...Business Strategy of Vodafone UK Introduction In the current situation of telecommunications, more and more people are subscribers of mobile telephone services. The mobile phones are also called as handsets come in innovative features, pocket-sized, and in affordable costs. For over the years, the manufacturers are continuously developing the mobile phones in which the people described as effective way of communication. And today, different brand of mobile phone are emerging and competing in the field of wireless communication with innovative services. Background of the Study and Problem Statement The British Telecommunications already dominated the wireless service market. The service provider, Vodafone as one of the leading company of mobile services, enabled to penetrate in the market and enjoying the success (2001). The success that the company gained is not possible without the aid of the strategies. Therefore, the main focus of the research study is concern on the business strategy of the Vodafone in the UK. Research Objectives The research identified three main objectives that were expected to be achieved at the end of the study. First is to identify the business strategies of the Vodafone Company in the international market. The second objective is related to the first which regards on the application of the identified business strategies in the telecommunications industry. And the third is to serve as a valuable context in the literature of communications...
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...General comments | Research Proposal Research Topic: Business Intelligence goes Mobile: Business Analytics Anytime, Anywhere. Abstract: Mobile business intelligence refers to the circulation and dispersion of business data with the help of mobile devices such as smart phones, tablet computers etc. Business intelligence is a technique by digging out and excavate data and analysing it with the help of computer based technique. Corporates today are increasingly using various handheld devices and latest gadgets in delivering rich web content which help managers to have extensive access to corporate data. This is not just confined to managers but other official also who can be in constant touch with clients and assess the data using mobile analytics (A Savvas 2010) Introduction : Mobile business intelligence is the data driven applications on mobile devices like handheld devices , smart phones and tablet computers which help users to access business information anytime anywhere. This mobile BI has made a drastic change in the corporate world; using mobile BI corporates can analyse and circulate the data to their clients and colleagues on theirs handheld devices. There are many benefits of mobile BI but apart from it still it has some challenges . Security of the data that is sent on mobile devices poses risk of hacking . Data that is sent has to be checked i.e what information is going outside the firewall and how they will protect it...
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...organizations. Some basic industries that use project management include Information technology, telecommunication, construction, software development, banking, manufacturing, professional engineering and architecture, computers. Project management is important because tough budgets, reducing resources, limited time constraints, and competition to improve the methods we do business in the competitive environment. The great ability of project management makes it possible to focus on priorities, track and measure performance, overcome challenges and issues, become flexible enough to adjust to change and reach higher performance and a higher probability of success in each and every project. The challenges of project management most especially the high hopes from senior management combined with little or no hierarchical permission are powerful, but project managers can influence the entire path of an organization. Project management is very important in today's business environment when one considers the repercussions of the lack of good project management or when project management is not successful applied to projects. Here are some of the repercussions that can be experienced with the lack of or poor project management week communication, missed deadlines, cost overruns, week workmanship, Misunderstandings, redoing work to correct mistakes, unclear directions for the project, constant changes in project scope, forgotten key tasks, week morale of team, duplication...
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...Paper 22 October 2014 IT Manager and E-Business Challenges Each of the management and leadership positions in the company is supposed to be in charge of supporting the business strategy, objectives and mission of Magnum Enterprises. I am responsible for integrating the latest compute technologies into the company’s business operations and minimizing the negative consequences of the challenges that our department faces in implementing new approaches. I exert every possible effort to ensure that my leadership qualities, my devotion and support of the mission of Magnum Enterprises as well as the attitude of all the personnel were used for the benefit of the company. The functioning of the IT department will imply being a centerpiece of every hardware and software solution all over the enterprise to satisfy all the IT needs of the company. The mentioned approach is supposed to encourage and facilitate efficient integration of the management capabilities and business objectives. Every company defines the responsibilities and functions of the IT managers differently. They are generally involved in various fields in the framework of the company, in particular logistics, manufacturing, finance, general operating and other areas. According to the conventional point of view, the mere responsibility of the IT manager, who performs the role of a technical leader, is to ensure the incorporation of the IT needs of the company with the business demands. Taking into consideration my experience...
