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Maintaining Project Networks in Automated Artificial Intelligence Planning

Bell, Colin E. - In: Management Science 35 (1989) 10, pp. 1192-1214

AI automated plan synthesis programs ("planners") typically represent plans as a partially ordered network whose nodes are instants in time and whose arcs are precedence constraints. Such representations are essentially PERT charts. This paper provides an introduction to AI planners and...

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Impact of Licensing on Investment and Financing of Technology Development

Kulatilaka, Nalin; Lin, Lihui - In: Management Science 52 (2006) 12, pp. 1824-1837

Technology innovations continue to be one of the greatest drivers of economic growth. Realizing the value of such … innovations, however, requires substantial follow-on investments in development and commercialization. The value of these …

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The Adoption of Radical and Incremental Innovations: An Empirical Analysis

Dewar, Robert D.; Dutton, Jane E. - In: Management Science 32 (1986) 11, pp. 1422-1433

process innovations that contain a high degree of new knowledge (radical innovations) and a low degree of new knowledge … (incremental innovations). Results from a sample of 40 footwear manufacturers suggest that extensive knowledge depth (measured by … have both more technical specialists and to adopt radical innovations. The study did not find associations between the …

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Antecedents and Consequences of Project Team Cross-Functional Cooperation

Pinto, Mary Beth; Pinto, Jeffrey K.; Prescott, John E. - In: Management Science 39 (1993) 10, pp. 1281-1297

Cross-functional teams can greatly facilitate the successful implementation of projects. This study examined the influence of a set four antecedent constructs (superordinate goals, accessibility, physical proximity and formalized rules and procedures) on the attainment of both cross-functional...

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Managing NPD: Cost and Schedule Performance in Design and Manufacturing

Bajaj, Akhilesh; Kekre, Sunder; Srinivasan, Kannan - In: Management Science 50 (2004) 4, pp. 527-536

In this field study, conducted at a leading avionics guidance systems manufacturer, we gathered primary data on time and cost performance of both the design and manufacturing phases of new product development (NPD). We modeled the impact of the management levers relating to oversight, the...

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Project Appraisal Methodology: Market Penetration Elements

Silverman, Barry G. - In: Management Science 29 (1983) 2, pp. 210-224

This paper describes a multiple competing technologies market penetration model which incorporates multiple attributes rather than strictly price into the market share allocation function. The model which is linear and deterministic was developed in response to the sponsor's request for a...

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The Cut Search Algorithm with Arc Capacities and Lower Bounds

Steve Phillips, Jr.; Dessouky, Mohamed I. - In: Management Science 25 (1979) 4, pp. 396-404

This paper presents a computational procedure for solving maximal flow problems in flow networks subject to positive upper bound or capacity constraints and lower bound restrictions that are equal to or greater than zero. This procedure, referred to as the cut search algorithm, locates directly...

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On Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and Complexity in Project Management

Pich, Michael T.; Loch, Christoph H.; Meyer, Arnoud De - In: Management Science 48 (2002) 8, pp. 1008-1023

This article develops a model of a project as a payoff function that depends on the state of the world and the choice of a sequence of actions. A causal mapping, which may be incompletely known by the project team, represents the impact of possible actions on the states of the world. An...

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The Practice of Management Science in R&D Project Management

Liberatore, Matthew J.; Titus, George J. - In: Management Science 29 (1983) 8, pp. 962-974

The results of an empirical study on the current usage of quantitative techniques for R&D project management in "Fortune 500" industrial firms are presented. A nonrandom sample of 40 respondents from 29 firms were selected to represent a mix of industrial sectors and geographic regions. The...

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Cooperative Planning, Uncertainty, and Managerial Control in Concurrent Design

Mitchell, Victoria L.; Nault, Barrie R. - In: Management Science 53 (2007) 3, pp. 375-389

We examine whether cooperative planning and uncertainty affect the magnitude of rework in concurrent engineering projects with upstream and downstream operations, and explore the impact of such rework on project delays. Using survey data from a sample of 120 business process (BP) redesign and...

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