This paper is about the merging of two software applications that allows building decision makers to consider code compliance and to use performance simulation tools from the early, schematic phases of building design. By making the capabilities of a code compliance tool available at the early schematic phases of building design, the hope and expectation is that users will use this software to ...

The boundary between the communication equipment at the network edge and the servers within the data center is blurring. Appliance vendors are flooding the market with new capabilities, while router vendors are scrambling to add these services to their traditional transport services. The result of this competition is a set of ad-hoc technologies and capabilities that provide services at the net...

Based on the increased demand for product customization and the intensified competition, manufacturing companies are today more than ever required to deliver product variants in an efficient manner. Research on mass customization has, up until now, primarily focused on clarifying the organizational capabilities defining successful mass customizers. Choice navigation is identified as one of the ...

The objective of this study is to examine why and under what situations certain information technology resources can generate positive organizational outcomes. To achieve this, we adopt the organizational capability perspective. Based on this perspective, IT can be viewed as a functional capability that forms highlevel dynamic capability in the copresence of other functional capabilities and re...

This teaching case provides a practical illustration of the challenges of managing IT outsourcing and evolving the IT function’s capabilities, structure, and governance arrangements in a dynamic business context. A central focus is on retained core IT capabilities at Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) in the 1997-2006 period that were needed to gain business value from IT, and IT suppliers. I...

The Binding Architecture is an open architecture for building multimedia networks that must guarantee Quality of Service (QOS). In this paper, we explore the notion of a service in the Binding Architecture and propose a conceptual model for building scalable multimedia distribution services based on it. We begin first by examining the relation between resources, their abstractions and the servi...