• Author: CTI Reviews
• Publisher: Cram101 Textbook Reviews
• ISBN: 1619068524
• Category: Education
• Page: 488
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Facts101 is your complete guide to Business Driven Technology. In this book, you will learn topics such as Enhancing Business Decisions, Creating Collaborative Partnerships in Business, Transforming Organizations, and Information Security plus much more. With key features such as key terms, people and places, Facts101 gives you all the information you need to prepare for your next exam. Our practice tests are specific to the textbook and we have designed tools to make the most of your limited study time.

• Author: Paige Baltzan
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
• ISBN: 0077637992
• Category: Business & Economics
• Page: 624
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Unlike any other MIS textbook franchise, our Baltzan texts (Business Driven Technology, Business Driven Information Systems and M: Information Systems) discuss various business initiatives first and how technology supports those initiatives second. The premise for this unique approach is that business initiatives should drive technology choices. Every discussion in these texts first addresses the business needs and then addresses the technology that supports those needs.

• Author: Paige Baltzan
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• ISBN: 9781259405266
• Category: Computers
• Page: N.A
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Unlike any other MIS textbook franchise, our Baltzan texts (Business Driven Technology, Business Driven Information Systems and M: Information Systems) discuss various business initiatives first and how technology supports those initiatives second. The premise for this unique approach is that business initiatives should drive technology choices. Every discussion in these texts first addresses the business needs and then addresses the technology that supports those needs. Business Driven Technology 6e offers you the flexibility to customize your course according to your needs and the needs of your students by covering only essential concepts and topics in the five core units with 20 chapters, while providing additional in-depth coverage in the 20 business and the 12 technology plug-ins. Business Driven Technology 6e provides the ultimate flexibility in tailoring content to the exact needs of your MIS or IT course! Plug-ins are fully developed modules of text that include student learning outcomes, case studies, business vignettes, and end-of-chapter material such as key terms, individual and group questions and projects, and case study exercises. We realise that instructors today require the ability to cover a blended mix of topics in their courses. While some instructors like to focus on networks and infrastructure throughout their course, others choose to focus on ethics and security. Business Driven Technology was developed to easily adapt to your needs. Each chapter and plug-in is independent so you can: Cover any or all of the chapters as they suit your purpose. Cover any or all of the business plug-ins as they suit your purpose. Cover any or all of the technology plug-ins as they suit your purpose. Cover the plug-ins in any order you wish.

• Author: Haag
• Publisher: Tata McGraw-Hill Education
• ISBN: 9780070607972
• Category:
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Answers to 100 Critical Questions for Every Manager

• Author: David R. Laube,Raymond F. Zammuto
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• ISBN: N.A
• Category: Business & Economics
• Page: 519
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Information technology is a critical element of virtually every business. But effectively aligning and using it to achieve business objectives is very difficult. That is because success requires so many elements to be done properly. Over 60 business leaders and university faculty members have collaborated to bring together insights from a broad spectrum of disciplines—from strategy and finance to information systems and project management. This information is contained in clearly written, concise answers to 100 questions that every manager needs to know to use information technology effectively. Each answer includes references to web and print resources for readers needing more detailed or the most current information. Business professionals will value the book because it covers a range of important areas that few know completely. University students will find the book a valuable source of necessary information for technology and management courses. Rarely is so much diverse expertise brought together and focused in a single book. It will become an essential resource for anyone working with information systems in an organization.

