ADVISORY/Experts Available To Discuss Tech Companies Yet To Recover from Dot-com Bust.Business Editors ADVISORY... --(BUSINESS WIRE) TOPIC: Although it has been four years since the dot-com bust Refers to the years 2000 to 2002, when the bottom fell out of the dot-com industry and hundreds of dot-com companies went bankrupt. All the rest lost a huge amount, if not almost all, of their stock valuation. See dot-com bubble. , many technology companies continue to cut staff and restructure, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. an article by USATODAY.com. Experts suggest constant restructuring can cause low morale in a company's staff and could lead to a loss of customers. Experts say tech spending has only increased by 1.4 percent this year, which is far less than the numbers during the dot-com boom See dot-com bubble. . EXPERTS: ExpertSource can offer several highly qualified experts to comment on this story: Carole Dascani, vice president of human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. at Synertech, oversees human resources, employee training and development, facilities management The management of a user's computer installation by an outside organization. All operations including systems, programming and the datacenter can be performed by the facilities management organization on the user's premises. , corporate improvement programs, and corporate communications and public affairs. Another achievement for this senior staff member is that Dascani has overseen and managed the construction of Synertech's new, large state-of-the-art facility and subsequent successful consolidation of all Harrisburg employees and operations into the new building. Dascani joined Synertech in 1995, and brings with her 15 years of human resource experience in the areas of performance management, compensation systems, labor relations, benefit design and equal employment legislation. She holds the Senior Professional in Human Resource Management certification awarded by the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI HRCI Human Resource Certification Institute ). PR Contact: Jodie Daubert 717-703-6720 jdaubert@peh.com Professor Robert Carpenter, of the University of Maryland, Baltimore University of Maryland, Baltimore, (also known as UMB) was founded in 1807. It is one of the oldest universities in the United States and comprises some of the oldest professional schools in the nation and world. County, Department of Economics, can discuss statistical analysis of the financial factors that determine small firm growth, with special emphasis on small, high technology firms. 410-455-6590 Dr. William Lehr is an economist and industry consultant. He is a research associate in the Center for Technology, Policy and Industrial Development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, and associate director of the MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research Program on Internet and Telecoms Convergence. He is also an associate research scholar on the faculty of Columbia University's Graduate School of Business, and a research associate at the Columbia Institute of Tele-Information. His fields of specialization and research include industrial organization, political economy, and regulation, especially as these apply to information technology industries. He teaches courses on the economics, business strategy, and public policy issues facing eCommerce companies. He is currently engaged in research on the impact of the Internet on industry structure and the implications for corporate strategy and public policy. 617-258-0630 ExpertSource cannot guarantee the immediate availability of these experts or their familiarity with this specific issue. ExpertSource provides academic and industry experts to the media at no charge. Journalists are encouraged to submit queries to ExpertSource when seeking experts on specific subjects. An online registration form is available at http://www.businesswire.com/. |
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