Despite the hyperbole, there are many examples that prove that business use of the Internet is not always profitable, the bursting of the dot.com bubble aside. Now, a Tunisian researcher reports in the International Journal of Technology Marketing that while unique use of the technology is not enough to generate competitive value, there are approaches...
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A report to be released at a pivotal global meeting on agriculture finds that transforming the agriculture agenda to meet the challenges of a warmer, environmentally-degraded world of 9 billion people will require changes “as radical as those that occurred during industrial and agricultural revolutions of the 19th and 20th centuries.” Tags: 19th and...
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“Quiet corruption” – the failure of public servants to deliver goods or services paid for by governments – is pervasive and widespread across Africa and is having a disproportionate effect on the poor, with long-term consequences for development, according to a new report from the World Bank. Tags: africa development, africa region, agriculture sectors,...
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Open Innovation is a term promoted by Henry Chesbrough, a professor and executive director at the Center for Open Innovation at UC Berkeley, in his book Open Innovation: The new imperative for creating and profiting from technology. The concept is related to user innovation, cumulative innovation, Know-How Trading, mass innovation and distributed innovation. “Open innovation is a paradigm that assumes that firms...
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A pharmaceutical company based in a West Africa country has asked you to write a proposal for their internet/web strategy. The company specialises in making drugs from plant extracts. Their distribution network is composed of wholesalers in about 5 West African countries. To date this network is functioning very well. Their suppliers are based...
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You have just joined a Bank as an investment analyst. One of your first tasks is to explain the difference, if any, between e-commerce and e-business. Your senior manageress is particularly concerned that many of the Bank’s clients are not clear about this distinction. She is worried that they may be developing the wrong...
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Jeffrey Sachs, Special Advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General and Director of Columbia University’s Earth Institute, says: “Mobile communication is perhaps the single most transformative technology for rural African villages to improve access to health care and education, create new business opportunities and access to markets, and ultimately to help eradicate extreme poverty. Tags:...
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