• Author: Stephan Aerni,Roland Ferrari,Hans Rigert
• Publisher: diplom.de
• ISBN: 383244324X
• Category: Business & Economics
• Page: 171
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Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Neun von zehn Top-Managern sind der Ansicht, dass das Wissen des Unternehmens in Zukunft einer der wettbewerbsentscheidenden Faktoren sein wird. Der Stellenwert des Produktionsfaktors Wissen nimmt demnach verglichen mit den traditionellen Produktionsfaktoren Boden, Kapital und Arbeit eine immer größere und wichtigere Stellung ein. Mit dieser Diplomarbeit wurden zwei Aufgaben bearbeitet: A) Eine Vorgehensweise für eine wissensbasierte Unternehmensanalyse zu erarbeiten, sie durchzuführen und anhand der erzielten Resultate ein Umsetzungskonzept, abgestimmt auf ein KMU, zu entwickeln. B) Die Bedürfnisse für ein mögliches Ausbildungsmodul am auftraggebenden Institut abzuklären und dazu ein Unterrichtskonzept zu erarbeiten. Zu A): In der untersuchten Firma stieß das vorgelegte Konzept auf reges Interesse. Die Umsetzung wurde daraufhin von der Geschäftsleitung initiert. Zu B): Mittels einer schriftlichen Befragung wurde das Bedürfnis für ein Unterrichtsmodul Wissensmanagement bei aktuell und ehemalig Studierenden des Instituts abgeklärt. Die Resultate der Umfrage (mit einem Rücklauf von über 70%) sagen aus, dass bezüglich diesen Lerninhalten großes Interesse vorhanden ist. Mittlerweile ist ein entsprechendes Wissensmanagement-Unterrichtsmodul aufgrund des erarbeiteten Konzeptes am Institut Tatsache. Auszug aus der Bewertung der Diplomarbeit: - Arbeit besticht durch deren Breite. - Praxisorientierung in hohem Masse gegeben. - Problemfelder werden methodisch vielfältig untersucht, Lösungsvorschläge sind realistisch. Im Rahmen der Arbeit wurde der integrierte Ansatz von Gilbert Probst und Kai Romhardt verfolgt. Die Kernprozesse des Wissensmanagement sind in acht einzelne Wissensbausteine gegliedert. Diese Bausteine umschreiben weitgehend die möglichen Interventionsfelder für Wissensmanagementmassnahmen in einem Unternehmen. Das Konzept ist bezüglich bestehender Ansätze und Interventionsprojekte offen. Ein Wissensmanagementprojekt auf der Basis des vorliegenden Konzeptes kann ohne Mühe in bestehende Projekte integriert werden, auch wenn diese auf anderen Managementkonzepten oder Interventionsansätzen beruhen. Als Kernaussage halten wir fest, dass es nicht entscheidend ist, ob Wissensmanagement anderen Unternehmensbereichen zugeordnet oder als eigenständige Disziplin betrachtet wird: Die Hauptsache ist, Wissensmanagement bewusst zu praktizieren. Wissen muss gepflegt werden, denn Wissen ist Wert [...]

Focusing on RFID, Interoperability, and Sustainability for Manufacturing, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management

• Author: John T. Yee,Seog-Chan Oh
• Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
• ISBN: 1447143906
• Category: Technology & Engineering
• Page: 324
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Today’s global business environments drive companies to be more technology dependent, and to remain competitive, firms need to introduce or adopt a new technology to business. In order to achieve a successful integration with maximum return on investment, companies need a systematic approach that accommodates a comprehensive course of action of technology integration. Technology Integration to Business – Practical Methods and Case Studies suggests a business-driven holistic approach of technology integration that consists of several steps. First, companies should examine the current state, issues, benefits, and obstacles of technology integration in conjunction with their competitive business strategy and operational capability. Second, firms should investigate new, emerging business technologies as to how those technologies can contribute to improve the business. Third, with the technology integration needs identified, companies should complete preparatory tasks before actual implementation, such as, business process analysis, technology assessment, technology provider investigation, business case development, and cost-benefit analysis. Fourth, because the nature of technology integration project involves many stakeholders in global locations, firms should use effective project management knowledge from project initiation, through planning, execution, control, to close. Students will learn real-world technology integration processes in industry settings and become more prepared for industrial careers. Practitioners will find thorough procedures and methods that are useful in practice to improve business performance. Realistic examples for manufacturing, logistics, and supply chain management application domains give the reader practical implications for the methods presented.

• Author: Paige Baltzan,Amy Phillips
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• ISBN: 9780073402987
• Category: Computers
• Page: 512
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Business Driven Initiatives first; Technology second Business Driven Information Systems discusses various business initiatives first and how technology supports those initiatives second. The premise for this unique approach is that business initiatives should drive technology choices. Every discussion first addresses the business needs and then addresses the technology that supports those needs. This text provides the foundation that will enable students to achieve excellence in business, whether they major in operations management, manufacturing, sales, marketing, finance, human resources, accounting, or virtually any other business discipline. Business Driven Information Systems is designed to give students the ability to understand how information technology can be a point of strength for an organization.

• Author: Eldon Yu-zen Li,Timon C. Du
• Publisher: IGI Global
• ISBN: 9781591403814
• Category: Business & Economics
• Page: 352
• View: 668

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Advances in Electronic Business advances the understanding of management methods, information technology, and their joint application in business processes. The applications of electronic commerce draw great attention of the practitioners in applying digital technologies to the buy-and-sell activities. This timely book addresses the importance of management and technology issues in electronic business, including collaborative design, collaborative engineering, collaborative decision making, electronic collaboration, communication and cooperation, workflow collaboration, knowledge networking, collaborative e-learning, costs and benefits analysis of collaboration, collaborative transportation and ethics.

Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der IT-Sicherheit

• Author: Florian Wiemken,Jan Markus Hempel
• Publisher: diplom.de
• ISBN: 3832491708
• Category: Business & Economics
• Page: 239
• View: 5437

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Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Vorstände von Aktiengesellschaften agieren als Treuhänder fremden Vermögens. Um Anleger und Gläubiger zu schützen haben sie bei ihrem Handeln und der Organisation des Unternehmens bestimmte gesetzliche Vorschriften zu beachten. Jedoch beschäftigten sich bis Mitte der neunziger Jahre weder das Schrifttum noch die Rechtsprechung wesentlich mit der Frage der persönlichen Haftung der Vorstandsmitglieder für Fehlentscheidungen oder Pflichtverletzungen. Eine Pflichtverletzung, die zu einem Schaden bei der Gesellschaft führte, wurde in der Regel lediglich personalpolitisch sanktioniert. Die betroffenen Unternehmen sahen dabei zumindest dann von der Geltendmachung weiterer Ansprüche wie Schadensersatz oder der Strafanzeige ab, sofern der Verantwortliche keine unakzeptablen Abfindungsforderungen stellte. Verständlicherweise stehen vor allem die Vorstandsmitglieder selbst weitergehenden Forderungen kritisch gegenüber und verweisen auf eine Einschränkung der unternehmerischen Freiheit. Allerdings lassen sich auch im juristischen Schrifttum Stimmen finden, die personalpolitische Konsequenzen als „im Großen und Ganzen“ ausreichend ansahen. Beginnend in der zweiten Hälfte der neunziger Jahre setzte dann allerdings eine schnell an Fahrt gewinnende Bewegung ein. Die zahlreichen Bilanzierungsskandale und Unternehmenszusammenbrüche in jüngerer Zeit haben etlichen Anlegern große Verluste beschert und insgesamt das Vertrauen in die weltweiten Kapitalmärkte empfindlich erschüttert. Hinzu kam, dass international vergleichbare Standards für die Verantwortung der Unternehmensleitung fehlten, obwohl die Unternehmen durch die Globalisierung der Märkte zunehmend international verflechtet sind. Um diesen Entwicklungen entgegenzuwirken haben Gesetzgeber und Börsenaufsichtsbehörden erhebliche Anstrengungen in Form von neuen Gesetzen und Vorschriften unternommen. Gesetzgebung und Rechtsprechung haben die Haftungsvoraussetzungen nicht nur konkretisiert, sondern vor allem auch zu Lasten der Unternehmensleitung verschärft. Bei vielen Unternehmensinsolvenzen stellte sich im nachhinein heraus, dass die Krise absehbar und abwendbar gewesen wäre, wenn die Aufsichtsratsmitglieder ihre Überwachungsaufgabe gewissenhaft wahrgenommen hätten. Aus diesem Grund ist auch die Haftung des Aufsichtsrats der Aktiengesellschaft in den Blickpunkt der öffentlichen Diskussion geraten. Die nach wie vor andauernden Aktivitäten des Gesetzgebers sind Teil der international [...]

• Author: Bill Cope,Diana Kalantzis
• Publisher: Common Ground
• ISBN: 1863350713
• Category: Computers
• Page: 265
• View: 9234

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With the progressive digitisation of the book production processes, we see the emergence of a potentially potent mix of new technologies. Not potent because these technologies are capable of driving change alones, but potent for the commercial and cultural drivers which may work in concert with new technologies to transform the world of books and reading. Central to these technological developments is the convergence of the technologies of etext and digital print. This book examines recent technological changes in book production. Our focus is in part on technological actuality, centred mostly on the digitisation of text and its consequences. Our focus is also on the realm of possibility. Where might these technological shifts lead us? What are the commercial and cultural conditions under which technological possibility might bear fruits? Within this volume we look specifically at the changing definition of a 'book'. A book is no longer a tangible thing; a book is what a book does. It is information architecture. We examine the various manifestations of electronic book readers and imminent technologies, such as electronic ink, including case study on the use of ebook reading devices by a lending library, and speculate about other uses of such devices. We see the convergence of print and etext - manifestations of the same thing - electronically stored text, with the difference demonstrated only in the shift in mindset necessary to accommodate emergent forms of digital text - as information services within a product-service system, the changing shape of digital design and changes in printing technologies from letterpress to the rise of digital printing.

