Decision system analysis is a conceptually simple technique that maps the process of group decisions over time. The data is gathered in a variety of ways, but most often some form of protocol analysis is the foremost tool. The data is then condensed and depicted as a flowchart for a specific...

The growth of technology in recent decades hasaccelerated and expanded the need to understand the technology transferprocess. In the early 1970's, the term "technology linker" (linker) wascoined and used by the U.S. Navy to describe a person or group that serves as alink between the source of...