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Introduction in the early 2000s, Volkswagen sought to transform their business model away from the lower priced small car segment of the automobile market, and to deliver a more robust family of models (Austin, 2007). To accomplish this, the company first realigned its brands into classic, which included Volkswagen, Bentley and Skoda, and sporty which […]

Introduction The case study by John Glaser discusses the role of new technology implementation for the Peachtree Healthcare facility in Georgia. Peachtree had a staff of nearly 4,000 that treated a million patients each year. The technology directive given to the CEO, Max Berndt, was “to ensure quality, consistency, and continuity of care across the […]

With the growth of smartphone ownership and mobile device usage, data networks must rapidly evolve to meet the growing information needs of a highly connected world. In this first installment of the series on communications and networking, five trends are discussed that will impact communications technology in 2013. This paper also examines potential for cellular […]

Introduction In January 2009, newly elected President, Barack Obama, issued a memorandum to deliver recommendations for an Open Government Directive within 120 days. In this memorandum, the President noted that openness in government “strengthen[s] our democracy and promote[s] efficiency and effectiveness in Government (Lakhani et. al., 2010, Exhibit 1). The vision was to promote public […]

Introduction  Hollywood executives today face a host of challenges that go far beyond whether an audience will fall in love with their movie or television series. Web 2.0 has democratized content production overall, and this includes video production. Savvy filmmakers are no longer at the mercy of big studio greenlighting processes, and can opt instead […]

Introduction Amazon was founded in 1994 and began its retail operations by selling books (Huckman et. al., 2008). They soon expanded into other product categories including toys, movies and music. To ensure a responsive and quality experience for customers, Amazon built and refined an infrastructure robust enough to handle dynamic fluctuations in web traffic and […]

Introduction In the IST discipline, digitization of previously manual processes and artifacts can have a profound effect on the organization ranging from more efficient execution of daily tasks to changes in how and what an organization can deliver to stakeholders in the form of products and services. For educational institutions, and individuals pursuing scholarship in […]

Introduction How do we estimate the valuation of a startup that has a large user base and high user engagement, but does not fit into traditional revenue models based on sales of products or services? What is a reasonable investment to get such a firm up and running based on what return investors can expect […]

Cognitive Edge has developed an emergent, bottom up methodology to allow and empower organizations to “diagnose and treat [themselves]” in terms of the knowledge management needs. A scalable workshop model is used where narratives are gathered in advance and teams are then asked to execute a series of exercises to accomplish the following: Identify comprehensive […]

I arrived early and had a chance to walk around the campus for a while. As I was looking for the group someone showed me to Martha Russell’s office. While we were waiting, I had a chance to hear about her work in technology transfer and partnerships with firms in Silicon Valley. After the group […]