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Infrastructure Considerations for Deploying Unified Communications in a Private Cloud: Businesses are adopting an expanding array of communications and collaboration applications, which is increasing costs and causing implementation, management and operational challenges for IT. Private cloud takes advantage of convergence technologies to optimize the delivery of services to end users as well as to steer the IT organization into a services-focused role.
Strategic Analysis of the Passenger Vehicles (PV) Market in India: The Indian PV market is the second fastest-growing market in the world after that in China. With low-cost products and strong dealership networks, Indian original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) hold a major share in the all the passenger vehicles (PV) market segments. In the Indian automotive industry, about 70.0 percent of the sales is contributed by two-wheelers, while the passenger vehicles (PV) segment contributes to 16.2 percent.
VoIP Market in India: VoIP or Internet Telephony is a term denote the collection of technologies that utilizes the packet-switched connections of Internet to exchange voice data. This technology allows numerous users to send information over the same line, providing a more efficient utilization of the telecommunications infrastructure.
Top Trends in Health Information Management: The health information management (HIM) function is at the center of major challenges, including the transition to electronic health records (EHRs) and the pending switch to the ICD-10 coding system, that impact today’s healthcare marketplace. Professionals working in the health information management (HIM) capacity are focused on the proper collection, management, use, and storage of patient information—namely, the medical record and related documents, especially with regard to billing and reimbursement.
IT landscape of Insurance Players: Rise in working class population and growing disposable income is driving the insurance sector in India. This highly dynamic sector can be primarily segregated into Life and Non-Life Insurance segments. Off-late, insurance companies have forayed into the internet space and have identified online sales as one of their most important sales channel.
How to think about the Unthinkable: Taboos are a universal feature of social systems. Even the most avowedly open-minded organizations place tacit constraints on what can be said and even thought. Business leaders ignore these constraints at their peril.
Corporate Reputations- Built in or Bolted on?: While there is widespread support for the notion that organizations with better reputations outperform their rivals, there is uncertainty about how to create such a reputation, especially among the managers responsible for this task.
The global family business Challenges and drivers for cross-border growth: Globalization has become an imperative and is no longer avoidable as a strategic choice for family businesses. However, globalization strategies are far from the norm among small and medium-sized family enterprises.
Quality-based Price Discrimination: Evidence from Internet Retailers Shipping Options : Shipping, handling, and delivery services are an integral part of catalog and internet retailing. With the growing volume of e-commerce, the management and pricing of shipping services have become crucial tasks for internet retailers. Recent research has focused on how retailers split total price of a good into a base price and a shipping fee, how they use shipping fees to raise customer acquisition and retention rates as well as purchase quantities.
Multiformat Digital Products: Consumers often face situations in which they can choose among different product formats or buy a bundle of these formats. Music can be purchased on CD, streamed online, or downloaded in an MP3 format; books and newspapers are offered in print and electronic formats; and movies are available as DVDs or for download.
Building a better business school: In a fast-moving commercial world, it makes sense that business school education is also constantly changing. Yet in contrast to the MBA students who graduated before 2007, recent alumni are embarking on their careers at a time when confidence in the business world has been shaken badly.
A new digital reality enters the MBA classroom: On a chilly, sun-splotched Monday morning earlier this month, 16 MBA students at Boston University School of Management ambled into Room 326, known internally as “the studio”, to discuss the topic of the day: cars and cloud computing.
Economy Slows Applications to Europe's Business Schools: The European currency crisis is claiming another victim: the M.B.A student. Having spent decades building up globally competitive business schools, the Continent is finding that tough economic times are cutting into their yields. Applications at two-thirds of Europe's business schools fell last year after rising steadily for years, according to the Graduate Management Admission Council, which administers the common entrance exam for business schools.
Berlin business school appoints next dean: Accounting professor Stefan Reichelstein has been appointed dean of ESMT, the German business school set up by many of Germany’s largest corporations. He will leave Stanford to move to Berlin in June 2012.
Innovation and creativity move to the heart of the curriculum: When US President Barack Obama announced his $447bn American Jobs Act in September, an ambitious plan to create work across the country, entrepreneurship was a key component of the proposed legislation. The aim was to accelerate the pace of innovation and the success of entrepreneurs who have historically been responsible for virtually all new job growth across the US.
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