University of Minnesota M.S. dissertation. June 2010. Major: Engineering Management. Advisor: Dr. Hongyi Chen. 1 computer file (PDF)vii, 141 pages.

Engineering managers are managers who have an understanding of both the technical and business aspects of organizations. However, the success of an engineering manager depends on being knowledgeable in both the business and technical functions of an organization. There is a perception that...

Engineering managers are managers who have an understanding of both the technical and business aspects of organizations. However, the success of an engineering manager depends on being knowledgeable in both the business and technical functions of an organization. There is a perception that...

ABSTRACT The problem of project selection is of significant importance in management of information systems. Almost $2 trillion is spent worldwide every year on IT projects, with over $600 billion spent in the US alone. Traditionally, managers have being using the classical net present value...

The term business model is relatively recent. Though it appeared for the first time in the 1950s it rose to prominence and reached the mainstream only in the 1990s. Today the term is commonly used, but there is still no single dominant definition.Many different conceptualizations of business...

The BaBar experiment requires simulated events beyond the ability of a single computing site to provide. This paper describes the evolution of simulation and job management methods to meet the physics community requirements and how production became distributed to use resources beyond any one...

The purposes of this dissertation were to define enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, assess the varying performance benefits flowing from different ERP system implementation statuses, and investigate the impact of critical success factors (CSFs) on the ERP system deployment process. A...

The results are reported of personal observations of on‐site visits to 10 firms in transportationand electric‐electronic industries. Important differences are detailed that were observedbetween traditional US firms, nontraditional US firms, and Japanese companies operating in theUS, with...

Master of Science

Thesis (PhDBusinessandManagement)--University of South Australia, 2007.