While the large number of abandoned designs and false starts could be perceived as lost time and resources, these prototyping and debugging phases foreground necessary design considerations such as the importance of units when engaging in measurement and highlight the large space of design possibilities.
We measure the importance of each unit and organize them into hierarchical units from the most important unit to the least important one.
While the relative intensity of these several social effects would certainly have to be an important part of the equation, even this information would leave the question unanswered, since reasonable people would surely continue to dispute the social importance of a unit of satisfaction as compared with a unit of frustration.
Depending on the company's culture, either they insist on standardizing everything to keep costs low or, recognizing the importance of business unit autonomy, they grant exceptions to corporate standards to any business unit manager who raises a stink.
Russian soldiers say Mr. Ganatmirov has vastly exaggerated the importance of his unit in the capture of Grozny.
Using the Chilean power system as a reference case, we also confirm and highlight the importance of considering unit commitment constraints in generation expansion models.
More generally, our findings provide new evidence regarding the importance of cross-unit integrative mechanisms for achieving superior performance in multi-unit firms.
And during performance reviews, managers stressed the importance of cross-unit collaboration.
It concludes with a brief discussion of the importance of proper units.
The model allows several useful concepts to be defined, including change in buffer capacity, free capacity, an ordinal ranking of the relative importance of ecosystem units to overall landscape functioning, and differentiation of cumulative versus synergistic effects.
