This white paper analyzes how retailers can leverage social media across the entire value chain, from sourcing through arrival on the shelf.<br />
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This white paper poses four key questions that companies need to ask today to add elasticity to their businesses. The questions focus specifically on how more flexible IT service <span style="line-height: 1.6em;">delivery and management can power new business structures and generate competitive advantage. In particular, it </span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">explores the underlying elastic digital architecture (EDA), which is powered by foundational technologies that is referred to as the </span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">SMAC stack (social, mobile, analytics and cloud).</span>
This research report reveals the transformative impact of e-business on industry value chains, offering vital strategies for companies across seven major industries to navigate the digital era successfully.
This research report found that social media’s importance to business is growing rapidly, business leaders want to embrace this change but lack tangible metrics to make the case for it, both small and large companies see the potential advantages but mid-sized companies do not, and the adoption rate is higher in tech and media industries. What does this have to do with you? Read On!
This white paper discusses that CSPs that want to take advantage of the paradigm shift from a closed world of telecommunications networks to the open internet environment, need to provide a more personalized communications experience. In order to benefit from the emerging revenue streams this shift creates, CSPs need to
This research report explores the use of social media for business use to find that "there remains a significant gap between expectation and reality when it comes to social media."
This presentation makes the case for CIO leadership in web 2.0 – first, it lays the foundation through a discussion on best practices that lead to successful communities and then illustrates them through case studies. CIOs have a real opportunity to get a seat at the table by learning, communicating and implementing the business value of web 2.0
This primer introduces e-payments – what is electronic funds transfer? what are the various types of electronic payments, and how do they work? what are some common applications that enable electronic payments? how do payment cards work? how do payment systems work? what are the benefits and challenges in electronic commerce?
This primer introduces electronic business value framework (EBV) which helps an organization identify, select and fund e-commerce opportunities based upon their potential for business value creation.
This paper presents a framework to facilitate e-commerce adoption in an economy using culture, policy and technology and recommends a three pronged approach for its implementation.
