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Theme 2: Information Communication Technology,
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The Role of ICT in Bridging
the Gap Between Strategy to Execution |
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Narine
Abazian, Head of Business
Planning and Financial Analysis Division |
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ArmenTel, Armenia |
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A strategic business plan is a tool helping the
top management of a company to assess the economic
viability of a strategy and its related development
plans. It is a compulsory tool for justifying and
setting the financing of future investments. A
business plan based on a financial model simulating
future activities designed for reaching strategic
objectives. In order to develop the company strategy,
we have to do overall analysis and form alternative
variances to select the best one. |
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The Business Plan model is a computer tool, generally
a spreadsheet, where all input data, calculation
and output data are stored. It is a precious strategic
information system for the whole company. |
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Nowadays, Information Systems can be from data
processing to Decision Support and Executive Information
Systems. There are many computer packages: automated
and manual for preparation Strategic Business Plan.
These packages are used across all industries,
including manufacturing, service, public sector
and non-profit organizations. |
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This article presents the construction of a Business
Plan for telecommunication companies, using ICT.
This is a good example of strategic implication
of Information Systems. |
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A Business Plan model can be used not only for
companies, or for a specific project in a limited
area, or for a specific range of services, mobile,
e-business, etc, but can be used for a whole country,
which is becoming more important in our knowledge-based
society. |
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Human Resource Planning & Control
for Energy Industry in Libya: Meeting the
Challenge |
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Satya Pal Bindra, Hussein
Lahmar, and Nagia M. Bouazzi |
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Margeb University,
Civil Engineering Department |
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Al-Garaboli, Libya |
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In recent years, oil & gas price driven
crisis has led to mergers and acquisitions
resulting in to permanent loss of over 200,000
jobs in exploration and production (E&P)
alone during the last ten years. The increased
competition for energy industry professionals
has dramatically increased & would remain
so in the years to come. Improvement in the
quality of human resource planning and control
leading to job turn-over reductions is vital
to achieve prevention oriented and problem
free administration of oil & gas industry
in Libya. This paper presents a background,
need, structure and content of a unique body
of knowledge relating to the job turn-over
reduction planning and control using information
and communication technology aspects of case
study energy industry related organizations
as key players in Libya. |
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This paper briefly describes the design of
a detailed comprehensive survey using an in-depth
survey questionnaire and interviews for limited
case study organizations to identify and further
investigate the factors and factor interactions
that contribute to the success of job turn-over
reduction in Libya. A benchmarking survey is
also conducted by gathering information across
several companies to define priorities for
action and improvement targets. The objective
is not only to highlight the importance of
the quality of job turn-over reduction planning,
organizing, directing and control but also
focus on key issues by analyzing HR value chains
to address strategic, operational and other
challenges of industry. |
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Analysis of data gathered through a comprehensive
questionnaire surveys from professional respondents
in case study energy industry related organizations
in Libya demonstrates that there is need for
paying adequate attention to attracting, nurturing
and retaining the right talent. This would
require organizations to predict the needs
for competencies to match rapidly emerging
business needs, develop new culture and structure,
review job design, procedures, performance
management and job turn-over reduction policies
in order to save money, time and effort. |
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BPO: The Precursor
of Digital Firms |
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Kakul Agha, Faculty
Member |
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Department of Business
Studies, Middle East College of Information
Technology |
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Knowledge Oasis Muscat,
Sultanate of Oman |
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The concept of BPO is explained by analyzing
primarily the Asian developing countries’ economy
and the market situation. Outsourcing has been
recently clubbed together with the advanced use
of information technology to invent a tool called
BPO, which is the act of giving a third-party
the responsibility of running what would otherwise
be an internal system or service. Typically,
companies that are looking at business process
outsourcing are hoping to achieve cost savings
by handing the work to a third-party that can
take advantage of economies of scale by doing
the same work for many companies. Or perhaps
the cost savings can be achieved because labor
costs are lower due to different costs of living
in different countries. |
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The question is where are we heading to? Are
the businesses utilizing the nth advantage of
BPO also or are they leaving something to be
done in the ‘brick and mortar’ rooms
of an organization? |
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My research paper probes into the possibilities
and the likelihood of BPO being the precursor
of a totally digital firm that adopts a new business
model, the functions and activities of the management
that are spread globally, communicate, share
and disseminate information required to operate
successfully, on a habitual basis. The tasks
are completed regionally but outputs and profits
are generated globally. |
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Electronic Commerce in Africa:
Challenges, Prospects and Policy Considerations |
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Wole Olatokun, Professor |
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Africa Regional Centre
for Information Science |
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University of Ibadan, Nigeria |
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The paper starts with an overview on globalization
and ICTs and then explores the links between the
two and the emerging world that such linkage is
evolving. It argues that globalization is not only
enabled by ICTs but that the level of connectivity
of a country determines to a large degree the possibility
of its benefiting from the globalization process.
Then it gives an overview of the concept of e-commerce,
types and the reasons for its low uptake globally.
Next, it gives the state of development of e-commerce
technologies in Africa, and the provisions of e-commerce
in African countries ICT policies. It later reviews
the constraints in the application of e-commerce,
and assesses Africa's position within the context
of cyberspace. It submits that Africa is poorly
positioned in cyberspace as to benefit from e-commerce
occasioned by globalization. Next, the paper projects
what the future holds for Africa with regard to
e-commerce. |
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The paper then discusses the IT policy considerations
pertinent to e-commerce growth in Africa as well
as the implementation strategies to be adopted
especially in the areas of infrastructure development,
human resource development, appropriate legislation,
gender considerations, institutional framework,
etc. It recommends a framework for integrating
e-commerce issues in the IT policies of African
nations. The paper concludes by making a clarion
call on national Governments in Africa and other
relevant stakeholders to put the necessary machinery
in place for Africans to reap the full benefits
of e-commerce. |
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64-bit .NET e-portal Applications
for e-learning and e-science |
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Victor Chang, Researcher/Developer/Tester |
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University of Southampton,
United Kingdom |
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This is one of the first comprehensive 64-bit
.NET research to be completed in a British
University. The objective is to investigate
(1) the techniques to develop 64-bit applications;
and (2) how 64-bit computing can be used for
e-Learning and e-Science communities. |
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This paper is focused on an emerging technology
for e-Learning and e-Science communities --
a 64-bit .NET e-portal application, and its
functionality, development and technical implementation
are described. Currently, additional troubleshooting
is required to make .NET Framework 1.1 working
in stable ways on 64-bit Windows operating
systems. After stabilizing .NET environment,
the next step is the application development,
which is a dynamic repository with functions
such as registration, download, login-logout,
product submissions, database storage and statistical
reports. The technology is based on Visual
Studio .NET 2003, .NET 1.1 Framework with Service
Pack 1, SQL Server 2000 with Service Pack 4
and IIS Server 6.0 on the Windows Server 2003
Enterprise x64 platform with Service Pack 1. |
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The 64-bit .NET e-portal integrates further
with Java Web Services, and a demonstration
described in this paper can show how different
types of services can work in harmony. Furthermore,
the interdisciplinary area between e-Learning
and e-Science has been investigated and in
the process of further integrations. As an
example for such integration, the 64-bit .NET
e-portal is also an illustration for (1) the
methods of technical implementations and (2)
cost-effectiveness; and these two issues are
also among the current research interests in
e-Learning. Finally, the new insights identified
by this paper have also achieved the two objectives:
(1) learning about emerging technology and
(2) understanding how Web Services can complete
jobs. |
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