Early work focused on modeling and predicting the impacts of "hidden" coordination and supervision work on fast-paced, complex facility and product development projects. Subsequent work extended the framework to model less routine work processes such as health care delivery and equipment maintenance. Since 2003, the research group has focused on modeling and simulating global projects to deliver infrastructure and other products in which "unforeseen transaction costs" caused by institutional differences and differences in goals of their multiple local, regional, national and trans-national stakeholders from different countries and sectors (public, private and civil society). VDT was commercialized as SimVision by Vite Corporation under a license from Stanford's Office of Technology Licensing starting in 1996. EPM, LLC of Austin Texas acquired the rights to SimVision in 2003. ePM provides project organization design services for large projects based on SimVision, and continues to develop, apply and license the software to industrial and academic users. http://www.epm.cc

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