Part of Syracuse University's commitment to energy conservation is an electrical distribution system upgrade incorporating the latest enterprise energy management EEM technology from Power Measurement. Designed to reduce costs, minimize waste, and facilitate planning, the Internet-based EEM system uses a campus-wide network of intelligent ION meters and energy management software...
This paper is a review of work published in various journals on the topics of Enterprise Resource Planning ERP. The paper intends to serve three goals. First, it will be useful to researchers who are interested in understanding what kinds of questions have been addressed in the area of ERP....
Nowadays research on trade and multinationals highlights the complex integration strategies and the varying degree of vertical integration of multinational firms in a multilateral world. A high percentage of world trade is actually conducted by multinational firms, and most of the Foreign Direct Investment FDI occurs within the block of...
The planning, purchase, and delivery of goods and services for school districts are managed by school business officials through a procurement process. The environment that school business officials face when managing procurement is challenging, because it is governed by a complex set of state and local laws and regulations designed...
The purpose of the investigation presented in this paper was to examine the value of product placement as a form of advertising in television and film. A review of the historical evolution of product placement was followed by research into who's involved in the practice, as well as how those...
This article focuses on Critical infrastructure information CII sharing, which provides several benefits. First, sharing allows greater coordination among the various levels of government. Information sharing among federal, state and local government entities better prepares each level of government to assess CI vulnerabilities, repair those vulnerabilities, and respond to threats...
In a poll conducted for the Council for Excellence in Government, only 34 percent of citizens were familiar with electronic government. Though they may be going publicly unnoticed, e-government initiatives are changing the way that the public sector works and interacts with citizens, businesses, and other governments. This article introduces...
The concept of ‘pay-for-performance’ has generated a lot of interest at all levels of the organization. Incentives can be in the form of fringe benefits or intangibles. Performance standards play a significant role in the same. Benchmarks have to be established for setting performance standards. The paper discusses the various...
Louis Giuliano has been chairman, president, and CEO of ITT Industries since March 2001. During his 14-year tenure with the Fortune 500 company, Giuliano has served in a number of executive roles including chief operating officer, senior vice president, and vice president. He was also president and chief executive of...
Innovation is the process of applying creative ideas and perspectives to organizational processes and products. It increases the efficiency of the processes and helps organizations to come out with cutting-edge products. Such products and processes help the organization in gaining sustainable competitive advantage. The paper examines various criteria for innovation...
Modern business scenario consists of perennial change. It is imperative for organizations to counter these changes, in order to stay afloat in the market. Anticipating changes and proactively planning for the same is an effective strategy for change management. Information plays an important role in such a strategy. Information Systems...
The prospect of the Internet raised many societal expectations about the approaching millennium. From the outset, technology watchers speculated not as to whether the Internet would affect life, but rather to what degree the Internet would affect the lives. The advertising community was among one of the first groups to...
Quality of a product or service is determined by the extent to which the product or service is able to satisfy the needs of the consumers. Total Quality Management TQM is a zero-error approach towards improving the quality of processes and systems in an organization. TQM calls for the principle...
Performance measures are a central component of management control systems. The same enables efficient planning and formulating effective control decisions. Organizational performance is measured from a financial as well as non-financial perspective. The paper discusses the design, implementation and uses of performance measures. It sheds light on different types of...
It is the purpose of this paper to bring trade, and the possibility of a trade policy, back into this picture. Only then can one account for what the governments of South Korea and Taiwan thought that they were doing: promoting exports and investments at the same time. The first...
This paper provides a simple analytic formula for valuing default swaps with correlated market and credit risk. It illustrates the numerical implementation of this model by inferring the default probability parameters implicit in default swap quotes for twenty two companies over the time period 8/21/00 to 10/31/00. For comparison, it...
Any business enterprise exists for the accomplishment of certain long-term goals and objectives. The strategy of the business enterprise is the action-plan towards achievement of those long-term goals. Strategy also entails the determination of those goals. The paper examines the strategy process of organizations.
It is said that a society’s success is measured by the well being of its members. In such scenario, healthcare systems and planning assumes significance. Experts suggest that in the near future, healthcare systems and processes will undergo drastic transformation. With this will increase the dependability of the society on...
Effort is Part of Blackboard's Flexible, Open Next Generation Platform LAS VEGAS, July 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Blackboard Inc. , a leading provider of educational enterprise technology, announced today that it has partnered with Syracuse University to develop software that will allow institutions to connect their Blackboard learning...
SYRACUSE, N.Y. AP -- A vast collection of 78 rpm records -- valued at $1 million, weighing 50 tons and representing more than a half-century of American music history -- is being donated to Syracuse University by the estate of a prominent New York City record shop owner. ...
