Essays on Intranet

Amazon.com Inc. is an American E-Commerce company based in Seattle, Washington. It was founded in 1995 by Jeff Bezos and provides a platform upon which consumers can easily access and purchase books and other products such as CDs and DVDs online. The company was started to capitalize on the opportunity for online retailing as internet services grew across the global market. Amazon.com is one of the most cited companies with respect to business-to-customer e-commerce as its domain; amazon.com attracts over 600 million online customers annually (Shier 4). The company operates based on a mass marketing business model which aims ...

Introduction

HRIS is an essential tool in large corporations as it helps in connecting HR management with all departmental roles. Technology is the key tool that connects organization systems and HR software. The HRIS allows the human resource management activities and process to be carried out electronically. The electronic systems and software enable the organization to undertake different activities such as management, accounting, and payroll. HRIS aims in increasing efficiency in decision making by HR (Martin, 2006). The decisions made are essential in increasing quality and productivity of both the human resource manager and employees. Furthermore, it offers different solutions ...

A & F Ltd.: Integrating Learning into Mashup Implementations

I. Introduction Organizations are learning differently. Compared to a conventional model by which individuals, work groups and whole organizations used to learn new business processes, current business practice has opened up new potentials for company-wide learning enabled by ICT platforms and applications. The growing collaboration, communication and sharing learning (and fun) experiences in current business practice is, indeed, both evolutionary and revolutionary. The learning behavior of operating businesses is evolutionary by phasing out older modes of learning (e.g. formal professional development, meetings and water cooler chats) and implementing similar platforms and applications (e.g. interactive, collaborative, user-friendly wikis). Thus, by ...

Introduction

This is an individual business research report that focuses on the Philip Morris International Corporation (PMI). This paper will critically analyze the corporate elements of the company and evaluate the various strategies employed by Philip Morris (PMI). The critical analysis will culminate in the identification of gaps that would be utilized in drawing a set of recommendations for the company.

Corporate History and Background

PMI is an American company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. It is known for producing and marketing cigarettes and tobacco around the world. PMI is a conglomerate of four major cigarette and tobacco companies including Sampoerna, PMFTC ...

Session

HRIS is a system of acquiring, storing, manipulating, analyzing, retrieving and distributing the organization's human resource information. It does not only include software and hardware in its functioning, but it also includes data, procedures, policies, forms and people. Its primary purpose is to deliver services which are in the form of timely and accurate information. Governments, non-profit organizations, and business in the world rely on the Human resource information systems which aid in the process of sharing information, re-engineering efforts and downsizing. The HRIS assist the human resource professionals in achieving various human resource objectives. The paper will discuss ...

E-recruiting may be referred as effective and a successful application in the area of e-commerce as it provides the HR director of each organization with the possibility of reaching the large pool of potential experts for fulfillment of the available vacancies. More than that, the capacity of the advanced tools of e-recruiting has provided the employers with an option of prompt and effective identification of the skillful experts and in such manner, they are able to establish the long-term relations with the potential and promising employees. Among the core advantages of the practical application of the e-recruiting methods by ...

Proposal Recommendation

Executive Summary Over the last decade, our school district has done an excellent job in keeping up with the latest in all of technological trends, accelerating the knowledge and computer skills of our students. Such knowledge and computer skills have afforded many of our schools with high rankings, as is compared to our closest counterparts. We have been known to set a trend that is not always the most popular. Yet in spite of such lack of popularity, we are able to account in a compensatory manner. For example, our choices have always tended to prove to be the ...

Introduction

The current paper presents the proposal for the deployment of windows server in Contoso. The plan for the effective implementation and configuration for Windows Infrastructure is also enlightened. It is implied that the company possesses adequate capital for the effective deployment of the Windows network infrastructure due to which the proposal is focused to present the effective plan rather than incorporating the extreme cost efficient measures.

Features of Windows Server 2012

The features of Windows Server 2012, as inferred by Carvalho (2012), are discussed below:

Multi-server Support

A new and redesigned server is introduced in which cloud concept is incorporated so that server manager can manage ...

Background

The case “Solving a disciplinary Action Problem over the Internet” features two individuals: Roy Jackson and Jim Orrin. Roy is a district sale manager whereas Jim is a top sale representative. Jim has a problem of alcohol abuse, and he often comes to the office drunk. Roy, the district sales manager, is unable to confront Jim because he is just a recent graduate and Roy has been working for the company for the past eight years. Faced with uncertainty on how to face Jim’s alcohol abuse case, Roy checks on the firm’s intranet business program “Management Advisor/ ...

Executive Summary

An in-depth analysis of the New Zealand’s auto industry reflects that establishment of an auto parts business focusing on the import and supply of all parts of Japanese made cars will be successful in the country. New Zealand greatly relies on used car imports from Japan to meet the local need for higher ownership levels. The planned venture will be located in Auckland, New Zealand. It proposes to import auto parts of Toyota and Nissan in the initial phase of market positioning. In the entry phase, the organization will particularly try to meet the needs of Toyota and ...

