Supplier assessment and selection is critical in the world of logistics and supply chain management. Despite this criticality, however, assessment and selection related processes and methodologies are largely undocumented and informal. Given the inadequate treatment of published knowledge on the...
Despite having risk management instructions and an official guidebook, risk assessments and analysis still lack the sufficient technical rigor when applying these processes to research and development projects within the Department of Defense (DoD). The risk analysis phase often suffers from...
Although corporations collect project information such as performance indicators, they tend to use this information only to estimate the cost of future projects rather than as a way of predicting potential project failures. By not using performance indicators from prior projects to predict future...
Health systems and regulatory bodies continuously attempt to reduce costs and eliminate waste to improve the way healthcare is delivered. Quality of care has become the key principle driving change and healthcare outcomes. As the healthcare industry transitions to value-based reimbursement models...
Billions of dollars are spent by government organizations to accomplish their mission. Organizations are faced with the increased growth of complex software systems to handle higher velocity, volume, and variety of data captured at higher speeds to achieve mission goals. Software and hardware...
Over the last two decades, assessments of major defense acquisition systems consistently cite program management office (PMO) effectiveness as a key factor for successfully producing weapon systems. Studies conducted across government, industry, and academia attribute PMO effectiveness to ideal...
Forecasting of resource utilization in large cloud computing systems is essential to maintain high-quality service and fulfill service level agreements to ensure cost-effectiveness and profitability. Accurately forecasting long-term resource utilization can be challenging, as it is dynamic and...
In e-retail industry, online Word-of-Mouth (e-WOM) includes vast amounts of text-reviews and star-ratings of products. Such valuable information does not only help consumers, by enabling informed purchasing decisions, but also benefits businesses and engineering professionals, who are involved in...
Valve Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) in the United States are facing increasing pressure to offer products capable of competing with other local and low-cost country industry players, forcing them to continuously lower prices and shorten delivery dates. At the same time, operations and...
This praxis studies the effects on organizations of replacing US knowledge workers with artificial intelligence software (automation) and enhancing US knowledge workers with artificial intelligence software (augmentation). The effects on organizational innovation, resistance, and return on...
Knowledge Management (KM) has been globally adopted by many enterprises and small teams to garner the benefits of identifying and organizing intellectual capital and enabling collaboration and innovation. Research and developments within KM is continuous which enhance practices to current users...
The growth of battery powered devices, starting with laptops and cell phones in the 1990s,to tablet PCs and electrical vehicles in the 21st century, has given rise to the ever presentneed of charging infrastructure. This infrastructure, relying on the same conducted powertransfer technology which...
Applying Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Methods to the Department of Defense Cloud Service Offering Security Authorization Process Cloud computing offers the potential for the Department of Defense (DoD) to lower its computing costs while making information resources more widely available....
Abstract of PraxisA Predictive Analytical Model for Predicting Munitions Surface Clearance Decontamination Activities Unexploded ordnance contamination in the United States and its Territories has emerged as one of the nation's most significant environmental problems in 2001 and remains a serious...
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program was established in 1982 in response to a decline in United States (U.S.) research and development (R&D;) productivity. The SBIR program aims to provide small businesses an avenue to commercialize products and services. The SBIR program is...
The island of Puerto Rico, a commonwealth of the United States of America, has a population of 3,725,789 according to the 2010 census, and generates 11,100 tons daily of waste. In the Island, landfilling is the dominant form of waste disposal. Most municipal solid waste landfills (MSWLF) in...
Despite the efforts in developing frameworks to analyze and measure resilience, there is lack of consensus on the development and definition of metrics and limited quantitative analysis approaches. The resilience of buildings’ critical systems has not been assessed quantitatively, thus impacting...
The following research was performed to establish an engineering knowledge management strategy for improving knowledge sharing concerning risk prediction models for hospital readmissions. The health care industry has been met with numerous approaches toward reducing preventable hospital...
Launches of satellites require years of advance planning leading to lower national and economic security posture. A new construct is required for rapidly enabling access to space for global urgent mission needs. A new construct is required for effectively enabling a launch of a satellite to orbit...
The United States economic and national security sectors remain vulnerable to shortages of critical materials due to the risks posed by disruptions in globally-dispersed supply networks. Numerous methods over the past 10 years have been proposed to identify, assess, and evaluate risks in critical...
In the pharmaceutical industry, estimating the probability of occurrence for use errors and use-error-causes (here forth referred to as use error probabilities) when developing drug delivery devices is hindered by a lack of data, ultimately limiting the ability to conduct robust usability risk...
The engineering workforce in the US Federal Government is increasingly reaching retirement eligibility. As these engineers leave the workforce they take with them knowledge they accumulated throughout their career, threatening the ability of their agency to continue its mission. This study...
