The PROFIT Initiative is based at MIT's Sloan School of Management; its key objective is to study the use of information technology in both the private and public sectors to enhance productivity in many areas ranging from finance to transportation, and from manufacturing to telecommunications. Research at MIT shows that the likelihood of success in utilizing information technology to increase productivity is a function of several technical and non-technical factors. To attain success, there are …showed first 75 words of 759 total…

…showed last 75 words of 759 total…hardware, software, data syntax and semantics) to create new knowledge is a key area addressed by the PROFIT Initiative. The Composite Information System Tool Kit, an integration framework developed at MIT to demonstrate advanced techniques in connectivity and context knowledge interchange, has been enhanced. Further, techniques to move information from one environment (i.e., context) to another continue to be merged with existing data repository and warehouse technologies to provide productivity gains in large-scale operations.