Pub Date : 2012-11-12DOI: 10.1109/picmet.2008.4599660
D. Shahady, A. E. Thai, A. Das, A. Heminger, K. Halverson
Although innovation is widely discussed in both military and industry venues, many organizations continue to struggle with what it means to be creative as well as maintain a competitive advantage. Many believe that the Department of Defense (DoD) science and technology (S&T) community, once a great leader in developing breakthrough innovation, is losing the competitive edge in technology development [11]. The United States Air Force has specifically struggled with the balance between improving existing technologies and employing revolutionary technologies [18]. Therefore, the purpose of this research was to study the emergence of disruptive innovation in Air Force S&T and to investigate how industry innovation strategies can foster breakthrough technology [15]. By better understanding the principles of innovation, motivation, focus of resources, barriers, and characteristics of an innovative culture, the Air Force and other military technology organizations will be uniquely positioned to transform its S&T investment strategies and reassert technological relevance for the future.
{"title":"Understanding the emergence of disruptive innovation in Air Force science and technology organizations","authors":"D. Shahady, A. E. Thai, A. Das, A. Heminger, K. Halverson","doi":"10.1109/picmet.2008.4599660","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/picmet.2008.4599660","url":null,"abstract":"Although innovation is widely discussed in both military and industry venues, many organizations continue to struggle with what it means to be creative as well as maintain a competitive advantage. Many believe that the Department of Defense (DoD) science and technology (S&T) community, once a great leader in developing breakthrough innovation, is losing the competitive edge in technology development [11]. The United States Air Force has specifically struggled with the balance between improving existing technologies and employing revolutionary technologies [18]. Therefore, the purpose of this research was to study the emergence of disruptive innovation in Air Force S&T and to investigate how industry innovation strategies can foster breakthrough technology [15]. By better understanding the principles of innovation, motivation, focus of resources, barriers, and characteristics of an innovative culture, the Air Force and other military technology organizations will be uniquely positioned to transform its S&T investment strategies and reassert technological relevance for the future.","PeriodicalId":168329,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '08 - 2008 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130138653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2012-10-09DOI: 10.1109/picmet.2008.4599722
A. Thal, W. D. Heuck, G. Kinney
The United States Air Force has a goal of being able to quickly and successfully deliver combat effects anywhere in the world through long-range strike systems. To examine the survivability of these systems in the future, we began by reviewing broad political and economic trends presented in relevant studies to characterize the technological capabilities of future adversaries. From these studies, we used technical assessments of emerging technologies to generate various threat scenarios; these scenarios were then evaluated using the risk filtering, ranking, and management (RFRM) technique to identify the most severe threats to a future long-range strike air vehicle. The application of RFRM to the problem created a coherent threat hierarchy that enables decision-makers to examine anticipated hostile systems. The results can be subsequently refined through the use of enhanced intelligence data and updated technology projections regarding future threats.
{"title":"A future-based risk assessment for the survivability of long-range strike systems","authors":"A. Thal, W. D. Heuck, G. Kinney","doi":"10.1109/picmet.2008.4599722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/picmet.2008.4599722","url":null,"abstract":"The United States Air Force has a goal of being able to quickly and successfully deliver combat effects anywhere in the world through long-range strike systems. To examine the survivability of these systems in the future, we began by reviewing broad political and economic trends presented in relevant studies to characterize the technological capabilities of future adversaries. From these studies, we used technical assessments of emerging technologies to generate various threat scenarios; these scenarios were then evaluated using the risk filtering, ranking, and management (RFRM) technique to identify the most severe threats to a future long-range strike air vehicle. The application of RFRM to the problem created a coherent threat hierarchy that enables decision-makers to examine anticipated hostile systems. The results can be subsequently refined through the use of enhanced intelligence data and updated technology projections regarding future threats.","PeriodicalId":168329,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '08 - 2008 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134532445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2010-01-21DOI: 10.1109/picmet.2008.4599664
S. Çevikarslan
This study is a research into firm level innovation activities and the role of the engineers in R&D work. The innovation processes is tried to be explained as a mental labor process. With this aim, case studies are done within three companies in Turkey (one international and two local firms), which are professionally engaged in innovation activities in the automotive sector. A total of seven in-depth interviews are made with R&D engineers of the corporations. These interviews together with the participant observations constitute the empirical data. The analysis of research problematic is based upon these empirical findings.
