‘Corporate social innovation'may be an important new business area for private companies and a core driver of innovation'.
The Center for Independent Living, founded in 1972 by disability activists in Berkeley, California, developed technologies such as telecaptioners, text telephones, voice-recognition systems, voice synthesizers and screen readers.
printing, carpet weaving, gardening, furniture manufacture, paper recycling and car washing. The first 9 social cooperatives to be set up employ more than 150 people with mental health problems
and most donors prefer funding projects and programmes rather than core costs. The lack of reliable and sustainable grant funding has left the sector vulnerable to outside shocks
Through this visual display, residents can see their greenhouse gas contributions in the areas of transportation, energy, and waste.
ELECTRIC VEHICLE INITIATIVE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHARGING STATION INFRASTRUCTURE THE CREATION OF CRITICAL MASS AND FOSTERING OF THE AUTOMOTIVE SECTOR OBJECTIVE Users SUPPLIERS Core Government DISTRIBUTION R&d Agents
The best think tanks can act as catalysts, combining research, policy ideas, and prompts for practical innovation in advance of policy change.
which brings people together from all around the world in conversation through the use of Telepresence screens.
A business model that runs parallel to the core idea of the venture and which sets out how it can become sustainable.
which core stakeholders can be incorporated in the structure of an organisation and its processes. These include the constitution
but the goal should always be to find ways for the core finance to come from those who share the venture's mission.
and is held together by a common core of meaning. Transmitters We look at platforms as the nodes of the new economy,
and are reluctant to provide core funding. Grantaided organisations are often the first to suffer in state budget cuts and economic recessions.
and the coverage of core costs. 4 403) Direct funding for individuals, including the grants given by Unltd, The Skoll Foundation,
The study, reflection and policy intervention on this tension is at the core of Amartya Sen's Capability Approach (CA) 13. CA is a way to approach human well-being that posits human freedoms at its core.
we are investigating the role of low-cost distributed and independent manufacturing (e g. 3d printing) in personalised digital-health
which involve directly hundreds of SMES throughout Europe together with many catalysts: local or regional organisations that work with SMES to facilitate the change process.
procuring hardware and /or software tools (installation, training, and subsequent reorganisation), continuous maintenance, servicing costs and telecommunications charges.
Small organisations are reluctant to invest in ICT rather than concentrating the investments in their core business. 2. THE DIGITAL SYSTEMS EVOLUTION
e-business (from 1999) Internet technology has gone far beyond a mere means of electronic transactions becoming a foundation for applications linked to the core business systems,
and includes outsourcing non-core operations, changes in processes and systems, and paying attention to legal and audit considerations.
to guarantee the independence from hardware and software platforms, the highest interoperability and the possibility to reuse the preexisting information and services..
which have become the core of a thriving regional innovation network including incubators, science parks, business centres, venture capitalists, spin-off companies and international R&d intensive 20 companies,
also the firm's ability to attract highly qualified labor force will become one of its core competencies (Bougrain and Haudeville, 2002).
Especially the firms located in peripheral and rural areas are forced often to rely on the generally available information sources due to the lack of relevant local network partners and the inadequateness of public support instruments (cf.
and how those are linked to the data they gather and display. The global rankings that we studied limit their interest to several hundred preselected universities,
which may have negligent or even harmful effects on their performance in core activities. Most of the effects discussed above are rather negative to students, institutions and the higher education sector.
Teaching and learning 3. 3. 1education is the core activity in most higher education and research institutions.
hardware; internet access, including WLAN;(field specific) software; access to computer support Data easily available. 15 Student gender balance Number of female students as a percentage of total enrolment Indicates social equity (a balanced situation is considered preferable.
8 Number of Spin-offs The number of spin-offs created over the last three years per academic staff (fte) EGKTM regards Spin-offs as core indicator.
Experience from the CHE ranking and other field-based rankings show that there is a core set of indicators that is relevant and meaningful for (virtually) all fields.
