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Work-life balance (WLB) is described as the balance between work engagements and activities outside of work. Upon inspection it is clear that work-life balance is quite a complex system of different factors, and optimization of WLB does not equate to simply working less. Organizations are clearly impacted by the presence, or lack thereof, of current WLB initiatives. Several factors have increased...
After theoretical considerations of organizational changes, the research findings were presented in relation to the following: the selection of the optimal model for implementation of organizational changes in the maritime company that is the subject of analysis and establishing of the character of the correlation between the organizational changes, the productivity level and the ship service time...
Optimizing collaborative design process can cut down the time to market, thus, acquire competitive advantage. Partner is very important to collaborative design, optimal combination of partners is a prerequisite for collaborative design, picking the wrong partner hurt both productivity and profitability. The issue of partners selection is a combinational optimize, this paper put forward a new method...
The design and use of Performance Measurement Systems (PMS's) for industrial improvement and control have received considerable attention in recent years. Indeed, industrial performances are now defined in terms of numerous and multi-level criteria to be synthesized for overall improvement purposes. This article is a contribution to the decision-maker's information needs for optimizing the improvement...
Summary form only given. In order to stay competitive in today's markets, companies are faced with lowering the cost of research and development while increasing technology capacity, reducing research lot cycle times and maintaining process control, and improving quality of numerous technology platforms. This poster will present an overview of the strategy and outcome of a multi year effort to improve...
We address the problem of calibrating an approximate dynamic programming model, where we need to find a vector of parameters to produce the best fit of the model against historical data. The problem requires adaptively choosing the sequence of parameter settings on which to run the model, where each run of the model requires approximately twelve hours of CPU time and produces noisy non-stationary...
The construction industry has been facing a paradigm shift to (i) increase; productivity, efficiency, infrastructure value, quality and sustainability, (ii) reduce; lifecycle costs, lead times and duplications, via effective collaboration and communication of stakeholders in construction projects. Digital construction is a political initiative to address low productivity in the sector. This seeks...
Product quality is traditionally seen as the intersection of customer requirements on the one side and the product characteristics on the other. This classical understanding of quality is insufficient to cover all entrepreneurial conditions. It needs to be enlarged by a holistic, more market oriented view. To cover all economical requirements the articulated and implicated customer demands, the defined...
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