...Exective summary This case study discusses the business strategies used by Apple, Microsoft and Google in internet industry。Everyone know the Internet has developed into an enormous information infrastructure. This new economy is driven by a relentless force of technological and conceptual innovations stemming from an innumerable number of parties scattered around the globe. Its speed of change and innovation make it to a highly competitive arena. Apple, Microsoft and Google have been the most successful companies within this arena for a long time. Throughout the previous decades, they have internalized the economic laws and technological characteristics of the Internet in their business thinking. Their strategies and competitive moves did not only form the information economy as we know it today, but do also provide showcase examples of how profitable market positions can be achieved in the Internet. Table of content Introduction My report answers some questions: How did Apple, Microsoft and Google successfully navigate and define the competitive arena of the Internet? Which roles did their unique strengths play for their business strategies? Which specifics of the Internet did they have to account for? Last, how to used 4Ps sustain their competitive advantages within such a hostile environment? Development strateies of Apple, Microsoft and Google Apple was founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak; stressing the importance of making...
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...BI Norwegian School of Management – Thesis Master of Science in Innovation and Entrepreneurship GRA 19002 Convergence, Complementarity or Disruption: Enterprise Search and Business Intelligence By Vedrana Jez Hand-in date: 01.09.2009 Supervisor: Dr. Espen Andersen This thesis is a part of the MSc programme at BI Norwegian School of Management. The school takes no responsibility for the methods used, results found and conclusions drawn. Acknowledgments I would like to thank my supervisor, Dr. Espen Andersen, for his support and guidance throughout the project. I am also grateful to all participants in this research for their contribution and time. Finally, I thank my family for their understanding, encouragement and patience. Thesis 01.09.2009 Content Content ..................................................................................................................... i Abstract .................................................................................................................. iv Introduction ............................................................................................................ 1 Research Methodology ........................................................................................... 2 Research Question .........................................................................................................2 Method Used ..................................................................
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...time financial data is readily available via many financial websites, such as MSN Money, Google Finance, Yahoo Finance, etc. The incorporation of computer technology in finance classes has become more popular than ever in this information technology rich environment. Mediated classrooms have rapidly grown in numbers throughout the universities worldwide. Based on my experience as a finance professor, I have summarized this teaching note to demonstrate an alternative pedagogical tool in performing financial ratio analysis. The class assignment presented hereinafter is designed to help students learn how to assess the company's overall operations and current financial standing via an on-line database available in MSN Money website. It can be used in any corporate flnance class. I collected student feedback on the assignment, and the vast majority of the survey participants perceived the assignment as a very good learning experience. Keywords: financial ratio analysis. Du Pont analysis INTRODUCTION inancial ratio analysis is an important topic and is covered in all mainstream corporate finance textbooks. It is widely used to summarize the information in a company's financial statements so as to analyze its financial condition and performance. In today's information technology world, real time financial data is readily available via many financial websites, such as MSN Money, Google Finance, Yahoo Finance, etc. As students now have easy access to on-line financial databases...
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...Information Systems Dissertation The Impact of Cloud Computing on Small and Medium Sized Enterprises. Word Count: 12,497 Abstract In recent years a new computing paradigm has emerged: Cloud Computing. Whilst there seem to be an endless number of definitions for this new term, including one by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) that is nearly 800 words long, nobody seems to be able to settle on a true characterisation of the subject matter. In its simplest form cloud computing can be described as IT-as-a-service. Instead of building your own IT infrastructure to host databases or software, a third party hosts them on their own servers. Companies have access to their data and software over the internet (which in most diagrams is depicted as a cloud). However, is this new paradigm simply a new term for something we are already doing or is it truly going to change the future of IT as we know it? This dissertation investigates the phenomenon commonly known as cloud computing, focussing closely on its impact on small and medium sized enterprises (SME’s), and ultimately attempts to assess the future of cloud computing. The research throughout this paper is based solely on secondary research. No primary research into the topic area has been made. In order to gain a broad view and understanding of the topic various existing papers and studies, on the topic of cloud computing and technology adoption within SME’s, have been studied and critiqued...
