Paradigm Holdings provides information technology and business continuity solutions. Co. supports its clients' mission-critical initiatives via four expertise quadrants:Enterprise Risk Management involves services and...
Joel Wright, Vice President of Interactive Media for Paradigm, collaborates with clients to build internet businesses around entertainment. Wright sheds light on the web entertainment business and where it’s headed in the next year.
People use thought processes all the time to make decisions and solve problems. It is important to realize that everyone has some decision-making process, framework, or referent, even if it is unconscious, habitual, or unexamined. Paradigms or habits of thought have a great deal to do with the way we...
This whitepaper describes the new paradigm of online communities that is applicable to all enterprises but is especially pertinent to online media, newspapers, radio and TV, consumer, and topical sites. These markets are addressed interchangeably. The newspaper market is singled out because the paradigm shift and the required adaptation are...
Many manufacturers have established product development activities in different countries around the world. Yet their senior managers often struggle to tie those decentralized organizations into a cohesive, unified operation that can efficiently drive growth and innovation. New empirical frameworks may help unlock practices with which managers can deploy well-coordinated global...
Globalization pressures have begun to have a major impact on the practice of product development across a wide range of industries. A new paradigm has emerged whereby companies are utilizing skilled engineering teams dispersed around the world to develop products in a collaborative manner. Best practice in product development PD...
The paper explores the capacity of the entrepreneurship paradigm to produce unique solutions for unique environments. To achieve this goal the paper argues the case for a wider entrepreneurship paradigm than that which seems to be the convention as taught in business schools around the world. It argues that the...
The compelling drivers for the pharmaceutical industry are minimizing the time between a drug's discovery and its delivery to the marketplace, and maintaining high productivity in the manufacturing processes. During a product's lifecycle many complex decisions must be made to achieve these goals. To better support the development and manufacturing...
The contemporary business world has become extremely information-centric. Various technology tools are available today that facilitate in bringing out well-informed and knowledgeable customers and prospects. They demand the very ‘best’ from organizations. The organizations, in turn, have to conform to the heightened expectations of their clients. Thus, the paradigm of...
From the executive summary: ‘In the rush to meet the challenges and exploit the opportunities of e-business, continuous improvement is in danger of being overlooked or dismissed as inappropriate to the new business paradigm. Innovation is fundamental to success in the e-enabled world as it provides early users with a...
Financial irregularities in the past have called for an establishment of a new paradigm in corporate governance realm. The key to the new culture is the understanding that the primary responsibility of the company board and management is to protect and enhance the shareholder’s value in the company. The paper...
What to change, is the important, and unfortunately the one most often overlooked basic questions for management and improvement. The article answers that for significant and sustainable enterprise wide improvement, what to change requires the discovery of the erroneous perceptions, assumptions, and paradigms that are at the root of the...
This paper analyses e-government and attempts to show that it is a major paradigm shift in the way that government and public administration are to function. From this particular point of view the periods of social development are reclassified according to the type of information produced and used and the...
This article explores the coming paradigm shift and the opportunities it presents for the future of pharmaceuticals. This article discusses how Pharmacogenomics holds the promise of more effective and better-tolerated therapies, which, in turn, mean more efficient use of healthcare resources. The article further goes on to discuss several hurdles...
Decision-makers need to employ a new paradigm for transportation risk management. In particular, this paradigm must more explicitly consider security threat and vulnerability, and integrate security considerations into the overall framework for addressing natural and man-made disasters, be they accidental or planned. The purpose of this white paper is to...
From the executive summary: ‘Rather than engaging the organization in critical change, the current change management paradigm disengages the very people whose support is essential to success. Unfortunately, many leaders, failing to recognize that the paradigm they are using is the problem, redouble their efforts to make it work, resulting...
Major cash management banks are jockeying for position in the new economy by developing online marketplaces, but they may be biting off more than they can chew. In strange new ways, cash management is morphing into e-commerce. Major banks are hosting portals where finance executives can buy everything from computers...
There are two important paradigms the author wants a person to keep in mind about paper to keep it in proper perspective. First is paper is to business what fat is to a diet. It's needed to be healthy, but one tends to go way overboard in the consumption or...
Mark Watson is a professor and head of the Psychology Department of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in South Africa. his research focuses on career development and career assessment of primary, secondary and tertiary students from all South African population groups. Mark has published extensively in international...
University student outcome data in Australia is collected via the Graduate Destination Survey component of the Australian Graduate Survey at the referent date three months post-graduation. This timeline gives consideration to graduates to enter directly into traditional vocations. For graduates from non-traditional areas and/or with non-traditional career...
Kudos to Lionel Tiger for providing an updated version of the nature/nurture paradigm and for arguing on behalf of the unity of social and natural sciences ("The Human Nature Project," SI, May/June 2008). Yet several notions warrant comment. Referring to the work of B.E Skinner, Tiger says, "The experimenters woke...
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