What is at stake in the climate negotiations is the provision of a global public good, indeed a "clean" atmosphere.The Kyoto Protocol is only a very minor step toward this objective. Looking further ahead in time, beyond the 2008-2012 period, Annex I Parties' commitments will not be sufficient...

Les risques associés au changement climatique global pèsent sur l'ensemble de la communauté internationale. Mais dans le processus de discussion pour la maîtrise collective des émissions de gaz à effet de serre, et en particulier de CO2 énergétique, tous les pays n'ont pas les mêmes...

Knowledge management (KM) is playing an important role in commercial and academic activities, and people are usually armed with effective KM tools for implementation. On one hand, KM tools can facilitate KM activities; however, on the other hand, with the "explosion" of KM tools development,...

Le résultat des toutes prochaines élections présidentielles dépendra étroitement de la façon dont s'effectuera le report des voix qui se sont portées sur les huit candidats éliminés à l'issue du premier tour. Il est donc très instructif de savoir comment les reports se sont effectués...

This communication is based on an original approach linking economical factors to technical and methodological ones. This work is applied to the decision process for mix production. This approach is relevant for costing driving systems. The main interesting point is that the quotation factors...

In the early phases of the product life cycle, the costs controls became a major decision tool in the competitiveness of the companies due to the world competition. After defining the problems related to this control difficulties, we will present an approach using a concept of cost entity...

This paper discusses organizational interoperability issues in through the study of two cases. Then it presents a framework which can help to design and manage this interoperability, by driving the development of “organizational capabilities”.

La performance est aujourd'hui vue comme la maîtrise du potentiel de réalisation de l'organisation. Il devient donc nécessaire d'adapter les outils de pilotage pour qu'ils intègrent les problématiques du développement du progrès fonctionnel et de la maîtrise du savoir agir des entités...

Concurrent engineering taking into account product life-cycle factors seems to be one of the industrial challenges of the next years. Cost estimation and management are two main strategic tasks that imply the possibility of managing costs at the earliest stages of product development. This is...