In January 2004, President George W. Bush announced new elements of the nation’s space policy by issuing the Vision for Space Exploration (VSE),1 which instructed NASA to “extend human presence across the solar system, starting with a human return to the Moon by the year 2020, in preparation for human exploration of Mars and other destinations.” NASA was also directed to “develop the in…
Organizations exist for a purpose. The mission is articulated in a broadly defined but enduring statement of purpose that identifies the scope of an organization’s operations and its offerings to affected groups and entities
In a sense, we know a lot more than we realize, because everything that we know has consequences logical consequences—that follow automatically. If you know that all humans are mortal, and you know that you are human, then in a sense you know that you are mortal, whether or not you have ever considered or wanted to consider that fact. This is an example of logical deduction: From the pre…
The continued advance of the nation's space program is directly dependent upon the development and use of new technology. Technology is the foundation for every aspect of space missions and ground operations. The improvements in technology that will enable future advances are not only in device and system performance, but also in permitting missions to be carried out more rapidly and at lower c…
At the request of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the National Academies, through its National Research Council (NRC), has since 1959 annually assembled panels of experts from academia, industry, medicine, and other scientific and engineering environments to assess the quality and effectiveness of the NIST measurements and standards laboratories, of which there are no…
The organization sets the objectives and works towards their achievement. Once these objectives are defined and strategies determined, certain policies have to be made to put them into action. Business policies act as a guide to action. They provide the frame work within which an organization has to meet its business objectives. The policy points out the direction in which the company ought to go.
The entire Crypto 101 project is publicly developed on GitHub under the crypto101 organization, including this book. This is an early pre-release of this book. All of your questions, com- ments and bug reports are highly appreciated. If you don’t understand something after reading it, or a sentence is particularly clumsily worded, that’s a bug and I would very much like to fix it! Of cou…
The aim of this paper is to introduce a strategic management concept that is focused on environmental consciousness. First, starting from the concept of environmental consciousness and its interpretation at a corporate level, it determines the external and internal factors of companies’ strategic positioning. In the next step, it summarizes the possibilities of formulating strategic alternati…
We introduce a strategic management perspective into the ambidexterity discussion and show that ambidexterity is a much better predictor of organizational performance than traditional strategic management concepts, specifically the concept of fit. Our main contribution lies in the combination of ambidexterity- and strategic management research where we highlight commonalities as well as dif…
Broadband communication networks and multimedia data available in a digital format opened many challenges and opportunities for innovation. Versatile and simple-to-use software and decreasing prices of digital devices have made it possible for consumers from all around the world to create and exchange multimedia data. Broadband Internet connections and near error-free transmission of data fac…