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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Level of maturity"”.
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Organizational Relationships Through the Family Nutrition Program as Affected by Time and Rural and Urban Settings
When holding length of time constant, the data indicate that in urban settings, organizations making monetary contributions and participating for three or more years are proportionately more likely to contribute at a higher level per organization than those organizations participating in rural …
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Strategic inventory management in an aerospace supply chain
… multiple methods to set and optimize inventory levels. These methods are then classified based on the complexity involved to implement them. As an organization develops a deeper understanding of inventory, it becomes more mature and can apply more complex methods. This sequencing of methods is …
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Percepções sobre a maturidade das dimensões do modelo P3M3® na gestão de projetos, programas e portifólio de uma organização no ramo de energia.
The maturity in project management emerges as a competitive and strategic aspect because it has been used as a tool for continuous improvement. This case study was developed in an electricity energy organization, in order to measure the perceptions of the level of maturity in its management of …
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Extendibility of a proposed Business Architecture Assessment Model (BAAM)
… to validate whether the proposed beta version of a Business Architecture Assessment Model (BAAM) can be usefully extended to organisations. Design/methodology/approach: The research draws from existing literature to further extend the scope of the BAAM. The literature review includes a …
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Service life of organic coatings: strategies for improving aesthetic and protective durability
… needless to mention that organic coatings are of paramount importance nowadays. Although the huge number of applications and their wide spread can suggest that organic coatings have now reached a level of maturity, they are still mysterious from a certain point of view. The behaviour of these …
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Comparative evaluation of two carbohydrate force fields for modelling polysaccharide conformation
… carbohydrate simulation models have reached a level of maturity whereby their accuracy is often assumed. However, concerning differences have been reported when comparing the conformational predictions of rhamnose-rich polysaccharides between GLYCAM06 and other widely used carbohydrate force …
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A Security Operation Center Maturity Model (SOC-MM) in the Context of Newly Emerging Cyber Threats
<p>Cyberattacks and threats from hardware and software system components are rapidly emerging as one of the biggest challenges that today’s businesses, government agencies, and individuals face. As a result, organizations are continuously trying to adapt and update their information assets. One of …
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Modular, Open-Source Instrumentation for Zebrafish Larvae Research
… in desktop 3D printing and free and open-source software have reached a level of maturity that allows many proprietary research tools to be replaced with open, low-cost alternatives that meet the functional requirements of commercial systems while remaining modifiable, transparent, and affordable. …
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High reliability performance in Amgen Engineering
Amgen is in the midst of a transformative initiative to become operationally more efficient. For Amgen Engineering, this initiative has prompted a reevaluation of the entire organization and brought to light the need to standardize, define processes, and promote a culture wherein reliable outcomes …
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Development of Machine Connectivity Guidelines for Production Floor
… rapidly advances and Industry 4.0 takes hold of manufacturing worldwide, it is essential for manufacturing companies to utilize the latest technology to maintain a competitive advantage by optimizing operations, improving productivity, and increasing throughput. In this work, an overview of …
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A critical performance evaluation of the South African Health Facilities Infrastructure Management Programme of 2011/12
… and sustainable platform for the delivery of health services. Since 1994, the average number of hospital beds has decreased from 4.4 beds per 1 000 people to 2.4 beds per 1 000 people. During the same period, there was no significant reduction in the 1 372 clinic backlog. The evaluation of …
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Career maturity amongst first year university students in a commerce faculty at a tertiary institution in the Western Cape
Career maturity is an essential requirement in human existence. Super (1979) identified five stages which highlight the level of maturity an individual should have achieved at a certain age. However, increasingly, it is being recognised that individuals are not at the level of career maturity where …
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The relationship between foreign direct investment and the maturity of the real estate market: an assessment of investment activities of South African real estate companies with exposure on the African continent
… they would need to attract a significant amount of capital expenditure, of which a portion may come from institutional investors. In order to achieve this, Africa needs to ensure that the desired investment environment is stimulated in the real estate market so as to redirect some of the capital …
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An Investigation of the Nexus Between Strategic Planning and Organizational Learning
… considered the question: "What is the nature of the nexus between strategic planning and organizational learning, and how does it operate in a specific organization?" A single case study using the narrative inquiry approach was conducted at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration …
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The relationship between youth ministry involvement and faith maturity in first-year students in a Christian college
One of the central priorities for youth ministry professionals, both pastors and parachurch workers, is the development of mature faith in adolescents. Research on adolescent religiosity has provided some insight into the nature of adolescent religious participation, the effect that religious …
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Geschäftsmodellbasierte Strategiebewertung vor dem Hintergrund der digitalen Transformation von Unternehmen
… the economy and labour market, with the highest level of maturity achieved through the introduction of new business models. Business models are crucial for companies, as they determine the commercial success of products and services. Selecting an appropriate business model is a major decision for …
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Social and commercial enterprise interactions: Insights from UK business incubators
With numbers of social enterprises in the UK continuing to grow and innovate, this research responds to the scarcity of information surrounding social and commercial enterprises co-located in business incubators, and asks: how and why do social and commercial enterprises interact in a business …
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Development of real-time process control systems using formal techniques
A major application of computers has been to control physical processes in which the computer is embedded within some large physical process and is required to control concurrent physical processes. The main difficulty with these systems is their event-driven characteristics, which complicate their …
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Array Signal Processing for Communications from High Altitude Platforms and Other Applications
… using antenna array has reached a sufficient level of maturity that it can be applied to communications to improve system capacity. In this thesis, the applications to digital beamforming in the communications from high altitude platforms (HAPs) and the high data rate OFDM signal transmission …
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