...Firm Research BUS 505 – Business Strategies and Proposals Strayer University October 27, 2012 Abstract This research assignment evaluates a private firm that provides services to the Federal government through acquisition. This assignment will evaluate the actions required to participate in the federal procurement process, as well as key roles in ensuring the procurement process is successful. Describe the firm (who they are and what they do) and the amount of business they do with the federal government. Since 1973, Management Concepts has successfully worked with every major agency in the federal government, dozens of state and local government offices, numerous associations and non-profit organizations, and hundreds of large and mid-sized corporations throughout the country. Management Concepts is a custom learning and development firm that employs subject matter experts in an array of business related fields. These subject matter experts provide specialized and first-hand knowledge in a number of courses and trainings offered to professional learners at the convenience of their office or a MC training center. Courses offered range from Acquisition & Contracting, Leadership, Management & Professional Skills, Learning Program Services and Project Management to name a few. (Management Concepts, 2012) Another offering Management Concepts provides is ten certificate programs. Certificate...
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...BA IN BUSINESS ECONOMICS & IT(Information Technology) …3½YEARS PROFESSIONAL BACHELOR Eager for a career in Business & Information Technology? The unique combination of Business Economics & Information Technology will provide you with the ability to analyze, design and execute projects within the area of IT and business process development. Whether you dream of a career in a global company or starting up your own business, Business Economics and Information Technology will give you a solid base of innovative thinking on which to build your future. Contents The education is a BA of 3 ½ years. During the seven semesters, you will work with business economics, IT systems development, IT project management, socioeconomics, methodology and internship. Download complete curriculum - or the Danish version Studieordning. Business Economics 45 ECTS Business Economics is about understanding the companies and organizations that use IT to manage their business processes. You learn from both an operational and strategic perspective to identify, analyze and design IT-supported business processes. Subjects: * Business Economics including disciplines like organizational theory, accounting and marketing * Business Strategy including concepts like Enterprise Resource Management, Supply Chain Management and Business Process Management * Project Management * Strategic Planning of Information Systems Information Technology 50 ECTS An understanding of IT and...
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...RMIT School of Business Information Technology ISYS1015 ASSIGNMENT SUBMISSION SHEET Family Name: Shen Student Number : 3354450 Personal Name(s) : Helin Contact Telephone Number 0420860306 Assignment Title Student Journal Course Coordinator Barry McIntyre Date Due Date Submitted 1 SEP 2014 This statement should be completed and signed by the student(s) participating in preparation of the assignment. A. Declaration and Statement of Authorship: 1. I/we hold a copy of this assignment, which can be produced if the original is lost/ damaged. 2. This assignment is my/our original work and no part of it has been copied from any other student’s work or from any other source except where due acknowledgement is made. 3. No part of this assignment has been written for me/us by any other person except where such collaboration has been authorised by the lecturer/teacher concerned and is clearly acknowledged in the assignment. 4. I/we have not previously submitted or currently submitting this work for any other course/unit. 5. This work may be reproduced, communicated, compared and archived for the purpose of detecting plagiarism. 6. I/we give permission for a copy of my/our marked work to be retained by the School for review and comparison, including review by external examiners. I/we understand that 7. Plagiarism is the presentation of the work, idea or creation of another person as though it is your own. It is a form of cheating and is a very serious academic offence that may lead...
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...Cash management is a need common to both large and small businesses alike. In its simplest terms, cash management is the assurance that today's receivables plus today's account balances exceed today's payables. Failure to practice this business management process guarantees bankruptcy. Every large organization has a cash management group, sometimes called the treasury. This group's function includes management of such items as investments and borrowing in addition to the organization's daily cash flow. In small to medium businesses (SMBs), usually the chief financial officer (CFO), president, or owner performs the task of cash management. Regardless of a company's size, the important thing is that cash management is practiced on a regular basis—at least weekly—and with sufficient attention to details. In difficult times, when liquidity is "tight" (at a minimum), it should be performed daily. Crucial to organizations' successful cash management are the deals they make with their financial institutions for short-term placements and for borrowing funds. Unlike in other countries, in the United States, a bank account that is credited with deposits does not begin to earn deposit interest until three business days have passed. Furthermore, an American business account specifically may not be overdrawn, which necessitates cash management to be the most important activity of a business's financial management. For all companies—and in particular, public traded companies—major...
