...Core components of strategy implementation: * Strategic decision-making * Organizational evolution and change * Management by Objectives * The role of teams and leaders * Knowledge assets Lecture 1 The Eclectic Roots of Strategy implementation Research Views on strategy implementation: Structural view: * Organizational Structure * Control mechanisms (assessing performance during and after the implementation of the strategy – Role of formal control systems in strategy implementation Interpersonal Process View * Strategic Consensus –external consensus also imp ---TATA NANO * Autonomous Strategic Behaviours * Diffusionary Processes * Effects of leadership and Implementation Styles * Communication and other Interaction processes The secrets to successful strategy execution: * Study – Important strategic and operational decisions aren’t quickly translated into action * Execution is the result of thousands of decisions made every day by employees acting according to the information they have and their own self-interest * 4 fundamental building blocks executives can use to influence those actions (17 traits fit into each of these blocks) * Clarifying decision rights - Everyone has a good idea of the decisions and actions for which he or she is responsible * Designing information flows (Important information about the competitive environment gets to headquarters quickly. The way to ensure that...
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...policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read the policies governing your current class modality. Course Materials Fitzgerald, J. & Dennis, A. (2009). Business data communications & networking (10th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. Iniewski, K., McCrosky, C., & Minoli, D. (2008). Network infrastructure and architecture: Designing high-availability networks. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Interscience. Turban, E. & Volonino, L. (2009). Information technology for management: Improving performance in the digital economy (7th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. Supplemental Resources Element K. (2010). Fundamentals of Data Communication: Level 1. Element K. (2010). Fundamentals of Data Communication: Level 2. Element K. (2010). Network Security Fundamentals. Article References Aird, C. L. & Sappenfield, D. (2009, June). IT the 'enabler' of global outsourcing. Financial Executive, 25(5), 62. Chtioui, T. (2009,...
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...CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Facebook is known to be the most famous social networking sites in the world. It was created by Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin on Febuary 2004. Facebook was originally created for Harvard students only, for them to keep in touch when they were away from the campus, but the site has been now expanded worldwide and has about billion active users and majority of these are college students. With the rapid changes to our generation, youth is now more demanding in acquiring technologies that will suit to their needs, especially in their studies. Certainly, the access in Internet or in the World Wide Web is easy and there are many benefits can be gained. The use of this accessibility is applied mostly on the professionals such as medical practitioners, business tycoons, and even government officials. The purpose of their usage the Internet is different in terms of their needs and various marketers also applied their expertise on it. Apparently, the growing numbers of users are members of different social networking sites and most of them are students. Social networking such as Facebook, one of the largest social networking sites and many others has been plagued the websites of the Internet accessibility. Many individuals, mostly students and their friends are engaged in social networking. Social networks are made to entertain and to interact with the other people even if they are far away. Due to the nonstop change in cultural and social aspect and...
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...Page 1 of 16 Peer Reviewed Article Vol.11(1) March 2009 Effect of online social networking on employee productivity A. Ferreira * Centre for Information and Knowledge Management University of Johannesburg Johannesburg , South Africa aferreira@uj.ac.za T. du Plessis Department of Information and Knowledge Management University of Johannesburg Johannesburg , South Africa tduplessis@uj.ac.za The popularity of social networking sites is relatively recent and the effect of online social networking (OSN) on employee productivity has not received much scholarly attention. The reason most likely lies in the social nature of social networking sites and OSN, which is assumed to have a negative effect on employee productivity and not bear organisational benefit. This reseach investigated recent Internet developments as seen in the social Web and specifically investigated the effect of OSN on employee productivity and what some of the consequences would be if employees were allowed unrestricted access to these networks. The findings concerning the nature of employees' OSN activities, employees' attitude or perceptions with regard to OSN in the workplace and how OSN can contribute or affect the productivity of employees are discussed in this article. Some of the basic misconceptions regarding OSN are highlighted and it is concluded that this technology can be used to increase collaboration between individuals who share a common interest or goal. Increased collaboration will stimulate...
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...Social networking has become a major part of society. Many people wake up each day and check social media websites specifically throughout Twitter and Facebook first thing in the morning instead of reaching for a newspaper. Since people are spending such a large amount of time surfing social networks, it is important to point out some of the positive and negative effects that social networking can have on a society. The positive effects of social networking sites are allow people to create new relationships and reconnect with friends and family. Increased communication, even online, strengthens relationships. And the other is social networking sites make people share everything that they want and bring people with common interests together, offer exposure to new ideas from around the world, and lower inhibitions to overcome social anxiety. Social networking could be your business media promotion for examples a marketers at small companies can post on Twitter, in addition to generating revenue this way, companies also can get positive and negative feedback directly from consumers. While social networking sites have a positive effects, they also have negative effects for society. Social networking sites entice people to spend more time online and less time interacting face to face. The sites offer many time wasting activities that supplant more productive activities. Also social networking sites make cyberbullying, a type of bullying that occurs online, easier and more...