{"title":"The nature of engineering work in innovation activities","authors":"S. Çevikarslan","doi":"10.1109/picmet.2008.4599664","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/picmet.2008.4599664","url":null,"abstract":"This study is a research into firm level innovation activities and the role of the engineers in R&D work. The innovation processes is tried to be explained as a mental labor process. With this aim, case studies are done within three companies in Turkey (one international and two local firms), which are professionally engaged in innovation activities in the automotive sector. A total of seven in-depth interviews are made with R&D engineers of the corporations. These interviews together with the participant observations constitute the empirical data. The analysis of research problematic is based upon these empirical findings.","PeriodicalId":168329,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '08 - 2008 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127092141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2008-07-27DOI: 10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599830
M. Garcia, C. Hallam, W. Flannery
Technology entrepreneurs facing the new product and technology development process must go through a number of stages of development before commercialization becomes a reality. Although new and innovative products, services and technologies are essential components of any strategy for competitiveness, the reality is that most ideas or inventions do not get successfully commercialized. Of the myriad of reasons for the failure of so many commercialization attempts, one is the lack of a well designed strategy to guide the development process. Our experience in assisting technology entrepreneurs has resulted in the development of a systematic methodology for evaluating and guiding the technology commercialization process. This experiential-based process focuses on the stages of development of the innovation, the identification of key problems forming barriers to development, and the application of actions designed to circumvent those problems and barriers. The objective of this paper is to present this methodology and compare its key features with a normative model suggested by concepts presented in the Balanced Scorecard and the Strategy-Focused Organization as developed by Kaplan and Norton. A Value Creation Model (VCM) and equation is proposed as a means for systematically allocating scarce resources to successfully implement a technology commercialization strategy.
{"title":"A comparison of a technology development methodology with a strategy-based balanced scorecard normative model","authors":"M. Garcia, C. Hallam, W. Flannery","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599830","url":null,"abstract":"Technology entrepreneurs facing the new product and technology development process must go through a number of stages of development before commercialization becomes a reality. Although new and innovative products, services and technologies are essential components of any strategy for competitiveness, the reality is that most ideas or inventions do not get successfully commercialized. Of the myriad of reasons for the failure of so many commercialization attempts, one is the lack of a well designed strategy to guide the development process. Our experience in assisting technology entrepreneurs has resulted in the development of a systematic methodology for evaluating and guiding the technology commercialization process. This experiential-based process focuses on the stages of development of the innovation, the identification of key problems forming barriers to development, and the application of actions designed to circumvent those problems and barriers. The objective of this paper is to present this methodology and compare its key features with a normative model suggested by concepts presented in the Balanced Scorecard and the Strategy-Focused Organization as developed by Kaplan and Norton. A Value Creation Model (VCM) and equation is proposed as a means for systematically allocating scarce resources to successfully implement a technology commercialization strategy.","PeriodicalId":168329,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '08 - 2008 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115397935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2008-07-27DOI: 10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599643
Soon Cheon Byeon, B. Hwang
There has been increased requirement on the accountability and efficiency of GRIs(Government Research Institutes) in accordance with the increased investment within the limited national resources. To address these issues, each government is introducing the performance evaluation system and Korea is also trying to upgrade its evaluation system under the guidance of NSTC (National Science and Technology Committee). This study analyzes how the function and role of Economic and Human Society Research Council in terms of supporting and promoting Government Research Institutes (GRIs) have affected their performance. In specific, it considers five factors regarding function and role of the Research Council described in related laws, enforcement decrees and Articles of Association, and four performance factors based on BSC(balanced sorecard, BSC). Furthermore, the study considers the effects of control factors on the performance, including research area, size and established year of GRIs. The analysis on 95 executives and employees from 23 GRIs shows that the function and role of the Economic and Human Society Research Council has exerted significant influence on the performance of GRIs. In detail, among the characteristics of GRIs, research area and the size of GRIs have control effects on the customer performance and the performance in terms of internal process and learning efficiency, while the established year of GRIs has an impact on the internal process performance. Therefore, the results suggest that the Research Council should conduct its function and role in a tailored manner, considering research area and established year of GRIs. In conclusion, this study points out political suggestions, and discusses the direction of future studies and the limit of the study.
