...Introduction A business management career is not linear and is not the same for everyone as well. However, all business management career paths have a particular starting point. There are many jobs available for different sectors in this field; therefore, one must know what exactly is required for the job they wish to pursue, along with where their interest lies. The people who want to look for a good opportunity in the business field usually take up business management as their career option. Business management is a field that is profitable and rewarding. (Career clusters) Business management field A lot of preparation is required to enter the field of business. it requires specialized training to enable the person to work in the difficult conditions in that field. One can do that by a regular degree program in the university you are in and can also get a 2 year associate degree that will qualify you to enter this field easily. There are, however, many other beneficial training programs that one can avail by some major organizations that have their own business management career training programs. Such programs often provide a much quicker way to move into the business management field. However, the training obtained from a university is much more authentic and beneficial for a student. Although, any kind of way the student chooses to learn from requires the student to have the willingness to learn and solid work ethic. Business management, despite of its size can be...
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...Business Research Report Mobile Devices for Field Service Assessment Code: RWT1 Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Introduction 4 Research Findings 4 Recommendations 7 Conclusion 7 References 8 Executive Summary The purpose of this report is to investigate the possibilities of using mobile technologies for the company’s field service personnel and how this would affect the business in three main areas. In particular we want to investigate the use of mobile tablets to improve the efficiency of the field service call. Can our existing process be improved upon? We want to investigate the use of mobile tablets to improve the accuracy and effectiveness of each repair. Because sometimes a field technician may be required to make multiple trips to a customer location to finish a repair we want to see if these multiple trips can be minimized. Finally, we want to investigate how, if adopted, the use of mobile tablets will facilitate the lowering of day to day operational expenses. The following report outlines those findings. Introduction As partner in the Home and Office Computer repair business that utilizes after-sales support contracts from major PC vendors I have been tasked with investigating the use of mobile technologies for field service. Specifically the use of mobile technology with tablet pc’s that the firm can take advantage of and how this technology would best serve the technician in the field. It is expected that tablet pc mobile technology...
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...Functional Areas of Business Managment 521 May 4, 2013 Functional areas of business Technical assistance has become one of the most important aspects of business over the past ten years. More and more companies are implementing and or improving their technical use within the company. Whereas technical support is important, incorporating supportiveness throughout the business helps to make the work environment tranquil. Employees, no matter what age, who are comfortable and happy to come to work, are going to work effectively, efficiently, and diligently. Thus, helping the company excel and strive for greatness. Even though the older generation needs more training and support to gain technical knowledge, the importance of technical support within a business and management because technical support is needed for the advancement of a company and technical support is needed for running the business's day-to-day operations. Technical support is one of the major growing areas across a majority of businesses in the world today. There are an abundance of companies trying to implement new and advanced technology into their field. “According to statistics Canada (1996) less than one quarter of employed people used computers at work during the early 1980s; this figured increased to 48% in 1994” (Methot, 1998). Take the medical field for example; they are rapidly trying to change from actual paperwork to electronic paperwork. Not only to make the searching of data and information...
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...Differences between AQL and OLAP Auteur Peter den Heijer Adres Veldhofstraat 16 Postcode 7213 AM Plaatsnaam Gorssel Emailadres pdheijer@gmail.com Telefoonnummer 0575-490719 Datum 26 mei 2012 Opleidingsinstituut CAI Opleiding Business Intelligence Opleidingscode BUSI1201UTRx Docent Emiel Caron Versie 3.0 Pagina 1 van 19 Inhoud 1. Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 3 2. Business Case................................................................................................................................... 3 3. Central Research Question .............................................................................................................. 3 4. Purpose............................................................................................................................................ 3 5. Sub Questions.................................................................................................................................. 4 6. Research Methodology and Scope .................................................................................................. 4 7. Introduction Qlikview ...................................................................................................................... 4 8. Definition of OLAP...
