The Modern Corporation Statement on Management

Postmodern Management and Information Technology in the Modern Industrial Corporation

This paper examines the concept of organizational emergence with respect to postmodern business organizations. We conclude that although there may be postmodern business enterprises in the United States, by and large they subcontract, not abolish, their modern work place relations. Information technology (IT) has been at the core of this process. Sophisticated information technologies have perm...

Systems integration: a core capability of the modern corporation

Many of the world’s leading firms are developing a new model of industrial organization based on systems integration. Rather than performing all productive tasks in-house, companies are building the capabilities to design and integrate systems, while managing networks of component and subsystem suppliers. This article illustrates how systems integration evolved from its military, engineering-ba...

Knowledge Management at The MITRE Corporation

This chapter overviews the knowledge management (KM) history, strategy and practice at The MITRE Corpora­ tion. A non-profit organization working in the public interest in the domains of national security, aviation, and tax administration, MITRE has inculcated learning and knowledge sharing into its corporate culture. In particular, the chapter describes MITRE’s KM roots, strategy, KM objective...

WHO position statement on integrated vector management.

Consensus statement on management of intersex disorders.

The birth of an intersex child prompts a long-term management strategy that involves a myriad of professionals working with the family. There has been progress in diagnosis, surgical techniques, understanding psychosocial issues and in recognizing and accepting the place of patient advocacy. The Lawson Wilkins Paediatric Endocrine Society (LWPES) and the European Society for Paediatric Endocrin...