Last Friday, I attended the Social Enterprise Symposium hosted by the REDACTED. At the symposium, I attended “Reinventing the Economy: Value Creation & Capital Markets” as well as another event titled “Three Business Models for Social Impact.” While the first event focused on generating capital to fund social enterprises, the latter centered on new business models that attempt to drive social change. At the first event, “Value Creation and Capital Markets,” speakers discussed how socially responsible
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MBAC 6101 Summer 2016 MBAD CED 6101 Business and Community Development II Capitalist development creates winners and losers, both socially and geographically. The fundamental process of capitalism is the transfer of wealth created by particular people in particular places into the hands of other people in other places. Communities that are unable to Jorge Sousa, Ph.D Contact sousa@ualberta.ca capture the wealth that they create tend to decline
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The two risks involved with outsourcing a business process (the off-shore ministry of health) 1. Does the outsourced vendor have adequate internal controls in place 2. Is the outsourced vendor able to provide the same or better quality of the product or service that could be achieved by keeping the business process in house. Three recommendations for the two above risks 1. Ensure there are means of monitoring the effectiveness of the outsourced business process 2. Obtain assurance
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online intelligent agents. Define portal.Distinguish corporate portals from information portals. Corporate portals provide single-point access to specific enterprise information and applications available on the Internet, intranets, and extranets to employees, business partners, and customers. They are also known as enterprise portals or enterprise information portals. Define communication.Identity and describe five internet application categories. Electronic Mail Web-Based Call Centers Electronic
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Background: John Bachman worked with IBM for 26 years and contributed to IBM’s Business Systems Planning program. During his tenure with IBM, he derived his own version of enterprise architecture based on ideas from classical architecture and aircraft manufacturing. His approach to architecture is called Zachman framework for Information systems architecture (ISA). The first version of the framework was released in 1987 and has been revised multiple times after that. The framework draws on Zachman’s
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Information Sharing – EAI enables the flow of information between separate software programs within a company, as well as from outside the company’s own computer systems. EAI can consolidate data collection efforts, eliminating the redundancies of having each application collect and store data for its own purposes. Integration also creates a single point of access to data for the people who need it. That means employees spend less time searching for information – and the data they get is often more
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Extending the NATO Architecture Framework to Support Service Oriented Architectures Mr J Keefe – NATO AF Overview Dr I Bailey – SOA Views 23 May 2006 NATO NEC and the Decision Loop Understand Faster and better Cognitive Domain Knowledge Superiority Orient Information Domain Decide Better and faster Decision Superiority Decide Network Enabled Information Effects Capability Observe Act Superiority Superiority Physical Domain See first, more Act decisively
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Executive Summary: This paper is an analysis and evaluation of Wal-Mart and the future venture into the retail sector of India. The challenges that Wal-Mart needs to resolve to become successful range from the cultural differences to problems with supply chain management in India. The analysis below identifies the challenges of many factors dealing with the Wal-Mart, Bharti and the Indian retail sector. These factors for Wal-Mart would deal with the ability to operate in India efficiently as they
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Case Analysis on Playboy Enterprises Playboy Enterprises was founded in 1953 by Hugh Hefner to manage the publication and distribution of the Playboy magazine. The company has experienced tremendous growth since its inception and currently boasts of three segments: 1). Publishing-which is in charge of the business aspect of the Playboy magazine, 2). Entertainment- which manages the electronic assets of Playboy Enterprises. This includes the open source software, the Spice Network, the playboy
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first annual reporting period that begins after November 15, 2009. Statement 167 amends Interpretation 46(R) to require an enterprise to perform a qualitative analysis (eliminates quantitative analysis) to determine whether the enterprise’s variable interest or interests give it a controlling financial interest in a variable interest entity. Under Statement 167, an enterprise that has both of the following characteristics is the primary beneficiary of the variable interest entity: • The power to
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