McKinsey Global Institute May 2013 Disruptive technologies: Advances that will transform life‚ business‚ and the global economy The McKinsey Global Institute The McKinsey Global Institute (MGI)‚ the business and economics research arm of McKinsey & Company‚ was established in 1990 to develop a deeper understanding of the evolving global economy. Our goal is to provide leaders in the commercial‚ public‚ and social sectors with the facts and insights on which to base management and policy
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BCS HIGHER EDUCATION QUALIFICIATIONS BCS Level 4 Certificate in IT April 2010 EXAMINERS’ REPORT Computer and Network Technology This report is for Sections A and B of the paper. It consists of two sections: 1. Overall comments 2. Detailed questions’ report 1. Overall comments As in previous sittings‚ many candidates did not follow instructions and accordingly did not encircle the question numbers at the front of their scripts. Candidates failed to write the question number at the top
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Introduction to Information Systems Engineering Information Systems Engineering Introduction – Why do Systems Fail? Background to systems development • Central criticism of information systems has been (and still is) that: many systems do not do what their users require and thus fall into disuse require and thus fall into disuse. • In order for a system to be considered successful it needs to meet quality and productivity targets Productivity targets • The system is delivered
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Kaptai Dam (Bengali: কাপ্তাই বাঁধ) is located on the Karnaphuli River at Kaptai‚ 65 km upstream from Chittagong in Rangamati District‚ Bangladesh. It is an earth-fill embankment dam with a reservoir (known as Kaptai Lake) water storage capacity of 6‚477 km³. The primary purpose of the construction of the dam and reservoir was to generate hydroelectric power. Construction was completed in 1962. The generators in the 230 MW power station‚ called Karnafuli Hydroelectric Power Station‚ were commissioned
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Technology in Banking Towards Improving Business Performance and Customer Engagement Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (Established by Reserve Bank of India) Banking Technology – Towards Improving Business Performance and Customer Engagement resources |2 Foreword Technology today has become synonymous with banking and Indian banks have put in place a fairly strong infrastructure to leverage its benefits. IT has made a visible difference in the functioning
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Nokia outlines new strategy‚ introduces new leadership‚ operational structure London‚ UK – Nokia today outlined its new strategic direction‚ including changes in leadership and operational structure to accelerate the company’s speed of execution in a dynamic competitive environment. Major elements of the new strategy include: - Plans for a broad strategic partnership with Microsoft to build a new global mobile ecosystem; Windows Phone would serve as Nokia’s primary smartphone platform. - A
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broadening their business focus. Treacy and Wiersema identify three "value-disciplines" that can serve as the basis for strategy: operational excellence‚ customer intimacy‚ and product leadership. As with driving forces‚ only one of these value disciplines can serve as the basis for strategy. Treacy and Wiersema’s three value disciplines are briefly defined below: Operational Excellence: Strategy is predicated on the production and delivery of products and services. The objective is to lead the industry
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India’s Information Technology Sector: What Contribution to Broader Economic Development?( Nirvikar Singh Professor of Economics University of California‚ Santa Cruz Santa Cruz‚ CA 95064‚ USA First Draft: October 2002 Abstract What contribution can information technology (IT) make to India’s overall economic development? This paper offers some perspectives that can help answer this question‚ using concepts and analysis from economic theory. It examines the theory
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Effectiveness of the Leadership Operational Team Ajibola Omisore Strayer University Dr‚ Browder Coates BUS 520 December 1‚ 2012 Describe Branson’s leadership style in terms of the leadership models addressed chapter ten and eleven. Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is an English business entrepreneur. The man is best recognized for his Virgin Group. Branson has more than four hundred companies; at age sixteen he started his first business adventure. It was a magazine called “Student." Since
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is a globally accepted standard for digital cellular communications. What is GSM? If you are in Europe‚ Asia or Japan and using a mobile phone then most probably you must be using GSM technology in your mobile phone. GSM stands for Global System for Mobile Communication and is an open‚ digital cellular technology used for transmitting mobile voice and data services. The GSM emerged from the idea of cell-based mobile radio systems at Bell Laboratories in the early 1970s. The GSM is the name of a
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