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IBM Systems Journal articles from September 2003
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IBM Systems Journal archives from September 2003
Message from the Vice President, on demand innovation services, research division.
September 1, 2003... Marketplace trends are driving fundamental changes in the current business environment: Customers are demanding more personalized service, suppliers are both competitors and partners, competition is fierce and relentless, and global market...
Preface.
September 1, 2003... Business and business processes continue to be transformed by information technology. Many companies have already optimized individual processes by using technology to increase productivity and reduce operating costs. Now, entire enterprises...
Leading on demand businesses--executives as architects.
September 1, 2003... In an interview with the New York Times prior to SuperBowl XXXIV, St. Louis Rams running back Marshall Faulk was asked why he made it his business to learn the assignments of every player on the team for every play in the Rams' repertoire....
A survey of manufacturing flexibility: implications for e-business flexibility.
September 1, 2003... For businesses of all sizes and in almost every industry, e-business on the Internet has become a key interface between organizations and their suppliers and customers. Many factors contribute to success in e-business; for example,...
Business artifacts: an approach to operational specification.
September 1, 2003... Over the last six years, we have developed a notation and a methodology useful for business process design at the business operational level. Our goal was to create an operational modeling technique that would be not only amenable to business...
Context-specific intellectual capital--the next link in the knowledge chain.
September 1, 2003... Traditionally, the two approaches to managing projects are: task-oriented and output-oriented. In the task-oriented approach, a work breakdown structure defines the phases, activities, and tasks that must be accomplished. In contrast, an...
The new dynamics of strategy: sense-making in a complex and complicated world.
September 1, 2003... Over the past several years, our group has been conducting a program of disruptive action research using the methods of narrative and complexity theory to address critical business issues. (1) Action research has been defined as grounding...
An analytic approach for quantifying the value of e-business initiatives.
September 1, 2003... Much of the value associated with e-business initiatives comes not only from the improvements to information technology (IT) infrastructure, but also from business transformations that impact an organization's people and processes. A critical...
Experimental games for the design of reputation management systems.
September 1, 2003... Trust is at the root of almost any economic or personal interaction. We need to trust the government, the credit card company, and the car dealer. Fukuyama argues that trust, loosely defined as the expectation of trustworthy and cooperative...
Trust, the Internet, and the digital divide.
September 1, 2003... The Internet is expected to be an important source of economic growth in the 21st century. The Congressional Budget Office (1) predicts the U.S. economy will grow at an annual rate of 2.1 percent over the coming decade--an increase of 0.9...
Privacy and knowledge management: challenges in the design of the Lotus Discovery Server.
September 1, 2003... As long as there have been information resources, companies have needed the means to manage them, and many tools have been developed for that purpose. In recent years, companies have come to realize that the increasing complexity of their...
Technical note--Web service credentials.
September 1, 2003... Web service technology (1-3) allows new opportunities for inter-business collaboration in a very dynamic manner. On the lowest, technical level, Web service standards establish the definitions for the interface and binding properties of the...
Technical note--XTABLES: bridging relational technology and XML.
September 1, 2003... The paper, "XTABLES: Bridging relational technology and XML" described the design and implementation of the XTABLES middleware system, which was intended to act as a bridge between legacy relational database systems and the emerging number of...
