end to end. Usage of patterns leads to reuse of various artifacts, involved in the softwa...

OBJECTIVES Upon successful completion of this chapter, you should: 1. Understand how the network development life cycle (NDLC) relates to other systems development architectures and life cycles and, consequently, how the network analyst/designer must interact with analyst/designers involved in these related processes. 2. Understand the network development life cycle including: overall issues, p...

Although enterprise imaging and workflow systems provide distinct business benefits, selection and standardization of a single system or strategy is complicated by the plethora of products available and the diversity of business applications. This article's methodology provides a framework for evaluating imaging and workflow systems along two key parameters: functionality in terms of an organiz...

Cycle time optimization could be one of the great challenges in business process management. Although there is much research on this subject, task similarities have been paid little attention. In this paper, a new approach is proposed to optimize cycle time by minimizing entropy of work lists in resource allocation while keeping workloads balanced. The idea of the entropy of work lists comes fr...

this paper presents the results obtained from the life cycle assessment (lca) of the productionof sicilian artichokes (cynara scolymus) with the aim of reducing impacts, interpreting the results, suggesting possible improvements and enriching the sustainability knowledge already existing in the agro food field. artichokes represent one of the excellent italian agricultural products even if stil...

urban sinks accumulate phosphorus and other elements and may serve as sources of secondaryraw materials. this paper evaluates phosphorus sources based on their environmental impact. in a life cycleassessment (lca) the conventional production was used as a yardstick against which tomeasure the performanceof two recycling options: spreading of sewage sludge and phosphorus recovery from municipal ...