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People:
Heart of the Organization
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| Customers come in a variety of shapes,
sizes and behaviors. And to satisfy them all requires not just
exceptional skills but also employees who are motivated, competent
and knowledgeable. To succeed in todays fast paced business
environment, companies need to ensure that their most valuable
assets, their employees have access to critical information
and applications and are motivated and proud to handle their
responsibilities well....More |
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Trends
in Visitor Relationship Management
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| Visitor Relationship Management
or VRM as it is called in short form, is the art of creating
a good relationship with your customer (that is, the visitor
on your site) by understanding his requirements and providing
him with the information that he's looking for....More |
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Enabling
your Key Services as Web Services
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| Traditional computing
tasks like database access and commercial transactions once
connected to the Internet using web services will allow for
total automated backend B2B integration....More |
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How
to Ensure Business Growth Through Business Process Reengineering
for the Internet
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However, with the development
of web services and secure transactions on the Internet, the
prospect of looking at redesigning entire business processes
for the web is now not only possible, but is increasingly becoming
a necessity for survival.
The reasons are not far to seek. Hyper competition, shrinking
business
cycles, commoditization of products and services, organizational
complexity and the WTO has all played a part. These pressures
have resulted in companies looking not just at identifying and
reorganizing key processes for speed, but in fact doing away
with (eliminating /outsourcing) entire processes/sub processes
that don't add value.....More |
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XML
Data : Beyond the Hype
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XML databases may not
come in with all guns blazing and kill the traditional databases,
but they do present some very bright possibilities for those
of us who can look beyond the hype and apply the technology
where it can deliver the goods.
XML is an evolving standard and is actively pursued and promoted
by some of the biggest names in the industry. These companies
maintain that XML has the potential to transform existing information
systems on the web, into a far more comprehensive, result centered
and universally accessible enterprise solutions.
Eventually all companies may use XML to manage their web based
data, the difference between truly leveraging the power of XML
and merely being an also ran will come from how quickly and
effectively one can convert their existing data into XML usable
formats.....More |
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Think
e-business, not website - strategy leads and online presence
follows
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For every one site that
has gone on to truly leverage the power of the
Internet to create a powerful online brand, there are ninety-nine
others that have invested millions and sunk without a trace.
Why have they succeeded when so many others have failed or continue
to struggle? In a word: strategy. Each of these organizations
developed a clear-cut and focused vision of what they hoped
to accomplish on the Web, which tools and services they needed
to reach those goals, and then they executed them in concert
with that strategic blueprint......More |
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Predicting
the Open Source Eclipses
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The open source world
has come a long way in evolving from command line-based geeks
operating systems to a powerful competitor for the commercial
giants of the industry. With its philosophy of openness in quality
and ownership it has won a huge following and has gathered momentum
to the size of more than 20,000+ developers around the world
participating in different
aspects voluntarily.....More |
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Automate
Order Management
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| Read about how automating
order management and lowering inventories in your e-commerce
business can help increase productivity. ....More |
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Strategies
for Sucessful e-recruiting
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| A description of a web-enabled
recruiting solution for the HR industry. An application that
fits into an Employee relationship management package and serves
Performance evaluations etc ...More |
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Managing
Successful Outsourcing Relationships
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| In a recent study involving
medium and large US business, IDC estimated that while IT spending
over the next 5 years is expected to increase at a compounded
rate of 4.6%, the spend on outsourcing of services will increase
at a rate of 22%. Read on to discover why ...More |
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Solutions
for Communities of Interest
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| This article explains
what a community portal is. What the growth curve for a community
on the web means and where such virtual communities are headed....More |
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