Welcome to Scott Carpenter's Lectures
(as graduate instructor at the University of Phoenix)


Scott A. Carpenter, Ph.D.
(408) 772-2811
Skype: Blue.Sea.Breeze
ScottCarpenter@RadiationDetectives.com

The lectures are organized according to their discipline:

* Strategic Management in the Multinational Enterprise
* Program and Project Management of Technology Systems
* Information Technology and Decision Science
* Innovation Processes
* Managing Change and Risk in Operations and Manufacturing
* Technology Forecasting and Strategic Planning
* Strategic Management of Research & Development
* Technology Marketing Management
* Applied Microeconomics
* Venture Cost Management
* Business Financial Management
* Strategic Planning in Information Systems
* Risk Management in Information Systems
* Management of Contracts, Ethics, and Intellectual Property
* Human Relations and Organization Behavior
* Human Factors in the Changing Organization
* Software Engineering Management
* Operating Systems
* Networks and Data Communications
* Database Technology



Strategic Management in the Multinational Enterprise

  1. International and Domestic Stakeholder Activism

  2. Global Strategy Management: Pooling Technology Resources

  3. German Cultural Characteristics Affecting Technology Transfer

  4. Penetrate Markets ASAP With Intellectual-Property-Protected Monopolies

  5. Words, Meanings, Values: Improving Communication, Cooperation, and Efficiency Across the Transnational Organization


    6. Program and Project Management of Technology Systems

  6. Perception versus Reality, Playing with the Numbers

  7. Apple Computer finds that SOS really means "Help!"

  8. Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation

  9. Vision with Industrious Ingenuity can Overcome Tradition

  10. Putting Leadership and Responsibility Back Into Management

  11. Project Plan and Rationale for Development of CATS Software Package

  12. High-Technology Business Model Based on Small Government Technology Grant Programs

  13. Enterprise Resource Planning System: Implementing Business Change at United Technologies Chemical Systems Division


    14. Information Technology and Decision Science

  14. Fantasies in Electronic Conferencing

  15. Evaluating Information System Software

  16. Maneuvering your Competitor into a Position of "Precipitous Decision Making"

  17. Information System Contributions to Quality at Engineering Design Environments

  18. Case Studies: Automatic Manufacturing Processes and Market-Knowledge Information Systems

  19. Growing Decision Support Systems into Group-Decision and Executive-Decision Support Systems

  20. Information System Design for Strategic Business Applications in the Government Laboratory System

  21. Information System Technology to the Rescue for Safe Use and Storage of Chemical and Nuclear Materials


    22. Innovation Processes

  22. Innovative Behaviors at Synopsis

  23. Paradigm Shifting in the National Laboratory System: 1943-1996

  24. Paradigm Shifting in Du Pont Research and Innovation: 1945-1972

  25. Preston Tucker: Analysis of Tactical Successes and Strategic Failure

  26. Finding Change Agents and Change Vehicles within an "Insiders" Organization

  27. Analysis of the Impact of Management Styles Upon Development and Implementation of Innovative Processes


    28. Managing Change and Risk in Operations and Manufacturing

  28. "Shift Happens!"

