In 2013, Royal Philips was two years into a daunting transformation. Following declining financial performance, CEO Frans van Houten aimed to turn the Dutch icon into a “high-performing company” by 2017. This case study examines the challenges of the business-driven IT transformation at Royal Philips, a diversified technology company. The case discusses three crucial issues. First, the case ref...

Those of us who take an essentially Keynesian view in macroeconomics are often accused, somewhat unjustly, I believe, of minimizing the importance of monetary forces. That contention was probably true 20 years ago for a variety of historical and institutional reasons. But much water has passed over the dam since that time, and I believe it would now be difficult to find an example of the popula...

Dr.Ir. E.B. BellersPhilips Semiconductors Sunnyvale (CA)Ir. J. KettenisPhilips Semiconductors Eindhoven A320Ir. O.A. OjoPh. Cons. Electronics Eindhoven SFJ6Ir. D. PiepersPh. Cons. Electronics Brugge (BE), PathoekewegDr. C. CiuhuNat.Lab.WOpDr.Ir. M. BosmaNat.Lab.WOpDr.Ir. P. HofmanNat.Lab.WOpIng. J. TegenboschNat.Lab.<lb...

in this paper, by using a model of the new keynesians, we investigated the role of the central bank&apos;s accountability to shocks that causes deviations in the performance of the monetary policymakers. for this purpose, we used quarterly data for 69: 1 to 93: 3, and estimated the basic equations of the new keynesians model. then, by calculating the optimal values for the central bank&apos;s a...

Sub #1 Sub #2 Sub #3 Sub #4 Breast Volume (BV, cc) GE 1.5 421 216 272 234 GE 3.0 463 224 291 227 Siemens 1.5 441 219 287 238 Philips 3.0 451 226 290 247 Variation 4.0 (%) 2.1 (%) 3.0 (%) 3.5 (%) Fibroglandular Tissue Volume (FV, cc) GE 1.5 62.9 56.1 80.7 67.6 GE 3.0 65.4 53.0 89.8 70.0 Siemens1.5 65.7 49.3 84.6 60.8 Philips 3.0 71.5 57.0 94.8 64.6 Variation 5.5 (%) 6.5 (%) 7.0 (%) 6.0 (%) Perce...

Wavelet analysis, although used extensively in many areas of applied sciences, has not yet fully entered the economics discipline, even if many economic processes are the result of the actions of several agents who simultaneously operate at different horizons and/or have different term objectives. Wavelets provide a unique decomposition of time series observations that enable one to decompose t...

New monetary literatures widely concentrates on the importance of institutional arrangements in the effectiveness of monetary policy. The debate regarding the optimal institutional design of central banks, independence and conservatism are usually considered to be the most important ingredients for a stable and successful monetary policy. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to deal with the...

in this paper, we give some characterizations for legendre spherical, legendre normal and legendre rectifying curves in the 3-dimensional sasakian space. furthermore, we show that legendre spherical curves are also legendre normal curves. in particular, we prove that the inverse of curvature of a legendre rectifying curve is a non-constant linear function of the arclength parameter.

A single development task such as solving a bug or implementing a new feature often involves changing a number of entities, also known together as a change set. Change sets can be approximated from the version control system. They are then used by the architects and developers to take important decisions. So change sets need to be approximated carefully. It is common to assume that two entities...