Why Japan and Korea Are Leading in the Mobile Business Industry
Why Japan and Korea Are Leading in the Mobile Business Industry ~ CELLULAR PHONE SUBSCRIBERS have passed the 1.6 billion mark in the world, with 180million in the United States as of March 2005. Several leading cellular phoneservice providers have chosen Korea and Japan as a testing ground to assess theeffects of third generation (3G) [...]
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Contactless Technology for Secure Physical Access: Technology and Standards Choices
Contactless Technology for Secure Physical Access:Technology and Standards Choices ~ Contactless Cards Provide Advantages for Physical AccessContactless cards are increasingly accepted as the credential of choice forcontrolling physical access. They are both robust and flexible, giving securityprofessionals the ability to reduce maintenance costs, improve employee produc tivity and increase security.Contactless smart cards offer advantages to [...]
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How to write a Java Card applet: A developer’s guide
How to write a Java Card applet: A developer’s guide ~ This article walks you through the process of creating a simple electronic wallet applet and provides directions for building an applet and constructing itscode. If you need a refresher on the basics of Java Card technology, refer to the March 1998 Java Developer column, [...]
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Smart Card Application Development Using the Java Card Technology
Smart Card Application Development Using the Java Card Technology ~ Agenda □ Overview of Smart Cards□ Introduction to Java Card Technology□ Developing a Java Card Applet□ Summary□ Q&A… Smart Card Overview □ Small, plastic card with embedded integrated circuitry □ Same size as magnetic stripe card□ Portable, tamper-proof computer□ High level of security□ Physical and [...]
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The Sensemaking Process and Leverage Points for Analyst Technology as Identified Through Cognitive Task Analysis
The Sensemaking Process and Leverage Points for Analyst Technology as Identified Through Cognitive Task Analysis ~ There are a relatively few open literature reportsthat provide empirical descriptive studies of intelligence analysis and that link these into thecontext of expertise and work. This paper, basedon first results from a cognitive task analysis andverbal protocols give a [...]
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Empowering the Faculty: Mentoring Redirected and Renewed
Empowering the Faculty: Mentoring Redirected and Renewed ~ The concept of quality improvement has been incorporated into higher education within the lastdecade. Incumbent with this concept is the empowerment of college and university faculty to harnesstheir unique talents and skills and promote their professional growth. For years, business and industryhas applied the philosophy and principles [...]
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Physical Activity Promotion in Business and Industry:Evidence, Context, and Recommendations for a National Plan
Physical Activity Promotion in Business and Industry:Evidence, Context, and Recommendations for a National Plan ~ Background: The contemporary workplacesetting is in need of interventions that effectively promote higher levels of occupationaland habitual physical activity. It is the purposeof this paper to outline an evidence basedapproach to promote physical activity in thebusiness and industry sector in [...]
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Leveraging diversity to maximum advantage :The business case for appointing more women to boards
Leveraging diversity to maximum advantage :The business case for appointing more women to boards ~ Women bring a different perspective to decisionmaking. Yet where that perspective is, arguably,needed most, on boards, women are noticeablyunder represented. In this article, Ivey’s Dean, whosits on several boards, makes a strong andcompelling case for why there should be morewomen [...]
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Workplace bullying: Escalated incivility
Workplace bullying: Escalated incivility ~ The time has come to treat workplace bullyingthe same as sexual harassment or racialdiscrimination, to identify the perpetrators,establish rules of conduct and penalties, and evenpass laws prohibiting and penalizing bullying. Thisauthor, an expert on the subject, draws acompelling picture of workplace bullying andsuggests a blueprint that can help employersreduce or [...]
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The neglected receiver OF KNOWLEDGE SHARING
The neglected receiver OF KNOWLEDGE SHARING ~ Knowledge sharing has become a legitimate and important organizational activity, and over thelast five years companies have been inventing many ways to make knowledge sharing happen,e.g., collecting lessons learned, building yellow pages to help employees find colleagues whomight have answers, conducting site visits. These many practices allow teams [...]
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Purchasing must become Supply management
Purchasing must become Supply management ~ The stable way of business life many corporatepurchasing departments enjoy has been increasinglyimperiled. Threats of resource depletion and rawmaterials scarcity, political turbulence and government intervention in supply markets, intensifiedcompetition, and accelerating technological changehave ended the days of no surprises. As dozens ofcompanies have already learned, supply and demandpatterns can [...]
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Introduction to e-Manufacturing
Introduction to e-Manufacturing ~ For the past decade, the impact of web-based technologies has added “velocity” to the design, manufacturing,and aftermarket service of a product. Today’s competition in manufacturing industry depends not just onlean manufacturing but also on the ability to provide customers with total solutions and life-cycle costs forsustainable value. Manufacturers are now under [...]
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