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...SIGNIFICANCE OF BUSINESS ETHICS AND REFORM Creating meaningful ethical reform in business requires teaching students practical, concrete, psychological tools for how to work with their inner conflicts and emotional patterns, teaching them how to embrace the challenges that directly come up as we seek to build businesses that create both money and meaning, renouncing the fundamentalist dogmas of the cult reasons of the single bottom line. And evaluating different schools not just on whether they produce smart and successful students, but also on whether they produce wise and fulfilled ones. When speaking of the importance of ethics in business, most people like Debbie Vasen infer that the term ethics refers to the business as a whole contrary, business ethics applied individuals working within business acting on company affects the entire company not just individual. When employee works ethically and responsibly it leads to entire organization. This ethics are more than just a word used to enhance the image of corporation also a very foundation of success, it should applied at the very moment of a firm opens its doors. The term business ethics has always help controversial connotation that is why the researcher seeks answer for business conflict on its ups and down. Believers like Cameron Mclean says that a business trying to grow revenue and profits will have direct conflict with remaining ethical. The most important why the researcher of this topic written this is with the help...
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...provide localized content wherever it goes. However, 2007 was a great year for a tremendous challenge. As experts affirmed, the launch of MTV Arabia in the Middle East was the biggest challenge MTV had faced since its foundation. It was a big challenge for many reasons. First, the cultural difference between the Middle East and the west is incredibly different. Second, the Arab acceptance of a western brand could be tough. Then comes the ambiguity about the success of the localization strategy. Also, the possibility of MTV Arabia to be altered by the local programming could be expected. There is a considerable number of existing Arab music channels, thus, the competition might be difficult as they have the same focus as MTV Arabia. Although those challenges, MTV Networks invaded the Arabian market and applied a business strategy that enabled it to build a solid infrastructure. This paper analyzes the challenges that MTV faced during this process and the strategy that it applied to move forward highlighting its pros and cons. We will also analyze its success and survival in the market. Launching MTV Arabia in the Arab world is the most challenging process that MTV went through. Dana El Baltalji, a special Projects Manager, Trends magazine in Dubai said: “MTV has a penchant for airing controversial material and making a mockery of convention. And of course, it’s an American brand. The challenge, therefore, is transforming a notoriously risqué channel into a Middle Eastern-friendly...
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...DQ1: How can information technology support a company's business processes and decision making and give it a competitive advantage? What are some of the toughest management challenges in developing IT solutions to solve business problems and meet new business opportunities? Answer: Information technology plays a vital role in the success of an enterprise. For example, the Internet and Internet-like internal networks, or intranets, and external inter-organizational networks, called extranets, can provide the information infrastructure a business needs for efficient operations, effective management, and competitive advantage Use of information Technology has made a workplace more productive and scientific. Business decisions are based on the data’s and information provided to decision makers and information technology ensures the accuracy and reliability of the information collected. Through the use of information technology, data’s and information are to be collected and are to be supplied to all the sectors of organization as per the importance. Decision making department uses these data’s to evaluate the performance of organization and all the plans and policies are made as per the information and data’s provided. Through the use of information technology they can be implemented effectively and also it becomes easy to control the decision, since outcomes of decision can be monitored systematically. This way efficiency of the decision becomes more. When your decisions are...
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...overcome the challenges faced in the business field. The advices came from an interview with Mudit Sethi, who works in the Financial Department of Chase Headquarter in Chicago. Mr. Sethi majored in Finance at UIC and joined Chase after graduating four years ago. He graduated during the financial crisis; therefore, most of his advices involve the crisis and how he managed to find a suitable job during the crisis. His advices are being interested in the work, being committed to the work, and being able to incorporate changes and use them to the advantage. When asked about the importance of writing in finance, he characterized it as essential part of any business. His advices motivate students to pursue the career of their choice with determination. He further elaborated each important advice by giving example from his personal experience. Interest in the work The first challenge that any person faces involves finding a suitable career that best suits their personality. The challenge involves finding work that will keep a person interested for the rest of his/her life. Mr. Sethi faced similar challenge while getting started at UIC. It was the time of financial crisis, and Mr. Sethi knew that finding work during the crisis would be difficult. But, he was so interested in the Finance field that he took the challenge and continued to study Finance at UIC. However, he did find it difficult to find work as soon as he graduated. He had to do a lot of research, and he applied in many companies...
