CASE STUDY-1 CONVERTING DATA INTO BUSINESS AT VOLVO INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Russell Wright Student: Avinash Gottiparthi ID: SU200104782 Date: 04/24/2013 CONVERTING DATA INTO BUSINESS AT VOLVO 1. Judge how Volvo Car Corporation integrated the cloud infrastructure into its networks. In 2010, “Volvo Car Corporation” split from Ford Company. Volvo made this decision in order to create their own brand IT environment and also efficiency with some business profits capabilities (Microsoft 2012)
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When Volvo separated from Ford in 2010, it was breaking free from an IT infrastructure that consisted of a tangle of different systems and licenses. The need was there to develop a new stand alone IT infrastructure that could provide better Business Intelligence, boost communication capabilities and enrich collaborations. Volvo Car Corporation Integrates the Cloud into Its Networks The ability to collectively harness the wealth of data being mined was invaluable. Volvo collects terabytes
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Electronic Data Systems (EDS, now owned by HP). During my consulting years I worked with the academic luminaries Professors Robert S. Kaplan and David Norton on balanced scorecards and also with Dr. Tom Davenport on analytics. This led to my authoring six business books. What I have learned through observation is that passion along with curiosity drives discovery. Passion is the mysterious force behind nearly every step-change in a process or introduction of a new idea.
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The 20 items that you think are the most interesting and beneficial. The Website contains much useful information sometimes it became overwhelming. Below are a list of some articles and other works that were of high interest to me. Business Intelligence - Business Analytics 1. Assignment: a. Tableau Quick Warm-Up Exercise b. Case of the Dropped Mobile Calls 2. Case
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BI, and the technical resources needed for deployment (Zap). The average business intelligence solution costs $1.8 million and takes more than 2 years to implement (Rosen). BI systems needs to be designed to suit the business goals not start with using technology and try to suit it to the business goals. The BI system also needs to be easily adapted to any new business logic that might be adopted in the future as the business changes. The biggest risk of BI is the time taken to develop the BI solution
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University Dr. Jodine Burchell 08/30/2012 Data Mining is a useful tool in the business world today. Data Mining is a process that uses statistical information to gather useful information knowledge from data warehouses. Data Mining can be used for many reasons when gathering information. Businesses that use it are finance, retail and banks for the purpose of finding information on a company or individual. Most business use data mining to predict sales, credit card fraud and to find out what makes
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1. What is the definition and purpose of a CRM system? 所谓的客户关系管理就是为企业提供全方位的管理视角；赋予企业更完善的客户交流能力，最大化客户的收益率。客户关系管理是企业活动面向长期的客户关系，以求提升企业成功的管理方式，其目的之一是要协助企业管理销售循环：新客户的招徕、保留旧客户、提供客户服务及进一步提升企业和客户的关系，并运用市场营销工具，提供创新式的个性化的客户商谈和服务。CRM的焦点是自动化并改善与销售、市场营销、客户服务和支持等领域的客户关系有关的商业流程。 2. What benefits does a CRM system offer to an organization? What are the potential costs of a CRM system for an organization? 第一问 降低运营成本 1、客服人员成本。 2、客服岗前专业知识培训。 3、客户信息采集、分类，进行精准营销。 4、客服响应速度、误差率、服务质量。 5、老客户的定期维护、营销。
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demand for purely delivery based system • Franchisees which introduced delivery were doing significantly better than company-owned stores. • Prevalence of discounting in the pizza business Competitor analysis: • Initially only Godfather pizzas were next best in the business • Dominoes rapidly expanding into the Pizza Delivery-only market • Recent promotions into areas where Pizza hut is planning to enter • A little more tedious to implement
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Starting a technology company in Tasmania Australia Western International University International Business INB 300 March 25, 2009 No doubt everyone is familiar with a computer or sorts, either it are at work, home or right in their very hands. Today’s society requires that we establish and continue to maintain a familiarity with computer through all different kinds of electronic devices. Without information that is passed between individuals, organizations and in this case a startup technology
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Data Warehouses The basic reasons organizations implement data warehouses are: To perform server/disk bound tasks associated with querying and reporting on servers/disks not used by transaction processing systems most firms want to set up transaction processing systems so there is a high probability that transactions will be completed in what is judged to be an acceptable amount of time. Reports and queries, which can require a much greater range of limited server/disk resources than transaction
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