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Author | : Diane Poulin |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2020-06-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 152755404X |
The arrival of Information and Communication Technology may play a role in restoring competitiveness, since these technologies are also a factor in relaxing the constraints specific to SMEs. ICT makes a number of services possible in a large range of processes and transactions within and between companies. Internally, ICT applications can improve knowledge and information management practices; they can also allow more rapid and more reliable transactions between businesses (B2B) and between businesses and consumers (B2C). They are equally quite effective in improving external business communications and service quality for both new and existing clients. They also appear to be a source of competitive advantage for SMEs under certain conditions. Few studies have focused on the ways that SMEs can use ICT to improve and defend their competitive positions. This book provides a synthesis of the advantages of ICT for SMEs. Seven chapter illustrate the technologies used in such companies. Each of these chapters provides a theoretical and/or practical view of the way that SMEs can use ICT. This book is an indispensable reference for both academics and for practitioners.
Author | : Suresh Chandra Satapathy |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 2019-10-03 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9813296909 |
This book presents high-quality papers from the Third International Conference on Smart Computing and Informatics (SCI 2018−19), organized by the School of Computer Engineering and School of Computer Application, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, from 21 to 22 December 2018. It includes advanced and multi-disciplinary research on the design of smart computing and informatics, focusing on innovation paradigms in system knowledge, intelligence and sustainability that have the potential to provide realistic solutions to various problems in society, the environment and industry. The papers featured provide a valuable contribution to the deployment of emerging computational and knowledge transfer approaches, optimizing solutions in varied disciplines of science, technology and health care.
Author | : Management Association, Information Resources |
Publisher | : IGI Global |
Total Pages | : 1687 |
Release | : 2020-01-03 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 179981761X |
Smaller companies are abundant in the business realm and outnumber large companies by a wide margin. To maintain a competitive edge against other businesses, companies must ensure the most effective strategies and procedures are in place. This is particularly critical in smaller business environments that have fewer resources. Start-Ups and SMEs: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is a vital reference source that examines the strategies and concepts that will assist small and medium-sized enterprises to achieve competitiveness. It also explores the latest advances and developments for creating a system of shared values and beliefs in small business environments. Highlighting a range of topics such as entrepreneurship, innovative behavior, and organizational sustainability, this multi-volume book is ideally designed for entrepreneurs, business managers, executives, managing directors, academicians, business professionals, researchers, and graduate-level students.
Author | : Koh, S.C. Lenny |
Publisher | : IGI Global |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2009-01-31 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1605664251 |
Informs today's business managers of important ICT strategy in changing business environments, techniques for effective ICT development, and ICT challenges for the future.
Author | : María Otero |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Introducing a new direction for microenterprise finance, contributors argue that one can create sustainable and viable financial institutions that give the poor greater access to financial services. Covering Asia, Africa, and Latin America, the cases outline successful programs such as: the Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI); BancoSol in Bolivia; the Association of Solidarity Groups in Colombia; and the Kenya Rural Enterprise Programme.
Author | : Harry Bouwman |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2005-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781412900904 |
Presenting an overview of the most important factors that determine whether the application of ICT in organizations will succeed or fail, this text pays attention to technical, organizational and economic perspectives as well as examining psychological and user perspectives.
Author | : Nagy K. Hanna |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2009-12-11 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1441915087 |
Private enterprises in advanced economies have been learning to use information and communication technology (ICT) to innovate and transform their processes, products, services and business models, significantly improving productivity and competitiveness. Moreover, the ICT industry itself has become a major source of job creation and a contributor to economic growth and business transformation. A key question today is whether and how developing countries can learn to benefit from the ICT revolution, and what roles the government and private sector can play. Already, a number of developing countries have been inspired by the example of India and China, and are now seeking to jump on the outsourcing bandwagon. Nevertheless, with few exceptions in the developing world, little attention has been paid by policymakers and practitioners to invest systematically and proactively in ICT-enabled growth, poverty reduction and grassroots innovation. Most communities and small and medium-sized enterprises in developing countries, for example, face multiple constraints to adopting and leveraging this general purpose technology, and lack the capabilities for maximizing its potential. In "Enabling Enterprise Transformation", Nagy Hanna draws on his rich experience of over 35 years at the World Bank and other aid agencies as a development strategist and ICT policy expert, the most current research, and best practices from around the world to provide practical tools for promoting economic and social transformation through ICT. He assesses various initiatives to develop and diffuse ICT, such as innovation funds, incubators, parks, public-private partnerships, and comprehensive promotion programs. He argues for the strategic options now open for developing countries to participate in ICT production, to deploy ICT to transform industries and services, and to leverage ICT as a new national infrastructure for improving the business environment and enhancing the competitiveness of the whole economy. The challenge for leaders in developing countries is to create such social and institutional dynamics for learning about ICT use and adaptation at many levels. Lessons gained so far from programs to build these social learning and innovation capabilities at the institutional and grassroots levels should be shared among developing countries, and a dialogue among business leaders, policymakers, development agencies, educational institutions, and the general citizenry must be advanced.
Author | : Edith Ofwona Adera |
Publisher | : IDRC |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 1552505391 |
'ICT Pathways to Poverty Reduction' presents a conceptual framework to analyse how poverty dynamics change over time and to shed light on whether ICT access benefits the poor as well as the not-so-poor. Essential reading for policymakers, researchers, and academics in international development or ICT for development.
Author | : Clare Broome Saunders |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2009-02-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 023061857X |
Saunders uniquely explores how women poets, biographers, historians, and visual artists used medieval motifs, forms, and settings to enable them to comment more freely on controversial contemporary issues, such as war and gender roles.
Author | : Meliha Handzic |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2005-01-19 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9812567127 |
This book discusses the role of technology in managingknowledge. Based on the most recent research and experience, the bookbrings together, in a logical sequence, diverse information andcommunication technologies and systems currently seen in knowledgemanagement research and practice, incorporating the most important andrepresentative examples into an integrated framework. With its largelyempirical focus, the book provides much needed evidence regarding thetrue potential of technology for managing knowledge in organizations.