For over four decades, the IBM mainframe has been a leader in data and transaction serving. Our announcement of the IBM System z9 109 (z9-109) in July of 2005, provided a strong combination of mainframe characteristics plus new functions designed around scalability, availability, security, and virtualization. With today′s announcement, the z9-109 will be known as the System z9 Enterprise Class...

Today, much effort and importance is placed on the management of knowledge, its security, and sustainability in context to organizations and their competitiveness. This paper outlines a typology to guide that applying tacit knowledge sharing themes from a social perspective, that is trust, care, leadership charisma, knowledge culture, concept ba, and social network analysis, affect a group’s de...

The United States armed forces could be considered the world's most powerful military force. However, in modern conflicts, techniques of asymmetric warfare (terrorism) wreak havoc on the inflexible, regardless of technological or numerical advantage. In order to be more effective, the US military must improve its counter-terrorism (CT) capabilities and flexibility. In this light, the authors mo...

America’s transportation infrastructure is the backbone of our economy. A strong infrastructure means a strong America – an America that competes globally, supports local and regional economic development, and creates jobs. Strategic investments in our transportation infrastructure are vital to our national security, economic growth, transportation safety and our technology leadership. This doc...

This essay investigates the former president Bill Clinton’s Farewell Address in 2001. In his speech, he highlights his administration’s achievements in economic development, global cooperation and peace keeping, and welfare improvement for American people. He recommended three specific areas for future action after he left office; fiscal responsibility, global security, and social responsibilit...

Though many Iraqis are unhappy with the presence of US-led forces, most express strong support for various forms of international assistance, including the presence of foreign security forces, UN (rather than US) leadership on reconstruction, an international conference of global and regional players to address Iraq's needs, engagement by the Arab League and a variety of forms of nonmilitary US...

The employee engagement has emerged as a pivotal business driver for organizational success. High level of engagement in domestic and global firms is supposed to have multiple enriching effects on an organization. Studies have highlighted the importance of both organizational and individual factors in ensuring highly engaged employees. The present paper explores the individual differs across fo...

introduction: today, with increasing emphasis on learning organizations, knowledge and learning are considered important factors in organizations and having updated knowledge and information have become an unavoidable necessity to continue the life and stability of these organizations. hence this study was conducted to study  the relationship between learning organization & leadership styles ed...