The company also provides a range of high-frequency design processes and capabilities that can be used in custom design.
Listening to customers and acting on their needs should shape every aspect of a company, from the types of people that are hired, to internal and external communications, design processes, value definition, and how decisions are made.
First, many schools are embarking upon a variety of design processes, RFPs from vendors and the like only to arrive at the same cluster of solutions centered around the basic models of blended learning we identified here.
SAP's tool, called Gravity, lets users design business processes in Wave, while Novell's Pulse, a stand-alone product that will be released in 2010, will add security features, an improved chat function and live editing of Microsoft Office documents.
Right now the tool is geared toward assessing the sustainability of existing products, but plans are in the works to roll out a tool that could be integrated into design and manufacturing processes early on to help gauge the potential impacts of various decisions and enable companies to design more sustainable products.
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High Resolution Management is the idea that the management processes and the design and execution of many different processes should change based on the far more detailed picture of business activity provided by big data.
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Direct green lasers are capable of producing green light natively, greatly simplifying laser design and manufacturing processes.
Gamification describes a series of design principles, processes and systems used to influence, engage and motivate individuals, groups and communities to drive behaviors and effect desired outcomes.
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The company said it would be focussing on the design and manufacturing processes needed to produce a next generation composite wing, with the emphasis on reducing weight and aerodynamic drag.
But wander over to the corner of the studio and behold a large computer annex that looks almost like a trading floor--it's part of Gehry Technologies, a separate 60-employee company that oversees design and construction processes for Gehry and outside clients.
By designing and building electric motors in-house, GM says it will be able to lower costs and improve performance, quality and reliability by controlling the design, purchasing and manufacturing processes.
For businesses, this approach means they can design business models and business processes that are optimized for opportunities and growth, rather than being limited by the rigidity of either legacy systems or short-sighted cloud strategies predicated on tactical efficiency rather strategic advantage.
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Participants commented on the workshop as allowing them an opportunity to learn a wide range of concepts and issues involving international comparative perspective inclusive curricula, inclusive schooling, processes of curriculum design and development, and curriculum framework and textbook development scenarios of different countries.
These activities and processes are informal by design, based on people making the best choices they can, given their situation.
"If you can stamp it, you want to stick with steel or aluminum, " Mark Verbrugge, director of General Motors' Materials and Processes Lab, told Design News magazine earlier this year.
The opportunities for sustainable energy strategies are everywhere, beginning with the design of buildings, to construction processes, to insulation, the HVAC system, the lights, the water, the elevators, the power and cooling for technology, the heating and cooling for people.
Together, we have been collaborating to design and manufacture Eyez harnessing the same processes and materials that leading technology manufacturers utilize to produce their products.
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It culminates in the creation of a set of data-driven design criteria that will guide our idea generating processes.
The SunShot initiative focuses on bringing down costs by pursuing innovations in four particular areas, including solar cell technology, power electronics that optimize the performance of installations, improvements in manufacturing processes, and installation and system design.
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The traditional construction processes require both technical skills to design the building with consideration to its size, site and function, and aesthetic sense to select the lumber for the construction materials, cut and shape the wood, and assemble and interlock the separate wooden pieces without using nails, creating the so-called joints that withstand a millennium.
These questions ranged from compensation strategy and design to the nuts and bolts of good governance processes.
So, I hope you can understand my passion as a form of disappointment with the business community to abandon repeated failures and adopt more reliable processes, such as User-Centered Design or Value Innovations.
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This trans-disciplinary book highlights the challenges involved in the collective initiation, design, implementation and evaluation of water planning and management processes.
It's cost-effective because the design and concept development are all done at one time, rather than as separate processes for Gap and GapMaternity.
In fact, the processes used to create some of these clothes sound more like a chemistry experiment than clothing design.
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Just as human-computer interaction was once a burgeoning new field and now is a given in system design, human-future interaction is poised to become more essential to our strategic planning and innovation processes.
The solution is a second operating system, devoted to the design and implementation of strategy, that uses an agile, networklike structure and a very different set of processes.
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Scribing is a combination of the graphic processes used in France since the thirteenth century that make it possible to express accurately through the design the actual volumes of a building, its interlocking, and the characteristics of the wooden components.
BizTalk Orchestration features a drag and drop design tool, a runtime engine to execute and debug applications and a "binding architecture" for tying business processes with applications that automate them.
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