Think about running your business without computers, and you'll realize how important they are to your bottom line. Whether you use a database to track sales, an inventory system that monitors stock ...

Effective life cycle management can help your business to extend the usable life of its computers and enable you to get the best return on your IT investment. Even high-spec machines rapidly go out of ...

The phases in the life of an information system, which includes its initiation, development, maintenance and eventual demise. The length of the cycle depends on the nature and volatility of the ...

[This article was first published in Army Sustainment Professional Bulletin, which was then called Army Logistician, volume 3, number 2 (March–April 1971), pages 12–15, 42–43. The text, including any ...

This paper focuses on the use of design compatibility analysis (DCA) to maximize the life-cycle value of mechanical systems. Early stages of design affect various issues that comprise the life-cycle ...

Systems Thinking is a way of looking at the way things are made in the world and understanding how processes influence one another in a larger system. Linear thinking is a narrow way of looking at the ...

Greenstein, Shane, and James B. Wade. "The Product Life Cycle in the Commercial Mainframe Computer Market, 1968-1982." RAND Journal of Economics 29, no. 4 (Winter 1998): 772–789.

A major shift has occurred in security technology development, and nothing in the security industry’s history to date has prepared practitioners to deal with it. Approaching today’s and tomorrow’s ...