Browsing by Department "Management of Technology"
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(2005-04-21)Department: Management of TechnologyThe Institute of Medicine (IOM) has identified error reporting systems as important components of patient safety improvement. Medical error reporting systems historically has been accomplished by disparate paper based ...
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(2005-04-14)Department: Management of TechnologyA Supply Network (SN) is a collection of firms that maintain local autonomy but who interact together to fulfill customer requirements. SN researchers have focused on the need to understand the reasons behind the diversity ...
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Anticipation of Legacy System Supply Chain Risks: A Comparative Study of Decision Maker Perspectives (2006-04-17)Department: Management of TechnologyAs systems age and require new efforts for revitalization, the original supply chain faces risks that once were not an issue. The supply chain for a legacy system can diminish over time as factors such as new technologies, ...
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(2005-03-11)Department: Management of TechnologyThis research will evaluate how changes in information latency during computer deployments affect performance of high risk decision makers. High risk decisions and decision-makers, in this case, are police officers deciding ...
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(2005-03-31)Department: Management of TechnologyCost as an Independent Variable (CAIV) is a way to develop systems in which the cost for the system is fixed and all other system attributes are traded off to meet the fixed cost. The Government has required CAIV to be ...
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(2006-04-17)Department: Management of TechnologyIndustries plagued by lengthy development times have always resorted to ad hoc resource allocation and expediting in an effort to reduce the development times. Instead of decreasing the time to market, these well meaning ...
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(2005-07-11)Department: Management of TechnologyThis dissertation investigated the impact of patient-obtained medical information (POMI) on the physician-patient relationship. A game-theoretical model was built in which the physician interacts with a heterogeneously ...
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(2005-04-27)Department: Management of TechnologyThis research explores the process of information system (IS) failure to understand how various organizational, users, technology, and implementation factors influence IS acceptance. The topic of IS implementation is ...
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(2004-12-12)Department: Management of TechnologyThis paper analyzes the characteristics of legacy systems and examines how those characteristics can be used to determine the correct method of life cycle extension. A legacy system is a system that is approaching or ...
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(2005-04-27)Department: Management of TechnologyToday patients and their companions use various sources to gain knowledge of cancer. The ability to clearly determine their current and future information sources can help both physicians and patients to better communicate ...
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(2005-03-31)Department: Management of TechnologyMajority of Americans are paying moderate or a great deal of attention to medical health news. The ability to clearly determine patients’ past and potential medical information sources can help both physicians and patients ...
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(2005-12-05)Department: Management of TechnologyWhile ISO 9000 has been shown to improve internal metrics of firm performance, external measurements may be unaffected. This thesis examines the economic value of ISO 9000 by assessing the equity returns and risk parameters ...
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(2003-06-25)Department: Management of TechnologyMANAGEMENT OF TECHNOLOGY STRATEGIC DECISION BIAS BY ROLE IN FAILED TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS KENNETH ROSSON PENCE Thesis under the direction of David M. Dilts This empirical research examines how personnel, from different ...
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(2006-04-18)Department: Management of TechnologyA system by definition is composed of multiple elements. The loss of any one of these elements can impact the rest of the components in that system. Legacy systems, any system developed in the past that are mission ...
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(2004-07-22)Department: Management of TechnologyThis thesis focuses on comparing the effects of university technology commercialization practices on their licensing incomes. "High Output" and "High Activity" universities were selected from top U.S. research universities ...
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(2005-12-20)Department: Management of TechnologyThis paper analyzes the impact of logistics and manufacturing outsourcing announcements on shareholder wealth. We assess this impact by measuring the abnormal return (which is the part of the return of a stock not related ...
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(2005-04-24)Department: Management of TechnologyThis thesis presents a pilot study conducted to determine the effects of life-cycle costing on completed system properties (performance, cost and time). Life-cycle costing is a costing technique used to determine the long ...
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(2007-04-16)Department: Management of TechnologyThis research investigates the conditions under which customer information provided during the new product development (NPD) process improves business performance for radical innovations. I develop a model of the relation ...