...1. In my opinion, I believe that video and Web conferencing will reduce the need for business travel but will not completely eliminate it. Due to the convenient technology, businesses are able to easily reach their customers, suppliers, partners, and vendors through these conferencing products. It is especially helpful for employee training and sales presentations. However, it is not ideal for every situation in the business. According to the case in question, “Before setting up videoconferencing or telepresence, it is important for a company to make sure it really needs the technology to ensure that it will be a profitable venture…There are still plenty of times when face-to-face interaction is more desirable, and often traveling to meet a client is essential for cultivating clients and closing sales. ” In some cases, face-to-face interaction is the best way to resolve the problems or make mutual agreements with customers. 2. In regards to the case discussed, “ A videoconference allows individuals at two or more locations to communicate through two-way video and audio transmissions at the same time.” On the other hand, telepresence is a more advanced technology than videoconferencing. “ The top-of-the-line videoconferencing technology is known as telepresence. Telepresence strives to make users feel as if they are actually present in a location different from their own.” 3. There are many ways in which videoconferencing provides value to a business. Cost effectiveness...
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...1. In my opinion, I believe that video and Web conferencing will reduce the need for business travel but will not completely eliminate it. Due to the convenient technology, businesses are able to easily reach their customers, suppliers, partners, and vendors through these conferencing products. It is especially helpful for employee training and sales presentations. However, it is not ideal for every situation in the business. According to the case in question, “Before setting up videoconferencing or telepresence, it is important for a company to make sure it really needs the technology to ensure that it will be a profitable venture…There are still plenty of times when face-to-face interaction is more desirable, and often traveling to meet a client is essential for cultivating clients and closing sales. ” In some cases, face-to-face interaction is the best way to resolve the problems or make mutual agreements with customers. 2. In regards to the case discussed, “ A videoconference allows individuals at two or more locations to communicate through two-way video and audio transmissions at the same time.” On the other hand, telepresence is a more advanced technology than videoconferencing. “ The top-of-the-line videoconferencing technology is known as telepresence. Telepresence strives to make users feel as if they are actually present in a location different from their own.” 3. There are many ways in which videoconferencing provides value to a business. Cost effectiveness...
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...1. 2. What is the distinction between videoconferencing and telepresence? Ans-1: Videoconference is a technique of communication which allows individuals at two or more locations to communicate through two-way video and audio transmissions at the same time. The critical feature of videoconferencing is the digital compression of audio and video streams by a device called a codec. Those streams are then divided into packets and transmitted over a network or the internet. On the other hand, telepresence is the top-of-the-line videoconferencing technology. It strives to make users feel as if they are actually present in a location different from their own. Telepresence products provide the highest-quality videoconferencing available on the market to date. Only a handful of companies, such as Cisco, HP, and Polycom, supply these products. 3. What are the ways in which videoconferencing provides value to a business? Would you consider it smart management? Explain your answer. Ans-2: Yes, I would consider it smart management because in businesses where the company men need to interact and communicate constantly with people from various locations especially foreign, it is a very effective. It allows for 'better' meetings as well: it's easier to meet with partners, suppliers, subsidiaries, and colleagues from within the office or around the world on a more frequent basis, which in most cases simply cannot be reasonably accomplished through travel. They can also meet with...
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...Chapter 2 Global E-Business and Collaboration Interactive Session:Technology:Virtual Meetings:Smart Management Case Study Questions 1. One consulting firm has predicted that video and Web conferencing will make business travel extinct. Do you agree? Why or why not? Disagree. To some extent, video and web conferencing do reduce the business travel, but not completely. There are still plenty of times when face-to-face interaction is more desirable,and often traveling to meet a client is essential for cultivating clients and closing sales. When it is necessary to be present, there is no alternative. 2.What is the distinction between videoconferencing and telepresence? Videoconferencing is the conduct of a videoconference (also known as a video conference or video teleconference) by a set of telecommunication technologies which allow two or more locations to communicate by simultaneous two-way video and audio transmissions. Telepresence refers to a set of technologies which allows a person to feel as if they were present, to give the appearance of being present, or to have an effect, at a place other than their true location. It is the top-of-the-line videoconferencing technology. The distinction between them lies in technology. Telepresence picks up where videoconferencing leaves off. Telepresence is real time, full-high-definition, immersible sound and vision and more technologically advanced than videoconferencing and thus more costly than it. What are...
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...Telepresence vs. Videoconferencing Resolving the Cost/Benefit Conundrum Page 1 Copyright © 2006 Wainhouse Research, LLC Telepresence vs. Videoconferencing Resolving the Cost/Benefit Conundrum Data from multiple users of telepresence and videoconferencing systems leads us to believe that the actual cost per hour for these two types of systems may not be all that different. This paper describes our findings and how we came to these conclusions. January 28, 2008 Revision 9 Introduction More than a decade after the first telepresence solution was introduced to the public, telepresence hit the limelight towards the end of calendar year 2006. With high technology giants gaining the attention of C-level customers, many conferencing and collaboration managers are beginning to look at this new class of enterprise communications system more closely and to examine their assumptions and perceptions around the concept of telepresence. Differentiating Telepresence from Videoconferencing Many in the end user community are very familiar with videoconferencing, a solution set that has been around for over twenty years. Videoconferencing provides two-way, interactive audio and video communications between two or more end points. In the past decade, videoconferencing technology and products have advanced along multiple fronts – including the move to IP networks that provide higher bandwidth, lower costs, and vastly improved connection reliability; the evolution from low...
