Abstract Customer centricity is described as placing value creation for customers at the core of business decisions and organizational practices progressively regarded a foundation sustainable competitive advantage by companies. Hence in recent years, there shift from companies being product-centric to them adapting customer-centric practice create balanced businesses. Although are several meth...

Methods A retrospective cohort analysis of the incidence of cancer in older adults who have and who have not used statins was performed. More than 11 million analyzable patient records from January 1990 through February 2009 were drawn from the General Electric Centricity electronic medical records database. Propensity matching found pairs of patients receiving and not receiving statin therapy ...

Abstract Under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA) in England and Wales, liberal commitments to subjective freedom guide obligations towards persons who do not lack capacity. For subject of proceedings might capacity (P), it is less clear as what orient best interests decision-making on their behalf. The UK Supreme Court has emphasised centrality ‘P-centricity’ decision-making, where there legal...

Canada must become proactive in addressing type 2 diabetes. With the second highest rate of diabetes prevalence in the developed world, the number of Canadians living with diabetes will soon reach epidemic levels. Against international comparisons, Canada also performs poorly with respect to diabetes-related hospitalizations, mortality rates, and access to medications. Diabetes and its comorbid...

IT landscape is the lifeline of any enterprise – managing it well thus becomes a key business imperative. This is especially true of banks and financial institutions as they function in an economic environment that is often at the brink of volatility. Changes in the market and evolving customer expectations directly impact processes, which necessitates tweaks to back-end IT applications and sof...

Service-centric application development has become one of the most important paradigms in software engineering, and collaborative open source development has emerged as a new way for organizations to develop new applications that are either not available or too expensive to acquire. A most recent trend is to combine service centricity with open source development collaborated by multiple organi...

This paper describes how the Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) can be used for describing a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). With acceptance of NetworkCentric Warfare (NCW) and “net-centricity”, the Department of Defense (DoD) is moving towards operational and systems designs based on dynamic producer/consumer models consistent with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Se...

The subject of the study is new mission Ministry Education and Science Russia, required to ensure technological sovereignty national economy during period Russia—West power confrontation. purpose article develop substantiate methodological principles for formation a Russia more adequate current circumstances, consisting in ensuring reproducing Russia's strategic areas economic development throu...