  29. General Risk Assessment in Industrial Operations

  30. Reducing Radwaste Analysis Time in Japan by Reinventing a Better Wheel


    31. Technology Forecasting and Strategic Planning

  31. Trends in Knowledge Technology (2001-2009)

  32. Maui University Graduates "Strategic Thinkers"

  33. Graduates of Maui University Design the Future

  34. External Factors Influencing Nuclear Power - Future Outlook

  35. NASA's Opportunities and Roles In Development of Space Fusion Propulsion

  36. Technology Forecasting with Delphi Analysis - Trends in Business Laser Technology

  37. Recommendation to the NASA Working Group: Steps Toward Research Announcement Start

  38. Preliminary Strategic Outline for Near-term Economic Viability of Fusion Energy: Industry-led Consortia


    39. Strategic Management of Research & Development

  39. Operating Strategies at Chaparral Steel

  40. Access to Space Architecture: Single Stage to Orbit Trade-Off Analysis

  41. Perspective on Technology Development Process at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory


    42. Technology Marketing Management

  42. Rubbermaid Outlook Analysis for the Late 1990s

  43. Market Diffusion of Novel Radiation Detectors and Methods

  44. Wal-Mart Versus Target: Struggle for Upscale Market Share in the 1990s

  45. Preliminary Marketing Plan for Construction of a Fusion Isotope Generator (FIG) for Production of Special Isotopes


    46. Applied Microeconomics

  46. Microeconomic Outlook for Sun Microsystems

  47. Elasticity of Demand: Bottled Water and Jolt Cola

  48. Service Cost Inputs for Radioanalysis of Environmental Samples

  49. Defining Economics in the Vernacular of the National Laboratory

  50. Demand Function Analysis for Radioanalysis of Environmental Samples


    51. Venture Cost Management

  51. Activity-Based Management Accounting System

  52. Strategic Cost analysis of Technological Investments

  53. Internationalism and Cost-Accounting System Effects on Decision Making and Support Costing

  54. Return on Investment Analysis for Development and Marketing of Novel In-Situ Nuclear Fuel Detectors and Methods


    55. Business Financial Management

  55. IT Professionals Value Financial Statements

  56. "Make-vs-Buy" Dilemma with needed Application Software

  57. Analysis of Privatizing the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  58. Common Budgeting Problems with Small Government Research Projects

  59. "Capital Budgeting" Considerations in Computer and Software Acquisitions

  60. Case Studies of Recent Information Technology Failures: eBay, CheckFree, and AOL


    61. Strategic Planning in Information Systems

  61. A New Paradigm for Bargain-Hunting Shopping Agents

  62. Considerations in Outsourcing the Information System Function

  63. Leveraging Information Technology for Marketing Across Borders


    64. Risk Management in Information Systems

  64. The Security Nightmare Faced by eBay

  65. A Recommended Disaster Recover Plan for eBay

  66. Internet Security and Real Networks Corporation

  67. Assessing Return-On-Investment for Implementation of a New Radioanalytical Method at the Radiation and Analytical Measurements Laboratory


    68. Management of Contracts, Ethics, and Intellectual Property

  68. Corporate Perspective on IP and Ethics

  69. An IT Manager's View on Computer Ethics

  70. Multicultural Issues in Information Systems

  71. Product Support Issues for Information Systems

  72. Information Reliability in Information System Contracts

  73. Training the Organization to Protect Intellectual Property

  74. An IT Manager's View on Privacy and the Information Age

  75. Intellectual Property Valuation and Potential Buyer Assessment

  76. An IT Manager's View on Intellectual Property Rights in an International Setting

  77. Summary of Information System Contract Issues Between Client (PhoenixTech) and Vendor (NexGen)


    78. Human Relations and Organization Behavior

  78. Organizational Goals: "Official" Versus "Expedient"

  79. Post Cold-War Contingency Design in the National Laboratory Setting

  80. Calibrating Power: Elements for an "Effective" Personnel Performance Appraisal


    81. Human Factors in the Changing Organization

  81. Ergonomic Misconceptions by Management

  82. Scoping Study for the Beneficial Effects of a Well-Illuminated Office

  83. Reducing Productivity by Winning Awards for Saving Lighting Energy Costs

  84. Assessing your Ergonomic Environment toward providing an Imaginative Environment


    85. Software Engineering Management

  85. Primer on the Evolution of the C Programming Language

  86. Information Planning and Consensus in Large Scale Projects

  87. Proposal for an Online Personal Benefits Tracking System Database

  88. Primer on the Phased Approach to "Purchased" Enterprise-Wide Software Implementation

  89. Feasibility Study for Implementing a Time-Saving Radioanalytical Method in the U.S. Fissile Materials Disposition Program


    90. Operating Systems

  90. I/O Management and Windows NT

  91. Comparison of Macintosh OS and Windows NT


    92. Networks and Data Communications

  92. Overview of the SuperNet Network Control and Management System

  93. Proposed Local Area Network Design for the Multi-Building Company Multimedia CPU


    94. Database Technology

  94. Case History of a Data Management Project Horror Story

  95. Proposed University on Maui Emphasizing Knowledge Technology Through Data Management and Network Technologies

Always under construction.
Last update: 2011-04-21
Copyright © 2008–2011 by Scott A. Carpenter. All rights reserved.