...SAMPLE CONCEPT PAPER THIS PAPER HAS BEEN ALTERED FOR ILLUSTRATIVE PURPOSES AND DOES NOT REPRESENT THE ORIGINAL CONCEPT PAPER OR THE PROJECT IN ANY WAY, SHAPE OR FORM. (i) Strengthening statistical capacity in support of progress toward the internationally agreed development goals in the Southern African Development Community region (ii) Implementing entities and U Secretariat partners: DESA jointly with ECA (iii) Background Statistics are an important tool in the development-policymaking processes of countries and regional organizations. They are needed for assessing the current development situation, setting objectives and targets for the future and measuring progress and development. However, a substantial gap still exists between the demand for information and the ability of most countries in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region to routinely provide it. The SADC Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan recognizes statistics as one of the cross-sectoral areas that need to be strengthened to foster regional cooperation and integration over the next 15 years. This project is therefore designed to improve the availability and reliability of basic data required for development planning in the SADC region, with special emphasis on data requirements for the internationally agreed development goals and the Millennium Development Goals. The project is aimed at facilitating subsequent networking among subregions through interactive sharing and...
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...Communication Journals ´ david ferna ndez-quijada This article explores how journals published in a language other than English achieve a degree of internationality and can increase our knowledge of scientific publication patterns. This author offers a case study focused on Spanish communication journals from a sample of 1182 articles published from 2007 to 2009. The article examines three variables in this sample: the number of non-Spanish scholars, the use of languages other than Spanish, and how often non-Spanish journals are referred to. The results show that (a) these journals find it difficult to attract foreign scholars, (b) open-language policies have had a limited effect, and (c) internationality is constrained to the Spanish geolinguistic region. Keywords: internationality, local journals, Spanish scholarly journals, journal evaluation, communication sciences introduction The impact of published research is measured by means of well-established tools; one such tool is the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). However, in the field of communication studies — and in fact in all the social sciences — the SSCI does not take account of all the research published; this is particularly visible in cases where research is published in languages other than English. For example, in 2009, only 81 out of the 1585 articles (5.11 per cent) indexed in the Communication category of the SSCI were not written in English. In the context of these facts, analysing the research published in a certain...
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...Efficient Consumer Response Asia Pacific (ECR AP) is an independent joint trade and industry body, which is co-chaired by representatives from the retail sector and the manufacturing sector. It promotes the use of Efficient Consumer Response techniques in Fast Moving Consumer Good (FMCG) retailing to remove unnecessary costs from the supply chain and make the sector, as a whole, more responsive to consumer demand. For more information please contact: ECR AP follows the Consumer Goods Forum focusing around five strategic priorities – Emerging Trends, Sustainability, Safety & Health, Operational Excellence and Knowledge Sharing & People Development Under operational excellence, one of the initiatives is the OSA working group which is a collaboration between members, Accenture, Unilever and Diageo. For more information please contact: Ivett Katalin Nagy, Executive Director, ECR Asia Pacific ivett@ecr-all.org Alfons Van-Woerkom Alfons.Van-Woerkom@unilever.com Unilever With more than 400 brands focused on health and wellbeing, no company touches so many people’s lives in so many different ways. Our portfolio ranges from nutritionally balanced foods to indulgent ice creams, affordable soaps, luxurious shampoos and everyday household care products. We produce world-leading brands including Lipton, Knorr, Dove, Axe, Hellmann’s and Omo, alongside trusted local names such as Blue Band, Pureit and Suave. Diageo Diageo is the world’s leading premium drinks business with an outstanding...