{"title":"Effect of function and role of research council on the performance of Government Research Institutes: Focusing on economic and Human Society Research Council in Korea","authors":"Soon Cheon Byeon, B. Hwang","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599643","url":null,"abstract":"There has been increased requirement on the accountability and efficiency of GRIs(Government Research Institutes) in accordance with the increased investment within the limited national resources. To address these issues, each government is introducing the performance evaluation system and Korea is also trying to upgrade its evaluation system under the guidance of NSTC (National Science and Technology Committee). This study analyzes how the function and role of Economic and Human Society Research Council in terms of supporting and promoting Government Research Institutes (GRIs) have affected their performance. In specific, it considers five factors regarding function and role of the Research Council described in related laws, enforcement decrees and Articles of Association, and four performance factors based on BSC(balanced sorecard, BSC). Furthermore, the study considers the effects of control factors on the performance, including research area, size and established year of GRIs. The analysis on 95 executives and employees from 23 GRIs shows that the function and role of the Economic and Human Society Research Council has exerted significant influence on the performance of GRIs. In detail, among the characteristics of GRIs, research area and the size of GRIs have control effects on the customer performance and the performance in terms of internal process and learning efficiency, while the established year of GRIs has an impact on the internal process performance. Therefore, the results suggest that the Research Council should conduct its function and role in a tailored manner, considering research area and established year of GRIs. In conclusion, this study points out political suggestions, and discusses the direction of future studies and the limit of the study.","PeriodicalId":168329,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '08 - 2008 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124404983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2008-07-27DOI: 10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599617
C. Malvido, J. Moultrie, F. Livesey, K. Pawar, J. Riedel, A. Beltagui, J. MacBryde, V. Martínez, S. Evans, B. Nixon, P. Demian
Recognising the growing importance of design at a national level, this paper reports on the development of a suite of measures relating to national design performance. These measures are based around a simplified model of design as a system at a national level, developed through a workshop with government, industry and design sector representatives. Detailed data on design in the UK is presented to highlight the difficulties in collecting reliable and robust data. Evidence is compared with four countries (Spain, Canada, South Korea and Sweden). This comparison highlights the inherent difficulties in comparing performance and a revised set of measures is proposed.
{"title":"Towards a national design scoreboard: A model to enable comparison of performance between countries","authors":"C. Malvido, J. Moultrie, F. Livesey, K. Pawar, J. Riedel, A. Beltagui, J. MacBryde, V. Martínez, S. Evans, B. Nixon, P. Demian","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599617","url":null,"abstract":"Recognising the growing importance of design at a national level, this paper reports on the development of a suite of measures relating to national design performance. These measures are based around a simplified model of design as a system at a national level, developed through a workshop with government, industry and design sector representatives. Detailed data on design in the UK is presented to highlight the difficulties in collecting reliable and robust data. Evidence is compared with four countries (Spain, Canada, South Korea and Sweden). This comparison highlights the inherent difficulties in comparing performance and a revised set of measures is proposed.","PeriodicalId":168329,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '08 - 2008 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124469531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2008-07-27DOI: 10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599701
G. Harindranath, M. Sein
The role of information and communication technology (ICT) in national development is argued to depend on how ICT is viewed. Building on Orlikowski and lacono's classification of IT views we proposed in an earlier work that ICT can be conceptualized as: tool (means to achieve something), computational (the machine), ensemble (part of socio-economic context) and enabler (what ICT enables). We presented this as a hierarchy where the higher you go from the tool to the proxy view, the stronger ICT influences national development. In using our framework to evaluate ICT for development (ICT4D) projects, we realize that the notion of a hierarchy is untenable. Here, we argue that the relationship between ensemble and enabler views is complex as they do not share the same ontology. We propose that the enabler view addresses the impact while the ensemble view addresses the implementation of ICT in a development context. An ensemble view is an influencing factor, arguably the most critical, in achieving an enabler view. We use secondary data from published studies to illustrate and provide support for our thesis. Based on our analysis, we propose a revision of our ICT4D framework. How stakeholders conceptualize ICT4D is critical for its success and its sustainability. Our work is an attempt to provide much needed conceptual clarity in the ICT4D field.