Managing Knowledge to Create Wealth

• Author: A. Ganguly
• Publisher: Springer
• ISBN: 1403915954
• Category: Business & Economics
• Page: 202
• View: 8359

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Business-Driven Research & Development demonstrates how science and technology can be managed in order to meet well defined business directives. The book argues that it should be a fundamental business premise that the primary role of research and development is to fulfil strategic objectives, within a framework of time and cost targets. The book examines the traditional disconnection between research and development and the market place, and presents the means to derive competitive advantage through overcoming it.

Creating Business Driven Information Technology Infrastructures - Scholar's Choice Edition

• Author: Marianne Broadbent,Sloan School of Management Center for I,Peter Weill
• Publisher: Scholar's Choice
• ISBN: 9781298028693
• Category:
• Page: N.A
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

• Author: Amy Phillips,Paige Baltzan, Instructor
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• ISBN: 9781260165869
• Category: Computers
• Page: 560
• View: 5904

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Business Driven Information Systems discusses various business initiatives first and how the technology supports those initiatives second. The premise for this unique approach is that business initiatives should drive technology choices. Every discussion first addresses the business needs and then addresses the technology that supports those needs. This text provides the foundation that will enable students to achieve excellence in business, whether they major in operations management, manufacturing, sales, marketing, finance, human resources, accounting, or virtually any other business discipline. Continuing with this unique and successful approach, the 6th edition of Business Driven Information Systems is designed to give students the ability to understand how information technology can be a point of strength for an organization.

Managing the Business Technology Weave in the New Millennium

• Author: David Scott
• Publisher: David Scott
• ISBN: 1419627635
• Category: Business & Economics
• Page: 420
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I.T. Wars provides a clear path to proper alignment of technology and business, in achieving best results and ongoing returns. The true challenge is in bringing diverse groups of people together from the business and technical realms, in defining needs and making true delivery of solutions. The Business-Technology Weave is an approach that turns everyone and everything into a responsible forward edge. It includes considerations of people, knowledge, communication, corporate culture, attitudes, relationships, content (information), infrastructure, applications, needs, and expectations. It comprises missions with specific beliefs, values, and standards in service to security and growth. The Weave clears political impairments, helps to dismantle protectionism and jealousy, and breaks down departmental "silos." It opens the way to a future that you define - in preventing the alternative: future's imposition on you. What are the liabilities in today's environment of e-mail, blogs, IMs, downloads, and portable data? Consider: What is being done 'in the name of your domain'? How best to manage content, in avoiding a glut of information? How can staff best utilize the power of the utilities that are delivered to their desktops? What are the new scales of disaster planning, preparedness, prevention, and recovery? What is your organization's role in contributing to the surrounding public safety - in securing your own? I.T. Wars begins with a patient, comprehensive exposure of today's environment and challenges, with equal attention to the Business and IT reader. Whether your organization is public, private, government agency, or association you share in the same concerns: You need a business-driven technology strategy, as well as a business serving one. Now you can develop a vision and pragmatism strong enough to qualify for discussion, planning, and achievement of the best business-technology outcomes.

Practical Insights, Techniques, and Case Examples for Ensuring Success

• Author: Mark Price Perry
• Publisher: J. Ross Publishing
• ISBN: 1604270136
• Category: Business & Economics
• Page: 528
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Featuring contributions from more than 20 distinguished executives and subject matter experts, this unique reference challenges various traditional approaches and strategies for the PMO and explains how to set up a business-driven PMO using an extensively proven roadmap adaptable to any type or size organization.

10th International Conference, PROFES 2009, Oulu, Finland, June 15-17, 2009, Proceedings

• Author: Frank Bomarius,Markku Oivo,Päivi Jaring,Pekka Abrahamsson
• Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
• ISBN: 3642021522
• Category: Computers
• Page: 444
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On behalf of the PROFES Organizing Committee we are proud to present the proce- th ings of the 10 International Conference on Product Focused Software Process - provement (PROFES 2009), held in Oulu, Finland. Since the first conference in 1999, the conference has established its place in the software engineering community as a respected conference that brings together participants from academia and industry. The roots of PROFES are in professional software process improvement motivated by product and service quality needs. The conference addresses both the solutions found in practice as well as relevant research results from academia. To ensure that PROFES retains its high quality and focus on the most relevant research issues, the conference has actively maintained close collaboration with industry and sub- quently widened its scope to the research areas of collaborative and agile software development. A special focus for 2009 was placed on software business to bridge research and practice in the economics of software engineering. This enabled us to cover software development in a more comprehensive manner and tackle one of the most important current challenges identified by the software industry and software research community – namely, the shift of focus from “products” to “services. ” The current global economic downturn emphasizes the need for new methods and so- tions for fast and business-oriented development of products and services in a gl- ally distributed environment.