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An Easy Way to Go Green Most Companies Miss
When it comes to green initiatives, many managers think that business travel is the low-hanging fruit. But a new report out today from a British non-profit, Global Action Plan, suggests that IT will soon emit more CO2 than travel. The study, titled "The Inefficient Truth," found that: There...
Tags: Management, Data Centers, Strategy, Carbon Footprint, Information And Communication Technology, Carbon Dioxide, Information Technology, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Jessica Stillman
Blog posts 2007-12-03
Strengthening Competitiveness Through Co-Operation: European Research in Information and Communication Technologies
Information and Communication Technologies ICT occupy a unique and increasing role in today?s economy and society. They are the key to improving productivity; they are central to mastering innovation; and they are essential to modernising public services. If innovation is the engine of the knowledge economy, then ICT are its...
Tags: Information And Communication Technology, Strategy, Management
White papers 2004-09-01
Legal, Regulatory and Policy Issues of E-Commerce in Asia
This paper reviews the current status and ongoing development of ICT law and regulation as it impacts on electronic commerce and economic development in the Asia Pacific region. In particular, the paper will look at how the regional countries have developed their local laws to address the various legal issues...
Tags: Law, Information And Communication Technology, E-business, Electronic Commerce, Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme, Regulations, Web Technology, Strategy, E-business/E-Commerce, Government, Management, Internet
White papers 2003-10-30
Research & Development Fund Policy Framework
The Research and Development Fund Policy Framework sets out a road map for the development of Pakistan's ICT industry. The development of this policy framework was based on a nation wide consultative process involving all key stakeholders in public and private sector and from both industry and academia. The need...
Tags: R&D, Pakistan, Information And Communication Technology, Strategy, Research & Development, Management, Business Operations
White papers 2006-01-30
Use Cases and DEMO: Aligning Functional Features of ICT Infrastructure to Business Processes
The proper alignment of functional features of the ICT-infrastructure to business processes is a major challenge in health care organisations. This alignment takes into account that the organisational structure not only shapes the ICT-infrastructure, but that the inverse also holds. To solve the alignment problem, relevant features of the ICT-infrastructure...
Tags: Business Process, Use Case, Health Care, Information And Communication Technology, Vertical Industries, Operational Planning, Benefits, Healthcare, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Human Resources, Management
White papers 2003-02-17
How Functional Size Measurement Supports The Balanced Scorecard Framework For ICT
A key issue that needs to be addressed in the design and implementation of a Balanced Scorecard BSC for ICT companies is measurement of the software itself. To build a BSC, once the overall strategic direction has been identified, Goals, Drivers and Indicators GDI elements must be selected for each...
Tags: Measurement, Information And Communication Technology, Balanced Scorecard, Strategy, Marketing, Marketing Research, Management
White papers 2001-04-13
An Ontology for e-Business Models
Business models have become more complex with the emergence of new and affordable Information and Communication Technologies ICTs. Companies increasingly act in networks and offer complex value proposition through a multitude of distribution channels. For managers it is ever harder to keep track of how their companies really work and...
Tags: Business Model, Ontology, Information And Communication Technology, E-business, University Of Lausanne, Web Technology, Strategy, E-business/E-Commerce, Management, Internet
White papers 2004-02-16
ICTs and Changing Processes of Knowing in a Global Development Agency
This paper is concerned with changing processes of knowing in contemporary organizations, supported in part by Information and Communication Technologies ICTs. A new conceptual framework is developed, drawing and synthesising from previous work in the knowing-in-practice literature. This conceptual approach is illustrated through a longitudinal, interpretive case study of a...
Tags: University Of Cambridge, Agency, Information And Communication Technology, Strategy, Management
White papers 2005-02-01
Furthering Change Management Through the Use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
How can an urban community that has done well sustain its positive trajectory? This was the challenge that faced administration when one became mayor of Naga City for the fourth time in 2001. The authors' response was to identify key action areas where one can do better, necessitating the reiteration...
Tags: Information And Communication Technology, Citynet, Change Management, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Management
White papers 2005-11-01
The Adoption of Information Systems in SMEs: Organizational Issues and Success Factors
This paper approaches the issues of introducing ICTs Information and Communication Technologies into Small and Medium Enterprises, with the aim of finding some conditions that make the organizational context able to manage the change process needed to really get the potential benefits of these technologies. The final objective is to...
