This paper describes three related, high-level, strategic patterns that deal with the issue of capacity planning for an e-Business facility. The first, "Build-in Redundancy" suggests that extra capacity is needed in Web service provision to account for increases in demand and component downtime. "Overbuild Sucks" then tempers the consequences of redundancy and, finally, "Share Resources Careful...

This article studies the emergence of the mobile Internet business from six strategic perspectives, highlighting the ongoing transformations of the mobile industry. The article suggests that companies of the mobile industry can reconstruct their business models with six different kinds of choices: 1. Positioning differently in the value network, involving both vertical and horizontal movements....

A new tool optimizes the placement of base stations for local wireless communications at company sites. It uses the latest in constraint-based programming technology.

How to create competitive advantage through information technology (IT) in the turbulent environment is an important issue to most organizations. This study contributes to the information systems (IS) literatures by help gaining a greater understanding of whether and how IT skills that an IT department possesses influence the firm’s IT capabilities and IT-business alignment. This study proposes...

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regarding the importance of small & medium enterprises (smes) in economical and social growth process as well as the special attention of planners and policy-makers to this significant issue, it is necessary to take radical initiatives to improve the conditions of different enterprises. in various studies, connoisseurs and researchers have found that unchallengeable treatment of making small & ...

identification and selection of entrepreneurial businesses, are key activities to encourage people to do entrepreneuship. the majer goal of the current study is to identify, and prioritize the effective components in selection off superior entrepreneurial businesses.the research method is mixed method . friedman rank test has been used to analyze the data. the findings has revealed that the fol...

Many prior researchers have criticized business planning, arguing that it interferes with the efforts of firm founders to undertake more valuable actions to develop their fledgling enterprises (Bhide, 2000; Carter, Gartner, and Reynolds, 1996). In this paper, we challenge this negative view of business planning, arguing that business planning is an important precursor to action in new ventures....

Companies can suffer significant losses as a result of unanticipated business disruptions caused by natural disasters or outbreaks of disease. In order to restore the organization’s critical functions and minimize the impacts of a disruption, it is important to establish business continuity planning and recovery planning. First the risks in the external environment surrounding the companies and...

The paper focuses on specification and utilization of manipulation skills to facilitate programming of bimanual manipulation tasks. Manipulation skills are actions to reach predefined goals. They constitute an interface between lowlevel constraint-based task specification and high level symbolic task planning. The task of the robot can be decomposed into subtasks that can be resolved using mani...