Before you spend your hard-earned cash on a restaurant dinner, you want to make sure it’ll be worth it, and online reviews have become a big part of deciding where to eat.

Need a temp worker? Consider online labor markets, where you auction off your work to eager freelancers. If you go that route, make sure people can see each other’s bids via the open-bid option. It will bring you fewer people but a better deal in the long run.

In a world connected by high speed Internet, businesses are increasingly seeking a competitive edge by outsourcing software development offshore. For many companies, the strategy promises dramatically lower labor costs and better access to a vast pool of talent.

Predictive analytics promises to harness Big Data, enabling companies to devise more effective strategies.

If your company has a social media manager, chances are that person reports into the marketing department.

What stops browsers from becoming buyers online? Product uncertainty could be the culprit.

Trying to cover every contingency in a contract for long-term business process outsourcing is a challenge for CIOs, but research by Rob Hornyak, an assistant professor of information systems, shows that there are relationship mechanisms that can stand in for contract specificity in delivering BPO

The market for mobile apps has become saturated, but Forbes reports that success is still possible, according to research by information systems Professor Raghu Santanam and doctoral candidate Gun Woong Lee.

If you think Facebook, Candy Crush and other social apps are addictive, you’re right. The average smartphone user spends two hours and 38 minutes on his or her device. But, that addictive behavior is rational, says Professor Sang Pil Han.

IT in the past has proven to be difficult to integrate into a business, due to the complex nature of IT. Although, once it has been integrated, it can work wonders for a business in a multitude of ways. A team of W. P.