Introduction

Netflix is one of the leading companies in internet streaming industry with extremely aggressive growth strategy in its domestic and international market. Singapore is one of the strategic locations for the organization, which allows access not only to the large and technologically advanced market in the country but also to North Korea and other regions within the East and South East Asian Market (Netflix, 2015). Singapore growth strategy is based on competitive pricing and aggressive differentiation strategy, where Netflix offers own original content and plans to expand production on Singapore local market (Peng, 2015).

Job Analysis

The purpose of this study ...

Abstract

In this paper, the author identifies at least three security-related threats and various recommendations how they can be addressed. So far, there were three man security threats that were identified. The first one was the outdated-ness of GFI’s front end system. The recommendation for this was for GFI to invest more in the creation of a team that would develop a dynamic, high quality, and more secure front end system, one that is suited to today’s speed and design standards. The second risk was the presumed use of a common cryptographic passphrase for all of its departments. ...

Executive Summary

The background for this paper is the analysis of the "Large Technology Company" referred to as LTC hereafter. The paper looks at the LTC's requirements for an ERP system recommends a suitable ERP solution for the company. Due to the growing complexity of the business environment in most industries and the increased globalization and the resulting internationalization, managing and utilizing information effectively is very important for the success of modern companies. Managing the whole operations requires IS that can integrate both external and internal information into readily available and usable forms. ERP systems are being used by many companies ...

The following data is an attempt to give an idea about the types of hardware and software that small businesses may require to meet their functional needs. This work does is not based on any specific category of business but contains a brief note on the technical requirements of all businesses in general. Computer and Devices: The computing requirements of small offices are usually limited to Excel sheets or Word processing softwares and occasional powerpoint presentations. For using such small application suites office computers need not possess high grade processors or storage space. But some small offices might need ...

Essay synopsis

Introduction to Management Introduction The management challenges are those problems with that the manager and administration make hard struggles to come up with the solutions. Most of the field experts and research studies have found that most business problems and challenges are usually derived from the lack of communication or unorganized communication (Njomo 38). Drucker (17, 18) has stated in his book that the management challenges are not new but they have been remained a part of the organisations and business from decades. Some of the major challenges include technology, leadership, creativity, innovation and competitive advantage. These challenges are ...

Introduction

This project will examine the portfolio of the Virgin Group in relation to their stakeholder marketing processes which helps in targeting specific classes of clients. This will be done in two parts:

Part 1: The evaluation of communication approaches and methods used to target various stakeholders and

Part 2: An application of IT Skills and Business Software applications to produce a portfolio of stakeholder marketing communication materials used by the Virgin Group.

Part 1: Stakeholder Communication in Virgin Group

Communication is a system through which an organisation codifies a message, transmits it to a given receiver and the receiver decodes the message, internalises it and takes action. Communication is important in sharing ideas, information or emotions from one entity to another. ...

Implementing Cyber-Security: Best Practices at Work

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Proposed Solutions 6 Annotated Bibliography 8 Memorandum 11

References 14

Executive Summary The internet brings forth a world of social connectivity, growth and endless innovation opportunities. These have been hastened by the advent of mobile applications and computing. The sudden surge in technology has changed the way we communicate to the way we travel. While some see the beneficial side of technology, others see an opportunity to do harm. These individuals, states or groups present a cyber-threat to anyone who uses the internet. Nothing they are involved in is new; espionage is not new and so is activism ...

Importance of Online Communication in Business

Abstract Globalization has compelled many businesses to realize the importance of communication within the workplace as well as outside the business. Communication plays an eminent role in the business success. The modern business environment has changed the traditional communication trend. Now, businesses have shifted towards the internet. Communication effectiveness is depended on numerous factors such as Clarity of the message; the medium used for transferring information like the internet, email correspondence; Eliminating any distortion that hinders effective communication; and the receiver ability to decode the message. Email correspondence is different from the verbal conversations so the words must be ...

Communication

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The Functions and Tools of Corporate Communications.5 Regulation of Basic Communication Strategies.7 Internal Communications System8 References..10 There is no company that would be competitive and holding the leading positions in the market without a flexible dynamic system of communication links. In recent years, the term “communication of the company” was confirmed in professional language. It is used in different contexts, but in any case it is the modern and systematic approach to solving the traditional problems – advertising, design and marketing. Currently, there is no doubt that modern communication is a fundamentally new phenomenon that creates new values, changing ...

The key aspect of e-business is its focus on digitization of business processes. The universal connectivity permitted by the growth of the internet and a standardized way of communicating across different computing platforms is shifting the balance of importance from the physical world to the digital world.

Fundamentally, e-business is a broader concept and it is concerned with using the internet and related technologies to integrate and redesign an organization’s internal activities, processes and external relations, and create new ways of working that are significantly different from, and very often far superior to, what was possible (or conceivable) in the ...