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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Definition of value"”.
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“It’s life changing, isn’t it?” Foundation year students’ critical evaluation of the value of their course and its impact on their educational journey
Value is a highly contested term in Higher Education with student grade outcomes and their graduate earnings being the most likely measures employed. This definition informs most policy-based decisions around the perceived value of courses in universities. These points would include foundation year …
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Improving the productivity of an R&D organization
… a comprehensive case study, the application of Lean manufacturing techniques, specifically Value Stream Mapping, to a product development organization in the mass consumer products industry. With the guidance of a methodology for Value Stream Mapping adapted to Product Development by Dr. High …
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Improving the Sustainability of Rural Electrification Schemes: Capturing Value for Rural Communities in Uganda
… implementation centring on user-perceived values (UPVs). UPVs capture more than the basic definition of value in the sense that they include benefits, concerns, feelings and underlying drivers that vary in importance and act as the main motivators in the lives of project beneficiaries as …
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Tectonics of the semi-permanent: Reassembling fit-out architecture
… Bolton’s 1911 obsolescence study “Building for Profit: Principles Governing the Economic Improvement of Real Estate”, he foretold a truth that remains today, that “the useful or economic existence of all classes of buildings, in the rapid march of modern conditions, is constantly shortening” …
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Parents' opinions regarding the value of homebased programs for preschool handicapped children
The problem of the study was that of determining parents' opinions regarding the value of homebased programs in which they were taught to teach their preschool handicapped children. The data in the study consisted of responses by forty selected parents on the Value of Program Instrument which was …
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The application of lean principles to the military aerospace product development process
… is as demanding as many industries in terms of the challenges on firms to deliver world class performance and quality at reduced cost and lead-times. These challenges extend to the military side of the aerospace market which is faced with the challenge of developing, delivering and supporting …
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Value-informed space systems design and acquisition
… in relation to its environment and its value to its stakeholders. These traditional approaches, while appropriate in stable environments, are ill-suited for the current, distinctly uncertain and rapidly changing technical, and economic conditions; as such, they have to be revisited and …