The Business of Platforms

The Business of Platforms
Author: Michael A. Cusumano
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2019-05-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0062896334

A trio of experts on high-tech business strategy and innovation reveal the principles that have made platform businesses the most valuable firms in the world and the first trillion-dollar companies. Managers and entrepreneurs in the digital era must learn to live in two worlds—the conventional economy and the platform economy. Platforms that operate for business purposes usually exist at the level of an industry or ecosystem, bringing together individuals and organizations so they can innovate and interact in ways not otherwise possible. Platforms create economic value far beyond what we see in conventional companies. The Business of Platforms is an invaluable, in-depth look at platform strategy and digital innovation. Cusumano, Gawer, and Yoffie address how a small number of companies have come to exert extraordinary influence over every dimension of our personal, professional, and political lives. They explain how these new entities differ from the powerful corporations of the past. They also question whether there are limits to the market dominance and expansion of these digital juggernauts. Finally, they discuss the role governments should play in rethinking data privacy laws, antitrust, and other regulations that could reign in abuses from these powerful businesses. Their goal is to help managers and entrepreneurs build platform businesses that can stand the test of time and win their share of battles with both digital and conventional competitors. As experts who have studied and worked with these firms for some thirty years, this book is the most authoritative and timely investigation yet of the powerful economic and technological forces that make platform businesses, from Amazon and Apple to Microsoft, Facebook, and Google—all dominant players in shaping the global economy, the future of work, and the political world we now face.

Digital Governance

Digital Governance
Author: Michael E. Milakovich
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2021-09-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000456218

The application of digital information and communication technologies (ICTs) to reform governmental structures and public service is widely and perhaps naively viewed as the 21st century "savior", the enlightened way to reinvigorate democracy, reduce costs, and improve the quality of public services. This book examines the transition from e-government to digital governance in light of the financial exigencies and political controversies facing many governments. The chapters concentrate on strategies for public sector organizational transformation and policies for improved and measurable government performance in the current contentious political environment. This fully updated second edition of Digital Governance provides strategies for public officials to apply advanced technologies, manage remote workforces, measure performance, and improve service delivery in current crisis-driven administrative and political environments. The full implementation of advanced digital governance requires fundamental changes in the relationship between citizens and their governments, using ICTs as catalysts for political as well as administrative communication. This entails attitudinal and behavioral changes, secure networks, and less dependence on formal bureaucratic structures (covered in Part I of this book); transformation of administrative, educational, and security systems to manage public services in a more citizen-centric way (covered in Part II); the integration of advanced digital technologies with remote broadband wireless internet services (Part III); and the creation of new forms of global interactive citizenship and self-governance (covered in Part IV). Author Michael E. Milakovich offers recommendations for further improvement and civic actions to stimulate important instruments of governance and public administration. This book is required reading for political science, public administration, and public policy courses, as well as federal, state, and local government officials.

GovTech Maturity Index

GovTech Maturity Index
Author: Cem Dener
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2021-10-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1464817650

Governments have been using technology to modernize the public sector for decades. The World Bank Group (WBG) has been a partner in this process, providing both financing and technical assistance to facilitate countries’ digital transformation journeys since the 1980s. The WBG launched the GovTech Initiative in 2019 to support the latest generation of these reforms. Over the past five years, developing countries have increasingly requested WBG support to design even more advanced digital transformation programs. These programs will help to increase government efficiency and improve the access to and the quality of service delivery, provide more government-to-citizen and government-to-business communications, enhance transparency and reduce corruption, improve governance and oversight, and modernize core government operations. The GovTech Initiative appropriately responds to this growing demand. The GovTech Maturity Index (GTMI) measures the key aspects of four GovTech focus areas—supporting core government systems, enhancing service delivery, mainstreaming citizen engagement, and fostering GovTech enablers—and assists advisers and practitioners in the design of new digital transformation projects. Constructed for 198 economies using consistent data sources, the GTMI is the most comprehensive measure of digital transformation in the public sector. Several similar indices and indicators are available in the public domain to measure aspects of digital government—including the United Nations e-Government Development Index, the WBG’s Digital Adoption Index, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Digital Government Index. These indices, however, do not fully capture the aspects of emphasis in the GovTech approach—the whole-of-government approach and citizen centricity—as key when assessing the use of digital solutions for public sector modernization. The GTMI is not intended to be an assessment of readiness or performance; rather, it is intended to complement the existing tools and diagnostics by providing a baseline and a benchmark for GovTech maturity and by offering insights to those areas that have room for improvement. The GTMI is designed to be used by practitioners, policy makers, and task teams involved in the design of digital transformation strategies and individual projects, as well as by those who seek to understand their own practices and learn from those of others.

National EHealth Strategy Toolkit

National EHealth Strategy Toolkit
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Health planning
ISBN: 9789240689657

Worldwide the application of information and communication technologies to support national health-care services is rapidly expanding and increasingly important. This is especially so at a time when all health systems face stringent economic challenges and greater demands to provide more and better care especially to those most in need. The National eHealth Strategy Toolkit is an expert practical guide that provides governments their ministries and stakeholders with a solid foundation and method for the development and implementation of a national eHealth vision action plan and monitoring fram.

