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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Technology Change"”.
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Building Energy Efficiency - Policy, learning and technology change
… research identifies key policy instruments for technology change. The results show that technology change requires timely, long-term and flexible policy support. This involves diverse policy packages, rather than single policy instruments, designed to support technology development and their …
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After-tax equipment replacement analysis with technology change
… consider the implications of technological change since a like for like replacement is unrealistic with the current state of technological change. The major effects of improvements are a decrease in salvage value and opportunity expense of not implementing the latest innovations. The …
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Strategies Used by The Georgia University Registrar When Implementing Technology Change
… registrars for implementing technological change and how those strategies align with Kotter's (1996) eight-stage model of change and registrars' readiness for change. The purposive sample was comprised of the respondents from the thirty-five University of Georgia System institutions. Eleven …
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Information Technology Change in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Industry: An Investigation of Individuals' Resistance
… project investigates individuals' resistance to change brought about by new information technology implementation in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry. By understanding how individual participants resist and adapt to change, their resistance can be better accommodated …
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The impact of information and communications technology change on the management and operations of academic libraries
… the impact of information and communications technology change on the management and operations of academic libraries. How academic libraries deal with this phenomenon and strategies that could be considered to help deal with an environment where technology constantly change. This study …
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Case study: evaluating performance outcomes of a technology change management initiative in a health care organization
… study by evaluating performance outcomes of a technology change management initiative in a health care organization. This study was developed with an array of issues surrounding change management programs with technology platforms, the management of complex change and the amount of criticism …
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Greening the invisible hand : how environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) succeed and fall in technology change
… bleaching emerged as the cleanest bleaching technology in commercial use: it eliminated organochlorine water pollution. The Swedish environmental organizations, with help from Greenpeace Germany, were more successful at diffusing TCF bleaching. The success in Sweden emerged because the …
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Design methodology for products and systems when technology is the enabler and technology change is the competitor
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1996.
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Disruptive technologies : an expanded view
… Christensen's work offers a fascinating view of technology change and the potentially lethal impact it may have on incumbent firms, his perspective on the contribution of technology change on product attributes and resultant firm disruption, appears, in my opinion, to be too limiting. The …
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Development of a Web-Based System for Water Quality Data Management and Visualization
… The web-based data visualization and analysis technology has played a critical role in all aspects of watershed management. Especially in recent years, computer-assisted data analysis has matured enormously. This maturing technology makes web-based visualization and analysis technology change …
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Learning in the labor market
… This model implies that a skill-biased technology change that also favors general skill can lead to increase both in job mobility and wage dispersion. This sheds light, on the joint evolution of job mobility and wage dispersion in the U.S. in the past 30 years. The second essay studies …
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System theoretic approach for determining causal factors of quality loss in complex system design
… at Cummins, Inc. The first case study was a technology change to a subsystem in a new product development project. The intent of this case was to determine if STPA, applied broadly to safety and hazard analysis, would be effective in identifying causes of quality losses. The second case was a …
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Framework for selecting a system design approach
… between dynamic market needs, the rate of technology change, and a system's future operating environment against the value of the proposed design, with the goal of choosing the most cost effective and responsive system design under a given set of objectives and uncertainties. A series of …
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Using STPA and CAST to design for serviceability and diagnostics
… product complexity and the fast rate of technology change make problems difficult to understand, prevent, and resolve. The cost of machine unavailability is extreme, and reliability-based design methods ignore service time as a key contributor to machine unavailability. Serviceability and …
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Essays in semiparametric and nonparametric estimation with application to growth accounting
… We decompose productivity growth into efficiency change (catching up) and technology change (innovation). We test the statistical significance of the estimates using recently developed bootstrap method. We also explore implications for growth of total factor productivity in the OECD and Asia …
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Antecedents and consequences of new product development and international new product rollout timeliness:an examination of mediating and moderating influences
… NPD timeliness and new product performance. Technology change also moderates the relationship between cross-functional linkages and NPD timeliness and between timeliness in NPD and INPR and performance. Standardization has a moderating role on the relationship between NPD timeliness and INPR …
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Program management systems for the semiconductor processing capital equipment supply chain
… The semiconductor industry is faced with rapid technology change, increase in the complexity of the manufacturing process, and high cost of capital. In this challenging environment, the group is concerned with the following two issues required to maintain their leadership position in the …
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The effects of mobile phones in social and economic development : the case of female microentrepreneurs in Chennai, India
… in the grand debate on whether ideas or technology change social structures that affect the lives of individuals. At its broadest and based on its findings, this dissertation makes the argument that neither ideas nor technology takes precedence. While technology can drive economic and …
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Faculty Adoption of Computer Technology for Instruction in the North Carolina Community College System.
<p>Computer technology has become an integral part of instruction at the elementary, secondary, and postsecondary levels. Some instructors have enthusiastically adopted technological innovations in their classrooms, often expending their own funds for hardware and software, while others have …
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Technology strategy in data networking industry acquisitions
… competition from deregulated markets and rapid technology change, and it is becoming increasingly difficult for companies to invest in an ever-widening range of technology segments such as equipment, networks, and application services. Every player needs an efficient strategy for achieving C()St …
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