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...INTERACTIVE SESSION: MANAGEMENT VIRTUAL MEETINGS: SMART MANAGEMENT Instead oftaking that 6:30 A.M. plane to make a round of meetings in Dallas, wouldn't it be great if you could attend these events without leaving your desktop? 'Ioday you can, thanks to technologies for videoconferencing and for hosting online meetings over the Web. A June 2008 report issued by the Global e-Sustainability Initiative and the Climate Group estimated that up to 20 percent of business travel could be replaced by virtual meeting technology. A video conference allows individuals at two or more locations to communicate simultaneously through two-way video and audio transmissions. The critical feature of videoconferencing is the digital compression of audio and video streams by a device called a codec. Those streams are then divided into packets and transmitted over a network or the Internet. Until recently, the technology was plagued by poor audio and video performance, and its cost was prohibitively high for all but the largest and most powerful corporations. Most companies deemed videoconferencing a poor substitute for face-to-face meetings. However, vast improvements in videoconferenc ing and associated technologies have renewed inter est in this way of working. Videoconferencing is now growing at an annual rate of 30 percent. Proponents of the technology claim that it does more than sim ply reduce costs. It allows for "better" meetings as well: it's easier to meet with partners, suppliers, sub...
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...MIS 12th Edition Video Matrix ONLINE EDITION Student Instructions: 1. Go to www.azimuth-interactive.com/MIS12. 2. Enter your school .edu email address. You must have a .edu mail account. 3. Press Submit. 4. Check your email for an activation link. 5. Click on the activation link. 6. Click on the video you want to view. Chapter Videos |Part One: Organizations, | | |Management and the Networked | | |Enterprise | | |Chapter 1: Information Systems in|(1) UPS Global Operations with the DIAD IV | |Global Business Today | | | |How IT drives the UPS operation worldwide. Using smart people and smart technology, UPS delivers over 14 million | | |packages daily to 200 countries and territories, requiring the talents of 70,000 drivers who are wirelessly connected| | |to UPS main databases located...
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...ii Cisco TelePresence Fundamentals Cisco TelePresence Fundamentals Tim Szigeti, Kevin McMenamy, Roland Saville, Alan Glowacki Copyright©2009 Cisco Systems, Inc. Published by: Cisco Press 800 East 96th Street Indianapolis, IN 46240 USA All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review. Printed in the United States of America First Printing May 2009 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cisco TelePresence fundamentals / Tim Szigeti ... [et al.]. p. cm. ISBN-13: 978-1-58705-593-5 (pbk.) ISBN-10: 1-58705-593-7 (pbk.) 1. Multimedia communications. 2. Computer conferencing. I. Szigeti, Tim. II. Title. [DNLM: 1. Cisco Systems, Inc. ] TK5105.15.C57 2009 006.7--dc22 2009013062 ISBN-13: 978-1-58705-593-5 ISBN-10: 1-58705-593-7 Warning and Disclaimer This book is designed to provide information about Cisco TelePresence. Every effort has been made to make this book as complete and as accurate as possible, but no warranty or fitness is implied. The information is provided on an “as is” basis. The authors, Cisco Press, and Cisco Systems, Inc. shall have neither liability nor responsibility to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damages arising from the information contained in this book or...
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...Ethical Strategy Review of Cisco Systems ethical strategy, what they say, what they do, and how it impacts their stakeholders. 2010 Contents Introduction 3 Background Information 3 Cisco’s Ethical Strategy 6 Stated Ethical Strategy 6 Stakeholder Analysis 9 Employees 9 Customers 13 Government 15 Suppliers 17 Shareholders 18 Communities 20 Institutionalization of Ethics 21 Explicit Components 21 Implicit Components 22 Corporate Environmental Management 23 Environmental Policy 23 Environmental Management Systems (EMS) 24 Crisis Management Policy 25 Overall Evaluations and Conclusions 26 Recommendations 27 Works Cited 29 Appendix 32 Appendix A - Cisco Code of Business Conduct 33 Appendix B - Cisco Ethics Decision Tree 34 Appendix C – Cisco Systems Inc. Board of Directors 35 Appendix D – Cisco CSR Awards and Recognition 36 Appendix E – Cisco’s Supplier Code of Conduct 39 Appendix F – Cisco’s Supplier Ethics Policy 40 Introduction The purpose of this paper is to see how a Cisco integrates their ethical and socially responsible practices into their business. The paper will look at the company background, and history. It will then analyze the ethical strategy of the company by reviewing the stated ethical strategy, statements and documents that support that strategy and how the strategy impacts the major stakeholders of the company. An examination of how Cisco institutionalizes their ethics strategy into the company...