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...LECTURE Mr. Jeffrey Tan COURSE Master of Business Administration TITLE Assignment 1 – Group 6– Asian Development Bank Batch Code MBWD5 1128B S/No | Name of Group Member(full name as in the attendance file) | Fin No. | Serial No. in marksheet | Signature | 1 | AZEEZ MUBARAK RASHEED KHAN | G1099053Q | | | 2 | DAMODRAN DINESH | G1097995T | | | 3 | GANDIKOTA ANANTHAKUMAR SHREYA ANANTH | G1098020N | | | 4 | MOHAMMAD RABIQ | G1101334T | | | 5 | RAJENDRAN NAGARAJAN | G1103538N | | | Submitted on Due Date? YES (submitted on 9.12.2011) Submitted soft copy? YES (submitted on 9.12.2011) * jefftanasgn@gmail.com Word limit observed YES (No of words: 3678) List of Abbreviations IMF | International Monitory Fund | COP | Communities of practice | DMC | Developing member country | estar | Electronic storage and retrieval system | C-cube | Electronic platform | PCP | Public Communication Policy | ECG-Net | Evaluation Cooperation Group Network | KM | Knowledge management | KPS | Knowledge Product Service | eBook | Electronic Book | kHub | Knowledge Hub | iLab | Information laboratory | ADB | Asian Development Bank | EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Knowledge management is a process where organization gathers shared knowledge from available resources like databases, paper & human minds and then contributes it to places that help in generating a large compensates. In this assignment...
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...products like Times Widgets, and Time Wire. Boston scientific on the other hand creates a machine Goldfire software that provides the right mix of openness and security for data to enable employees share information. The main goal is to have any engineer to be able to access the research of their colleagues. This is getting achieved without throwing security out the window. Q1 According to Wikipedia, Shared services refers to the provision of a service by one part of an organization or group where that service had previously been found in more than one part of the organization or group. Shared services are dedicated units structured as centralized point of service and is focused on defined business functions. These are similar to collaboration which might take place between different organizations. New York Times faced with touch times decided to create a research and development group, in 2006 that operates as a shared service across nearly two dozen newspapers, a radio station, and more than 50 web sites. The main role is to accelerate entry onto new platforms by identifying opportunities, conceptualizing, and prototyping ideas with emphasis on rapid development....
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... SUCCESSFACTORS / WHITE PAPER CORE HR: WHY AND HOW Core HR: Why and how Creating a global process platform Imagine today’s global talent landscape. In New York City, a marketing director shares a highly qualified candidate for a hard-to-fill management position with her counterpart in Singapore. An engineer designing a pipeline in an office in Sao Paolo finds the answer to a question about fluid dynamics from a colleague in the field in western Canada. And in Paris, three well-qualified internal candidates from three different continents arrive at company headquarters for interviews to be the next vice president of procurement. Many organizations today need to manage talent globally. Is yours one of them? The cultural, geographic, linguistic, and structural silos that divide global enterprises are smaller obstacles than ever if you have the right technology. Cloud technology — especially talent management systems integrated with core HR systems — can bridge differences and break down boundaries in your organization. However, you must create global processes that account for regional dissimilarities and accomplish three goals: • Compliance: Protect your company and your people globally and locally. • Consistency: Cut costs as you improve efficiency and mobility. • Capability: Improve the performance of your workforce. Consistent global processes can transform your enterprise. As you create your global HR and talent strategy, you can learn from experience. This paper shares success...
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...terms of the standard HMSO ‘click-use’ licence. Creative clusters and innovation Putting creativity on the map Foreword No one doubts the economic importance of the creative industries to the UK. At 6.2 per cent of the economy, and growing at twice the rate of other sectors, they are proportionately the largest of any in the world. But there is some evidence that the UK’s creative industries support innovation and growth in other parts of the economy too. The significance of these spillovers has only recently begun to be examined rigorously. And we know next to nothing about their geographical dimensions. This gap in our understanding is what NESTA set out to address in Creative Clusters and Innovation, the outcome of a two-year collaboration with Birmingham and Cardiff Universities. The study adopts the concept of creative clusters as a starting point to examine the role that creative industries play in local and regional innovation systems. Its publication accompanies an online platform we have developed for users to examine creative industry concentrations at a fine...