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...Monograph on the Apple Business Model @2003 Introduction. In 1984, Apple and the Macintosh challenged the world with the dramatic portrayal of a revolutionary woman hurling a hammer at an image of the establishment. With the Twentieth Anniversary of that event approaching, now is a good time to take a look back at this revolution and take stock of the new revolution that the Mac OS X operating system offers. Despite Time Magazine's 80 Days That Changed The World, it would appear that Apple doesn't get much credit for the revolution it sparked in personal computing. As the leading innovator in the computer market, and with a balance sheet holding of four billion in cash, neither its stock value nor its market share is very high. Every few months or so, a journalist reports on impending trouble for Apple Computer. Part of the reason for this negative press is that its main competitor has a 95% market share and billions more in cash. By any other standards, Apple would be judged to be an astonishing success, but a bigger question remains: Why is the Apple market share so small when it has a superior product? Blaming Microsoft for the 'ills' of Apple really misses the point. Both companies were formed early in the computer age, both had product, innovation and opportunity at a critical time, but their history is vastly different. Apple's small market share must be the result of its business model. While the business model has failed the aspirations of the Macintosh Revolution...
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...CASE: SM-153 DATE: 08/08/06 SAP AG IN 2006: DRIVING CORPORATE TRANSFORMATION Success can be seductive. It can trick us into focusing too rigidly on long-established patterns of thought. That’s why it is often so tempting to recycle yesterday’s ideas to form the guidelines and dogmas of tomorrow. I hope that we can use the right vision and strategy to avoid this trap. ⎯Henning Kagermann, CEO, SAP AG INTRODUCTION On a windy April evening in Walldorf, Germany, Henning Kagermann took a sip of his tea and picked up the 60-page document lying on his desk. Several months earlier, Kagermann, CEO of SAP AG, had tasked his Corporate Strategy Group with preparing a strategic analysis, informally nicknamed the “Sun-Tzu document” in deference to the legendary Chinese general. It outlined the strategic opportunities and challenges that SAP should expect to face between 2006 and 2010, and examined the prevailing forces shaping the enterprise software industry in 2006: technological change, consolidation, and shifting customer needs. Kagermann believed that emerging Internet-based technologies and standards known collectively as “Web services” soon would transform the $79.8 billion enterprise software applications industry, in which SAP held the leading market position.1 Although sales of SAP’s existing products had begun to rebound in 2004 after a multi-year slowdown, Kagermann had committed SAP to deploy new Web services-based technology on a massive scale by the end of 2007. (See Exhibit...
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...DSC 340 Study Guide Mick McQuaid Spring 2014 Following is a study guide for DSC 340. It’s a living document to be updated by the instructor every week during the term based on readings, contributions from students, and updates in the rapidly changing world of business information systems. 1. PERSONAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS Extensive research over the past twenty years, some of it by Tom Malone at MIT and Susan Dumais at Microsoft Research, has explored how people organize personal information. One example that helps people understand the problem of personal information is the knife analogy, described below. One important finding about personal information management has been that people are prone to do one or some combination of these two things: filing and piling. After reviewing the following topics, conclude the study of personal information systems by doing the share best practices exercise. 1.1 Knives In the Home Suppose you have just won a complete set of knives for your home. Where should you put them? You could have a single cabinet to store all knives, but it is more likely that you will distribute the knives to different rooms, placing them near where they will be used: steak knives in a buffet in the dining room, cooking knives in the kitchen, handyman knives in a garage workshop. When you need a particular knife, it will be in the context of a current task, such as preparing food, setting a table, or cutting a length of rope for a clothesline. In each...
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...AngularJS Starter Kit Copyright © 2013 Hakin9 Media Sp. z o.o. SK Table of Contents Angular: The DOM API You Have Been Waiting For Brad Davis 08 11 16 26 34 43 Angular.js, a javascript library and framework created in Google, is a fresh view into building great web applications. You can read a lot of articles on how it separates the concerns of the application, improves testability, and keeps to web app best practices, but I want to highlight a feature that is not shown off as regularly, extending the document object model API. Introduction to AngularJS Dylan Stamat You will learn about some of the core concepts that make AngularJS shine, including binding data to you views, built-in filtering, and some of the interesting architectural decisions behind this MVC framework. We will build a very simple application with local data that show some of these concepts. Diving into Angular Josh Kuhn In this tutorial we’re going to create a barebones Twitter-like application called Pipr. Pipr allows you to create “pips” which are short 100 character or less “pips” that show up on the page in reverse chronological order. You can add tags to your pips, and you can post them with any name you like. In addition, you can delete your pips. AngularJS 101: A Beginner’s Tutorial Karmen Blake This tutorial on AngularJS will guide you through the fundamentals of the framework. You will explore the exciting benefits of using a client-side JavaScript framework to create...