Similarly some disciplines may see dimensions such as knowledge transfer or regional engagement as less relevant to their core activities.
The table displays the ranking groups (in different colours) representing the relative scores on the indicators.
more and more countries could come in step by step with a core set of indicators used in each ranking.
and at the same time provide a core set of joint indicators that can be used for European and global rankings.
A core set of indicators should be defined, definitions of data concepts should be fixed, standardized elements of data collection tools should be developed.
and monitors their implementation, followed by the National Semester, i e. the implementation of the agreed policies by the Member States.
a core component of the information infrastructure upon which our society is building its own open environment. 2 1 In the following we use data
what Awargal and Weill 27 called softscaling, requiring three core capabilities for companies and their IT units to act as enabling factors for an‘‘empatic''use of information for value creation.
and Hadoop at the core of Nokia's infrastructure. POINT OF ATTENTION: Big data ask for a clear understanding of both IT Portfolio and data asset,
In 2011, Nokia put its central CDH cluster into production to serve as the company's information core.
Furthermore, talent management and employees retention have to be considered as a core target for the success of a Big data strategy.
we have discussed the business challenges of Big data as a core component of the information infrastructure upon which our society is building its own open environment.
Service Models Dhar 4 defines cloud computing as the structure that provides the ability to the users to utilize the hardware, software,
NET) Storage (DB/File) Infrastructure---Computation (VM) Storage (Block) Hardware---CPU, Memory, Disk, Bandwidth Resources Managed at Each Layer Software as a service (Saas) Platform as a service
especially when the company does not have required the experience and the core competence in this field.
and the low level resources requirements such as CPU and memory in order to fulfill all demands. The automated service provisioning has been researched in the past
One example is the usage of energy efficient hardware architecture that allows better utilization of hardware resources such as CPU and memory.
and hardware support. 4. Based on the last point, there will be a possibility of losing the expert employees,
how it grants employees access to physical and virtual assets, how it monitors these employees,
which also called Virtual machine Monitor (VMM). It is a platform that allows multiple OS and related applications (called Virtual machines VMS) to run on a cloud machine concurrently to facilitate sharing of cloud resources.
Innovation New Hardware/Software Experience Fig. 2. 3 Cloud computing supplier selection. Adapted from 19 36 2 Cloud computing necessities.
hardware, programs, processing) would be done by a vendor(‘‘the cloud), ''although responsibility for information technology would be retained by the company.
the TAM constructs are yet a core asset for the development of models, aiming to identify key drivers supporting IT as well as business executives decision making.
Apart from traditional core constructs of TAM (such as perceived ease of Table 3. 3 Constructs and related anchors for perceived ease of use
the positive impact of social influence on perceived ease of use (see Fig. 3. 2), that is one of the core TAM antecedents of behavioral intention;
Considering the specific characteristics of mobile phones (reduced screen size etc.)) and the consequent search costs and constraints, e g.,
which kept applications on corporate servers with only core parts or a subset of an application's code installed on the device, making the other packages available in streaming on the user's mobile device,
Finally, Mobile device Virtualization solutions are a kind of hardware virtualization, allowing, e g.,, the use of two or more operating systems on the same mobile device.
Considering them as a core marketing driver for digital business value, the Chapter discusses the main approaches and tools for sentiment analysis and opinion mining,
therefore strategic if companies want to monitor, identify, evaluate and face the impact of external risks that rise up from social networks and 2. 0 technologies.
an exante marketing intelligence activity let the firms monitor external environment, identify potential threats, evaluate the impact
Examples of these two steps are offered in Table 4. 3. The approach described is structured in two core steps:
such as crystal liquid display and hard drives, and the sales of its participations''None‘‘Alex. Brown and Sons raised the rating he gave to Qwest Communications International,
Always related to localization as a core feature, we point out the increasing relevance and interest into the applications of‘‘Vehicular Participatory Sensing'',in particular for the potential contribution to research and innovation areas such as, e g.
