in order to standardize sustainable status of environmental management in productive and industrial activities and commercial and economical relationship, the iso 14000 standards series guarantee the minimization of the costs, growth accoptancy of society and trade and environmental quality improvement and natural resources. in fact, these standards will help any organization to improve and sol...

The main standards now being implemented in the geospatial world emanate from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Technical Committee 211 Geomatics/Geographic Information (generally referred to as ‘TC 211’), in their 19xxx series of standards. Because some EU Member States have legal requirements that ‘European standards’ be used for various types of work, if they exist, th...

Executive summary ii EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The primary goal of this thesis is to consider how recommendations and standards for Danish IT architecture, in general, assure successful systems integration, leading to inter-operability in the Danish public sector. The secondary goal is to assess the specific case of integrating ECM (ESDH) systems from the FESD project with existing systems from KMD in ...

Although chief executive officers (CEOs) are the primary decision-makers in their firms, there has been little research on how CEOs' decision styles affect firm performance. This study explores relationships between performance and two key dimensions of CEO style, namely use heuristics standards. We conceptualize speed innovativeness new product development (NPD) as mediators these relationship...

___________________________________ April 4, 2002 National Organic Standards Board Technical Advisory Panel Review Page 1 of 1 Compiled by OMRI for the USDA National Organic Program Executive Summary Potassium sorbate was petitioned for use as a preservative for an unspecified seed film coating. The reviewers were unable to fully evaluate the petition since the specific polymer was not identifi...

Executive Summary Poor software quality carries with it tremendous costs to an organization. Today, virtually every business depends on software for the development, production, distribution and/or after-sales support of products and services. According to a 2002 study conducted by the United States Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), poor software qua...

As is well known, each intelligence agency has developed its own mechanisms for representing data. The resulting stovepipes for transmission pose severe obstacles to the automated integration and management of data, giving rise to problems addressed already in a US Government Executive Order of August 27, 2004, which expressed a mandate to the effect that intelligence agencies must strengthen t...