abstract in the dynamic and competitive market, managers seek to find effective strategies for new products development. since there has not been a thorough research in this field, this study is based on a review on the risks exist in the npd process and an analysis of risks through fmea approach to prioritize the existent risks and a modeling behavior of the npd process and main risks using sy...

systems thinking is not a new concept to health system strengthening; however, one question remains unanswered: how policy-makers, system designers and consultants with a system thinking philosophy should act (have acted) as potential change agents in actually gaining opportunities to introduce systems thinking? development of comprehensive multi-year plans (cmyps) for immunization system is on...

It is often assumed that the advent of digital technologies requires fundamental change to the curriculum and to the teaching and learning approaches used in schools around the world to educate this generation of “digital natives” or the “net generation”. This article analyses the concepts of 21 st -century skills and critical thinking to understand how these aspects of learning might contribut...

Mary M. Somerville is Assistant Dean, Information and Instructional Services at California State Polytechnic University, email: [email protected]. Anita Mirijamdotter is Head, Research Division, Social Informatics and Systems Science at Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden, email: [email protected]. Dynamic and even turbulent environmental conditions, driven by rapid t...

This paper is devoted to the development of hypothesis about human brain “cartation”, i.e. spatially distributed structure of human brain systems for cogitative activities maintenance, containing neural parts with various degree of rigidity and different functional tasks (cartoids), which was suggested by Institute of Brain of the Russian Academy of Sciences (St.-Petersburg) under supervision o...

abstract: new approaches to strategy have accepted strategic thinking as a complement or even an alternative for strategic planning. indeed, strategic thinking capability has been recognized as a characteristic of successful top managers in organizations. moreover, the extant literature emphasizes the fact that top level managers can be taught to think strategically. however, there is no compre...