Award now, pay later

Cybersecurity Today and Tomorrow: Pay Now or Pay Later

Local recurrence or cardiovascular disease: pay now or later.

© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: [email protected]. Radiation therapy is an essential component of the local management of breast cancer. The overview from the Early Breast Cancer Trialists’ Collaborative Group ( 1 ) indicates that adjuvant radiation therapy after breast-conserving surgery results...

System Performance Engineering: "Pay Me Now or Pay Me More Later"

Institutionalizing innovation is hard work. The status quo is known, the new world is not. Managers whose primary goal is immediate risk reduction are rightfully cautious about new techniques and strategies, but change is inevitable. I want to consider an example involving software architecture definition in this issue of Strategic Software Engineering and attempt to illustrate both the new tec...

Pleasure Now, Pain Later

Though common sense suggests that positive thinking shelters people from depression, the four studies reported here showed that this intuition needs to be qualified: Positive thinking in the form of fantasies about the future did indeed relate to decreased symptoms of depression when measured concurrently; however, positive fantasies predicted more depressive symptoms when measured longitudinal...

Is the Business Model Broken? A Model of the Difference Between Pay-Now and Pay-Later Contracts in IT Outsourcing

This chapter seeks to evaluate the dominant IT outsourcing contracts model (pay-later) as compared to an alternative model (pay-now) in light of changing economic conditions. We integrate practitioner observations in the spirit of mathematical transaction cost problems to develop a conceptual economic model to compare these two types of contracts. We uncover three very important facts which sug...