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The Neptic Design Group designed and built a laser camera system (LCS) to assist NASA in determining damage incurred to the space shuttle's thermal-protection tiles during the Discovery's 'Return to […]

The information systems (IS) discipline is in an ongoing crisis because of several reasons. Learning institutions do not have a well-defined curriculum on what should be taught in the IS discipline. Recently, there are many organizations and researchers who have come up with different BoKs in the IS discipline as discussed in this article. Additionally, IS discipline does not have a universal body of knowledge like in other fields such as electrical engineering which makes it even more challenging to align the existing industry knowledge and academic curriculum. Therefore, there is a need to develop a unified knowledge framework in the IS discipline which offers a single source of reference in both professional sector and development of academic curriculum. The major challenge in the developing of a unified knowledge framework in the IS discipline is that it is changing and evolving rapidly.

This article proposes a framework to integrate IT workers' competencies within the business technology management (BTM) body of knowledge (BoK) to help discussions and reflection on current efforts within the Canadian BTM community. Using the CIO role as a reference, it starts with a review of recent literature to determine the requirements of BTM competencies to develop what elements are needed in the BTM BOK. The article concludes with a proposal for next steps to further develop this framework into an operational tool.

The relationship between risk and return in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region stock markets is estimated during 2008 international financial crisis; including Jordan, KSA, Morocco, and Turkey. For comparison purpose, stock markets from Europe are also examined; including, FTSE (UK), CAC40 (France), DAX (Germany), and the Swiss market. The empirical findings show evidence that; contrary to European stock markets; MENA region stock markets generally reward risk during 2008 financial crisis. This result is important for international asset managers and investors to consider investing in emergent markets from MENA region.

Abbreviation: GR = glucocorticoid receptor Glucocorticoid stimulation of the surfactant system in the developing lung is mediated by the glucocorticoid receptor (GR). Seventy-five percent of mice homozygous for a targeted [...]

Strategic management should be used as the basis for research on operations strategy amd management. Competition in formulating management strategies has shifted from being market-based to resource-based. Market-based strategies attempt to formulate decisions against existing market trends, whereas resource-based strategies seek to increase profits by developing and protecting existing and potential markets by continuously improving operational resources and advantages unique to a particular firm.

Within the next ten years, radical innovation in electric vehicles (EVs) will cause profound changes in the way automakers develop their products. The prevailing lean product development approach (LPDA), based on concurrent engineering (CE), may well be modified substantially to fit with EV's high technology content, high innovation rate and high uncertainty context. In addition, the fact that a large part of EV's technologies must come from outside the auto industry is another challenge in itself. Our literature review leads us to conclude: first, that strategy formulation should be driven by the emergence of a dominant design; second, we find that organisational change efforts will have to be focused more directly upon the management of knowledge; third, we finally argue that capabilities development will occur only if a number of adjustments are made to the LPDA, especially regarding suppliers, leaders, people and tools.