1 Abstract—Mission-critical scenarios, such as military or disaster response missions, often call for the formation of coalitions, made up of people from different countries or organizations and required to adhere to certain policies. These policies define the explicit obligations, permissions and prohibitions governing members of the coalition. While planning for joint action in these scenario...

Web-based applications are becoming mission-critical for many organizations and their performance has to be closely watched. This paper discusses three important activities in this context: load testing, benchmarking, and application performance management. Best practices for each of these activities are identified. The paper also explains how basic performance results can be used to increase t...

The RADARSAT-2 ground segment has been designed based on the need to support the advanced capabilities of the RADARSAT-2 spacecraft, the need to support a commercial mission with increased data and order volumes, and the body of experience and lessons learned from the operation of the RADARSAT-1 mission. The design was produced in consultation with the key organizations and agencies that will b...

This paper presents a software environment that uses our comprehensive modeling and design methodology for representing complex missions and synthesizing the concomitant adaptive organizational structures for different sets of design objectives. The tool box provides a step-bystep visualization of modeling a complex mission and building an "optimal" organization that achieves superior performan...

Previous research has found that organizations that align their operational marketing and technological capabilities with changing market conditions eventually achieve evolutionary fitness in terms of organizational survival and firm growth. Dynamic capabilities comprise the processes of opportunity identification and reconfiguring of operational capabilities which are required to align operati...

Whatever the final shape of healthcare reform, providers and sponsors are already collaborating with each other in various network arrangements. As they pursue these arrangements, they are asking questions about their role in a reformed system and whether the networks they participate in will strengthen their mission and ministry. Documents published about five years ago by the Catholic Health ...

The importance of cancer biomarkers is now increasingly recognized and acted on by regulatory organizations, healthcare providers (from reimbursement through to practicing clinicians), cancer organizations, research institutes, and charities. For example, the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) states in the opening of its mission statement, “The purpose and scope of the AJCC is to create...

Trusting that you will indulge me just a bit, given the shared “Putting Science to Work” focus of the Report on Emotional and Behavioral Disorders in Youth (EBDY) and the Center for the Advancement of Children’s Mental Health (CACMH) here at Columbia University, I thought it might be useful to share with you some of the projects and activities currently under way at CACMH that also mesh with th...

The combination of participating organizations in a coalition operation often changes over time; the coalition is dynamic and evolves over the course of its mission. A given organization may participate in the coalition only at the stage where its expertise or resources are most needed, while other organizations may participate through the entire course of the operation. As these are independen...