Alibaba Taobao Introduction Founded by Alibaba Group on May 10, 2003, Taobao Marketplace facilitates consumer-to-consumer (C2C) retail by providing a platform for small businesses and individual entrepreneurs to open online stores that mainly cater to consumers in Chinese-speaking regions (Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan) and also abroad. Taobao Marketplace (formerly "Taobao") was launched in May 2003 by Alibaba after eBay acquired Eachnet, China’s online auction leader at the time
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Chapter 1 The Accounting Information System After reading this Chapter you should understand the reasons for studying Accounting Information Systems. [pic] Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNC1pvXwfzQ Question: Describe 5 ways these accounting systems can benefit a business. The recurring theme of this class and book is the changing role of the accountant and auditor as the trusted business advisor in the organization. The accountant no longer just prepares financial statements
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to the Board despite the high cost and long timeline of the overall implementation. To ensure Tektronix's success, the ERP implementation was divided into five manageable sub-groups: (1) Financials, (2-4) Order Management/Accounts Receivable (OMAR) in the three divisions, and (5) the global rollout. Within the sub-groups, additional waves were created to ease into the system. For both the Financials and OMAR, Tektronix decided to implement the new system in the United States first. Though the
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Online Marketing – GoPro Introduction GoPro makes the world’s most versatile cameras, they have a range of high definition personal cameras. They are most commonly used to produce extreme sports and action videos. They are well known due to their light weight, ruggedness and the fact that they can be worn nearly anywhere on the body. They can easily be mounted in unusual places such as the outside of any planes, cars, boats, surf boards etc. The company was started in 2002 by Nick Woodman following
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other tools to assist groups of people to achieve a shared task. Collaboration processes are infused in business processes and therefore are present in the creation of business goals, deliverables, activities, design and technology. Business Goals The creation of business goals is an important process in establishing the foundations for a business’ direction. Collaboration tools are used to facilitate team meetings and the communication of ideas between members of a group. The use of such tools
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Globally, governments, organisations and higher institutions of learning have recognised the strategic importance of knowledge management (KM) and are gradually directing their efforts on practices to nurture the creation, sharing and integration of knowledge management and economic development as a solution to the world`s social problems. King (2009:p4), defines Knowledge management as the planning, organizing, motivating, and controlling of people, processes and systems in any organisation (private
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schedules and workplaces. Not only must members be able to connect internally but also externally with customers and/or vendors. Members must also be proficient with tools that allow them to create effective business communications. Technology is facilitating access to such communication tools and changing the way businesses communicate. Internal communications are vital to any organization. The most used tools today in business communication today are email and mobile phones. Email is used to connect
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Journal of International and Intercultural Communication Vol. 4, No. 4, November 2011, pp. 246Á251 (Re)conceptualizing Intercultural Communication in a Networked Society Damien Smith Pfister & Jordan Soliz We offer four theses about how intercultural communication is altered in a digitally networked era. Digital media shape intercultural communication by (1) producing new public fora capable of (2) hosting rich, multimodal ‘‘spaces’’ of contact on (3) a scale of many-to-many communication
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a prerequisite for high-quality decision making and coordinated, organizational action (Straub & Karahanna, 1998; Rosenthal & ‘t Hart, 1991). Situations of such deliberate (interfunctional) knowledge transfer through interpersonal communication or group conversations (Gratton & Goshal, 2002, Tsoukas 1996) can be found in many business constellations, as the following typical examples illustrate: Technology experts present their evaluation of a new technology to management in order to jointly devise
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information. People already have a well-organized library which searches and introduces them to the most appropriate information on their subjects – The Internet. In addition to individuals, many non-governmental organizations and any other social groups that share common ideas can publish their arguments and spread them across the world. For example, human rights organizations use the Internet to advocate their arguments. L. Pal reveals that the international human rights
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