The concept of Design Thinking (DT) has emerged to enhance innovation in a variety of industries; top-level executives are promoting the use of DT as a tool to accelerate innovation. However, studies show a significant discrepancy when understanding and using the DT concepts, and the integration...
A risk in principle is an uncertain event that if it occurs, may have an adverse or positive effect on a project's objectives. Adverse risks imply threats and positive ones may lead to opportunities. Proper risk management is creating an appropriate environment and a policy for maintaining...
Although the literature recognizes the importance of stakeholder input, particularly during requirements elicitation, its implementation has been limited, particularly in addressing the needs of urban water systems. Urban water system resilience, the capacity of a water system to survive, adapt,...
Hundreds of thousands of home users are victimized by cyber-attacks every year. Many experts agree that average home users are not doing enough to protect their home computers from cyber-attacks. Improperly managed home computers can lead to individuals losing data, systems performing slowly,...
Based on a belief that innovation is increased by Holacratic Engineering Management practices distributing authority to engaged, autonomous, decision makers versus traditional corporate, hierarchical, and delegated decision making, this research examines the relationship between holacratic...
Organizations of all types and their computer networks are constantly under threat of attack. While the overall detection time of these attacks is getting shorter, the average detection time of weeks to months allows the attacker ample time to potentially cause damage to the organization. Current...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation(NNPC) lacks the ability to maintain their pipelines, which tend to fail when damage occurs causing oil spillage and sometimes fire. Consistent oil spills from these pipelines constitute health hazards to the community as well as a decrease in revenue...
Analytics firm Cyence estimated Amazon’s four-hour cloud computing outage on February 28, 2017 “cost S&P; 500 companies at least $150 million” (Condliffe 2017) and traffic monitoring firm Apica claimed “54 of the top 100 online retailers saw site performance slump by at least 20 percent”...
This Praxis analyzes the impact of cost, schedule, and human capital risks on the ROI of naval defense knowledge based acquisition practice implementation within the integrated defense acquisition, technology, and logistics lifecycle management system for engineering related technologies. The...
Information Technology incident ticket prolonged resolution times means increased support costs for the IT organization and leads to dissatisfied users. The purpose of this study is to identify the factors that are causing this high-resolution time. A Six Sigma DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze,...
The adoption of new technologies increases the pace of innovation and at the same time presents new challenges to forecasting demand for new products with an evolving set of decision variables. Engineering managers often face this problem early-on in the new product development process. The...
The nature of cyber security vulnerabilities has become more and more complex and the volume of vulnerabilities has become more overwhelming. The reporting and collection of vulnerability data has not stemmed the tidal wave of cyber security vulnerabilities This research performs analysis of the...
The lack of a framework for measuring IS success in the context of Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) presents challenges for practitioners attempting to identify factors of user satisfaction that are of greatest impact to end users. Without a clear understanding of these factors,...
The elimination of waste is essential to efficient production in any industry. While the concept of Lean has been examined in tandem with engineering and aerospace projects, Lean’s foundation in manufacturing has limited much of the related research to that particular industry; scholars had yet...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) have immense potential to improve diagnostic research and early intervention using behavioral and computer sciences, and explorations involving the highly prevalent and diverse syndrome of autism spectrum disorder.Current approaches for...
This praxis explores a new approach to the problem of estimating the uncertainty attributable to inconsistent pairwise comparison judgments in the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), a prominent decision-making methodology used in numerous fields, including systems engineering and engineering...
Leading indicators can be utilized to monitor a system and detect if a risk is present or increasing over time during key development phases such as integration and test. However, no leading indicator is perfect, and each contains inherent holes that can miss signals of risk. While the Swiss...
Maturing new technologies through the systems engineering lifecycle has been a perpetual issue for the U.S. systems engineering community. Although there are many reasons why technologies fail to mature, this study examines the perceptions of why technologies succeed. To examine these...
For decades, manufacturers have used statistical process control charts to detect process variations and identify assignable causes. Shewhart charts are one of the many techniques employed in manufacturing that allow machine operators, not statisticians or engineers, to record, trend, and...
Executives and directors are seeking to transform their enterprises into more efficient operations to achieve a competitive advantage and increase shareholder value. In addition, modern enterprises are deploying new technologies to attain the desired efficiencies inherently promised by technology...
This research develops a new, fully quantitative methodology to evaluate engineering infrastructure projects built under highly uncertain market conditions through a three-stage multi-factor decision model. The first stage is a Bayesian network model built to quantify each project's future cash...
Project Managers in the construction industry need to implement changes on the way they manage complex projects to increase efficiency and stay ahead of the competition. One of these changes is the implementation of Agile, a set of principles developed from software development which focuses on...