Housing supply chain model for innovation: research report

The aim of this research is to undertake a case study analysis of successful delivery of an innovation to the Australian housing construction industry. This study is conducted on the “innovator group”; that is, the group that created the idea of an innovation for the housing sector and then were intimately involved in creation, development and diffusion. It is apparent that there were key players involved in this process which are representative of various organisations along the supply chain – designer, developer, subcontractor and supplier. Much rhetoric states that integration of the supply chain actors will solve construction problems, however, in reality we know little beyond this in the Australian context as there has been little research conducted previously. This study will examine in detail the process undertaken by this particular group to deliver an innovation to the housing sector which required an integrated construction supply chain model. This report was published by the Australian Housing Supply Chain Alliance and written by Professor Kerry London, School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University with Research Fellow, Jessica Siva

Models of ICT Innovation. A Focus on the Cinema Sector

The report starts by looking at the competing and overlapping definitions of creative industries, media and content industries. Chapter 1 investigates the fate of R&D and innovation in the creative industries and in the broader Telecom Media and Technology sectors. Chapter 2 summarizes past studies on innovation in distinct media and content industries (videogames, music recording and newspapers publishing) and draws some lessons from them. Chapter 3 delves more deeply into the specific case of cinema. This chapter investigates the film industry's complex and evolving relationship with technologies and technological inventions. Chapter 4 offers a short cross-comparison with R&D in the book publishing industry. Chapter 5 deals with policy issues triggered by the observed digital changes. Chapter 6 concludes with a brief assessment of EU strengths and weaknesses, and offers some recommendations.JRC.J.3-Information Societ

CONTRACTUAL AGREEMENTS: ANALYZING THE ASSIGNMENT OF AGREEMENT OFFICERS FOR OTHER TRANSACTION AUTHORITY AGREEMENTS IN THE AIR FORCE

The USAF has been charged with accelerating the pace of acquisitions and have found Other Transaction Authority (OTA) agreements as one procurement instrument that can be used. However, there may be a problem that the individuals assigned to be agreement officers (AO) that are managing non-Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) contracts such as OTAs may not be from the proper career field, or have the necessary education background, or years of experience, or even status as a procuring contracting officer (PCO). The purpose of this research is to conduct an analysis of the demographics of a sample population of Air Force AOs. I will specifically analyze career field, level of education, years of experience, and PCO status, of that sample AO population. This research will analyze data from one MAJCOM within the USAF. The data fields analyzed include career fields, educational background levels, years of experience, and PCO status. The dataset found that the MAJCOM is only assigning contracting civilians as AOs; this means that a FAR-trained workforce is managing non-FAR-based contracts with minimal training. Additionally, it takes many AOs 10 years of work experience before they attain a college business education, limiting business acumen. The USAF should consider non-contracting civilians, and military in contracting, as AOs. Furthermore, USAF should provide training on generally accepted contract management principles and concepts, as well as business management training.Captain, United States Air ForceApproved for public release. Distribution is unlimited

REBUILDING AFRICA'S SCIENTIFIC CAPACITY IN FOOD AND AGRICULTURE

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Business process automation for Legislative and Procedural Services in the National Assembly: a case of the Kenyan Parliament

a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Computer-Based Information Systems at Strathmore UniversityParliament as an institution and as the legislative arm of government still uses paper-based office processes to conduct its business. This accentuates the problem of meeting deadlines as stipulated by the constitution and failure to meet these deadlines result in Parliament forfeiting its mandate. This research proposed to develop a prototype automating the table office processes in the Legislative and Procedural Services (LPS) Department in the Kenyan Parliament. Secondary research on existing literature was gathered and analysed about key implementations in parliamentary systems mainly Portugal, Armenia and the United Nations. A conceptual framework was developed based on the secondary data. Primary research on the viability of such a system was done incorporating key stake holders in the Kenyan legislature. Finally, a prototype was proposed, designed and developed. The system prototype aims to improve productivity and efficiency by creating and automating the workflows derived from the paper-based processes in the LPS department in the Kenyan Parliament. The goal of the system is to have a paperless office work environment for Parliamentary staff. The system was tested by the research participants from the Legal and Procedural Servicers’ Department of the Kenyan parliament. Further, changes and improvement were proposed such as the inclusion of biometric processes as well as the development of inter-governmental systems to automate communication between different parliaments. All these steps proved that indeed table office automation can be a great improvement of the existing processes in the Kenyan parliament as well as globall

Deliverable D6.4 Scenario Demonstrators (v2)

This deliverable describes the final LinkedTV scenario demonstrators, which have been implemented with the most recent versions of the LinkedTV technology set. The demonstrators use real broadcaster TV programming (news from RBB and cultural heritage from AVRO) and show the benefits of LinkedTV through providing seamless access during the programme to related information and content from the Internet. They also validate the maturity of the LinkedTV technologies which were used to implement the scenario demonstrators