A competitive advantage through fast dead matter elimination in confined cellular aggregates

Competitive Advantage through Participation in Standards Setting?

The paper discusses the question whether or not large corporations should actively champion their needs and requirements in the international standards setting process. Taking the electronic mail service as an example, views of company representatives and senior members of relevant standards committees are reported. These statements have been compiled through interviews and questionnaires. To a...

Dead Code Elimination through Dependent Types

Pattern matching is an important feature in various functional programming languages such as SML, Caml, Haskell, etc. In these languages, unreachable or redundant matching clauses, which can be regarded as a special form of dead code, are a rich source for program errors. Therefore, eliminating unreachable matching clauses at compile-time can signiicantly enhance program error detection. Furthe...

Thailand’s Central Group — Competitive Advantage through Growth

Competitive Advantage through Design Tools and Practices

Selecting and implementing design tools and practices for use in the development of new products is more of a corporate bet than a guaranteed investment . Driven by the external forces of market opportunity, technological progress, and competitive pressure, manufacturing companies typically review available design tools and practices, hoping to choose those that will help produce a sustained co...

Attaining Competitive Advantage Through Web Services: A Theoretical Perspective

There is growing debate in the research literature on the competitive advantage offered by information technology. This has been further noted after the publication of an article in Harvard Business Review provocatively titled “IT Does Not Matter”. Researchers have looked into different aspects such as; IS alignment, a firms IT capability etc. to support the perspective that IT does have an imp...