Gene Matthews, former chief counsel at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and a senior fellow with the North Carolina Institute for Public Health, was interviewed by Elizabeth Majestic with CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion for Preventing Chronic Disease, CDC’s online journal on public health policy, practice, and research (http://www.cd...

Research networks for data sharing are growing into a large platform for pragmatic clinical trials to generate quality evidence for shared medical decision-making. Institutions partnering in the networks have made large investments in developing the infrastructure for sharing data. We investigate whether institutions partnering on Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute's (PCORI) network c...

In today’s product software market, the practices of re-use, partnering and 3 party contracting give rise to complex software ecosystems. Over the duration of a product life-cycle, product software vendors build up relationships with their suppliers and other partners, which range from informal acknowledgements of each other’s presence to strategic alliances. There is still a lack of understand...

Supply Chain operation is an integrated business process starting from primary supplier to end user and the process produce products, services and information. A successful chain will explore technology, lean operations, and quality management by adding value for customers and stakeholders. It is a strategic alliance among the partnering enterprises without geographical boundary. Every chain ha...

Understanding the need for a well-developed market information infrastructure, about twenty U.S. states have created an interactive, web-based software package (MarketMaker). By creating interrelationships between mapping software, customer demographics and business directories, MarketMaker provides an important link between producers, wholesalers, processors, food service providers, retailers ...

The Network Economy forces managers to pursue opportunities and engage competition through alliances and networks of alliances. Managers and organisations must therefore nurture the skills that successful alliance development and management require, and attain the “partnering mindset” pertinent to this new industrial paradigm. Studies indicate that alliance success remains an elusive aspiration...

Outsourcing has become a commonly accepted alternative of strategic management. But how do stockholders rate the corporate decision to divest parts of the former business? We study the stock market reaction of outsourcing announcements of the global financial services industry, using event study methodology and multivariate cross-sectional regression analysis. We analyze a sample of 162 outsour...

•Design partnering [2] refers to a design process in which children actively help create the design. • The Kidsteam project is a vehicle for design partnering at the University of Maryland. • In our two 2-hour design sessions, there were 4 or more children (aged 7-12) and 6 or more adults. • To demonstrate our goals, we began by presenting a prototype for collaborative music programming made by...