Publications
The following list consists of research publications authored/co-authored by NewVectors researchers and scientists.
All publications are in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format.
The White Paper was developed by New Vectors for the Program Managers Summit at the Ronald Reagan International Trade Center in Washington, D.C. and sponsored by Federal Computer Week (FCW).
This article synthesizes our experience evaluating three electronic business (eBusiness) systems in the Defense Logistics Agency. The focus was on actual impact in real life operational settings. We summarize our experience in terms of lessons learned and make a case that our experience can help others do similar evaluation. Lessons learned are grouped into six categories: metrics and data sources, methodology, program logic, adaptive systems, realistic expectations, and dependencies among the previous five. Prepared by Jonathan A. Morell, Ph.D. of NewVectors.
- Developing Lean
Supply Chains: A Guidebook
The application of what has come to be called lean manufacturing is becoming more and more common in North American industry. Nearly all such applications have been focused on the internal workings of an individual site or company. Most companies that have successfully implemented lean techniques internally have recognized that expanding lean to suppliers and customers is necessary to get the greatest benefit. Thus the logical next step to lean is applying it to supply chains as systems. This guidebook is written for people ready to move to that level.
The guidebook grew out of a fortunate set of discussions among people from Boeing, NewVectors (formerly Altarum), and Messier-Dowty. Their thoughts about applying lean approaches across a Boeing supply chain led to the SPANS Supply Chain Value Stream Management (SCVSM) project which addressed a Boeing supply chain. The guidebook was that project's primary deliverable. - Government-Wide Information Technology
(IT) Acquisitions: Increasing Likelihood of Success Through Leadership
and IPT Development
NewVectors published this article on team development and sustainment. The article can be found in the May - June 2003 issue of Program Manager magazine. The article describes a methodology for Integrated Product Team (IPT) support that was developed by David Haas, James McAlpin and others at NewVectors. The objective is to address the most common cause of large program failure - lack of leadership support and stakeholder buy-in. - Revenue and Financial Margin Life
Cycle Management Project; Management Briefing Seminar 2003: Executive
Panel Discussion
A study prepared for Salion by Jonathan A. Morell of NewVectors and David J. Andrea of the Center for Automotive Research.
- Computer Assisted Collaboration
in the Automotive Industry: What Are the Complex Problems and How Are
Decisions Made?
Market forces are driving the automotive industry toward shorter design times, shorter order fulfillment cycles, and fewer labor hours in final assembly. To cope with these changes, automotive supply chains are becoming more diverse, and their information environments more complex. Our research program has been studying how automotive supply chains are adapting to these realities. Our view is that the most robust, adaptable, and powerful information exchange systems will prove to be those which combine automated processing for activities that are routine and predictable, with transactions that are assisted by information technology, but which are, ultimately, human activities. Prepared by Jonathan A. Morell, Ph.D. of NewVectors and Bernard F. Swiecki and David J. Andrea of the Center for Automotive Research (CAR).
- E-Readiness of the Automotive
Supply Chain - Just How Wired is the Supplier Sector?
Study and paper sponsored by SupplySolution, performed with admirable collaboration between New Vectors and CAR. Authors: Jonny Morell from NewVectors and Bernard Swiecki from CAR (2001). - Entropy and Self-Organization
in Multi-Agent Systems
Accepted paper submitted to the International Conference on Autonomous Agents 2001 by Van Parunak and Sven Brueckner.