OECD Digital Government Studies The E-Leaders Handbook on the Governance of Digital Government

OECD Digital Government Studies The E-Leaders Handbook on the Governance of Digital Government
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 107
Release: 2021-12-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9264619879

The digital transformation of public sectors, economies and societies is generating challenges as well as opportunities for governments. Robust public governance is needed to respond to these challenges, reap the full benefits of digital and data-driven government, and encourage a holistic, systemic transformation.

Citizenville

Citizenville
Author: Gavin Newsom
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2014-01-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0143124471

“A fascinating case for a more engaged government, transformed to meet the challenges and possibilities of the twenty-first century.” —President William J. Clinton A rallying cry for revolutionizing democracy in the digital age, Citizenville reveals how ordinary Americans can reshape their government for the better. Gavin Newsom, the lieutenant governor of California, argues that today’s government is stuck in the last century while—in both the private sector and our personal lives—absolutely everything else has changed. Drawing on wide-ranging interviews with thinkers and politicians, Newsom shows how Americans can transform their government, taking matters into their own hands to dissolve political gridlock even as they produce tangible changes in the real world. Citizenville is a timely road map for restoring American prosperity and for reinventing citizenship in today’s networked age.

Comprehensive Guide to IBPS Bank PO/ MT Preliminary & Main Exams with PYQs & 100+ Hours Video Course 11th Edition | 4 Online Tests | 5000+ MCQs | Fully Solved

Comprehensive Guide to IBPS Bank PO/ MT Preliminary & Main Exams with PYQs & 100+ Hours Video Course 11th Edition | 4 Online Tests | 5000+ MCQs | Fully Solved
Author: Disha Experts
Publisher: Disha Publications
Total Pages: 766
Release:
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9355649983

The updated and revised 12th edition of "Comprehensive Guide to IBPS-CWE Bank PO Exam" powered with PYQs & 100+ Hours video course & 4 Online Tests has been designed strictly for the IBPS Bank PO Prelim & Mains Exams. The book includes: # This new edition incorporates new chapters/ variety of questions as per the latest IBPS PO exams. # This new edition further removes chapters that are no longer relevant for the exam. # The book covers all the sections of the Preliminary & Main PO Exams: English Language, Quantitative Aptitude, Data Analysis & Data Interpretation, Reasoning Ability, Computer Aptitude, Banking knowledge & General Awareness and Current Updates. # The book provides well illustrated theory with exhaustive fully solved examples for learning. # This is followed with an exhaustive collection of solved questions in the form of Exercise. # The book incorporates last 9 years IBPS PO question papers with solutions in the respective chapters. # A total of 5000+ MCQs with 100% explanations to Quant, Reasoning & English sections. Study material for Banking/ Economics Financial Awareness with Past years’ Questions & Practice Questions is covered in the book. # Also cover high level questions on recent IBPS PO exam pattern. # The book provides 100+ Hours of Video Course in Quant, Reasoning, English & GK developed by a team of Disha Experts. Link provided in the Book. # This book further provides 4 Online Tests - 2 Prelim and 2 Main Exams which will provide you the right exposure and practice for the exam. Link provided in the Book.

Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology

Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology
Author: Mehdi Khosrow-Pour
Publisher: IGI Global Snippet
Total Pages: 4292
Release: 2009
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781605660264

"This set of books represents a detailed compendium of authoritative, research-based entries that define the contemporary state of knowledge on technology"--Provided by publisher.

Strategic Approaches to Digital Platform Security Assurance

Strategic Approaches to Digital Platform Security Assurance
Author: Bobbert, Yuri
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2021-05-21
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1799873692

Nowadays it is impossible to imagine a business without technology as most industries are becoming "smarter" and more tech-driven, ranging from small individual tech initiatives to complete business models with intertwined supply chains and "platform"-based business models. New ways of working, such as agile and DevOps, have been introduced, leading to new risks. These risks come in the form of new challenges for teams working together in a distributed manner, privacy concerns, human autonomy, and cybersecurity concerns. Technology is now integrated into the business discipline and is here to stay leading to the need for a thorough understanding of how to address these risks and all the potential problems that could arise. With the advent of organized crime, such as hacks and denial-of-service attacks, all kinds of malicious actors are infiltrating the digital society in new and unique ways. Systems with poor design, implementation, and configurations are easily taken advantage of. When it comes to integrating business and technology, there needs to be approaches for assuring security against risks that can threaten both businesses and their digital platforms. Strategic Approaches to Digital Platform Security Assurance offers comprehensive design science research approaches to extensively examine risks in digital platforms and offer pragmatic solutions to these concerns and challenges. This book addresses significant problems when transforming an organization embracing API-based platform models, the use of DevOps teams, and issues in technological architectures. Each section will examine the status quo for business technologies, the current challenges, and core success factors and approaches that have been used. This book is ideal for security analysts, software engineers, computer engineers, executives, managers, IT consultants, business professionals, researchers, academicians, and students who want to gain insight and deeper knowledge of security in digital platforms and gain insight into the most important success factors and approaches utilized by businesses.

OECD Digital Government Studies Digital Government Review of Romania Towards a Digitally Mature Government

OECD Digital Government Studies Digital Government Review of Romania Towards a Digitally Mature Government
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 121
Release: 2023-12-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9264578846

The Digital Government Review of Romania evaluates the efforts made by the government to transition towards digital government. It provides in-depth analysis and actionable policy recommendations to improve institutional governance, digital investments, digital talent and skills, government service delivery and the strategic use of data, including open government data.