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...Term Project Course: GM 591 Instructor: Dr. Charles W. Creamer Student: Evan T. Dickinson Submitted: December 11, 2010 INTRODUCTION STSCM Systems LLC, a public company with headquarters located in northern New Jersey, has been a leader in providing wireless data solutions since its formation in 1998. The company's primary focus is on delivering advanced wireless monitoring and control solutions for many industries with emphasis on refrigerated transport, railroad, and specialty freight. The company's current solutions are improving the efficiency and operations of refrigerated trailers, trucks, containers, railcars, general-purpose railcars, bulk-transport trailers, barges, generators, compressors, and oil-field equipment. STSCM's operations center, also located in northern New Jersey, manages wireless equipment deployed worldwide including North America, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. STSCM has become a successful leader in its marketplace by having developed the capability to define and specify solutions optimized for customers’ applications. The company provides vertically integrated technical resources including project management, engineering development, software, firmware, and hardware engineering and applications delivery using a highly qualified, experienced technical team. STSCM's solutions are flexible and adaptable for use by customers with information delivery accomplished using a variety of methods including internet, advanced...
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...Business Process and Strategy NAME: Professor: Institution: Course: Date: Introduction Xactly is a software company offering science oriented solutions on incentive compensation programs and performance management. The company develops software that enables other companies survive in this fast changing technological environment by enabling them shift from the old complex paradigm of using sales compensation incentives based on spreadsheets to cloud based sales compensation incentive programs. This helps them manage, design, and optimize sales compensation incentives hence saving on costs, time, reducing risk, and aligning workers behaviors with company goals. Magal and Word (2009) argued that, “business processes are the tasks of activities that companies use to produce goods or services, and these activities are supported by Information and Communication Technology (ICT), such as computers, the internet and information systems." Therefore, it is imperative that the company’s business processes are aligned to its business strategies. Xactly’s business strategy of mass customization lieu industrial standardization calls for targeted focus and stringent campaign co-ordination, which are essential for promoting an enabling environment for continuous growth and improvement. Xactly also recognizes that constant communication is imperative for building profitable relationships. Therefore, the company adopted a proactive social strategy as another business...
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...CIS 500 Weeks 6, 7, 8,9,11 Discussion Questions Week 6 * Mobile banking features have added several advantages for customers however; there are security risks that come with them. Determine the security risks with respect to phishing, smishing, vishing, cloning, and a lost or stolen smartphone that have been experienced by the financial services industry as a result of mobile banking. Phishig – Is when malware is downloaded on to a device and it attempts to obtain personal information. It lies in wait and gathers information from apps such as a mobile banking app to gain your login and password. If you bank does not have proper security in place this can lead to your account getting hacked and loss of money. Smishing- This is where fraudulent communication occurs in the form of a text message in order to obtain personal information. Vishing – This is similar to smishing instead of getting information through text it is obtained through phone calls or voicemails. Cloning- The transfer of information from one device to another device including the electronic serial number When a smartphone is lost or stolen this can lead to a compromise to a person’s personal information since it may be on the phone. I bank with Bank of America and use the mobile app to manage my account transfer funds, pay bills, deposit checks and so on. The app does not store the password but it does store the user login. You are unable to just log in to it from a new device or location without verify...
