Today, the importance of having 100% uptime for businesses and industries is clear: financial reasons and often strict government regulations for certain industries require 100% business continuity. The concept of business continuity (BC), as Microsoft defines it: the ability of an organization to continue to function even after a disastrous event, accomplished through the deployment of redunda...

Good morning Chairman Conyers, Ranking Member Smith, and Members of the Committee. Thank you for inviting me to speak today. My name is Christopher J. Mayer. I am the Paul Milstein Professor of Real Estate and Senior Vice Dean at Columbia Business School. I have spent the last 16 years studying housing markets and credit while working at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and serving on the fac...

Among the leading business challenges confronting CEO’s and IT managers today are: cost-effective utilization of IT infrastructure; responsiveness in supporting new business initiatives and flexibility in adapting to organizational changes. Server virtualization has come just in time for IT departments caught between the pressure to cut costs in the face of a developing worldwide recession, ste...

Golf is a business, a profession, a sport, or a social excuse, depending entirely on one's contact with the game. As a business it is one of the most remarkable America has ever known. In spite of, until recent years, untrained administration, lack of planning, under-and-overfinancing, and a host of other "don'ts" that are usually quick death to any ordinary business undertaking, golf has not o...

The established competitive generic business strategy model continues to be the dominant paradigm, despite the rapidly changing internal and external environments that companies face today. This article evaluates other strategy-related elements identified in current business research and determines if an expanded model can be applied to companies that have become more knowledge-based organizati...

Ever since Peter Drucker stated that there are only two constant factors in business – innovation and marketing – the need for continuously reinventing and changing business organisations, according to the present and future needs of the market place, has been in existence in the management literature. No less today, external turbulence and dynamic market conditions have come to stay for good. ...

Today, enterprises are facing serious interoperability problems concerning the exchange of electronic data. Due to the proliferation of terminology, organizations from similar business environments have trouble cooperating, and supply chains are experiencing difficulties exchanging electronically vital information, such as catalogue data. In order to solve this problem, standardization communit...

Enterprises always have to pursue for profitability while maintaining long term competitive advantages. Today, this task becomes more challenging due to globalization and dynamic changing business environment. For each enterprise, this task can not be fulfilled without changes to its business infrastructure and IT systems. That is, enterprises need to transform themselves to adapt to both exter...