Organization Description

ORGANIZATION DESCRIPTION

I. Goods Produced and/or Services Provided

Workplace Technologies Research, Inc. produces an Iterative Technology Implementation Model (ITIM(tm)) for larger scale decision support technologies being introduced to businesses undergoing technology transfer of automation. We specialize in applying ITIM(tm) to MRPII and Cycle Based scheduled maintenance systems. However, ITIM(tm) is widely applicable; one of our current projects concerns the automation of engineering software generation and we expect to continue developing ITIM(tm) applications in that area. ITIM(tm) is different form other implementation approaches in that it focuses on the user-technology interface and analyzes data to inform the implementation process. For example, based on a pre-implementation analysis of a manufacturing site by ITIM(tm) we may recommend that employees be re-skilled in the basic concepts of MRPII in order to prepare them for successfully implementing MRPII. ITIM(tm) then takes data on employees to design the appropriate re-skilling intervention. Our customers are intelligent business people who want to increase the flexibility of their company when required to respond to rapidly changing market and economic conditions with as little expenditure of time and money as possible. WTRI's ITIM(tm) is the result of 12 years of intensive research on the technology user interface in the maintenance and manufacturing industries. Using ITIM(tm) WTRI has been able to virtually guarantee a successful implementation. ITIM(tm) includes number of tools to assist users in:

* Appropriate selection of the system for the desired business result

* Appropriate re-engineering of workplace practices to work with the selected tools

* Effective deployment of the technology among the workforce

* A training mode for re-skilling in the technology that works with users experience, learning style and existing expertise in the industry.

II. Facilities and Location(s)

Main Headquarters - 3333 Camino del Rio South, STE 110, San Diego, CA 92108

Business and Payroll Offices - 133 Eighth Avenue, Suite 1F, Brooklyn, NY 11215

III. The History of WTRI

The company was incorporated in New York in April of 1996 and re-incorporated in Delaware in January of 2009, as Workplace Technologies Research, Inc. by Dr. Lia DiBello, President and E. Sterling Chamberlain, Vice-President

It was originally a company that provided assessment of workplace and culture to the transportation industry, and developed a custom training workshop that accelerated the re-skilling mid-career staff in preparation for technology transfer. The company also developed a number of very sensitive measures for assessing learning in complex technologies among the participants of the their training workshops.

Dr. DiBello and her colleagues recognized the need for a totally new approach to implementing large scale technologies when their data on trainees show their alternative methods of re-skilling were most effective in the context of an iterative implementation approach. WTRI began to investigate the ways that technologies could be best deployed and developed a number of software tools for measuring and monitoring technology transfer and it impact on productivity and the efficient use of resources. Eventually this work generated Dr. DiBello's first technology intervention, at New York City Transit's overhaul shops. In that project, an iterative approach to implementing MRPII was developed. A similar model was later used by New York City Transit's Department of Buses to assist in the implementation of a new cycle based scheduled maintenance system.

IV. Organizational Structure

President - Lia DiBello, Ph.D.

Vice-President - E. Sterling Chamberlain

Finance Office Manager - Lola Simmons

V. Role of the Human Resources Department

VI. Management Philosophy

VII. Goals