Business process optimization allows businesses to remain competitive by allowing management to observe, analyze, and improve the operations of the organization. Using data and related business insights developed through applied analytic disciplines to drive business process optimization allows...
The City of Atlanta is actively pursuing tools and techniques to aggressively progress their ITIL Maturity level to achieve world-class performance in IT service delivery. Currently, a methodology to accurately forecast demand management to predict future workload does not exist. This added...
The Economic Complexity Index (ECI) is an indicator that can be used by countries with undiversified economies to measure the success of their efforts to grow and diversify their exports, in order to sustain their economic development. However, the index is distorted for countries with...
Knowledge management, a systemic effort to enable information and knowledge to grow, flow and create value, has been proven to provide many benefits to organizations and programs. While the pace of today’s research is increasing at accelerating rates, organizations’ traditional knowledge...
Coastal hazards including storm surge, sea-level rise, and cyclone winds continue to have devastating effects on infrastructure systems and communities despite the costly investments already being made in risk management to mitigate predicted consequences. Risk management has generally not been...
Abstract of PraxisAnalyzing fact based preventive approach to address foreign material contamination in the food industry is a necessary analysis, focused on using statistical evaluations to analyze the disturbing trend of foreign material food recall in the meat and poultry industry today. Even...
The United States (U.S.) government forecasts a shortage of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) workers, putting STEM workforce sustainability at risk. The focus of this dissertation is to understand the micro-behaviors and antecedent variables that contribute to engineer...
Early stage research and development (R&D;) projects, programs, or efforts are characterized by a high degree of uncertainty. In the public sector, these efforts are defined as those with technology readiness levels up to 4. Both project management and systems engineering cultures proliferate...
High Reliability Organizations are organizations that have fewer than the average number of high-consequence accidents. “Heinrich’s Law” states that the industrial average of the ratio of high-consequence accidents to total recordable accidents is 1:330. This represents an average of one...