Nearshore Journal

This guest post comes courtesy of Ronald Schmelzer, senior analyst at Zapthink.
By Ronald Schmelzer
Most experienced practitioners in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Enterprise Architecture (EA), including ourselves, would assert that architecture and implementation are not interdependent. That is to say that architecture expresses means for describing ways of doing things whereas [...]

Editor’s comments on Post (P.Peters):”One of the largest earthquakes on record struck central Chile hard Saturday killing over 700 people, leaving a trail of twisted buildings and sending unrealized tsunami waves concerns across the Pacific Ocean. Images from Cryptome.org and NPR story.”
By Scott Neuman
The toll from Chile’s devastating earthquake rose dramatically Sunday as the country’s [...]

Published: February 11, 2010
Paper Released: January 2010
Authors: Alan MacCormack, Carliss Y. Baldwin, and John Rusnak
Executive Summary:
All complex systems can be divided into a nested hierarchy of subsystems. However, not all these subsystems are of equal importance: Some subsystems are core to system performance, whereas others are only peripheral. In this study, HBS professor Carliss Y. Baldwin and coauthors [...]

Q&A with: Ranjay Gulati
Published: February 16, 2010
Author: Sarah Jane Gilbert
Times are tough for many businesses, yet some are holding their own, even thriving. Best Buy, Cisco, Target, Starbucks, and Jones Lang LaSalle come to mind. How do they do it? According to a new book by Harvard Business School’s Ranjay Gulati, it is customer-centric firms—those with a so-called [...]

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The latest BriefingsDirect podcast discussion hones in on storage virtualization. You’ve heard a lot about server virtualization over the past few years, and many enterprises have adopted virtual servers to improve their ability to [...]

The most successful global consumer enterprises are radically reshaping their organizations and business models to suit the region’s rapidly evolving high-growth markets.
Asia’s emerging economies are leading the world out of recession, and the region’s consumers are taking the baton from their overextended counterparts in developed countries. Are the largest global consumer enterprises ready for this [...]

By Kimberly Palmer for U.S. News & World Report.
Paying someone to do your laundry, cleaning and other household tasks can make you more productive. The money spent may be worth the time saved.
Outsourcing chores by hiring a cleaning service or personal assistant might sound like the kind of splurge that a recession-era budget would quickly [...]