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...Business Process Modeling e-Framework Workshop Balbir Barn 12th February 2007 Agenda • • • • • Why we construct Business Process Models A historical context Approaches to business process modelling Business Process Modelling Notation Tools and standards summary 2 What is a Business Process? • Davenport & Short (1990) define business process as – "a set of logically related tasks performed to achieve a defined business outcome." A process is "a structured, measured set of activities designed to produce a specified output for a particular customer or market. • Business processes as transformations of inputs to outputs input output • Other models available: – Language-Action-Perspective (LAP) (Winograd and Flores 1986) • Production, coordination tasks using language for communication 3 Purposes of Business Process Modeling: Organization Design • • • • • • Process Documentation Process Reorganization Process Monitoring and Controlling Continuous Improvement Quality Management: ISO 9000 Benchmarking: Compare with best practice • Knowledge Management: 4 Purposes of Business Process Modeling: Information Systems Design • • • • • Selection of ERP software Model based Customizing Software Development Workflow Management Simulation 5 What to model of a business process • Tasks • Coordination between tasks – synchronization – decisions – parallel work – repetition –… • • • • Organizational responsibilities Required resources and constraints...
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...Automating your manual (and paper-centric) processes will revolutionize your business—making it faster, flexible, and more responsive Edited and written by Betsy Fanning and Bryant Duhon Introduction Let’s get this straight from the beginning; using less paper isn’t just about “going green” or saving the rain forest. Using less paper in your business processes will revolutionize your business—making it faster, flexible, and more responsive to the needs of your customers. At least since the Sumerians wrote down transactions on baked clay tablets, documents have been the foundation of business. And while we no longer need to lug around those heavy clay documents (and watch out for water); if you’re using paper to manage your business then you aren’t any more efficient—or faster—than a civilization that existed 4,000 years ago. It doesn’t have to be this way. The technology is available. More importantly, the technology works. We have been scanning documents and moving them around business electronically for over 25 years; and that’s a good start. But, to match the pace of business today; content must be mobilized and harnessed for business use as soon as possible. Advances in scanning speeds, declining prices, and imaging and recognition software have combined to dramatically improve the concept of the digital mailroom—converting those inbound paper documents to digital format to directly feed business process; accounts payable for instance. As effective at the digital mailroom...
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...I am an engineer by profession, but an artist by passion. I like to think differently, innovate artistically, beautify processes and improve people’s lives. Show business has always fascinated me, for this very reason, I have been working with a Mumbai based theatre group called “Banjara” as their financial advisor. My primary responsibilities at Banjara included gathering & distributing funds. I have also worked with directors, producers and designers to convey cohesive vision of Banjara’s productions. During my tenure at Banjara, I gained both valuable insight and had hands on experience with the workings of the entertainment industry. I gained sufficient practical experience in stage management, marketing and publicity for theatres, venue design and planning, financing, preproduction and facility management. Simultaneously, I have been working for Polaris Financial Technology Limited as a consultant since July, 2011. My job responsibilities at Polaris included optimizing “Business Process Management” product for Barclays and Llyods Banking Group. Altogether this has been a resourceful experience for me since I multitasked and learned various techniques and technologies used in business process optimization. The Ph.D. Program at MIT Sloan would provide the kind of exposure needed to broaden my thinking and undo my insular prejudices that might be still prevalent in me. In an institution of such confluence of people from every culture, nationality, religion and ideology...
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...Once the first Business Process Management (BPM) project is completed, opportunities begin to emerge from all corners of the organization. Executives and Line of Business (LOB) Managers soon appreciate the potential for BPM technology to help them radically improve business performance as they drive the organization to achieve its Key Business Objectives (KBOs). Moreover, the cost equation is attractive - development and maintenance of a typical BPM enabled application is between one and two thirds of a custom development.. With continuous process improvement (CPI) as the core discipline of BPM, the models that drive work through the firm evolve constantly. Indeed, recent studies suggest that firms fine-tune their BPM-based applications at least once a quarter (and sometimes as often as 8 times per year). The point is that there is no such thing as a "finished" process; it takes multiple iterations to produce highly effective solutions - even if business conditions do not change. Every working BPM-based process is just a starting point for the future.. This Document is based on a thematic extraction of the content of the source document. It is meant to be consumed by search engines … please go to http://www.bpmfocus.org/membership/document.aspx to download the source document Entire document is © BPM Focus, 2007. All Rights Reserved. Why is this important? CPI matters because it creates superior performance. But it also presents a scale problem for most organizations. Right...