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...and spread over 600,000 sq.ft. Table Bharti Airtel Annual Report 2010 of contents 1 Corporate information 2 Corporate history and Top 30 shareholders 3 Performance at a glance 4 Awards & honours 5 Chairman’s message 6 Board of directors 7 CEO (International) & JMD’s message 8 CEO (India & South Asia)‘s message 9 Together good things happen 10 Corporate social responsibility 11 Directors’ report 12 Management discussion & analysis 13 Report on corporate governance 14 Secretarial audit report 15 Standalone financial statements with Auditors’ report 16 Consolidated financial statements with Auditors’ report 17 Notice of annual general meeting 2 3 4 5 6 8 12 14 18 24 32 40 46 63 64 115 159 1 Corporate Board of directors Sunil Bharti Mittal Chairman and Managing Director information Group General Counsel & Company Secretary Vijaya Sampath Statutory Auditors Manoj Kohli CEO (International) & Joint Managing Director Non-executive directors Ajay Lal Akhil Gupta Arun Bharat Ram Chua Sock Koong Craig Edward Ehrlich Lim Chuan Poh N. Kumar Nikesh Arora Pulak Chandan Prasad Rajan Bharti Mittal Rakesh Bharti Mittal Tan Yong Choo CEO (India & South Asia) Sanjay Kapoor S.R. Batliboi & Associates, Chartered Accountants Auditors – US GAAP Ernst & Young Internal Auditors PricewaterhouseCoopers Private Limited Registered & Corporate Office Bharti Airtel Limited, Bharti Cresent, 1, Nelson Mandela Road, Vasant Kunj, Phase – II, New Delhi – 110 070, India Website http://www...
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...Advanced Network Technology June 1993 OTA-BP-TCT-101 NTIS order #PB93-203735 Recommended Citation: U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Advanced Network Technology--Background Paper, OTA-BP-TCT-1O1 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government printing Office, June 1993). For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office Supcl IIIILWIICIII (If [k)c ulllLlll\. \lAll stop $s01’, \$ Allllg((u. [)(’ 2(141? () ~?x ISBN 0-16 -041805-4 -— . . Foreword omputer networks are having dramatic impacts on our lives. What were once esoteric tools used only by scientists and engineers are becoming more widely used in schools, libraries, and businesses. At the same time, researchers are working to develop even more capable networks that promise to change fundamentally the way we communicate. This background paper analyzes technologies for tomorrow’s information superhighways. Advanced networks will first be used to support scientists in their work, linking researchers to supercomputers, databases, and scientific instruments. As the new networks are deployed more widely, they will be used by a broader range of users for business, entertainment, health care, and education applications. The background paper also describes six test networks that are being funded as part of the High Performance Computing and Communications Program. These test networks are a collaboration of government, industry, and academia, and allow researchers to try new approaches to network design and to attack a variety...
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...Changing International Structures, Adaptive Strategies, and the Impact on Institutions This page intentionally left blank GLOBALIZATION OF MANAGEMENT EDUCATION: Changing International Structures, Adaptive Strategies, and the Impact on Institutions Report of the AACSB International Globalization of Management Education Task Force AACSB International – The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business 777 South Harbour Island Boulevard Suite 750 Tampa, Florida 33602-5730 USA Tel: + 1-813-769-6500 Fax: + 1-813-769-6559 www.aacsb.edu United Kingdom North America Japan India Malaysia China Emerald Group Publishing Limited Howard House, Wagon Lane, Bingley BD16 1WA, UK First edition 2011 Copyright r 2011 AACSB International. Reprints and permission service Contact: booksandseries@emeraldinsight.com No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without either the prior written permission of the copyright holder or a license permitting restricted copying issued in the UK by The Copyright Licensing Agency and in the USA by The Copyright Clearance Center. No responsibility is accepted for the accuracy of information contained in the text, illustrations or advertisements. The opinions expressed in these chapters are not necessarily those of the Editor or the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this...
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...Composition Copyright 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, website www.copyright.com. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774, (201) 748-6011, fax (201) 748-6008, website www.wiley.com/go/permissions. To order books or for customer service please, call 1-800-CALL WILEY (225-5945). ISBN 978-0-470-34381-4 Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Preface Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.1 Bill Gates Microsoft I’m not hiring MBA students for the technology you learn while in school, but for your ability to learn...
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...Composition Copyright 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, website www.copyright.com. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774, (201) 748-6011, fax (201) 748-6008, website www.wiley.com/go/permissions. To order books or for customer service please, call 1-800-CALL WILEY (225-5945). ISBN 978-0-470-34381-4 Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Preface Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.1 Bill Gates Microsoft I’m not hiring MBA students for the technology you learn while in school, but for your ability to learn...
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...Copyright 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, website www.copyright.com. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774, (201) 748-6011, fax (201) 748-6008, website www.wiley.com/go/permissions. To order books or for customer service please, call 1-800-CALL WILEY (225-5945). ISBN 978-0-470-34381-4 Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Preface Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.1 Bill Gates Microsoft I’m not hiring MBA students for the technology you learn while in...
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