2004 Perspectives Reports

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Download the Special Issue on Enterprise Information Technology (Fall 2004)

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• Automatic Identification: When to Use RFID
  
  
• Effective Implementation Management Needs an IT Entrepreneur
  
  
• Emerging Standard Addresses eCommerce Message Security—Commerce Portals Use ebXML to Enhance Reliability
  
  
• Performance-Based Contracting: Here to Stay, But Challenges Ahead
  
  
• The Business Value of CMMI
  
  
• The Tangible Value of Enterprise Architecture
  
  
• Why Conduct User-Centered Design for Software Development?

Download the Summer 2004 Issue

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• Emergency Management—International Oil Facilities Are a Top Infrastructure Target of Terrorists: Protecting U.S. Oil Facilities
  
  
• eGovernment—Customer Insight Program for eGovernment
  
  
• Energy—From Legislation to Regulation: U.S. EPA's Proposed Clean Air Interstate & Mercury Rules Affect Electric Power Industry
  
  
• Environment—Mandatory Reporting on Environmental, Social, & Community Issues in the United Kingdom: The New Operating & Financial Review (OFR)

Download the Special Issue on Human Capital (Winter 2003/2004)

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• The Value of Human Capital Management
  
  
• Workforce Planning: Planning For the Future, Rather Than Re-creating the Past
  
  
• In the Trenches: Techniques for Strategic Planning at the Program Level
  
  
• Getting Organized: Developing Effective Training Institutes
  
  
• Avoiding the "Gotchas" of Knowledge Management