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...is the most popular social networking site today wherein people may share and upload videos, pictures, messages and chat. Twitter is also famous to every people nowadays wherein people can share their feelings, thoughts and ideas. Through twitter, they can easily be connected to their favorite celebrities and they can also be updated on what is trend all around the world. Aside from these two, Tumbler, MySpace, and Bing also became a raging craze to everyone. Social networking communities will definitely stay due to its millions of users. In addition, students today stay on these accessibilities of information they may get in social networks. Social network may help them in giving knowledge in thesis and journals but still negative effects of this still overweighs especially about losing their self-control. Social networks bring a big benefit about communication because through this we can easily communicate our loved ones despite of the geographic distance. Social network may also help celebrities to be more contact to their fans because through these sites they can easily post what are the recent happenings about them. Through social networks we can be updated in every happening not just in celebrities but also the recent updates to our country and also in the whole world. Social networking sites can be a good...
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...Research Report Impact of Social Media on the Workplace By Abdul Asif 300817244 Rajdeep Kaur 300816572 Divyeshkumar Patel 300823773 Surya Chandu Sanaka 300831648 Sai Sravani Velaga 300829096 Submitted to: Prof. Phillip Alalibo GNED 219-071 Winter 2015 1. Introduction of Topic and Clarification of Research Statement “Our research topic is - The Impact of Social Media on the workplace and our research statement states that Social Media have a significant and positive impact on the workplace.” Social media is turning into an inevitable part of our society. It serves as medium to globally link people together, regardless of their physical location. Generally, people are using social media for various reasons, such as to share information, to get in touch with their loved ones, and to look for business colleagues...
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...CHAPTER 2 REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES This study aims to know on how Social Networking Media “FACEBOOK” effects the study habit of the college students nowadays. According to the article “The Effects of excessive use of facebook to the Study Habits of BC25 students of Suniversity”, it say’s that students can easily communicate with one another.Communicating to other people can be easy by using facebook eventhough a person is miles a way from you, and through this they gain new friends.But still facebook had its bad effect on the part of the students, Facebook has become the biggest distraction for students when trying to get homework done. Students using facebook most of the time would end up getting lower grades. Paul Kirschner, author and professor at the Center for Learning Sciences and Technologies at the Open University of The Netherlands, say’s that "The problem is that most people have Facebook or other social networking sites, their e-mails and maybe instant messaging constantly running in the background while they are carrying out other tasks, the students who used Facebook had grade point averages of 3.06, which doesn't seem too bad when the scale goes from 0.0 to 4.0.However, those who turned off the social media network when it came time to hit the books had a typical GPA of 3.82. In addition, non-users also said they studied more often...
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...Does social networking displace study habits and media use of college students? by DEVCOMPAGE on APRIL 29, 2011 · 11 COMMENTS by Erlan D. Pasana BS Development Communication 2011 Thesis Visayas State University Students and social media. Photo credit: Febelle Dareen Rojas (VSU) As one of the media of communication, social networking plays an important role in people’s lives. Its usage may vary from one person to another depending on the benefits that this medium can provide for them. For students specifically, social networking serves as their channel to express their thoughts and feelings about a certain issue. It helps them in building up stronger relationships with their loved ones especially those who are living far away from them. It makes them more vigilant about the happenings in different places by getting news from their friends on the Internet. Most importantly, while it entertains them, it also helps them in doing research (Hargittai, 2007). Yet some university administrations perceive students’ social networking activities as detrimental to students’ academics and have blocked sites such as Facebook during office hours. But does social networking take away the time that students ought to spend on their study time and media use? This study aimed to find out Visayas State University (VSU) college students’ uses and motivations for social networking use and their effect on study habits and media use. Using a survey, time diary and a focus group discussion, this...
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...CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING Introduction Social Networking sites, one of the most commonly used and popular to teenagers, specifically students. The Social Networking is helpful through being the fastest way of communicating to others. Thus you can connect toy your friends and relatives and keep updating with them. SNSs are inexpensive medium socializing; you can connect and reunite with your old friends and keep in touch. You can also ease of setting up events such as creating a group of invites. It also gives us information and knowledge accordingly. With the latter-day technological wonders; are barrages of factors which can keep student attention from their studies? SNSs could also be a tool of invading ones privacy; likewise, SNSs are open to everyone. SNSs are also medium for people who are bully; cyber bullying is one most commonly problems in SNSs which a great factor of making one’s life miserable. Also, SNSs can cause lack of personal communication; there is a concern over people becoming so reliant upon the convenience of social networking sites that they aren’t actually using “real life” verbal skills and losing them out on social intimacy with other people. Also, SNSs not only give knowledge and information but also some of them five hoax and makes troll of information. Nowadays, teenagers put more time on SNSs and this would be high risk in their academic performance. Nevertheless, students must give proper education on how these problems...
