The value chain is a concept from business management that was first described and popularized by Michael Porter in his 1985 best-seller, Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance.

Five of the Trustees come from the parent body ; five are representatives of the School's Sustaining Members -- the twenty two organizations, companies and institutions with long-term and significant involvement in ISM.

The Society has now more than 1900 Individual Members, 15 Corporate Members ( Universities and non-profit research organizations from Belgium, Croatia, Finland, Germany, India, Italy, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, Switzerland and Serbia ) and 16 Corporate Sustaining Members.

After a brief hiatus, the show moved to CBS, running on Fridays from September 1, 1944 until August 30, 1946 with sponsors Grape Nuts and Jell-O before moving back to NBC from September 5, 1946 to June 28, 1951 on Thursdays and, then, as a Sustaining program in its final run of September 21, 1952 to April 19, 1953 on Sundays.

* Software Architecture: The Difference between Marketecture and Tarchitecture ( sample chapter ) from Beyond Software Architecture: Creating and Sustaining Winning Solutions ( ISBN 9780201775945 ) by Luke Hohmann

Sustaining members may sign up at $25 for the ten-concert season ; ;

Key factors involved include: Eye Movement Control, Simultaneous Focus at Far, Sustaining Focus at Far, Simultaneous Focus at Near, Sustaining Focus at Near, Simultaneous Alignment at Far, Sustaining Alignment at Far, Simultaneous Alignment at Near, Sustaining Alignment at Near, Central Vision ( Visual Acuity ) and Depth Awareness.

With the advent of the. NET framework, the scripting team took the decision to implement future support for VBScript within ASP. NET for web development, and therefore no new versions of the VBScript engine would be developed and it moved over to being supported by Microsoft's Sustaining Engineering Team, who are responsible for bug fixes and security enhancements.

* Sustaining Digital Resources: An on-the-ground view of projects today, Ithaka, November 2009.

" Bunker, " Matinicus ," in < u > Sustaining Island Communities </ u >, Rockland, Me.

( 2007 ) Sustaining Heritage: giving the past a future.

# Sustaining grace.

Sustaining the customs and culture of their ancestors, indigenous people now openly hold potlatch to commit to the restoring of their ancestors ' ways.

* Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance by Michael E. Porter

Sustaining Creativity in the Creative Archetype: The Case of Austin, Texas.

* Sustaining Membership requires dues payment and typically includes hardware or software companies.

* CISA-Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture, a community organization of farmers, consumers and professionals working together to sustain agriculture and the unique rural character of western Massachusetts for the past 15 years.

Allah is the Living, the Sustaining.

:# Sustaining: Names of individuals called to responsibilities within the organization of the church are proposed to the congregation for a sustaining vote.

He currently teaches an elective course he designed called " Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise ", which teaches managers how to build and manage an enduring, successful company or transform an existing organization.

* Evolution of Views of Fishery Management In: Sustaining Marine Fisheries ( 1999 ) Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources: Ocean Studies Board.

Between 1998 and 2007 he supported NASA via Boeing ’ s Space Shuttle Sustaining Engineering Support Contract.

Sustaining several personnel changes, the band performed until 1990.

" Sustaining New Directions " Perform Magazine v. 3 no.

has published Standards for Service-Learning in Florida: A Guide for Creating and Sustaining Quality Practice.

Provisional status is followed by Active membership, then Sustainer status, followed by an option of Sustaining Emeritus status for members who are 80 years or older.

* Received the 1996 Sustaining Membership Lecture Award for the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States.

The Battle of Opequon ( the Third Battle of Winchester ) was the largest of the campaign and Early sustained ruinous casualties.

Bukharin himself speaks of his " peculiar duality of mind " in his last plea, which led to " semi-paralysis of the will " and Hegelian " unhappy consciousness ", which likely stemmed not only from his knowledge of the ruinous reality of Stalinism ( although he could not of course say so in the trial ) but also of the impending threat of fascism.

Sixtus prided himself upon his hoard, but the method by which it had been amassed was financially unsound: some of the taxes proved ruinous, and the withdrawal of so much money from circulation could not fail to cause distress.

The trustees of Elizabeth Allen ’ s Charity, which had been established by her will dated 10 February 1725, gave financial assistance to save it from a state " very ruinous and unfit for habitation ".

