Operationalizing Sustainability

List of Acronyms

ACPVI	Analyse en Composantes Principales basées sur les Variables Instrumentales (see PCAIV)
AFNOR	Agence Française de Normalisation
AHT	average handling time
AI	artificial intelligence
AIDS	acquired immune deficiency syndrome
ANNs	artificial neural networks
ANSI	American National Standards Institute
APS	advanced planning and scheduling
ATM	asynchronous transfer mode
ASS	after sale service
BA	business analytics
BCG	Boston Consulting Group (Strategy)
BCI	brain–computer interface
BFI	big factors inventory
BPR	business process engineering
CAD	computer-aided design
CBR	case-based reasoning
CEO	Chief Executive Officer
CFO	Chief Finance Officer
CHON	carbon – hydrogen – oxygen – nitrogen
CHP	combined heat and power
CIM	computer integrated manufacturing
CIO	Chief Information Officer
CMM	capability maturity model
CRM	customer relationship management
CSC	Corporate Service Corps
CSR	corporate social responsibility collaborative work
CW	competitive watch
DMS	decision making system
DNA	deoxyribonucleic acid
DSS	decision support system
ECB	European Central Bank
EI	economic intelligence (business intelligence)
EMA	École des Mines d’Alès
EPFL	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland)
EPR	Einstein–Podolsky-Rosen (thought experiment)
EPT	European Patent Office (http://www.epo.org)
ERP	enterprise resources planning
EU	European Union
FA	functional analysis
FAST	FAST diagram (Function Analysis System Technique)
FFT	fast Fourier transform
FLOPS	floating-point operations per second
FR	functional requirements (functional ...