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...18th European Conference on Information Systems BENEFITS AND CHALLENGES OF BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE ADOPTION IN SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES Journal: Manuscript ID: Submission Type: Keyword: 18th European Conference on Information Systems ECIS2010-0252.R1 Research Paper Business intelligence, Decision support systems (DSS), Information technology adoption, Organizational characteristics Page 1 of 12 18th European Conference on Information Systems BENEFITS AND CHALLENGES OF BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE ADOPTION IN SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES Scholz, Patrick, HOERBIGER Holding AG / Chemnitz University of Technology, Hannawaldweg 12, 09405 Zschopau, Germany, patrick.scholz@hoerbiger.com / patrick.scholz@wirtschaft.tu-chemnitz.de Schieder, Christian, Chemnitz University of Technology, Thueringer Weg 7, 09126 Chemnitz, Germany, christian.schieder@wirtschaft.tu-chemnitz.de Kurze, Christian, Chemnitz University of Technology, Thueringer Weg 7, 09126 Chemnitz, Germany, christian.kurze@wirtschaft.tu-chemnitz.de Gluchowski, Peter, Chemnitz University of Technology, Thueringer Weg 7, 09126 Chemnitz, Germany, peter.gluchowski@wirtschaft.tu-chemnitz.de Boehringer, Martin, Chemnitz University of Technology, Thueringer Weg 7, 09126 Chemnitz, Germany, martin.boehringer@wirtschaft.tu-chemnitz.de Abstract Leveraging information is a key success factor for companies. Over the last two decades Business Intelligence (BI) has evolved to become a foundational cornerstone of...
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... February, March 2012 Volume: 3 Issue: 1 Article: 13 ISSN 1309-6249 THE POTENTIAL BENEFITS AND CHALLENGES OF INTERNSHIP PROGRAMMES IN AN ODL INSTITUTION: A CASE FOR THE ZIMBABWE OPEN UNIVERSITY Richard BUKALIYA Zimbabwe Open University, Mashonaland East Region, Marondera, ZIMBABWE ABSTRACT Several studies done elsewhere have indicated and concluded that a gap really exists between the quality of graduates produced and what the market demands (Mpairwe, 2010). For this and other reasons, training institutions and employers have accepted the need to seek mitigatory steps to bridge the gap. Among other steps, institutions of learning have introduced internship programmes also referred to as field attachment in some of their degree and non-degree programmes. There has also been the realisation that imparting the relevant practical skills is a partnership between the training institution and the prospective employers through student internships. However, despite these positive intentions, interns on field attachment have faced serious challenges among which are insufficient time and lack of funding for the programmes. It is behind this background that the present study sought to establish the benefits and challenges faced by student interns at the Zimbabwe Open University. The study focussed on two of the university`s faculties: the Faculty of Science and technology and that of Applied Social Sciences. Most of the students on internship were from these faculties. Being quantitative...
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...1. Identify the nuggets from the two-day sessions of Business Ethics class and explain how would you apply those nuggets in your work place. ANSWER: Nuggets from the lecture Ethics defined as the study of right or wrong and as broadly as the general inquiry into what is good. Ethics examines the right or wrong within the context of moral duty. Business ethics is a form of applied ethic in business activity that examines ethical principle and moral or ethical problem that may occurred on business environment. It is applies to all business activity either to the conduct of individual or entire organization. Some business may have same issue related to the business ethic such as problem of product quality, transparency of the financial statement, environmental issues, human right, workplace quality and safety issue etc. In business a company shall create a regulation and code that will regulate the daily life and how business should perform in ethical way. Those we call it Code of Business ethic and Conduct. Code of business ethic and conduct for the company is very important to set up and regulate the life of company. It’s collection of principle in term how they believe and aims to live by. It is also reflected the corporate culture and its vision and mission of the company. How the code of conduct applied in Chevron which they call it “The Chevron Way”. The Chevron code of conduct built in line with their company’s vision and mission. Integrity is one of highest...