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...1 / 57 http://breakingintowallstreet.com/ http://www.mergersandinquisitions.com/ Feel free to copy this report and send it to all your friends. Actually, scratch that... Please copy this report and send it to all your friends. Forward it to as many people as possible. The more the merrier! Print it out, pass it around, and hand out copies to everyone you know. Just make sure you keep the names and logos on each page intact. http://breakingintowallstreet.com/ http://www.mergersandinquisitions.com/ 2 / 57 Table of Contents Why I Wrote This Guide and What You’re Going to Learn ......................................... 3 Does This Guide Apply to You? ................................................................................. 4 How to Become a Drug Dealer................................................................................... 5 Why Would a Bank, or Any Company, Want to Hire You? ......................................... 8 Action Plan, Step 1: Plan Your Strategy ................................................................... 10 Your Strategy: Action Steps ..................................................................................... 15 Action Plan, Step 2: Craft Your Story ....................................................................... 16 Your Story: Action Steps .......................................................................................... 22 Action Plan, Step 3: Network Like a Pro..........................................
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...ETHICS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Third Edition This page intentionally left blank ETHICS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Third Edition George W. Reynolds Australia • Brazil • Japan • Korea • Mexico • Singapore • Spain • United Kingdom • United States Ethics in Information Technology, Third Edition by George W. Reynolds VP/Editorial Director: Jack Calhoun Publisher: Joe Sabatino Senior Acquisitions Editor: Charles McCormick Jr. Senior Product Manager: Kate Hennessy Mason Development Editor: Mary Pat Shaffer Editorial Assistant: Nora Heink Marketing Manager: Bryant Chrzan Marketing Coordinator: Suellen Ruttkay Content Product Manager: Jennifer Feltri Senior Art Director: Stacy Jenkins Shirley Cover Designer: Itzhack Shelomi Cover Image: iStock Images Technology Project Manager: Chris Valentine Manufacturing Coordinator: Julio Esperas Copyeditor: Green Pen Quality Assurance Proofreader: Suzanne Huizenga Indexer: Alexandra Nickerson Composition: Pre-Press PMG © 2010 Course Technology, Cengage Learning ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this work covered by the copyright herein may be reproduced, transmitted, stored or used in any form or by any means graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including but not limited to photocopying, recording, scanning, digitizing, taping, Web distribution, information networks, or information storage and retrieval systems, except as permitted under Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without the prior written permission...
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...* Running Header: EAGLE MAIL IMPLEMENTATION PLAN IS 535 - Managerial Applications of Information Technology 4/10/2012 Contents Section I: Purpose of Plan Section II: Strategic Business Plan Rationale Disruptive Forces in USPS Market: Opportunity for Future Relevance: Raison d'être/ Justification for plan: Porter’s Model and EagleMail I. Rivalry among Competing Firms II. Potential Development of Substitutes III. Buyer Power IV. Bargaining Power of suppliers V. Threat Of New Entrants Rationale Summarized Section III: Current Systems Major Systems Supporting Business Functions and Processes List of Current USPS MIS Specific Examples of Innovation by Foreign Postal Services Section IV: New Developments System Projects Identity and access management Account Creation Figure 1: Overview of Account Creation Process Email infrastructure Figure 2: Illustration of Email Process in Company Environment Web portal Business Information Systems Business continuity and disaster recovery Section V: Management Strategy Senior Management: Middle Management: Security Validation: Sales and Marketing: Human Resources: Operational Management: Section VI: Budget Requirements Budgeting the New Implementations Table 1: Illustration of Costs for Implementation of Proof of Concept EagleMail Plan Cost benefits and models to evaluate the cost and assets. Is the project at risk? What are the benefits? References...
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...EXAMINING THE CRACKS IN THE CEILING: A Survey of Corporate Diversity Practices of the S&P 100 March 2013 Table of Contents FOREWORD ....................................................................................................... 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ................................................................................. 2 EXAMINING THE 10 KEY INDICATORS .................................................... 7 1. Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy ........................... 8 2. Internal Diversity Initiatives ...........................................................10 3. External Diversity Initiatives ..........................................................12 4. Scope of Diversity Initiatives...........................................................13 5. Family-Friendly Benefits....................................................................14 6. EEO-1 Disclosure ..................................................................................15 7. Highest-Paid Executives ...................................................................16 8. Board Representation .......................................................................18 9. Director Selection Criteria ...............................................................20 10. Corporate Commitment ................................................................21 DIVERSITY SCORES BY SECTOR ................................................................22 CONCLUSIONS AND NEXT STEPS...
