because it is shared with entrepreneurs and businesses alike which is job and employment creation. Secondly‚ social enterprises provide employment opportunities and job training to segments of society at an employment disadvantage (long-term unemployed‚ disabled‚ homeless‚ at-risk youth and gender-discriminated women). 2. Innovation / New Goods and Services Social enterprises develop and apply innovation important to social and economic development and develop new goods and services. Issues addressed
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provides high speed broadband internet and related services. It also provides landline service in 93 cities across India. It also launched its DTH services in 2008 and is present in more than 150 cities now. The Enterprise Services division provides a diverse portfolio of services to large Enterprise and Carrier customers. This division is further divided into two unite: Carrier business unit and Corporate business unit. The Corporate Business Unit provides end to end telecom solutions to India’s large
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5 IT INFRASTRUCTURE AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES Management Information Systems CHAPTER 5: IT INFRASTRUCTURE AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES IT Infrastructure • IT infrastructure: – Set of physical devices and software required to operate enterprise – Set of firmwide services including: • • • • • • Computing platforms providing computing services Telecommunications services Data management services Application software services Physical facilities management services IT management
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property of their respective owners. “Enterprise architecture deals with the design and implementation of the high-level structure of the enterprise. It is the result of assembling a certain number of architectural elements in some well-chosen forms to satisfy the major functionality and performance requirements of the system‚ as well as some other‚ nonfunctional requirements such as reliability‚ scalability‚ portability‚ and availability. Enterprise Architecture‚ from a business perspective
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This is especially helpful to large enterprises with thousands of employees because their HR departments are usually spread around the globe‚ and eliminates wasted time trying to find information‚ and cuts cost between inter-departmental groups. PeopleSoft tracks all the information pertaining to each employee‚ such as their benefits‚ payroll‚ pension‚ and stock allowances. Since this information is stored in a central location‚ it is possible for other enterprise applications‚ such as Microsoft’s
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environmental benefits A social enterprise is an organization that applies commercial strategies to maximize improvements in human and environmental well-being‚ rather than maximising profits for external shareholders. The idea of social enterprise has a long history around the world‚ though under different names and with different tendencies.[5] Whilst many social enterprises will today accept finance and other forms of support from the state‚ they are essentially enterprises that seek independence from
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communities‚ cooperatives and philanthropists will be introduced. Then‚ definitions of SE extant literature will be presented. Two significant streams in the definition of SE are derived‚ one is social innovation (SI) and the other one is social enterprise organisation (SEO). Following this a synthesised definition of SE is suggested as an umbrella term for any “entrepreneurial activity with an embedded social purpose” (Austin‚ Stevenson‚ & Wei-Skillern‚ 2006). 1. Historical background 2. Definitions
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Business Strategy Introduction • Founded in 1977 by Larry Ellison‚ Oracle is a relational database management company whose products are used in many Fortune Global 100 companies • It underwent a few name changes before finally settling on Oracle Corporation so as to mirror its successful flagship product‚ Oracle database • Oracle is publicly traded on the Nasdaq and has grown globally having offices in more than 145 countries with over 80‚000 employees worldwide • It provides a number of
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manner” (Desa and Kotha‚ 2006). This feature – i.e. the twin cornerstone of intentionally addressing a social need and safeguarding a financial return – associate them to social enterprises (SEs)‚ that are commonly defined as those organizations that have primary social objectives‚ but seek to achieve them through forms of enterprise and trading (Austin‚ Stevenson and Wei-Skillern‚ 2006; Haugh‚ 2007). SE’s disruptive idea is the ability to generate a new business model that grounds on the provision of goods
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Social Business * Tahmid Md. Istiaq Arman Social Business was first defined by Nobel Peace Prize winner Prof. Muhammad Yunus‚ as a non-dividend company that is created to address and solve a social problem. In a social business‚ the investors/owners can gradually recoup the money invested‚ but cannot take any dividend beyond that point. The purpose of the investment is purely to achieve one or more social objectives through the operation of the
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