Utility before business

Business before Conflict:

Visualizing Labor and Business Testimony before Congress

This paper presents preliminary results on visualizing business and labor lobbying before the U.S. Congress in 1877–1933 based on metadata of witnesses at Congressional committees. It highlights the dominant presence of business representatives even in this most accessible category of lobbying activity.

Utility vs. Efforts of Business Process Modeling

Evaluation of a Scientific Collaboratory System: Investigating Utility Before Deployment

The evaluation of scientific collaboratories has lagged behind their development, and fundamental questions have yet to be answered: Can distributed scientific research produce high quality results? Do the capabilities afforded by collaboratories outweigh their disadvantages from scientists’ perspectives? Are there system features and performance characteristics that are common to successful co...

Investment in Business Software and Perceived Utility: An Empirical Study

Authors have identified many different reasons why companies invest into IT and there has been much discussion of how IT can generate value. This paper adds to the discussion of IT value generation by investigating investments in business software for the support of business processes in Swiss SMEs. In an empirical survey on the future IT investment for process support, 917 questionnaires were ...