According to W. Edwards Deming, American companies require nothing less than a transformation of management style and of governmental relations with industry. In Out of the Crisis, originally published in 1982, Deming offers a theory of management based on his famous 14 Points for Management. Management's failure to plan for the future, he claims, brings about loss of market, which brings about loss of jobs. Management must be judged not only by the quarterly dividend, but by innovative plans to stay in business, protect investment, ensure future dividends, and provide more jobs through improved product and service. In simple, direct language, he explains the principles of management transformation and how to apply them.

Out of the Crisis

Social Network Analysis

Connections: New Ways of Working in the Networked Organization

Organizational Behaviour - I

An apparatus and a method for routing data in a radio data communication system having one or more host computers, one or more intermediate base stations, and one or more RF terminals organizes the intermediate base stations into an optimal spanning-tree network to control the routing of data to and from the RF terminals and the host computer efficiently and dynamically. Communication between the host computer and the RF terminals is achieved by using the network of intermediate base stations to transmit the data.

Radio frequency local area network

This article attempts to contribute to a better understanding of how standards actually emerge by taking a closer look at what is going on inside standards setting committees. It discusses the results of a study of senior committee members from the ISO, ITU and the IETF; who they are, where they come from, which rules they assume during the process, how they perceive this process, and what they feel actually influences its final outcome: the standard.

The making of standards: looking inside the work groups

Sample of contents: IT Standards Typology Open-Standards Requirements Standardization and Other Coordination Mechanisms in Open-Source Software When is Standardization Slow? How High-Technology Start-Up Firms May Overcome Direct and Indirect Network Externalities.

Advanced topics in information technology standards and standardization research

Knowledge Age Standards - a Brief Introduction to Their Dimensions Consensus Versus Speed The Standardization Process in IT - Too Slow or Too Fast? Institutional Dilemma in ICT Standardization - Coordinating the Diffusion of Technology Selected Intellectual Property Issues in Standardization Standardization and Intellectual Property Rights - Conflicts Between Innovation and Diffusion in New Telecommunications Systems Standards, Strategy and Evaluation The Role of Standards for Interoperating Information Systems Establishing Standards for Business Components A Standards-Based Common Operational Environment The Standardization Problem in Networks - a General Framework Standardizing Retail Payment Instruments Institutional Constraints in the Initial Deployment of Cellular Telephone Services in Three Continents How to Distribute a Cake Before Cutting it Into Pieces - Alice in Wonderland or Radio Engineers' Gang in the Nordic Countries The European Computer Driving License - a Standard of Basic Competence for Personal Computer Users.

Information Technology Standards and Standardization: A Global Perspective

Timer handling has a strong impact on various transport layer mechanisms. For instance to achieve an efficient provision of multicast and congestion control timer management is crucial. In this paper we describe and evaluate performance of the Slow Start / Tri-S flow control mechanism. The mechanism is source controlled and the window size adjustment is based on round trip times (RTTs). One main objective of Slow Start / Tri-S is the reduction of window oscillation and the provision of low delay compared to TCP/IP Slow Start. The second part of the paper depicts the error control scheme of XTP in multicast mode. Inefficiencies like redundant retransmissions are illustrated and the influence of respective timers on the performance is explained. To overcome the problems we introduce some enhancements.

Timer Handling in High-Performance Transport Systems

New Applications in IT Standards: Developments and Progress unites contributions on all facets of standards research, providing essential research on developing, teaching, and implementing standards in global organizations and institutions. Researchers can benefit from specific cases, frameworks, and new theories in IT standards studies.

Kai Jakobs

Papers

The making of standards: looking inside the work groups

Advanced topics in information technology standards and standardization research

Information Technology Standards and Standardization: A Global Perspective

Timer Handling in High-Performance Transport Systems

New applications in IT standards developments and progress