Data, data everywhere Information has gone from scarce to superabundant. That brings huge new benefits, says Kenneth Cukier (interviewed here)—but also big headaches A special report on managing information Feb 25th 2010 WHEN the Sloan Digital Sky Survey started work in 2000, its telescope in New Mexico collected more data in its first few weeks than had been amassed in the entire history of astronomy. Now, a decade later, its archive contains a whopping 140 terabytes of information
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increasing national diversity in nowadays business environment, culture itself is regarded as an important dimension. The beginning of a pilot study in that sphere refers to the Dutch social psychologist Greert Hofstede and his outgoing research of IBM Organization (Hofstede 1980). Since the first publishing of The consequences of culture (Hofstede 1980; 2001) and Cultures and organizations: software of the mind (Hofstede 1991), cross-cultural widespread researches have revived, looming four and
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9-605-015 REV: AUGUST 20, 2007 ANDREW MCAFEE F. WARREN MCFARLAN ALISON BERKLEY WAGONFELD Enterprise IT at Cisco (2004) On a Monday morning in March of 2004 Brad Boston, CIO of Cisco Systems, was preparing for a meeting with the six other members of Cisco’s Business Process Operating Committee (BPOC). This group of senior executives met twice each month to review and prioritize key initiatives that impacted the entire company. Since its first meeting in 2002, BPOC had focused its attention
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a e mobility challenges of the developing world are considerably different than those in wealthier, advanced countries, and so are the challenges of coordinating transportation and land use. Rapid population growth, poverty and income disparities, overcrowded urban cores, poorly designed road networks, spatial mismatches between housing and jobs, deteriorating environmental conditions, and economic losses from extreme traffic by congestion are among the more vexing challenges faced by developing
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Organizations are constantly exploring new ways to lower cost, improve quality, and enhance customer service. Therefore, information systems are the most viable alternative to reach the desired organizational performance. Today’s organizations face challenges they never had before and have to do more with less. Kanungo et al (1999) state that, “with increasing competition, shrinking market shares and profit margins, the trend is toward increasing value for money and reducing costs” (p.1). The purpose
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The twenty-first century is a period of unprecedented change in organizations. The popular Business press constantly documents organizational restructuring, reengineering, downsizing, and other assorted changes. Even during the robust economy of the late 1990s, many large Companies were shedding jobs at an incredible pace. Terms such as downsizing and rightsizing may suggest a one-time fix, but many experts view this as an ongoing process for organizations of the future (Richman, LS, 1993). So what
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best-selling personal income tax preparation software called Turbo Tax, and the acquisition of a firm which provided electronic bill-payment services. Intuit was known in the software applications industry as one of the few firms that had met a challenge from Microsoft in its own market niche and won. Other firms that had once dominated their market niches in word processing programs (WordPerfect) and spreadsheet programs (Lotus), for example, had been shouldered aside by Microsoft (Exhibit 1). Many
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United Parcel Service: Moving at the Speed of Business 1. What is UPS's business model? Does it move at the "speed of business"? Explain. 2. Who is UPS's target market? What service(s) is UPS providing? 3. Who are UPS's competitors? What are the limits of their business models? UPS has been rated "America's most admired mail, package and freight delivery company" for sixteen consecutive years by surveys conducted by Fortune magazine, and in 1998 was named "world's most admired" in the same category
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which a single company owns all or nearly all of the market for a given type of product or service. (Investorwords, 2010) Antitrust law legislation started with the Sherman Act that was passed in 1890. The intent of the law was put in place to challenge the unchecked growth of corporations. By 1888, large corporations gained enough market muscle to dominate entire industries. The Sherman Act outlaws all contracts, combinations, and conspiracies that unreasonably restrain interstate trade. This
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Globalization According to Held and McGrew, ‘Globalization denotes the expanding scale, growing magnitude, speeding up, and deepening impact of interregional flows and patterns of social interactions’. It has been called upon to account for developments as diverse as the value of euro, world-wide popularity of ‘Harry Potter’, and the rise of Third Way politics and religious fundamentalism. The concept of ‘Globalization’ came to be used in the 1960s and early 1970s, which has been recognised
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