We combine detailed survey data on firms’ organizational practices with information technology (IT) investment measures to test the hypothesis that in addition to decentralization, external focus is another important determinant of returns to IT investment. We argue that IT-intensive firms characterized by decentralization are able to more effectively process and respond to information from the...

Case study on improving quality management of W company’s new product development project includes the analysis of the current situation within the quality management of W company’s new product development project (current situation and identify existing problems), improvement study (analysis the cause of existing problems and design the improvement scheme) and implementation. Through monitorin...

For over fifteen years the Stanford University Center for Design Research has been concerned with the formal study of engineering product development teams at work in academic and corporate settings. This chapter describes one such effort, the implementation of team-based, distance learnining techniques in a Stanford University School of Engineering course, “Team-Based DesignDevelopment with Co...

We consider opportunity-based age replacement using nonparametric predictive inference (NPI) for the time to failure of a future unit. Based on n observed failure times, NPI provides lower and upper bounds for the survival function for the time to failure Xn+1 of a future unit, which lead to upper and lower cost functions, respectively, for opportunitybased age replacement based on the renewal ...

Abstract In this paper, the qualification of a production GaN process platform is discussed. Details of the process repeatability, reliability and qualification methodologies are covered in detail. Additionally, concurrent product development efforts are also described. Reliability results include three-temperature DC testing that resulted in an activation energy of 2.0eV and DCHTOL testing dem...

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A stricter merger control policy increases the expectation of future price competition. In response, firms increase product differentiation to sustain higher prices. Failing to account for such policy-variant prices may lead to overestimation of the increase in consumer surplus due to the stricter merger policy, rendering the policy analysis subject to the Lucas Critique. D 2004 Elsevier B.V. A...