April 2009 - Vol. 52 No. 4

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Features

Research and Advances Research highlights

Relative Fitness Modeling

Relative fitness is a new approach to modeling the performance of storage devices. In contrast to a conventional model, which predicts the performance of an application's I/O on a given device, a relative fitness model predicts performance differences between devices.
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How Culture Influences IT-Enabled Organizational Change and Information Systems

The prevailing business culture in the U.S. undoubtedly encouraged the rapid and radical changes prescribed with Business Process Re-engineering (BPR). However, America's egalitarianism and individualism also created a need for strong-armed leadership to complete BPR projects successfully and explicit incentives to facilitate teamwork.
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Non-Work Related Computing (NWRC)

The internet is becoming a commodity in organizations with an increase in accessibility by professionals from their own work desks. Vault.com conducted a survey in 1999 with 1,244 respondents, and found that 84% of employees sent non-work related emails and almost 90% surfed the Internet for non-work related purposes during office hours. However, the effect of the use of the Internet for non-work purposes is inconclusive.
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Analysis of Industry-Specific Concentration of CPOs in Fortune 500 Companies

In June 2005, a unit of lexis-nexis discovered the theft of 310,000 customer records containing sensitive information such as customer names, addresses, and social security numbers. This incident followed closely on ChoicePoint's disclosure of the theft of personally identifiable information (PII) of hundreds of thousands of customers and Bank of America's declaration that it lost backup tapes containing information on 1.2 million customers. Given the seriousness of the matter, firms are struggling with finding ways to best ensure the privacy of their customer's and employees' sensitive data.

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