Browsing MIT Sociotechnical Systems Research Center (SSRC) by Title
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Tailoring the prototyping process to achieve customer value
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)The main objective for prototyping is to get the most value out of the opportunity. Value may take the form of information, performance, displaying production readiness or proving capability for the amount of resources ... -
Target Cost Management Strategy
(1996)Target cost management (TCM) is an innovation of Japanese management accounting system and by common sense has been considered with great interest by practitioners. Nowadays, TCM related dissertations, papers, articles ... -
Targeting Project Outcomes with Selected PD Enabling Factors
(2003-10-01)Presentation on using PD enabling factors to target project outcomes -
A Taxonomy of Communications Demand
(2000)Demand forecasts are an essential tool for planning capacity and formulating policy. Traffic estimates are becoming increasingly unreliable, however, as accelerating rates of use and new communications applications ... -
A Taxonomy of Internet Appliances
(2000-09)The world is evolving from one in which almost all access to the Internet comes from personal computers (PCs) to one in which so-called Internet appliances (IAs) will make up a greater share of end-user equipment. Today's ... -
Taxonomy of Internet Telephony and Multimedia Standards
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A Taxonomy of Internet Telephony Applications
(2002-07-23)There are a broad range of objectives and opportunities that can be lumped under the heading of Internet Telephony, or ITel. This paper identifies a number of criteria that can be used to separate these different ITel ... -
Teaching an Engineering Systems Doctoral Seminar: Concepts and Structure
(2009-06-15)This paper describes the current state of the evolving engineering systems doctoral seminar in the Engineering Systems Division (ESD) at MIT. This subject is required for all first year engineering systems doctoral ... -
Teaching an Engineering Systems Doctoral Seminar: Concepts and Structure
(2009-06-15)Second International Symposium on Engineering Systems presentation -
Teaching Lean Thinking Principles Through Hands-on Simulations
(2007-06-11)The teaching of Lean Enterprise Thinking in the aerospace context requires that students understand a complex subject—aerospace enterprises and their transformation—in a deep and intuitive way. Without this context, the ... -
Teaching Lean Thinking Principles Through Hands-on Simulations
(2007-06-11)The teaching of Lean Enterprise Thinking in the aerospace context requires that students understand a complex subject—aerospace enterprises and their transformation—in a deep and intuitive way. Without this context, the ... -
Team Learning Strategies for Enterprise Transformation: The Case of Vicarious Learning
(2004-03-24)Presentation on vicarious team learning for enterprise transformation -
Technical Report Value of Systems Engineering
(2004-10)This report is a follow-on from the June 2004 Air Force/Lean Aerospace Initiative Workshop on Systems Engineering for Robustness. -
Technological, Organisational, and Social Innovation as Pathways to Sustainability
(The Steilmann Report: The Wealth of People: An Intelligent Economy for the 21st Century, 2001)The purposes of this chapter is to delve more deeply into the processes and determinants of technological, organisational, and social innovation and to discuss the instruments and policies to stimulate the kinds of innovation ... -
Technology development and business strategy : a changing environment impacts practices
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Technology Suuply Chains: An Introductory Essay
(2002-09-11)This essay addresses strategic technology sourcing -- the determination of what technologies are strategic to a firm (or nation) and the management of the policy options that follow from this determination. This work is ... -
Technology, Government, Business, and Universities: The Innovation Ecosystem
(2007-10-01)The purpose of this presentation is to present an overview of the roles of the government, business enterprises, and universities in the promotion and creation of innovation. Our approach is to present key concepts, ...