Considering the social listening as a core marketing driver for digital business value, the main approaches and tools of sentiment analysis and opinion mining,
constantly monitor through mining and intelligence techniques the development and evolution of the company perception by inner and outer context users'opinions.
Cost cuts can be achieved by lower spending in hardware and other types of infrastructures, as employees will be more mobile
In other words, instead of focusing solely on securing hardware devices, firms have to concentrate on protecting the corporate data that will be accessed by a range of devices 14.3.
while sharing documents on the screen with other employees at the company. 5. 4. 3 Bring Your Own Device for Vendors An independent contractor for several construction companies can controls his her own schedule while working
and to display, explain and discusses proposed changes by sharing the screen of his her laptop.
Moreover additional colleagues can join the conference calls from their own devices. Furthermore, he she also spends a few minutes browsing the latest news from friends on Facebook.
because it does not provide a physical barrier like opening a notebook to display the screen.
In addition, shoppers may spend too much time looking at the screen of a tablet or phone
there are direct effects for IT consumerization on the existing IT policies and procedures regarding hardware and software failure.
and instant messaging communications by browsing through on-screen contact profiles that are represented by profile pictures and‘‘existence''indicators,
which include conferencing rooms that are enhanced with large-screen digital projectors that are connected to several PCS.
and by using large displays and whiteboards. The previous explained collaboration categories can be illustrated in a form of matrix, in
In contrast, web conferencing software complement EMS with screen-sharing as well as the ability for the voice interaction functionality that is necessary in synchronous online conferences and does not exist in EMS 12.
train team members on using software using screen sharing ability with others; cheap calls on landlines and mobile devices;
These plans should have the ability to monitor crowds actions and on the one hand, to adapt at runtime incentive mechanisms to prevent various negative effects such as free riding,
not only to treat crowd workers as simple sensors or processors, but also to join their human intelligence and creativity.
aiming to engage core customers online and creating a direct dialog 3 Talktalk Business: http://www. talktalkbusiness. co. uk/.4 Vibram:
IT governance, at its core, clarifies accountability, roles, and decision-making. It addresses concerns related to building a responsive development environment
through a transparent agreed process that people monitor to see whether has been followed or not Adapted from 1, 7,
which includes not only the core web team and business stakeholders but also the web managers within the organization and deep and rich support infrastructure that can include legal department, business experts and ICT specialists as well as external vendors.
create, protect, execute and monitor. Thus, they started with seventeen CSFS that they discovered from those studies;
we believe that the proposed six steps (1-Gather a Core Team; 2-Assess What You Have;
its core component at firm level should be developed first. Indeed, when a specific IT governance model is chosen and implemented,
In conclusion, this Chapter has offered some insights into digital governance and, in particular, into the IT governance domain as its core component at firm level
The production of highly innovative software and hardware products has always been the focus of Apple and, traditionally,
and brought to the market hardware and software products with a high degree of innovation, but it has transformed radically its business environment,
which is the core of Apple's business model, allows the company to create and extract value on an ongoing basis
while the core of the banking activity behind it is managed by a traditional Russian Bank (VPB).
and adoption of many other solutions based on the same core algorithms. 10.4 Billguard Billguard 5 is a personal finance security system scanning credit card activity daily for hidden
Mezzanine 6 is a collaborative conference room, enabling multi-user, multi-screen, multi-device interaction both in a physical and virtual meeting space.
The participants of a meeting can contribute with multiple streams of information, connecting to the screens and the distant communication systems seamlessly.
The system allows easy aggregation of all the video signals in the room across a series of displays
programmers, and hardware engineers, committed to Table 10.6 User value indicators Fast learning Yes User interface Good User experience Very good Process impact Low User feedback Very good
The core purpose of Oblong is to find ways to make computers more flexible, capable, interactive,
multi-screen, multi-device computing environments. The core technology platform, called g-speak, enables applications to run across multiple screens and multiple devices.