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...the Association of Information Technology Professionals to support my education and beyond November 29, 2010 Using the Association of Information Technology Professionals to support my education and beyond Pursuing an education with the goal of achieving more rewarding employment opportunities can seem daunting, especially when the avenues after achieving the degree can be vast without a map to help guide someone along the industry waters. Professional organizations routinely establish chapters for certain fields that guide individuals to greater opportunities. In the information technology field, the Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP) operates to assist students or employed professionals who want to continue, enhance and expand their knowledge. For my part, I plan to join and use the AITP to facilitate and maintain my success in the information technology (IT) industry. The AITP emerged in 1996 as a direct evolution from the Data Processing Management Association (DPMA). The DPMA had operated since 1962 and had focused primarily on the continued education of information processing techniques with the increase of computers in professions worldwide. The DPMA also continually strove to recognize the contributions of professionals in the IT industry. In 1996, the DPMA changed their name to The Association of Information Technology Professionals to align with the adopted terminology that was emerging from the field but also to expand evolve their...
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...Business Model and Strategic Plan Part I: Conceptualizing a New Product or Service Division of an Existing Business Mission Statement Plains Exploration & Production Company (PXP) is building a way to the future with innovation that sets new standards for the Oil Drilling and Gas Extraction Industry. Business Proposal “The world isn’t running out of oil and natural gas. It is running out of easy oil and gas,” Leber, (2012). The technology used to recover oil and natural gas from wells has not changed in the past decade. Our business model for this new division will guide PXP into the future by incorporating digital oil field technology to our existing sites both on land and water. Consumers will benefit by lower prices at the pumps, lower airfare for travel and the transportation costs for products will be reduced, making product prices lower. Offshore oil is much more expensive to extract than onshore oil. “Using traditional techniques, onshore wells can be drilled to 8000 meters compared to 5000 meters, 50 years ago. Offshore wells can be drilled in water to only 1000 meters,” (IBIS World Industry Report, 2014, p. 30). Lately, economical advantages mean the use of fracking has been reemployed over the last five years, even though it has been selectively used since the 1940’s. Using the digital oil fields will streamline production for maximum efficiency. The technological advances will cut costs as PXP maximizes response time at the mining sites. PXP could, according...
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...blame technology for destroying nature and causing pollution, and say that it is the worst evil in the world , I still believe that it has greatly changed our lives for the better as we hardly imagine what would happen if we went for a day without technology. Technology is very popular in our daily life thanks to its advantages. As we know, firstly, technology in household helps people do the housework. For example, housewives do not need to wash manually, but they can use washing machine. Another reason why I advocate the viewpoint that technology has made the world a better place to live is that it makes the world smaller. Nowadays people can travel faster and easier to other places by car, bus and air-plane, and see many new interesting things around the world. In addition, they communicate with people in different countries through the Internet and phones, which saves them lots of time and money. But the most worthwhile benefit technology has brought to us is that it makes us healthier and happier. Clear progress in medicine, use new technologies to diagnose and combat diseases make therapy more effective. It allows us to cure serious diseases such as cancer and cardiopathy. Statistics show that life expectancy is getting longer. In Europe, for example, today life expectancy has climbed past 80 and people are glad to be alive; the longer they live in good health, the happier they feel they are. So, as we go forward into this ‘magical future’, will technology make...
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...demonstrate the need for developing a keen eye for the roles that data play in your organization, including operations, delayed decisions, and misinformed strategies. Subjects: NO SUBJECTS(KEYWORDS) Length: 29p List Price: $6.95 BH087 Title: The 3R Framework: Improving eStrategy Across Reach, Richness, and Range Author(s): Wells, John D.; Gobeli, David H. Publication Date: 03/15/2003 Product Type: Business Horizons Article Publisher: Business Horizons/Indiana University Abstract: Identifying effective strategies for designing and implementing e-business initiatives has been a persistent challenge for both practitioners and academicians. A conceptual framework is needed for leveraging digital attributes based on three dimensions: reach, richness, and range. By defining and combining these three dimensions to create such an integrated e-business strategic framework, this article provides managers with a way to assess their current strategy, as well as a prescriptive direction for strengthening it. Subjects: Corporate strategy; Electronic commerce; Technology Length: 10p NEW SMR241 Title: The 7 Deadly Sins of Performance Measurement and How to Avoid Them Author(s): Hammer, Michael; Haney, Carole J.; Wester, Anders; Ciccone, Rick; Gaffney, Paul Publication Date: 04/01/2007 Product Type: SMR Article Abstract: In recent years, companies have developed much more sophisticated strategic measurement systems, based on such tools as the balanced scorecard,...