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...Business Process Management: Past, Present, Future Wil M.P. van der Aalst Information technology has changed business processes within and between enterprises. More and more work processes are being conducted under the supervision of information systems that are driven by process models. Examples are workflow management systems such as Staffware, enterprise resource planning systems such as SAP and Baan, but also include many domain specific systems. It is hard to imagine enterprise information systems that are unaware of the processes taking place. Although the topic of business process management using information technology has been addressed by consultants and software developers in depth, a more fundamental approach has been missing. Only since the nineties, researchers started to work on the foundations of business process management systems. As a result, many questions still wait to be answered. Moreover, new developments like Web Services pose new ones. Trends To put workflow management in the proper context, it is interesting to consider ongoing trends. In the sixties information systems were built on top of a small operating system with limited functionality. Since no generic nor domain specific software was available, these systems mainly consisted of tailor-made applications. Since then each year new types of product software are absorbing new functionality. Today's operating systems offer much more functionality than in the sixties. Database management...
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...------------------------------------------------- Business Process Management BPM Prepared for: Professor Palmer Prepared by: Vardly E. St.Preux Date: 02 December 2012 ------------------------------------------------- Course: SBE-430 E-Commerce for Small Business Table of Contents The Evolution of Business Process Since The 1990s 3 Benefits of BPM 3 The Evolution of Business Process Since The 1990s After reading this article, there isn’t any direct suggestion of the evolution business processes from the 1990's. However, it can be said that the article suggests that business thinking and practice has changed tremendously over the last decade or so. Many businesses are using more technological software to improve their business practice. The methods of the past are not as successful in today’s e-business dominated world. Almost every organization is now based on technology. A business therefore needs the appropriate software to make them competitive in today's market, or face extinction. BPM allows companies to be more agile and more efficient. Efficiency is key to keeping customers happy. Furthermore, government regulations are constantly changing. In many organizations this constant change is difficult to grasp and incorporate without the appropriate technology in order to make a business efficient. Benefits of BPM The article addresses many benefits for BPM; some of the benefits are: * BPM helps organizations streamline their processes into...
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...Ana Carolina Rossini Business Software HFT Stuttgart – 2013 2013 Argentinean Business Software Market Ana Carolina Rossini HFT Stuttgart 28/02/2013 1 Ana Carolina Rossini Business Software HFT Stuttgart – 2013 Contents Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 2 Enterprise Resource Planning.......................................................................................... 2 Argentinean Business Software Market .......................................................................... 3 The Argentinean business software market is a growing market. ............................... 4 Business Software suppliers present in the market .......................................................... 5 HR Crisis in the Argentinean Business Software sector ......................................... 5 List of Argentinean Business Software developers: ................................................. 6 Conclusion ........................................................................................................................ 7 References ......................................................................................................................... 7 Introduction Business software is one of the fastest growing economic activities in Argentina so far this decade, especially after the devaluation of their Argentinean peso in 2002. Thanks to the economic recovery and export...
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...Raymond Braselman Cisco Systems Case 1. Cisco’s management was very reluctant to significantly alter the structure of their IT system, even though the system was consistently failing. There were a few reasons for this reluctance. First, Pete Solvik, the CIO of Cisco at the time, was hesitant to even consider an ERP system in the first place, because he believed that each functional silo of Cisco should decide which applications it utilized (while also using common architecture and databases to accommodate the disparate systems, which complicated matters). Then, this attitude became pervasive among other managers, because most were concerned that implementing a large scale ERP system would disrupt business operations too drastically for such an implementation to be practical. 2. Once Cisco’s managers realized that their IT system needed a major overhaul, they became very focused and dedicated. One of the first aspects that led to the implementation’s success was convincing the Board of Directors of the need for an ERP system and to commit to the project, setting a “tone at the top” that established the project as a company-wide priority. This led to Cisco being able to develop an implementation team comprised of experts. From the beginning, Cisco leveraged the experience of others, and eventually prompted KPMG to become involved, not only during the actual implementation, but also throughout the drafting of the RFP and the consideration of different vendors...
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