Methods for sound risk management are of increasing interest among Wall Street investment banking andbrokerage firms in the aftermath of the October 1987 crash of the stock market. As the knowledge of advancedtechnology applications in risk management increases, financial firms are finding...

Under circumstances where data quality may vary, knowledge about the potentialperformance of alternate predictive models can enable a decision maker to design aninformation system whose value is optimized in two ways. The decision maker can selecta model which is least sensitive to predictive...

Software reuse in the presence of a repository and object-based CASE tool is likely to be quot;biased.quot; Priorresearch (Banker, Kauffman and Zweig, 1991) showed that a developer will be: most likely to reuse herown objects; somewhat less likely to reuse objects developed by her project team...

This chapter presents the transcript of a question and answer session that followeda debate on the case study and formal modeling approaches to IT valuation between BennKonsynski, Harvard University and Charles Kriebel, Carnegie Mellon University. Thedebate was held in a panel session chaired by...

Customer access information technology offers greatpotential benefits to both the organization and itscustomers. However, managers lack methods forevaluating these technologies and determining whetherconditions exist for success. We propose a model fromMarketing Science which captures factors...

This paper proposes a new vision for the measurement andmanagement of development productivity related to computer aidedsoftware engineering (CASE) technology. We propose thatproductivity be monitored and controlled in each phase ofsoftware development life cycle, a measurement approach we...

Measurement of software development productivity is needed in order to control software costs, but it isdiscouragingly labor-intensive and expensive. Computer aided software engineering (CASE) technologies --especially repository-based, integrated CASE -- have the potential to support the...

Measurement of software development productivity is needed in order to control software costs, but it isdiscouragingly labor-intensive and expensive. Computer aided software engineering (CASE) technologies --especially repository-based, integrated CASE -- have the potential to support the...

Growing competition in the investment bankingindustry has given rise to increasing demand forhigh functionality software applications that canbe developed in a short period of time. Yet deliveringsuch applications creates a bottleneck insoftware development activities. This dilemmacan be...

This paper reports on a multi-year field study conducted at the FirstBoston Corporation to investigate the performance of its object andrepository-based integrated computer aided software engineering (I-CASE)tool called High Productivity Systems (HPS). We present productivity andsoftware reuse...