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...qualitative and minimalistic approach. They also bring numerous advantages to an organization and the surrounding environment if implemented properly, but it also risks being regarded as another management or profit oriented move. This paper aims to evaluate these business processes, and provide guidelines for the application of total quality management and Lean in the port activities in Singapore, through its maritime port authority. As this is the scope of the paper, an analysis is also carried out to identify the areas that the maritime port authority of Singapore has applied these measures, the impact of these methods as well as recommendation of aspects that can be leaned in order to improve both port activities and sustainability. Secondary data sources is the main methodological method used in this paper, and various pieces of information have been retrieved from these sources to indicate and support claims made in this paper In addition, this paper is targeted towards administrators and scholars responsible for a wide range of public-sector services, including those provided to citizens and those provided to internal customers both in the logistics and supply chain industry such as ports authorities, and as a business process improvement measure. Introduction: The economic development in Asia, and in particularly in the south eastern Asian region, has gained increasing attention globally. This has in term had a huge impact on the growth of its logistics market...
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...Behavior and Communication Deborah Tebet BCOM/230 06/15/2015 Wayne Moore Behavior and Communication 3M is a company that has been in business for many years. It was founded back in 1902 in Two Harbors, Minnesota under the name Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company. The company was founded by five business men, and since it started it has grown over the years offering various services and products, it has expanded globally with businesses in Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa, Europe and the Americas ("3m Science Applied To Life ", 2015). The motto for 3M is Science Applied to Life, meaning that innovation is the way of life and new ideas are constantly being processed and in progress to develop the latest product. The company offers an array of services and products ranging from health care, manufacturing, commercial solutions, mining, oil and gas, safety, electronics, and energy to name a few ("3m Science Applied To Life ", 2015). Mr. William L. McKnight joined the company in 1907 as a bookkeeper, becoming president in 1929 and chairman of the board in 1949. Mr. Knight is known for molding the company’s culture in innovation and collaboration ("3m Science Applied To Life ", 2015). He believed that using innovation and creating new ideas through collaboration with not only his peers and existing employees, but also with others like researchers and scientists would be the way to implement the company’s services and products to enable sustainability by protecting...
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... The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) controls the User Fees Relating to Enrollment and Preparer Tax Identification Numbers. This regulation is found in the Federal Register. A copy of the regulation is included as a separate .PDF document. As a tax preparer this regulation interests me. This will increase my cost of doing business. 2. Describe the proposal/change. The proposed fee for the Personal Tax Identification Number (PTIN) will increase my costs of doing business. 3. Write the public comment which you would submit to this proposal. If the proposed regulation deadline has already passed, write the comment you would have submitted. Explain briefly what you wish to accomplish with your comment. My comment is that as a tax preparer in California, I already pay tax preparer fees to the state regulatory agency, California Tax Education Council. This new fee for using a PTIN, which I have used for over ten years, will increase my cost of doing business. This cost may have to be passed on to customers in what is already a tight economy. I wish to be exempt from this new fee. 4. Provide the “deadline” by which the public comment must be made. (If the date has already passed, please provide when the deadline was). The...
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...survey instrument that was developed together with Chinese employees and managers. That Dimension, based on Confucian dynamism, is Long-Term Orientation (LTO) and was applied to 23 countries. In 2010, research by Michael Minkov allowed to extend the number of country scores for this dimension to 93, using recent World Values Survey data from representative samples of national populations. What about Vietnam? If we explore the Vietnamese culture through the lens of the 5-D Model, we can get a good overview of the deep drivers of Vietnamese culture relative to other world cultures. Power distance This dimension deals with the fact that all individuals in societies are not equal – it expresses the attitude of the culture towards these inequalities amongst us. Power distance is defined as the extent to which the less powerful members of institutions and organisations within a country expect and accept that power is distributed unequally. Vietnam scores high on this dimension (score of 70) which means that people accept a hierarchical order in which everybody has a place and which needs no further justification. Hierarchy in an organisation is seen as reflecting inherent inequalities, centralization is popular, subordinates expect to be told what to do and the ideal boss is a benevolent autocrat. Challenges to the leadership are not well-received. Individualism The fundamental issue addressed...
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