Long Range Planning 43 (2010) 308e325 http://www.elsevier.com/locate/lrp Building Social Business Models: Lessons from the Grameen Experience Muhammad Yunus, Bertrand Moingeon and Laurence Lehmann-Ortega Grameen bank, founded in 1976, has both pioneered the development of micro-finance, and created nearly 30 businesses designed to alleviate poverty. The article traces the gradual development of Grameen’s expertise in formulating social business models, which require new value propositions, value
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publication in the IBM Systems Journal discussing the challenge/vision of architectures that would guide the field for the next 20 years and manage complexity of distributed systems. Mr. Zachman thought success of business would depend on information systems as a disciplined approach to managing the enterprise. The idea of Zachmans’ vision was for business value to increase with use of a holistic approach to systems architecture that addresses every perspective of the enterprise. Zachman was instrumental
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Enterprise Architecture In this research paper we will be discussing The Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework (FEAF) FEAF is business driven and is the U.S. Federal Government’s answer to enterprise architecture that provides a framework for complex established systems to be able to share information technology across agencies. We will be discussing a case analysis that covers the five interrelated reference models that is used to bring commonality and consistent enterprise architecture
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Information | Originated at mid 17th century | Originated in late middle time | Data are raw facts. | Information is processed data | May not always be meaningful. | Information is always meaningful. | Input to any system may be treated as Data | Output after processing the system is Information | Data must be processed to understand. | The information is already in understandable form, it may be processed further to make it more understandable. | Difficult to Understanding | Easy to Understanding
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IT/205 What are Enterprise Systems? Provide examples of organizational functions supported by enterprise systems Enterprise Systems are a suite of integrated software modules that help companies to integrate information from many parts of the business by storing it in one database. The database collects data from many different divisions and departments in a firm, and from a large number of key business processes in manufacturing and production, finance and accounting, sales and marketing,
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ISMG710 OATM – Reflection paper (1) Student Name: Hashem Al Qaisi Student ID : 20121025 Question 2: A. Do you think the CEO handled this new system introduction appropriately? Answer: The last statement by the CEO “Well, it looks like I underestimated how much my staff cared about systems” sounds very strong from a CEO, but it does not infer that the CEO has come up with a fair and right solution. She either was very positive about her staff or very much disappointed. Even though
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Analysis of paid placement in Web search engine results. Journal for the American Society of Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 57(4). 448-461. (SI factor: 2.1) Eseryel, U. Y., & Wolf, N. (Nov, 2005). Enterprise architecture as a context for ERP implementation. Journal of Enterprise Architecture, 1(2). 7-24. REFEREED BOOK CHAPTERS Eseryel, D., Eseryel, U. Y., & Edmonds, G. S. (2005). Knowledge management and knowledge management
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that provides enterprise software and computer hardware products and services. It develops, manufactures, markets, hosts, and supports database and middleware software, applications software, and hardware systems. It is organized into three businesses: software, hardware systems and services. Its software business consists of two segments: new software licenses and software license updates and product support. It’s hardware systems business consists of two segments: hardware systems products and hardware
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Disadvantages of Mobile Enterprises By Name: Course Title: Professor: Institution: City and State: Date: Introduction A mobile enterprise is defined as an enterprise, a corporation or organization that uses cloud computing and mobile devices to support critical business applications to gain strategic advantage. In a mobile enterprise interaction between the employees and clients is not location dependent. The technology and processes applied in mobile enterprises enable employees to
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7 e-Business Systems CHAPTER OVERVIEW Chapter 7: e-Business Systems describes how information systems integrate and support enterprisewide business processes, as well as the business functions of marketing, manufacturing, human resource management, accounting, and finance. LEARNING OBJECTIVES After reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to: 1. Identify the following cross-functional enterprise systems, and give examples of how they can provide significant business
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