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...Group Project - Business Informatics Abstract Informatics can be described as the science of information systems. It is widely regarded as the study of applying information technology to various fields, while also keeping in mind its impact on individuals, institutions and the society. From the above definition, we can infer that informatics is composed of three main elements; information, people and technology. Though informatics may be a fairly new and swiftly developing field, today’s age of rapid innovation and expansion of technology is the reason why informatics is being applied to an enormous array of domains in order to solve problems and challenges that we face in our environment today. This application of informatics has had a positive impact on domains such as healthcare, education, business, sports and biology, to name a few. Considering the fact that all members of this group are pursuing degrees in the field of business, it was only sensible to select the domain of business informatics for our group project. We felt that this would be a great opportunity for us to expand our knowledge regarding a domain of informatics that interests us and, the ability to apply this know-how in our respective fields of work sometime in the future certainly gave this domain a cutting edge. Business informatics is a vast field that can be defined as the process of integrating computer technology into vital business operations, developing information tools to capture and analyze data...
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...Systems vs Information Technology Information technology and information systems are two closely related fields of study that people find very confusing to differentiate between. This is because of overlapping of topics in courses that are designed to teach these subjects. Despite all the similarities there are differences that need to be highlighted to enable students to choose one of the two as a career option depending upon suitability. It seems that in this modern age of computers and internet, information technology has become more popular as there are more job openings for information technology. One reason why people confuse between information systems and information technology is that they presume systems to be computer systems. However, ‘information systems’ is rather large field of study that refers to systems that are designed to create, modify, store and distribute information. It is really surprising but information systems as a field of study has been around much before computers arrived on the scene. Information technology can be considered as a subset of information systems. It deals with the technology part of any information system, and as such deals with hardware, servers, operating systems and software etc. A system is always a combination of people, machines, processes and technology. And IT is just a part of the system. Since a part can never be identical to whole, information systems is never going to be identical to information technology. Designing of a...
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...Capstone in Information Technology Jon A. Preston Assistant Professor Scott Taylor Instructional Assistant Department of Information Technology Clayton College and State University Morrow, GA 30260-0285 ABSTRACT Universities interested in keeping pace with the rapidly changing field of Information Technology (IT) are often pulled in many directions. Because Information Technology is such a popular field of study and work, educators must manage rising enrollments in an era where the ubiquity of information technology demands an ever-increasing number of specializations. As a result, industry and students expect a wider range of courses and specializations in their upper division coursework. E -commerce, one of the most promising of these maturing Information Technology specializations, affords an excellent opportunity to draw together the fundamentals of the field into a capstone series of courses. E -commerce fulfills a present demand from industry, provides a wonderful project and group-based “studio-style” learning environment, and is quite popular with students. This paper discusses our e-commerce degree specialization as a capstone to undergraduate Information Technology coursework. We also discuss the motivation for, design and execution of, and results from our courses. Keywords: E-commerce, information technology, capstone project, studio -style learning 1. MOTIVATION E-commerce degrees and Computer Science/Information Technology specializations in e-commerce...
