Your company's most valuable resource may be locked inside the brains of employees. A W. P. Carey School of Business professor has written a paper that describes ways a business can unlock and use this powerful resource.

Keyword searches can be a waste of valuable time, affecting productivity in a company with an extensive database. New research from an information systems professor at W. P.

A paradigm shift has rocked the information technology world, changing the way companies acquire the technical capabilities to complete business processes.

Many IT professionals, called upon to specialize in the integration of Web services, have morphed into "service choreographers." In working to employ service-oriented architecture (SOA), they are developing "ecosystem" awareness, an understanding of IT services interrelationships.

Thin client technology and the Java card have enabled business to create a data-centric world with a mobile workforce. The creative possibilities in this environment are boundless, but freedom from the office comes with increased risk.

Convenience and cost-savings are powerful incentives for companies to use technology as a way of convening meetings, and they do so knowing that an electronically-mediated session will be different from a face-to-face meeting.

Until now, the data collected by companies about their customers and their business processes was relatively cumbersome to use.

In the wake of spectacular corporate collapses, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act established new rules on a scale not seen since those meant to ameliorate the economic calamities of the 1930s. But three experts at the W. P.

The U.S. Department of Commerce reports that 2005 U.S. e-commerce sales rose to $86.3 billion -- 25 percent over 2004 sales. Yet e-commerce represents only around 2 percent of U.S. retail sales.

Across the U.S., city-sponsored plans to provide low-cost wireless Internet access have sparked opposing pieces of legislation in the House and the Senate. H.R. 2726 would prohibit municipal governments from offering telecommunications, information or cable services, while S.B.