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E-MOBILE
How
Wireless Changes the Way we Work
- - AT Kearney
Wireless
technologies have transformed the manner in which organizations
interact with their customers. They help organizations reduce
costs, increase productivity and flexibility in their operations.
This article describes how wireless networks can transform
the way corporates communicate, distribute and sell their
products and services to the consumers. To achieve such transformation
successfully, firms need to define their objectives, involve
a wide range of people in charting a course to achieve those
objectives and pilot every aspect of the implementation.
© 2004 AT Kearney. All Rights Reserved. Reprinted with permission.
Originally published as "Tracking Disruption: How Wireless
Changes the Way We Work".
E-MOBILE
Wireless
LANs - Total Cost of Ownership
The
use of wireless Local Area Networks (LAN) in traditional offices
has increased significantly. However, most wireless LANs do
not have an architecture that is scaleable and are unable
to realize the benefit of the existing infrastructure network.
This article suggests leveraging the existing wired infrastructure
to control the total cost of ownership of a wireless LAN deployment.
© 2004 Cisco Systems, Inc. Reprinted with permission.
DATA
WAREHOUSING
Real
Time Decision Support
- - Greg Barnes Nelson and Jeff Wright
Real
time decision support is a strategy that focuses on solving
business problems that cannot be solved by data warehousing
systems alone. Real time decision needs a highly flexible
architecture to support it. This article discusses such architecture
and explains how it can help in moving the right data to the
right people, enabling quality near real time decisions. It
suggests a framework that supports low- cost, incremental
improvement in information architecture and at the same time
optimizing business processes to enable information transparency
across the organization.
© 2004 SAS Institute Inc. Reprinted with permission. The article
is originally published as "Real Time Decision Support: Creating
a FlexibleArchitecture for Real Time Analytics".
E-GOVERNANCE
Sarbanes-Oxley
and Corporate Governance
- - Robert Boll, Jane Perkins, Edward Barker and Paul Garcy
With
organizations becoming Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliant, there
has been a radical shift in power and accountability away
from the management of an organization to its corporate board
and shareholders. This shift will have a significant impact
on the role of CIOs, enabling them to interact more and at
the same time influencing them to deliver the required information
to the organization's board. This article provides insights
into the actions that CIOs must take to improve their interaction
with corporate boards to implement an active oversight of
IT.
© 2004 AT Kearney. Reprinted with permission. Originally published
as "Beyond SOX: Keeping Up with Corporate Governance Changes".
E-LAWS
Software
Patenting
- - Radha Mohan Chebolu
Industry
analysts have voiced the need to frame a comprehensive Patents
Act in India, which can promote creativity in the software
industry. This article brings forth various perceptions about
the core issues that took the shape of the "Free Software
Movement" in the US. It also makes an attempt to trace the
impact of software patenting on creativity/innovation, and
the ethical dimensions behind it. The position of the Indian
software industry in the global scenario with a focus on India's
contribution is also discussed in the article.
© 2005 IUP. All Rights Reserved
CASE
STUDY
ERP
Implementation Failure at HP
- - Ruchi Chaturvedi and Vivek Gupta
This
case gives a detailed account of the failure of an ERP migration
project at the US-based HP, a leading computer hardware and
information technology company. The case traces the history
of ERP implementations at HP and presents the rationale behind
the decision to migrate to a centralized ERP system. It details
the circumstances that led to the ERP migration failure and
also examines the damage control efforts made by the company.
The case highlights the barriers to successful ERP migrations
including project management issues, poor contingency planning
and cultural issues.
© 2005 ICMR. All
Rights Reserved. For accessing and procuring the case study,
log on to www.ecch.cranfield.ac.uk or www.icmrindia.org.
BOOK
REVIEW
Seeing
What's Next
- - Clayton M Christensen, Scott D Anthony and Erik A Roth
This
book with the help of several proven theories like Disruption
Innovation Theory, VCE Theory and RPV Theory helps in visualizing
the future of a company and take steps for its betterment.
Issues like which technologies consumers are likely to embrace,
how entrants are affecting incumbents, how government regulations
affect competitive battles, which company will emerge as the
leader have been explained in detail. Case studies on five
industries including aviation, education, semiconductor, health
care and telecommunications are covered.
© 2004 Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation. All
Rights Reserved. IUP holds the copyright
for the review.
INTERVIEW
"We
want to drive our content to every place and every platform
on the planet."
- - Sumner M Redstone
Summer
M Redstone is the Chairman and the CEO of Viacom, one of the
biggest media and entertainment company in the world. In the
interview, Summer discusses how the business model in the
global media industry is changing, resurgence of advertising
business, strategic investments made by Viacom, future directions
for Viacom and the trends in the global media industry.
© 2004 Accenture. All Rights Reserved. Reprinted with permission.
This interview originally appeared in Outlook Vol. XVI, No.
2, June 2004, an Accenture publication. |