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...KXO223: Systems Acquisition and Implementation Assignment 1, 2013 – Case Studies Tutorial-based group assessments Due: See ‘Due Dates for Case Study Submission’ section Marks: 30% of the total marks for the unit Background – Learning with Cases Harvard University, probably the most famous source of teaching cases, describes these resources as follows: “Teaching cases – also known as case studies – are narratives designed to serve as the basis for classroom discussion. Cases don’t offer their own analysis. Instead, they are meant to test the ability of students to apply the theory they’ve learned to a ‘real world’ situation … where good accounts of specific events can help exemplify and illuminate theory” (Harvard, 2000). The use of cases based on or around real organisations and/or current issues provides an entirely different approach to learning from that of lectures or more conventional tutorial exercises, where students solve specific problems in isolation from the world of business. Case preparation is a significant part of both undergraduate and postgraduate business study – particularly in the English-speaking world – and it is important to learn to do it effectively and efficiently. I have provided two introductory readings to help you with this process: “Learning Information Systems with Cases” (a pdf file available from your KXO223 MyLO resources) and “Notes on Writing a Case Study Report” (included in this document as Appendix A). Please begin by reading...
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...Oracle DBA Interview Questions and Answers Compiled By Mohamed Fowjil Abdul Hameed Contents Oracle DBA Interviews - Overview 2 Oracle DBA Interview Questions and Answers – ARCHITECTURE 4 SENIOR ORACLE DBA INTERVIEW QUESTIONS 31 MID LEVEL ORACLE DBA INTERVIEW QUESTIONS 57 Oracle 11g Database New Features Interview Questions and Answers 65 Oracle RAC Interview Questions and Answers 70 Oracle RAC Interview Questions (10g) Questions and Answers 137 Oracle Data Guard Interview Questions and Answers 168 Oracle ASM Interview Questions and Answers 205 Oracle Patching,Cloning and Upgrade Interview Questions and Answers 219 Oracle Backup and Recovery Interview Questions and Answers 228 Oracle RMAN Interview Questions and Answers 232 Oracle Performance Tuning Interview Questions and Answers 237 Oracle Performance Tuning Interview Questions and Answers 245 Oracle Export/Import (exp/imp)- Data Pump (expdp/imp) Interview Questions and Answers 249 UNIX Interview Questions and Answers for Oracle DBAs 254 Oracle DBA Interviews - Overview Dear Readers, Hereby, I am sharing my experience of interviews asd technical discussion with various MNC Dba’s, Project managers and Project delivery managers and Technical architects, as part of my interview preparation, I used to refer my own work note as well as web sources below details are a consolidate form of my interview preparation and Oracle dba interviews questions and answers General Guide line:...
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...Note from the Authors: “Creative Entrepreneurship” was born out of the desire, want and curiosity of kbs+’s staff to understand the crazy world of entrepreneurship. “Creative Entrepreneurship” curates the perspectives of leading entrepreneurs and venture capitalists as a guide for people interested in learning more. Each writer graciously contributed their work to create a curated resource for creative entrepreneurs. This book is the teaching and inspirational aid for our kbs+ Ventures Fellows – a highly select group of kbs+ staffers from all levels and areas of the agency – who go through a six-month educational program to immerse themselves in the startup and venture capital world. Share this entrepreneurial inspiration with friends using @kbspvc or #kbspvcbook. If you would like to share any inspiration, thoughts or feedback, please contact us at @kbspvc anytime – we look forward to hearing from you. Thank you for downloading our book! Darren Herman Taylor Davidson Creative Entrepreneurship Darren Herman Taylor Davidson a kbs+ partner We have received explicit permission from all authors of the works found in this book. Unless otherwise stated, we do not claim to have written or own any of this work. We are purely aggregating it into a simple book format for the education of anyone who picks up this book. The price of this book is free; if anyone tries to sell this book to you, please report them to us. Hopefully this book inspires you as much as it does...
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