SME tailor-designed patent portfolio analysis

The management of patents is acknowledged to be closely correlated to a company’s profits. Thus, evaluation of patent portfolios is an essential task for companies producing or depending on technology-related products. While global players and consultants already have considerable experience in this field, no tool has so far been available that meets SME requirements. The Innovation and Patent-Centre at the Chamber of Commerce in Hamburg, a German think tank for patent management, has now developed a tool specially suited for SMEs. The article describes the methodology of the tool and compares it to other state-of-the-art tools. The tool gives an easy-to-understand overview for personnel with different professional backgrounds and facilitates strategic cross-functional discussions. Field tests carried out with SMEs in different industry sectors and with varying patent portfolio sizes and structures have shown good results.     

美国非政府组织中的城市改良组织管理机制

美国城市公共管理、开发组织形式与经济社会有着十分密切的关系。该文主要讨论北美国家以非政府力量形式出现的一种城市管理模式,介绍这类改良组织的管理机制以及对城市管理、社会经济起到的作用和职能等方面。     

Downstream performance prediction for a manufacturing system using neural networks and six-sigma improvement techniques

Intelligent techniques have been applied in a range of industrial environments [Meziane F, Vadera S, Kobbacy K, Proudlove N. Intelligent systems in manufacturing: current developments and future prospects. Integrated Manuf Syst 2000;11(4):218–38; Stephanopoulos G, Han C. Intelligent systems in process engineering: a review. Comput Chem Eng, 1996;20 (6–7):743–91; Johnston AB, Maguire LP, McGinnity TM. Using business improvement techniques to inform the optimisation of production cycle time: an industrial case study. Proceedings of the IEEE SMC UK-RI Chapter conference 2004 on intelligent cybernetic systems. September 7–8, 2004 ISSN:1744–9189; Proudlove NC, Vadera S, Kobbacy KAH. Intelligent management systems in operations: A review. J Oper Res Soc, 1998;49(7):682–99] although their implementation is not the first choice of many process engineers. In contrast process engineers in a diverse range of manufacturing environments regularly deploy business improvement techniques, such as the six-sigma methodology. Such techniques aim to control and subsequently identify the relationship between the process inputs and outputs so that a process engineer can more accurately predict how the process output shall perform based on the system inputs. Factors such as cost reduction, automatic process control or simply process prediction may be the defining factors in establishing prediction models.     

Ergonomics--costs and benefits revisited

An earlier review reported a dozen cases where ergonomics applications had resulted in cost savings. A large number of publications which refer to the topics of the cost-effectiveness and cost-benefits of ergonomics can now be found. However, data showing the value of ergonomics applications remain scarce. Cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness studies are difficult to conduct for a number of reasons. While it is unlikely that the general case for the value of ergonomics can be proven, ergonomists must be in a position to discuss the potential costs and benefits of their work with clients. The Business case model is suggested as one way to structure an analysis of where a potential ergonomics application might reduce the risks to costs or the possibility of lost benefits.     

基于目标分析的BPR模型在证券经纪业风险管理模式变革中的应用

基于目标分析的流程再造(BPR)技术为战略层面分析多行为人的目标意图提供了企业建模依据,这种新方法为我国证券经纪业务风险管理模式变革提供了可行思路.采用战略依赖模型和战略推理模型等面向目标的BPR技术分析了我国经纪业务资金管理模式,研究发现交易过程中多营业部的参与是总部难以有效控制各种风险的关键要因,提出分散模式的过渡变革策略"独立存管模式"以及彻底的BPR策略"第三方存管模式",为改善我国证券经纪业风险管理提供了有益建议.     

综合业务接入区微格化策略研究

将综合业务接入区划分为多个独立微格。根据用户业务需求与市场业务发展和资源建设情况,及时进行资源覆盖,保障客户接入时效性。     

A case study: California utilities and the progressive business model

Concentration on the new technological and funding requirements for decarbonizing utilities has obfuscated the reality that there is a new utility business model. The Progressive Business Model is legislation and regulatory actions taken to address climate change. Lacking a feedback loop for policy correction, it has raised utility rates, coopted utility management’s operational and investment independence, and sacrificed ratepayer safety and reliability.     

Non-financial barriers to combined heat and power in the United States - A qualitative study

The economic viability of new energy technologies is held as a central tenet to their future deployment; conventional wisdom posits economically rational decision-makers will readily invest in proven low-risk and affordable technologies. But what happens when this is not true. This paper examines the non-financial barriers facing economically viable Combined Heat and Power (CHP) projects. CHP is a mature and lower carbon technology that efficiently uses waste heat from thermal electricity generation; CHP can also provide flexibility services to help integrate variable renewable resources. CHP is low risk and many industrialized countries, particularly those in colder climates in Northern Europe and Russia, generate as much as 50% of their electricity and heat needs from CHP, but United States deployment remains low and investment hurdle rates high. While lower U.S. energy costs make some projects un-economic, many economically-viable CHP projects are stalled or killed by non-financial barriers. To better understand why financially viable CHP projects are not getting built, developers, owners and operators, regulators, and other stakeholders of this technology were interviewed and three major barriers emerged a) the business model of the electrical utility b) negative subjective impressions and c) challenges in allocating the risks and benefits.     

Mobitex网络技术及其在电力系统中的应用

目前我国移动数据业务大部分通过话音优先的移动电话网传输，存在影响数据通信质量的情况，提出发展专用的窄带无线数据通信系统的必要性。分析Mobitex无线广域网技术和特点，针对目前电力通信系统的特点，给出Mobitex技术在电力系统的应用实例，指出利用Mobitex技术建立电力系统窄带专网实现电力系统内部无线数据通信有很大的应用前景。     

业务流程管理在ERP中的实现

针对企业ERP实施效果与实施目标存在差异的现状,以ERP蕴含的流程为目标进行业务流程的规范与优化,通过现有ERP平台,运用BPM技术,结合Web Service实现企业资源共享和业务流程整合,开发出适合企业的工作流管理方式。以高级应用BPM研究目标拟定的人力资源模块中人员增加的审批流程为例,介绍企业内部业务文档的自动转换和传递。