The objective of this thesis is to demonstrate a design to profit procedure and its implementation in industrial case environment. The procedure is demonstrated as a way to improve profits in a global company. The essential elements of the procedure are product business case calculations and profit consciousness of employees. This study utilizes a combination of product life cycle analysis, adv...

Theory and frameworks that apply to ebusiness projects undertaken within a single authority are inadequate when organizations need to collaborate. Collaboration demands additional management effort. Project management needs to coordinate the three levels of participating organizations, virtual teams and representatives. Three project lifecycle management functions, which relate to collaboration...

The challenges of acquiring software-intensive systems continue to grow along with the increasingly critical role software plays in supporting commercial and government enterprise, business, and mission needs. In addition to expanding functionality and complexity, mounting expectations for software systems to be flexible and interoperable add to acquisition challenges, notably in terms of ensur...

From the perspective of reducing the environmental impact, this study applies Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Delphi Method to construct a product assessment framework for early product planning and development stage to evaluate a product‟s impact and influence on the environment. This study firstly collects the environmental performance indicators through intensive literature review and ...

Detecting requirements errors late in a project is extremely costly, because the necessary changes mostly affect every development stage. Thus it is advisable to concentrate efforts on gathering and validating requirements. This particularly encompasses rigorous requirements testing before document delivery. In this paper we focus on the most critical portion of the transition from an user-orie...

Software inspections are an efficient way of controlling and reducing the number of faults throughout the software life cycle [Ebenau94a]. A process, more or less stable and formal, is used when inspecting a document and by using statistical quality control [Mills88] the software inspection process can be monitored. Further, an early warning system can be implemented into organisations which ca...

This paper analyzes the impact of liquid asset holdings on bank profitability for a sample of Iranian banks. Using the Generalized Method of Moment (GMM), this study analyzes the profitability of listed banks using unbalanced panel data over the period of 2002-2009. We use the liquidity asset and liquidity asset-ratio square for estimating liquid asset and profitability relationship. The e...