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Technical teams are often distributed across geographic locations and across time zones. While spatial and time separation are often correlated, most prior studies have only focused on one or the other. As a consequence, their respective effects may be confounded when teams have both spatial and time separation. We argue that bridging spatial and time separation pose very different coordination challenges,...
Within current context, Enterprise Application Interoperability need is growing due to globalization, virtualization of enterprises and systematic usage of computers aided activities. Leading to emergence of complex ecosystems, such context leads to the necessity of defining and governing standards, which are providing formal and open specifications of components that can then be easily assembled...
IT service providers are increasingly utilizing globally distributed resources to drive down costs, reduce risk through diversification and gain access to a larger talent pool. However, fostering effective collaboration among geographically distributed resources is a difficult challenge. In this paper, we present our initial attempt to quantify the increased overhead in leveraging distributed resources...
Non-linear business growth is a Holy Grail for executives today. There is a constant need for identification of newer business models, blockbuster products and excellent talent in breaking the linearity paradigm. The latter half of the 20th century has seen some of the major breakthroughs resulting into a significant surge in productivity. Some of these were technology, quality, adoption of management...
The globalization of business through mergers and acquisitions requires the interoperation of established heterogeneous systems within the enterprise. Supply-chain management and collaboration between companies likewise necessitate interoperation between enterprise systems. Companies must break down system silos to increase utilization rates. Automated contract management can mitigate the risks of...
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