Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology 

About: Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology is an academic conference. The conference publishes majorly in the area(s): Innovation management & Technology management. Over the lifetime, 4386 publications have been published by the conference receiving 18651 citations.

Technological innovation in the semiconductor industry: A case study of the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS)

Abstract: This paper summarizes a dissertation that explores the Semiconductor Industry Association's (SIA) Technology Roadmap, now referred to as the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS). It is a study of its origin, evolution, and future role in influencing industry strategies and public policies. The overall thesis is that the Roadmap is one important element of a broader industrial arrangement that has evolved from the convergence of technological, economic, institutional, and cultural factors, all hinged on the goal of sustaining historical industrial productivity-also referred to as "Moore's Law".

Sustainable IT services: Assessing the impact of green computing practices

Abstract: Green computing refers to the practice of using computing resources more efficiently while maintaining or increasing overall performance. Sustainable IT services require the integration of green computing practices such as power management, virtualization, improving cooling technology, recycling, electronic waste disposal, and optimization of the IT infrastructure to meet sustainability requirements. Recent studies have shown that costs of power utilized by IT departments can approach 50% of the overall energy costs for an organization. While there is an expectation that green IT should lower costs and the firm's impact on the environment, there has been far less attention directed at understanding the strategic benefits of sustainable IT services in terms of the creation of customer value, business value and societal value. This paper provides a review of the literature on sustainable IT, key areas of focus, and identifies a core set of principles to guide sustainable IT service design.

A framework for managing the innovation process

Abstract: Successful innovation requires an integrated design process, i.e. integration in the design of the enterprise, the design of the product, as well as the design and implementation of new technologies. Such an integrated design effort requires good collaboration and management of the designs, and should be supported by efficient knowledge management techniques and tools. If innovation is to help a business grow and improve its competitiveness, it is also important to plan the innovation carefully. Though some ideas may just "fall from the sky" or "come out of the blue", an organisation should also have a strategic vision of how the business and the enterprise should develop. The Enterprise should not wait for the innovation to arrive arbitrarily, but rather proactively plan for innovation incorporating market trends, the competitive landscape, new technology availability, and changes in customer preferences and trends in order to create fruitful terroir conducive for innovative thinking. Such an enterprise will also pro-actively manage the knowledge supply chain that supports innovation. This paper presents a combined convergent and divergent approach for managing innovation within an innovation landscape that contextualise domains, role-players, decision points and knowledge network components . The Innovation management model specifically focuses on the use of roadmapping for planning and deploying innovation within a collaborative deployment environment. A case study illustrating the use of parts of the framework within the insurance industry is also presented.

The role of Twitter during a natural disaster: Case study of 2011 Thai Flood

Abstract: With the emergence of Web 2.0, social media became a key platform that allowed people to interact and share information. Unlike traditional internet media, the Web 2.0 platform facilitates not only users' ability to access information; but also their ability to comment on information already existing in the web sphere, and to publish or republish information. Over the last few years, users of social media have played an increasing role in the dissemination of emergency and disaster information. In this paper, we conduct a case study exploring how Thai people used social media such as Twitter in response to one of the country's worst disasters in recent history: the 2011 Thai Flood. By analyzing these user-generated messages we may assist local communities in obtaining up-to-date information; emergency rescuers in providing assistance according to the needs of the populace in a timely manner or government agencies in analyzing and developing methods to use similar information to better centralize, coordinate, manage and plan disaster relief both during and after the event.

Multi-criteria applications in renewable energy analysis: A literature review

Abstract: Renewable energies are rising as solutions for a sustainable, environmentally friendly and long-term cost effective sources of energies for the future. Renewable energy decision making can be viewed as a multiple criteria decision-making problem with correlating criteria and alternatives. Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDM) offer a flexible tool that is able to handle and bring together a wide range of variables and thus offer useful assistance to the decision maker in mapping out the situation. MCDM methods can be divided into two categories, multi-objective decision making (MODM) and multi-attribute decision making (MADM). A review of 90+ published papers of MCDM analysis in the renewable energy field is presented in this paper. Classification of both application area as well as methodology used are summarized. Analysis reveals that AHP is the most used of all MCDM methodologies.