Information partnerships--shared data, shared scale

How can one company gain access to another's resources or customers without merging ownership, management, or plotting a takeover? The answer is found in new information partnerships, enabling diverse companies to develop strategic coalitions through the sharing of data. The key to cooperation is a quantum improvement in the hardware and software supporting relational databases: new computer speeds, cheaper mass-storage devices, the proliferation of fiber-optic networks, and networking architectures. Information partnerships mean that companies can distribute the technological and financial exposure that comes with huge investments. For the customer's part, partnerships inevitably lead to greater simplification on the desktop and more common standards around which vendors have to compete. The most common types of partnership are: joint marketing partnerships, such as American Airline's award of frequent flyer miles to customers who use Citibank's credit card; intraindustry partnerships, such as the insurance value-added network service (which links insurance and casualty companies to independent agents); customer-supplier partnerships, such as Baxter Healthcare's electronic channel to hospitals for medical and other equipment; and IT vendor-driven partnerships, exemplified by ESAB (a European welding supplies and equipment company), whose expansion strategy was premised on a technology platform offered by an IT vendor. Partnerships that succeed have shared vision at the top, reciprocal skills in information technology, concrete plans for an early success, persistence in the development of usable information for all partners, coordination on business policy, and a new and imaginative business architecture.     

加快小城镇建设的思考

为贯彻落实党的十五届三中全全精神,推进上海农村城市化的进程,市委书记黄菊在视察郊区农村工作时指出,小城镇建设是上海郊区发展的一个重点,要结合21世纪上海城市发展的趋势,高起点搞好规划,有步骤地推进建设,特别是周边几个区县的小城镇建设,要考虑联接上海与兄弟省市的功能,以更好地发挥上海作为经济中心城市的辐射作用,更好地为全国服务。在小城镇建设上,我们要借鉴广东、福建等省市的成功经验,同时结合自己的实际,使经济、     

矿物原料勘探开采和深加工的现代评价方法概论

本文系作者在德国冶金与采矿协会矿床专业委员会１９９１年年会上的报告，后被收入该协会系列出版物第６４集，于１９９２年初出版。由于每个矿床都是各不相同的，所以要投产就必须要么采用与之相适应的方法，要么索性采用全新的方法，就是说，每勘探或开发一个矿床，就要或多或少地步入一个新的王国。因此，所谓现代评价方法，意思就是与之相适应的（作为技术的现代水平的）标准方法和新方法的评价。     

介绍国外一种考核地质勘探工作经济效果的新方法

保加利亚D·安德烈耶夫撰文介绍了用指标鉴定地质勘探工作经济效果的方法。它是保加利亚地质委员会和民主德国地质部之间自1976年起以《鉴定地质勘探工作经济效果的方法》为题开展双边合作的成果。     

φ36圆钢屈服点偏低原因的分析

1 引言 φ36圆钢筋是采用牌号为Q235A的普通碳素结构钢轧制而成。该牌号钢具有良好的热加工性能和焊接性能,且其韧性和塑性也很好。作为八钢的常规产品之一,其物理性能一直都很稳定,但此次热带车间轧制的批号为9904—2376的φ36圆钢在做力学性能时却出现了异常:屈服点偏低。为此,我们对该批试样进行了较详细的分析了。