In Table 10.7 competitiveness appears to be high on time-to-market drivers. The company is solid and growing
and the technology is developing and integrating with more and more partner technologies. The market is interested, especially in design-intensive companies and for advanced decision making activity.
Agents see in real time a display showing customer engagement and distress level providing also feedback on the quality of their own behavior.
As for the digital trends we have considered the business challenges of Big data as a core component of the information infrastructure upon which our society is building its own open environment.
in Chap. 5 we have discussed what can be considered as the core trend of the year,
In this stage, profitability often takes a back seat particularly so for Frontier companies that display a classic J-curve of operating losses in their first few years.
and has made them a core principle of their operating model. High-impact Entrepreneurs Who Transform Industries 11 Magic johnson:
a technology company (its core is a realtime GPS location-based matching and pricing engine),
and securing core customer relationships remains the main channel for impact. An often-overlooked avenue here is to partner with larger firms or incumbents,
Working capital management is a core focus for future investment. Expectation for private equity/VC to drive capital for future expansion Focus on domestic markets in current operations Similar to Young companies,
Three core factors to foster entrepreneurial culture The decision to become an entrepreneur or join an innovative entrepreneurial venture is complex. 13 This analysis focuses on three categories of individual factors that were highlighted in interviews and workshops:
and operate a business is an important complement to the attitude of risktaking and perseverance that successful entrepreneurs display.
I Foster a collaborative culture and organization Steer and monitor degree of openness Attract partners Develop brand for mutually beneficial collaborations Make systematic use of networks to create awareness for own offerings
considering their capacity to manage collaborations without compromising their core fields of work. Developing culture and organization Fostering a collaborative culture and organization Both a soft cultural and a hard organizational component need to be considered:
the camera or the memory card without having to change the entire phone. The approach was made open-source,
Miles Kirby, Managing director of Qualcomm Ventures, responsible for investments in Western and Eastern europe To systematically foster collaboration between large companies and entrepreneurs we have to start with specific topics e g. 3d printing around
Innovation policies are at the core of this process. The government support system for enterprises is easy and simple to use,
Among the innovation-driven economies in the EU-28, The netherlands is the most entrepreneurial economy in terms of new and nascent entrepreneurship according to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor.
and regions. 64 This section presents an overview of the core ideas within the focus,
GEM Consortium (2013), Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. 15. Diedrichs, E. 2013), Do SMES lose their appetite for innovation during the economic crisis?
which provide insights on two core questions: 1) What do entrepreneurs perceive to be the difference between entrepreneurial ecosystems around the globe in terms of the availability of the various pillars that make up an ecosystem?
Vital lessons from nationallevel core competitiveness are adapted for city competitiveness, and vice versa. Thus, several of the report's 12 pillars of competitiveness are drawn upon.
Hard connectivity is the core physical infrastructure connecting people to energy, water and other services.
It is based on the core values that Dubai has established as a society, being sophisticated traditional, tolerant with style and charisma,
including social ethics such as public conduct related to appropriate dress code and display of affection; substance abuse; safe driving;
Dynamic Random access memory DRAM; petroleum refining; and ship repair, which started in the late 1960s) Phase 3 (late 1980s and 1990s):
The core economic problem is sluggish productivity: total-factor-productivity growth has declined since the 1980s.
But the government's overall record puts it in good stead to tackle at least some of these policy challenges though it is unlikely to structurally alter the role of the public sector in the economy. 3. Hard connectivity Singapore has a strong, consistent emphasis on core physical infrastructure.
openness and innovation represent the core values or spirit of Ningbo, and the internal force of the development of the city.
and printing mills and 41,100 power loom units Surat produces 9 million metres of fabric annually,
A How-to-Reform, Whatto-Reform Checklist Institutions (governance or decision-making framework) Display leadership and vision have farsighted a clear
Complements, Not Substitutes Public authorities have to play a leading role in establishing a city's core physical infrastructure its hard connectivity.
and find a way to pay for core infrastructure. But the rest of the city's (expanding) space was allowed to grow organically.
