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Implementation is ubiquitous. The identification of barriers to implementation is critical for achieving implementation success. This paper introduces and discusses a deductive theory-based framework, TASKS, to guide the identification of implementation barriers. The TASKS framework deals with the relationships between a Task and the task implementer's Affect, Skills, and Knowledge, based on the inversed U-shaped mental Stress-mental effort relation. The TASKS framework classifies implementation barriers into four categories: 1) emotion barriers, 2) logic barriers, 3) knowledge barriers, and 4) resources barriers. The TASKS framework detects barriers to implementation following three steps, 1) identifying the ideal TASKS components, 2) modelling the implementer's mental capability, and 3) detecting barriers to implementation. The TASKS framework can be applied to a wide range of disciplines for effective and efficient task implementation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As sustainability becomes increasingly important, product design is taking a proactive role in producing products that are both useful and sustainable. This paper introduces and discusses a tool named Environment-based life cycle decomposition (eLCD) to adapt the Environment-based Design (EBD) methodology to sustainable design. The eLCD brings to EBD three major features: 1) a holistic environment structure for sustainable conceptual design, 2) an effective and efficient tool for collecting information for sustainability decision-making, and 3) an analysis tool that takes sustainability as an integral part of the design rather than as a burden. The environment of a product is everything except the product itself, which can be defined in three dimensions, namely, environment types, life cycle events, and life cycle time. The environment types are designated as natural, built (including physical artifact and digital artifact), economic, and social environment. The eLCD provides an effective template for information collection to support the design decision-making process. The effectiveness of eLCD is demonstrated by its application to the upscaling of a wind turbine, where an energy storage system is introduced to make full use of wind energy with the least waste in serving the electricity demand. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are crucial for guiding employees towards organizational goals and providing stakeholders with insights into goal achievement. Developing effective KPIs is particularly challenging for startups due to dynamic environments and limited resources, often requiring extensive domain expertise.This study proposes an effective KPI development process using the Environment-Based Design (EBD) methodology. The approach systematically converts an organization's mission statement into KPIs through three steps: generating questions and answers, identifying a performance network, and extracting KPIs. It employs tools like the Recursive Objective Model (ROM) and structured question-asking techniques to aid knowledge acquisition and performance network integration.The methodology was validated using Flybe's case, Europe's largest regional airline. Two graduate student designers with no aviation experience developed KPIs that were comparable to those in Flybe's 2018 Annual Report, while also addressing additional operational aspects like route attractiveness.The EBD guided approach reduces reliance on prior domain knowledge, making KPI development accessible to non-experts and enhancing repeatability for experts. Although the study is limited to the airline industry and English-speaking countries, it demonstrates the potential for broader application. Future research should explore the approach in diverse organizational contexts and cultural settings to further validate its effectiveness and adaptability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]