Total Innovative Management Excellence (TIME)

Appendix A

Glossary

• Administrate – To direct and manage resources.
• Area Activity Analysis is a methodology to establish agreed-to, understandable efficiency and effectiveness measurement systems and communication links throughout the organization. It is designed to define and set up all of the internal and external supplier/customer relationships and measurements.
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) –
  • Per Haugeland (1985), an American professor of philosophy and cognitive science, AI refers to “the exciting new effort to make computers think … machines with minds, in the full and literal sense.”
  • Per Kurzweil (1990), an American inventor and futurist, ...