{"title":"Reviewing the views of ICT in development","authors":"G. Harindranath, M. Sein","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599701","url":null,"abstract":"The role of information and communication technology (ICT) in national development is argued to depend on how ICT is viewed. Building on Orlikowski and lacono's classification of IT views we proposed in an earlier work that ICT can be conceptualized as: tool (means to achieve something), computational (the machine), ensemble (part of socio-economic context) and enabler (what ICT enables). We presented this as a hierarchy where the higher you go from the tool to the proxy view, the stronger ICT influences national development. In using our framework to evaluate ICT for development (ICT4D) projects, we realize that the notion of a hierarchy is untenable. Here, we argue that the relationship between ensemble and enabler views is complex as they do not share the same ontology. We propose that the enabler view addresses the impact while the ensemble view addresses the implementation of ICT in a development context. An ensemble view is an influencing factor, arguably the most critical, in achieving an enabler view. We use secondary data from published studies to illustrate and provide support for our thesis. Based on our analysis, we propose a revision of our ICT4D framework. How stakeholders conceptualize ICT4D is critical for its success and its sustainability. Our work is an attempt to provide much needed conceptual clarity in the ICT4D field.","PeriodicalId":168329,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '08 - 2008 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117207351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2008-07-27DOI: 10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599631
J. Mun, Moonsoo Shin, Hyeongon Wi, K. Lee, M. Jung
In current business environment, competitiveness is no longer between enterprises, but between enterprise networks because individual enterprises often do not have all the necessary skills and competencies to satisfy the new market requirements. Therefore, finding trustworthy partners and the optimal combination are important to achieve competitive advantages and to survive in the rapidly changing market. However, due to the complexity and ambiguity of real enterprisespsila decision making processes, it is not easy to find appropriate models in literature to evaluate and select right and trustworthy partners. Also, many alternatives to form a virtual organization (VO) make the process difficult. In this paper, a VO formation process for a project-based organization is proposed with 1) a goal model of a project-based VO, 2) a competency model of VO constituents, 3) an evaluation model of each constituent based on the goals of the VO, and 4) the formation process of the VO with selected constituents. Finally, contributions and limitations of the proposed model are presented with the further research issues.
{"title":"A VO formation process of a project-based organization with trust evaluation using goal achievement probability","authors":"J. Mun, Moonsoo Shin, Hyeongon Wi, K. Lee, M. Jung","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599631","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599631","url":null,"abstract":"In current business environment, competitiveness is no longer between enterprises, but between enterprise networks because individual enterprises often do not have all the necessary skills and competencies to satisfy the new market requirements. Therefore, finding trustworthy partners and the optimal combination are important to achieve competitive advantages and to survive in the rapidly changing market. However, due to the complexity and ambiguity of real enterprisespsila decision making processes, it is not easy to find appropriate models in literature to evaluate and select right and trustworthy partners. Also, many alternatives to form a virtual organization (VO) make the process difficult. In this paper, a VO formation process for a project-based organization is proposed with 1) a goal model of a project-based VO, 2) a competency model of VO constituents, 3) an evaluation model of each constituent based on the goals of the VO, and 4) the formation process of the VO with selected constituents. Finally, contributions and limitations of the proposed model are presented with the further research issues.","PeriodicalId":168329,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '08 - 2008 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124926917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2008-07-27DOI: 10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599752
Ko Ito
A project is the continuous effort of various decision makings such as goal setting, WBS creation, resource acquisition, human resource allocation, and countermeasure against risk. This study focuses on how we use dasiaMetacognitionpsila which is a ldquoKnowing about Knowingrdquo skill in order to improve such decision making in the project.
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Pub Date : 2008-07-27DOI: 10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599756
Oksan Imamoglu, S. Gozlu
Although the causes for information technology (IT) project success and failure have been the subject of many studies, there has been relatively little attention given to how individuals attribute IT project success and failure. The purpose of this research is to determine how project managers attribute IT project success and failure. A questionnaire form was designed for study in this research and mailed to the 500 major manufacturing enterprises, ranked with respect to their sales from production in the year 2006, published by Istanbul Chamber of Industry. The questionnaire consists of three sections. The background information section addresses issues such as respondentpsilas gender, age band, main job responsibility, the length of employment time; and organizationpsilas type, estimated annual turnover, number of employees, etc. The project failure section addresses issues such as involvement of the respondent, size and importance of the project, project failure reasons such as going over budget, going over time allocated, having no great organizational benefits, having low user satisfaction, etc. The project success section addresses issues such as involvement of the respondent, size, and importance of the project. Project success reasons such as staying within budget, staying within time allocated, having great organizational benefits, having high user satisfaction, etc. are studied.
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