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...The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/1463-5771.htm BIJ 13,1/2 Best practices of collaboration between university and industrial SMEs P. Pecas and E. Henriques ¸ Technology and Management Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, ´ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, Portugal Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the implementation of best practices of collaboration between university and industrial small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach – This paper presents the experience carried on by a university group fostering the collaboration with SME companies involving young engineering students and researchers in projects designed for the resolution of real industrial problems. A collaboration model is proposed and described. Four real case studies are presented. Findings – The purposed model promotes the involvement of the young engineers with authentic industrial experiences, enables the build-up of their practical framework and encourages their entrepreneurial growth. It also promotes the innovation process in SME companies through the close collaboration with universities. Practical implications – The collaboration between universities and SME companies should be based on a small projects base. These projects must be focus in localized and specific problematic areas in the industrial companies, where the potential of improvement and innovation is large...
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...Sandpaper Art Science: Biodiversity & Weather and Climate Technology: Creative Communication 60 Minute Lesson Blank white paper (1 piece per student) Sandpaper (1 piece per student) Pencils (1 per student) Scissors Crayons Glue Introduction (5 minutes) Journey through the Dunes (10 minutes) Desert Discussion (5 minutes) Sandpaper Art (30 minutes) Clean Up & Wrap Up (10 minutes) Students describe the desert and how different plants and animals survive in such an extreme environment. NGSS 2-LS4-1. Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats NGSS 3-ESS2-2. Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world ISTE-S.6.b Students create original works or responsibly repurpose or remix digital resources into new creations. Flexibility and Adaptability...
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...Designing effective collaboration A report from the Economist Intelligence Unit Sponsored by Cisco Systems Designing effective collaboration Preface n early 2008 the Economist Intelligence Unit published a paper titled “The role of trust in business collaboration”, one of a several papers produced since 2006 as a part of ongoing research sponsored by Cisco Systems. The paper focused on the need for different levels of trust in different business environments. Although each of those environments was commonly deemed “collaborative”, there was in fact a distinct difference between the level of trust required and the degree of collaboration. More importantly, trust was shown to be a key success factor in collaboration. These findings may seem unsurprising on the surface, but they became far more notable when combined with other results from that research. Particularly, few “collaborations” were seen as completely successful, few people actually trust very highly many of the people with whom they work and the term “collaboration” is most often used today to describe activities that are, in fact, quite mundane. What happens, then, when companies are pursuing complex and ambitious collaborations with lofty aspirations like innovation, margins and returns to shareholders? Furthermore, how do companies collaborate successfully on such ventures in an increasingly global economy and when knowledge is at a premium? The Economist Intelligence Unit and Cisco decided to join forces...
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...A Low-Cost Efficient Wireless Architecture for Rural Network Connectivity 1 Introduction Many rural regions around the world, especially in developing regions, do not have good connectivity solutions which are economically viable. As a result, many of these regions remain disconnected from both the rest of the world and from progress in general. In this proposal, I will describe the design of WiFi-based Rural Extensions (WiRE), a new wireless network architecture that can provide connectivity to rural regions at extremely low costs. The WiRE architecture is tailored for the typical rural landscape in several developing regions, in which the population is spread across small but scattered rural regions (less than 1-2 sq kms) within 100-200 kms of the city. WiRE is designed to be a wireless distribution network that extends connectivity from the city to each village. The WiRE architecture has largely been inspired by my prior work on WiFi-based Long Distance (WiLD) Networks [42, 62, 35, 54, 64, 34], a low cost point-to-point network connectivity solution that provides very high bandwidth (typically 6− 10 Mbps) over very long-distances. While prior work on WiLD networks [48, 5, 42, 62, 35] has made significant progress in the design of highperformance MAC layer solutions, we still lack a vision of how to design a comprehensive, low-cost, rural connectivity architecture that can efficiently support a wide-range of applications. It is this goal that I wish to achieve...