Billions of sensors, screens and devices in conference rooms, living rooms, cars, phones, parks and many other spaces are forming a vast network
Associate Nepal Centre for Economic Development and Administration (CEDA) Ramesh Chandra Chitrakar, Professor, Country Coordinator and Project Director Ram Chandra Dhakal, Executive director and Adviser
Third, think hard connectivity the city's core physical infrastructure. Cities need a mix of planning and organic growth,
It monitors key trends, identifies global risks, charts relationships, addresses gaps in knowledge and recommends ways to address global challenges.
Competitiveness is at the core of this strategy. However, Myanmar's challenges are many and the road to prosperity will be a challenging one.
putting poverty eradication at the core of the SDGS but also recognizing that changing unsustainable and promoting sustainable patterns of consumption
These indicators include measurements of social participation and respect for core human rights, as well as discrimination and the treatment of minority populations and additional environmental indicators.
Nordic countries also continue to perform well overall and display specific areas of improvement. Finland, despite an inclusive social system and a track record of managing resources responsibly, has to address a rather high level of youth unemployment (approximately 19 percent
More specifically, for each country we compute the year-on-year difference, d, in the average score of a core set of 62 Survey questions.
These 123 core questions are all numerical questions of sections II through XI. 6 Practically
The chart on the upper right-hand side displays the evolution of GDP per capita at purchasing power parity (PPP) from 1990 through 2013 (or the period for which data are available) for the economy under review (blue line.
but excludes mobile broadband subscriptions via data cards or USB modems. Subscriptions to public mobile data services
This is a core Government Finance Statistics (GFS) balance that measures the extent to which the general government is
USB modems, mobile hotspots, and other mobile broadband connected devices. Source: International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators 2014 (June 2014 edition) Pillar 10:
and get to the core of understanding big data's risks and rewards. Rebalancing Socioeconomic Asymmetry in a Data-Driven Economy Chapter 1. 6, contributed by Peter Haynes of the Atlantic Council
Sensors embedded in agricultural fields monitor temperature and moisture levels, controlling irrigation systems. Devices in oil fields and deep well rigs track all aspects of drilling
Requirements differ for closed critical networks (such as utilities) and open networks (for example, those that may monitor parking space availability),
In short, one can use metadata about metadata in order to monitor the use of metadata, and with some reasonable confidence one can ensure that only normal and usual analysis operations are being conducted without reference to specific content.
Governments that structure their data resources in this manner can more easily monitor attacks and misuse of all sorts.
far faster than we can by sifting through numbers on a screen. If a picture is worth a thousand words
The first example of that sophistication is on display at a major network of hospitals in the Midwest to address the problem of sepsis the systemic infection of the body which is a constant threat to hospitalized patients.
Organizations that manage big data have an obligation to monitor security device, server, and application logs, all of which generate machine data that provide insight into how,
The rest of this chapter will focus on some core challenges that the authors believe could be particularly problematic
Data controllers and processors can more easily understand and comply with permissions and policies defined for specific data.
Paypal has developed a system that screens payments and combines them with IP ADDRESSES, browser information, and other technical data to identify
The total market for big data hardware, software, and services in 2012 was US$11. 5 billion,
the investments required for scaling technologies (such as processors, storage, database management systems, and analytics) to perform efficiently grow even faster.
it probably makes sense to use only purpose-built hardware. Generic servers may be fine for smaller projects and proofs of concept
but excludes mobile broadband subscriptions via data cards or USB modems. Subscriptions to public mobile data services, private trunked mobile radio, telepoint or radio paging
Mr Grijpink is a member of the core faculty of Mckinsey's leadership program for engagement management.
Executive director Nepal Centre for Economic Development and Administration (CEDA) Ramesh Chandra Chitrakar, Professor, Country Coordinator and Project Director Ram Chandra Dhakal, Executive director and Adviser
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