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...Effects of Social Networking Sites to the Study of CLSU 3rd year HRM students As a Partial Fulfillment of the requirements of the subject Methods of Research Submitted to: Submitted by: Lysel Cris C. Agram Mara Katrina C. Cusi December 2011 I Introduction Social networking websites are currently being used regularly my millions of people. The use of social networking sites has been widespread that they have not only caught the attention of academic and industry researchers worldwide but also us, in particular. Social networking sites are now being investigated by numerous social science researchers and an increasing number of academic commentators are becoming more and more interested in studying Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking services, because of their probable impact on society. While the social networking sites have the same key aspects, the cultures and responses around them that become apparent are varied. Most sites help strangers connect with others based on shared personal interests, political and economic views, or simply recreational activities. Some sites accommodate distinct viewers, while others attract people based on similarities, such as common languages or shared racial, sexual, religious or nationality-based identities. Nonetheless, social networking sites have only one common goal. It is to encourage new ways to communicate and share information. Many students have been blaming various social networking sites for their steady...
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...CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT AND EBUSINESS John Muiga Wanjiku School of Human Resource Development, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya Email: mjwanjiku@gmail.com, Abstract — These paper looks into customer relationship management which is a company-wide business strategy designed to reduce costs and increase profitability by solidifying customer loyalty and explores it in context to e- business. It goes ahead to relate social networking revolution and its implication to business both positively and negatively and its impact on electronic Customer Relationship Management. Index Terms - Customer Relationship Management, Electronic-business, Electronic Customer Relationship Management INTRODUCTION The effective management of the customer has become the dominant objective for firms seeking to sustain leadership in their markets and industries. With their expectations set by world class companies and interactive technologies, today’s customers are demanding to be treated as unique individuals and requiring their supply chains to consistently provide high-quality, configurable combinations of products, services, and information that are capable of evolving as their needs change. Companies know that unless they can structure agile infrastructures and supply chains that can guarantee personalization, quick-response delivery, and the ability to provide unique sources of marketplace value their customers will quickly...
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...he term is describe new way in which software developers and end-users started to utilize the World Wide Weparticipatory and collaborative fashion.” The traditional online services were affected by the burst of the dot.com bubble in the early 2000’sthe enhancement of the newer Web 2.0 services saw a new era in computer mediated communication. The move from the traditional social software’s of email, IM etc was primarily due to the development and use of software such as RSS, to enhance speed at which information is exchanged increased the demand for tools to exchange information. The growth and the increasing use of wikis, blogs, tagging etc has developed the way business communicates on a daily basis. This all brings new challenges to management and challenges their ability to adapt to the new...
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...Executive Summary Widget Production ISCOM / 305 University of Phoenix Taylor Inc is manufacturing the Widget X that requires a special assembly line. At this point re-evaluation of labor productivity is needed due to the difference between the regular Widgets and the Widget X. With careful consideration of this project, operations-management must compare the current labor productivity to two alternative methods that would help them with the increase. A cost-benefit matrix will be provided to show comparison of current labor productivity, alternative one and alternative two labor productivity as well as, the effects the alternatives would have, and what the benefits of networking strategies to streamline operational procedures would be. Taylor Inc Cost Benefit Matrix | |Current |Alternative 1 |Alternative 2 | |Wasted Motion |27% |1% |7% | | Physical Lifting |42 |12 |23 | |People Required |17 |6 |9 | |Productivity |208 |392 |288...
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...aA survey on the implications of social networking websites A Research Proposal Presented To: Dr. Rustico M. Agcaoili Jr. St. Joseph’s College Rodriguez Rizal In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Information Technology Rey Nanie C. Guevarra 2nd Semester SY: 2010-2011 Chapter 1 The Problem and Its Background Introduction Every one is going crazy over Facebook and Twitter these days. You may have created an account on one of these websites many months back. Every body is familiar in these social networking websites. The researcher does intend to show and explore how young people use them to communicate, share and show off their identities. The researcher will also explore the risks that have been associated with excessive use of these websites, and also explore the responsibility that lies on the providers of these websites. Facebook is a social networking site for ages 13 and over. You can add friends you know by typing in their name at the top of the screen and if they accept then you can talk to them by clicking on the chat button if they're online.. You can send people private messages or can let everyone know by posting it on their profile. You can dowload photos and play fun games. You can stay in touch with people that you haven't seen in years! While Facebook has been a cause for many terminated employments and rejected job applications due to unsavory content,...
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