Confusion and ruinous inflationary surges resulted from competing currencies ; Japanese, new Dutch money, and Republican currencies were all used, often concurrently.

According to a communication from Andreas of Trebizond to Pope Sixtus IV, by the time of its demolition to make way for the present chapel, the Cappella Maggiore was in a ruinous state with its walls leaning.

But by the 16th century their income from donations had collapsed, their numbers had shrunk to under 1, 000 and their buildings were often ruinous, or leased out commercially.

* The Cathedral of Vicenza ( church of Santa Maria Annunciata ), dating from early in the 11th century, and restored in the 13th, 16th, 19th and after the ruinous destruction of World War II, possesses numerous pictures and sculptures, nearly all of them by Vicentine artists ( Cittadello, Celestia, Liberi, Ruschi );

The ruinous tower is surrounded by steep wooded hills, and it can be reached by a circuitous lane from the main road.

Thereafter the castle became more and more ruinous and there was progressive damage from the erosion of the isthmus.

An eight-man commission, known as the Octavians, brought some control over the ruinous state of James's finances in 1596, but it drew opposition from vested interests.

In December 1992 Turbonegro set up for an after all quite ruinous tour outside of Norway: having had money left from a grant they went for one gig confirmed in Ålborg, Denmark then heading south to Hamburg, Germany where they stranded in a desperate and finally unsuccessful search for an opportunity to play.

As ambassador Elyot had been involved in ruinous expense, and on his return he wrote unsuccessfully to Cromwell begging to be excused, on the grounds of his poverty, from serving as High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire for 1532.

The chancel was abandoned in 1590, walled off from the rest of the church, and is now ruinous.

The late medieval cathedral priory is ruinous, much of it having disappeared completely apart from the much-altered aisleless nave and vaults at the former eastern end which once held the shrine of St. Ninian, one of medieval Scotland's major pilgrimage destinations.

Among old castles are those of Lochslin, in the parish of Fearn, said to date from the 13th century, which, though ruinous, possesses two square towers in good preservation ; Balone, in the parish of Tarbat, once a stronghold of the Earls of Ross ; the remains of Dingwall Castle, their original seat ; and Eilean Donan in Loch Alsh, which was blown up by English warships during the abortive Jacobite rising in 1719.

Though in 1607 the monarchy declared itself bankrupt, Lerma carried out the ruinous measures for the expulsion of the Moriscos, Moors who had converted to Christianity, from 1609 – 14, a decision affecting over 300, 000 people.

A survey from 1441 noted the castle was " right ruinous and feeble ".

He recommends cautious clemency for the conquered Syrians, the recruitment from among them of a hand-picked caliphal elite, the lifting of ruinous economic sanctions, and fair distribution of foodstuffs in the Syrian military districts.

The Bull begins with Christ's warning against false prophets, especially such as " secretly spread evil doctrines under the guise of piety and introduce ruinous sects under the image of sanctity "; then it proceeds to the condemnation of 101 propositions which are taken verbatim from the last edition of Quesnel's work such as: grace works with omnipotence and is irresistible ; without grace man can only commit sin ; Christ died for the elect only ; every love that is not supernatural is evil ; without supernatural love there can be no hope in God, no obedience to His law, no good work, no prayer, no merit, no religion ; the prayer of the sinner and his other good acts performed out of fear of punishment are only new sins ; the Church comprises only the just and the elect ; the reading of the Bible is binding on all ; sacramental absolution should be postponed till after satisfaction ; the chief pastors can exercise the Church's power of excommunication only with the consent, at least presumed, of the whole body of the Church ; unjust excommunication does not exclude the excommunicated from union with the Church.

The towers and walls are decorated with carved inscriptions dating from 14th century Mameluke renovations, but the inside is ruinous.

The town magistrate was established in 1690, while the plans of the new fort were still being drawn up, and one of its documents from August of the same year described the condition of the settlement as " ruinous ".

In 1937 he was able to purchase Barra and the ruinous Kisimul Castle largely using the money from his second wife.

Statutory trustees were appointed for the library, who removed it from the ruinous Cotton House, whose site is now covered by the Houses of Parliament.

In 1835, the 2nd Marquess of Northampton ( the family had been elevated from Earls in 1812 ) visited Compton Wynyates for the first time and found the house in a ruinous state ; he made some minor renovations to prevent complete dereliction.