Pay me now or pay me more later.

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...

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...

1 Pay me Right : Reference values

The increasing disparity between executive compensation and firm performance, and outrageously high compensation levels has stimulated discussions on introduction of some form of pay regulation. The implications of such systems are however poorly understood. In this paper we investigate a specific case of introduction of executive remuneration Code in Slovenia, which provides some interesting i...

Warn me now or inform me later: Drivers' acceptance of real-time and post-drive distraction mitigation systems

Vehicle crashes caused by driver distraction are of increasing concern. One approach to reduce the number of these crashes mitigates distraction by giving drivers feedback regarding their performance. For these mitigation systems to be effective, drivers must trust and accept them. The objective of this study was to evaluate real-time and post-drive mitigation systems designed to reduce driver ...