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CONNECT FEATURES Interactive Applications Interactive Applications offer a variety of automatically graded exercises that require students to apply key concepts. Whether the assignment includes a click and drag, video case, or decision generator, these applications provide instant feedback and progress tracking for students and detailed results for the instructor. Case Exercises The Connect platform also includes author-developed case exercises for all 12 cases in this edition that require
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MBA 685 Corporate Strategy Strategic thinking What is strategic thinking? The term ‘strategic’ has become a much over-used word in business today. You may have observed that the term is increasingly attached to people’s job titles and is used to dignify roles and elevate the status of projects that might otherwise not be regarded as sufficiently important. The dilution of the term strategic is unfortunate because one of the key functions of general managers in all organisations is
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White Paper Big Data Analytics Extract, Transform, and Load Big Data with Apache Hadoop* ABSTRACT Over the last few years, organizations across public and private sectors have made a strategic decision to turn big data into competitive advantage. The challenge of extracting value from big data is similar in many ways to the age-old problem of distilling business intelligence from transactional data. At the heart of this challenge is the process used to extract data from multiple sources
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computing project management module and literature. Table of Contents Introduction 4 Important Organizational Issues and Impacts 5 Adoption 5 Architecture 8 Platform 9 Layers of cloud computing 9 Private Cloud versus Public Cloud 12 Cloud Computing in Organizations 13 Concerns and Current Problems 14 Disadvantages of Cloud Computing 15 Benefits of Clouds Computing 17 Future Implications 20 Conclusion 22 References 24 Project
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