Innovation development, production, distribution and consumption networks can be built up horizontally €Ӡwith actors consisting only of innovation users (more precisely, "user/self-manufacturers"). "Free" and "open source" software projects are examples of such networks, and examples can...

The Internet is a powerful channel that presents new opportunities for touching customers, enriching products and services with information, squeezing out costs through process automation, and redesigning internal business processes through enhanced communication and knowledge sharing. In most...

A recent National Research Council study found that: "Although there are many private and public databases that contain information potentially relevant to counter terrorism programs, they lack the necessary context definitions (i.e., metadata) and access tools to enable interoperation with...

Lean practices and principles build on a half-century of successive initiatives aimed at transforming social and technical systems in organizations. While they are send as central to the revitalization of the U.S. aerospace industry, there is great variation in the degree to which lean...

"March 1973." This report supersedes working paper no. 579-71 (1971) with title: Report of a field experiment to improve communications in a product engineering department: the non-territorial office, by Thomas J. Allen and Peter G. Gerstberger.

This paper compares the mean and variance of cumulative abnormal returns following announcements of two types of information technology (IT) investments: those which entail the "exploitation" of firm's current capabilities vs. those which involve the exploration of new capabilities. The paper...

"This paper is also available under MIT Operations Research Center Technical Report TR-109."