Tags: Information System, Small And Medium Enterprise, Information And Communication Technology, University Of Urbino, Smb/Sme, Strategy, Management
White papers 2003-06-11
Business Architecture: A New Paradigm to Relate E-business Strategy to ICT
This paper addresses the concept of business architecture. The authors explain the concept and, based on a case study, discuss its relevance, operation, relationship with strategy and business models, and value for an organization. Business architectures contribute to clarify the complexity within an organization and form a useful starting point...
Tags: Information And Communication Technology, E-business, Business Architecture, Outsourcing, Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Internet, Management
White papers 2004-05-19
Internet Use (and Non-Use) Among Urban Microenterprises In The Developing World
This paper draws on interviews and observational visits with small businesses in urban India to explore the ways in which the internet is - and is not - used by small and informal businesses in the developing world. These "Microenterprises" with five or fewer employees face significant challenges to survival...
Tags: Information And Communication Technology, Internet, Strategy, Management
White papers 2006-08-18
Our Lives In Digital Times
This paper uses statistical information to begin to shed light on the outcomes and impacts of Information and Communications Technology ICT. Some of the expected outcomes associated with ICT are presented, while factual evidence is used to demonstrate that these outcomes have so far not materialized. The paperless office is...
Tags: Outcome, Information And Communication Technology, Statistics Canada, Strategy, Management
White papers 2006-11-01
Exploring The Impact Of ICT On Integration In Supply Chain Control
The adoption of Information and Communications Technology ICT is spreading rapidly in supply chain management. As companies seek to improve supply chain efficiency through increased integration, ICT can be considered as a key enabler for supply chain management by supporting information-sharing. Even though there is a considerable amount of research...
Tags: Supply Chain, Information And Communication Technology, Integration, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management
White papers 2006-05-18
Towards the Knowledge Economy: The Technological Innovation and Education Impact on the Value Creation Process
Emerging as one of the most important corporate assets, there is evidence that, in some developed countries, the impact of knowledge capital in the Gross Domestic Product GDP now surpasses the fixed capital. This paper uses quantitative data to broadly qualify the impact of the two main building blocks in...
Tags: Innovation, Education, Knowledge, Information And Communication Technology, University Of Sheffield, Strategy, Knowledge Management, Management, Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2005-12-01
Benchmarking Ethical Performance in the Electronics Supply Chain
In last few years though, the Information and Communication Technology ICT sector's reputation as a "Clean" sector, with highly specified production conditions. Waste and Workers set out to determine how effectively companies in the sector address the social and environmental risks inherent in their supply chains. In addition to benchmarking...
Tags: Supply Chain, Performance, Benchmarking, Electronics, Sector, Information And Communication Technology, Melcrum Publishing, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management
White papers 2005-02-01
Business Strategy Development Meets ICT Strategy
Business development at the strategic level is not an easy task for companies, especially for SMEs. Business strategies change and companies should change their competencies in value chains. A strategy should clarify the methods and activities required of a changing business. The utilization of different ICT solutions requires understanding of...
Tags: Information And Communication Technology, Business Strategy, VTT, Strategy, Management
White papers 2004-04-30
The Business Model: A Means to Understand the Business Context of Information and Communication Technology
The business model concept is becoming increasingly popular, within traditional strategy theory, Information and Communication Technology ICT research, and in the emergent body of literature on e-business. However, the concept is often used relatively independently from theory, meaning model components and interrelations are relatively obscure. This paper proposes an outline...
Tags: Business Model, Lund University, Information And Communication Technology, Business Model Concept, Strategy, Management
White papers 2001-09-01
Teleworking and Transport: A Study of the Determinants of the Propensity to Telework and Its Intensity
Teleworking, or work at a distance from the usual place of work, using Information and Communication Technology ICT is a type of behaviour which is attracting increasing
Tags: Information And Communication Technology, University Of St Andrews, Strategy, Management
White papers 2004-06-01
How Rapidly Advancing Nations Can Prosper In The Information Age: Leveraging Information And Communications Technologies For National Economic Development
Globally, the use of Information and Communication Technologies ICT continues to rise sharply. The overview of this series, "How nations thrive in the Information Age," describes research findings where the world's nations occupy one of three tiers: the most advanced "Established Leaders," the heterogeneous middle tier of "Rapid Adopters" and...
Tags: Nation, Information And Communication Technology, Strategy, Management
White papers 2007-02-01