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Role of Information Technology in Enabling
E-Governance
-- Anchal Singh
The advent of Information Technology (IT) has transformed the way people live,
communicate and work. It has been seen that while private companies are able to reap the advantages
of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for improving their business, the
government is lagging behind in terms of offering services to the people. The typical features like
bureaucracy and unwillingness to change the public domain have caused much criticism regarding
the government services and the possible outcomes with regard to government and
citizen relationships leading thereby to low public participation and trust in government services. It
has come to the notice of public organizations which are seeking ways for improving the
efficiency for rendering better services to their citizen. Across the world, the governments have
started utilizing the potential of technology as a credible solution for delivering online information
and services as it facilitates people to access public services sitting their homes or offices. In
order to take the advantages of E-governance, a rapid transformation is required in terms
of technological changes, management issues and also financial aspects. Hence, this paper
has attempted to address both the issues and challenges in E-governance planning.
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Competitive Advantage Using
Information Systems Outsourcing:
A Framework
-- P Sashikala
Today's competitive and demanding environment has forced players in the marketplace to
be more efficient, to emphasize on a leaner organization and continuously innovate new
procedures to be ahead of competitors. Adding final consumer value to the product or service in the
form of lower prices, quality and better service has become an essential requirement in the
global marketplace. The purpose of this study is to present a theoretical framework for
outsourcing actions as a guideline for companies on why and how to outsource. It gives an insight
into Information Systems (IS) outsourcing as a new and promising trend in the global
environment while presenting the main IS areas of outsourcing as well as its advantages and
disadvantages. In order to effectively implement outsourcing, commitment from top to bottom management,
and understanding of all the stages and implications of outsourcing are required. The results
and overall reasons of outsourcing should focus on adding value to the final consumer of the
product or service. By achieving lower logistic costs and higher level of quality and expertise, the
results can be used to add value to the consumer.
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Advanced Application
of Taguchi's Loss Function
-- Nikhat Afshan and Sunil Bhardwaj
Taguchi's loss function has immensely contributed to reduction of losses incurred by the
society. It has been successfully used in services and manufacturing industries and has helped in
reducing losses caused by variation of desired characteristics. This study shows that its application
in various fields has helped in better decision making, quality improvement and highlighted
its advantages over the traditional theory of quality.
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Integration of Fuzzy and Genetic Algorithm for
E-Readiness
-- L Pradhan, B B Mohapatra, S Dehuri and A K Panda
In this paper, an integrated framework of Fuzzy Logic (FL) and Genetic Algorithms (GAs) is
used to quantify the value of e-readiness of a country. The motivation behind FL for measuring
the e-readiness of a nation is to process heterogeneous indicators with imprecise values.
However, there is a problem of large number of fuzzy rules in utilizing the FL for this purpose. The
number of fuzzy rules is growing exponentially with the number of indicators and the number of
fuzzy sets/linguistic values. Hence, such an intractable problem is very difficult to solve by
deterministic or greedy approaches. Therefore, it is integrating to combine the best attributes of GAs
and FL for optimizing the number of rules, which are plagued with ample local optima.
The effectiveness of the proposed integrated framework is demonstrated using the data
contributed by Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).
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