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...and Randy Fields successfully built their business from a single cookie shop to over 400 individual store locations by combining their individual strengths. From the very beginning, Debbi’s focus has been to provide a “feel good product” and sell it “in a feel good way”. Randy clearly understood the value of Debbi’s commitment to quality products and the customer experience. He turned his vision of an MIS that “put as much decision making and intelligence into the store level PC as necessary to free the manager to do those things that uniquely people do” into a powerful strategic advantage for Mrs. Fields Cookies. The successful alignment of Mrs. Fields’ Cookies business and information systems strategies resulted in strong revenue growth and bottom line profits. The company developed an information technology platform that was more than just a business support tool. By collecting data, performing analysis and tracking results, Randy and the MIS Department created an expert system that routinely made day to day decisions for store managers. Suggestions related to daily production scheduling, sales strategies, labor demand and even hiring decisions were routinely generated by the company’s management information system. The sophistication of this tool allowed Debbi to maintain a strong influence on day to day store operations even as the number of locations exploded. From the beginning, Debbi committed herself to a strategy that would ensure each Mrs. Fields’ Cookies...
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...Today the field of IT infrastructure Management & Services is growing rapidly. With the boom in this sector India has experiences a major hike in the field of IT Infrastructure. IT is a vast field in the IT sector and skilled professionals are getting good jobs in the technology industry. At present India has become the hub of the IT industries as well as there are many good institutes in India also which are providing trained and skilled professionals to these industries across the globe. These professionals are providing their services to small and medium sized companies. There are mainly three categories in this line like application outsourcing, system integration and information technology consulting. The IT infrastructure outsourcing in India has progressed at a good rate after the eighties. Today the Indian software industry has become a billion dollar industry and recorded a significant job & growth opportunities in this sector. Different information technology institutions and centers are giving courses and degrees to the students and molding them to knowledgeable and skilled professionals. The main information technology fields in India are software technology firms; IT enabled services in India (ITES), Business Process Outsourcing Firms, IT Institutes, Information Technology Hardware manufacturing companies. Many firms are now using outsourced infrastructure services with this they are able to reduce their operational expenditure and increase their revenues. Their...
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...Nothing lasts forever, and shifting technologies and market conditions can render once strong assets as obsolete. Within the past decade, technology has become a norm within society. If you don’t have a cell phone by the age of eight, one is not fitting the normal standard. A perfect example of shifting technologies would include tollbooths. Tollbooths across the turnpike had individuals working twenty-four hours a day and seven days a week to physically collect driver’s money. Slowly, today’s well known Florida Sunpass was introduced on April 24, 1999 (Sunpass). As the convenient device became popular, the need for physical employees at tollbooths began to diminish as more Sunpass tollbooths were built. Having this in mind, growing up I have seen people-run cash registers evolve to self checkouts, mailing out checks evolve to paying via internet in the convenience of your own home, etc. Growing up in the era of change, if I had a business, understanding the evolving technologies around us can keep a business afloat. Keeping in mind the many changes within the company I currently work for, I would probably use the same strategies. For one, we have evolved from using spreadsheets, manual work, and onsite servers to developing software to hold, gather and populate our information on the cloud. But why stop there! Developing software for our company’s demands may be helpful to other businesses within our same field. Therefore, why not make it available to the public for...
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...net/publication/235266981 International business and finance scholarship ARTICLE in RESEARCH IN GLOBAL STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT · JUNE 2008 DOI: 10.1016/S1064-4857(08)00001-6 CITATION READS 1 11 1 AUTHOR: Raj Aggarwal University of Akron 203 PUBLICATIONS 1,943 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE Available from: Raj Aggarwal Retrieved on: 23 February 2016 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND FINANCE SCHOLARSHIP Raj Aggarwal ABSTRACT This chapter explores how scholarly work in the fields of Finance and International Business (IB) can be mutually supportive. First, it is clear that technology has been a major driver of modern developments in both Finance and IB. Second, Finance can provide many insights into IB scholarship since it has much to say about firm operations and strategy. Third, IB scholarship with its focus on culture also provides significant opportunities for a better understanding of the global aspects of Finance. Finally, it is contended that transaction-costs economics provides an excellent theoretical and fundamental basis for bringing together IB concepts and Finance scholarship. However, while the potential for Finance and IB scholarship to contribute to each other is great, such advances must await the removal of cultural barriers between the two disciplines. INTRODUCTION The field of IB generally focuses on inter-national business, that is, business across national boundaries and, thus, in diverse institutional and cultural International Business Scholarship: AIB Fellows on the First...
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