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........ 2 1. Identifying the key stakeholders and their interests (positive or negative) in the project ..........2 2. Assessing the influence and importance of each stakeholder as well as the potential impact of the project upon each stakeholder .................................................................................................4 3. Identifying how best to engage stakeholders ...........................................................................4 General Lessons............................................................................................................................5 References............................................................................................................................. 6 This document is intended as a resource to support the implementation of the WWF Standards of Conservation Project and Programme Management. Stakeholder analysis is an important component of many of the steps in these standards. This document may change over time; the most recent version can be accessed at: https://intranet.panda.org/documents/folder.cfm?uFolderID=60976 Written by: Bronwen Golder, WWF-US and Meg Gawler, ARTEMIS Services. Edited by: Foundations of Success Please address any comments to Sheila O’Connor (soconnor@wwfint.org)....
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........ 2 1. Identifying the key stakeholders and their interests (positive or negative) in the project ..........2 2. Assessing the influence and importance of each stakeholder as well as the potential impact of the project upon each stakeholder .................................................................................................4 3. Identifying how best to engage stakeholders ...........................................................................4 General Lessons............................................................................................................................5 References............................................................................................................................. 6 This document is intended as a resource to support the implementation of the WWF Standards of Conservation Project and Programme Management. Stakeholder analysis is an important component of many of the steps in these standards. This document may change over time; the most recent version can be accessed at: https://intranet.panda.org/documents/folder.cfm?uFolderID=60976 Written by: Bronwen Golder, WWF-US and Meg Gawler, ARTEMIS Services. Edited by: Foundations of Success Please address any comments to Sheila O’Connor (soconnor@wwfint.org)....
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...International Commercial Law and Technology Vol. 5, Issue 3 (2010) The role of South Africa in SADC regional integration: the making or braking of the organization∗ Saurombe Amos University of South Africa Sauroa@unisa.ac.za Abstract. The economic and political strength of South Africa in Southern Africa is undeniable. South Africa is the strongest economy in Southern Africa and in the whole continent of Africa. Regional and global interests lie at the heart of South African’s foreign policy resulting in the need to create compromises that may disadvantage the SADC block. South Africa is the current chair of SADC and its leadership role is critical. The country is also the gateway to foreign direct investment to the developing world. This paper seeks to discuss the critical position which South Africa finds itself in. The challenge to provide leadership at regional and global level has also been compounded by the domestic outcry for a need to deal with issues at home. South Africa holds the key for the success of SADC both at economic and political levels. However SADC’s dependence on South Africa may turn out to be a stumbling block since there is divided attention. This has been shown by South Africa’s ‘go it alone’ approach when it comes to negotiating trade agreements, e.g. with the EU, as well as its unwillingness to compromise on the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) that the other SADC Members States are signing. What is obvious is that SADC needs South Africa but at...
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...Analysis for E-Supply Chain Management of Tesco E-Commerce Term Paper By: Subodh Ghimire BBA 6th semester King’s College Analysis for E-Supply Chain Management of Tesco Abstract As technology improves, people purchase more goods without leaving the house. How can they do this? They can do this via the Internet and can buy anything from different countries. Online purchasing really brings out another shopping market place to society. But not only the selling side, the buying side in e-Commerce can also be maintained using electronic supply chain management (e-SCM). In this project, the supply chain management of Tesco and the ease for suppliers and the company is described. The development of the organization and the revolution and innovation in the e-tailing industry brought forward by Tesco is worth praising. I.INTRODUCTION Tesco is Britain’s leading food retailer and the third largest in the world. Its first store was opened in 1929 in London and by the early 1960s Tesco was a familiar feature of most UK high streets. After joining the eighties trend for large out-of-town supermarkets, in the 1990s the company started pioneering many new innovations. It developed new store concepts such as Tesco Metro, a city centre store meeting the needs of local shoppers, and Tesco Express, the first UK petrol station convenience store. In 1995 the company introduced its Clubcard, the UK’s first customer loyalty card...
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