The Forecasting and Impact of the Loss of Critical Human Skills Necessary for Supporting Legacy Systems

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 361-371

  Sandborn, Peter A ^a   Prabhakar, Varun J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b TOYOTA TECHNICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Diminishing manufacturing sources and material shortages (DMSMS); legacy systems; life cycle cost; obsolescence; organizational forgetting; workforce management; workforce planning

Indexed keywords

LIFE CYCLE; MANUFACTURE; OBSOLESCENCE; TRACKING (POSITION);

DIMINISHING MANUFACTURING SOURCES AND MATERIAL SHORTAGES (DMSMS); LIFECYCLE COSTS; ORGANIZATIONAL FORGETTING; WORKFORCE MANAGEMENT; WORKFORCE PLANNING;

LEGACY SYSTEMS;

EID: 85027946969     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2015.2438820     Document Type: Article

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