Information and Communication Technology and Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
Information and Communication Technology and Small and Medium Sized Enterprises

Author: Diane Poulin

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2020-06-01

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 152755404X

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The arrival of Information and Communication Technology may play a role in restoring competitiveness, since these technologies are also a factor in relaxing the constraints specific to SMEs. ICT makes a number of services possible in a large range of processes and transactions within and between companies. Internally, ICT applications can improve knowledge and information management practices; they can also allow more rapid and more reliable transactions between businesses (B2B) and between businesses and consumers (B2C). They are equally quite effective in improving external business communications and service quality for both new and existing clients. They also appear to be a source of competitive advantage for SMEs under certain conditions. Few studies have focused on the ways that SMEs can use ICT to improve and defend their competitive positions. This book provides a synthesis of the advantages of ICT for SMEs. Seven chapter illustrate the technologies used in such companies. Each of these chapters provides a theoretical and/or practical view of the way that SMEs can use ICT. This book is an indispensable reference for both academics and for practitioners.

Smart Intelligent Computing and Applications
Smart Intelligent Computing and Applications

Author: Suresh Chandra Satapathy

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-10-03

Total Pages: 704

ISBN-13: 9813296909

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This book presents high-quality papers from the Third International Conference on Smart Computing and Informatics (SCI 2018−19), organized by the School of Computer Engineering and School of Computer Application, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, from 21 to 22 December 2018. It includes advanced and multi-disciplinary research on the design of smart computing and informatics, focusing on innovation paradigms in system knowledge, intelligence and sustainability that have the potential to provide realistic solutions to various problems in society, the environment and industry. The papers featured provide a valuable contribution to the deployment of emerging computational and knowledge transfer approaches, optimizing solutions in varied disciplines of science, technology and health care.

Start-Ups and SMEs: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Start-Ups and SMEs: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

Author: Management Association, Information Resources

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2020-01-03

Total Pages: 1687

ISBN-13: 179981761X

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Smaller companies are abundant in the business realm and outnumber large companies by a wide margin. To maintain a competitive edge against other businesses, companies must ensure the most effective strategies and procedures are in place. This is particularly critical in smaller business environments that have fewer resources. Start-Ups and SMEs: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is a vital reference source that examines the strategies and concepts that will assist small and medium-sized enterprises to achieve competitiveness. It also explores the latest advances and developments for creating a system of shared values and beliefs in small business environments. Highlighting a range of topics such as entrepreneurship, innovative behavior, and organizational sustainability, this multi-volume book is ideally designed for entrepreneurs, business managers, executives, managing directors, academicians, business professionals, researchers, and graduate-level students.

The New World of Microenterprise Finance
The New World of Microenterprise Finance

Author: María Otero

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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Introducing a new direction for microenterprise finance, contributors argue that one can create sustainable and viable financial institutions that give the poor greater access to financial services. Covering Asia, Africa, and Latin America, the cases outline successful programs such as: the Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI); BancoSol in Bolivia; the Association of Solidarity Groups in Colombia; and the Kenya Rural Enterprise Programme.

Information and Communication Technology in Organizations
Information and Communication Technology in Organizations

Author: Harry Bouwman

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2005-05

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9781412900904

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Presenting an overview of the most important factors that determine whether the application of ICT in organizations will succeed or fail, this text pays attention to technical, organizational and economic perspectives as well as examining psychological and user perspectives.

ICT Pathways to Poverty Reduction
ICT Pathways to Poverty Reduction

Author: Edith Ofwona Adera

Publisher: IDRC

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1552505391

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'ICT Pathways to Poverty Reduction' presents a conceptual framework to analyse how poverty dynamics change over time and to shed light on whether ICT access benefits the poor as well as the not-so-poor. Essential reading for policymakers, researchers, and academics in international development or ICT for development.

E-Strategies for Technological Diffusion and Adoption: National ICT Approaches for Socioeconomic Development
E-Strategies for Technological Diffusion and Adoption: National ICT Approaches for Socioeconomic Development

Author: Kamel, Sherif

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2010-06-30

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 1605663891

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E-Strategies for Technological Diffusion and Adoption: National ICT Approaches for Socioeconomic Development provides comprehensive coverage and definitions of the most important issues, concepts, trends, and technologies related to the adoption, diffusion, and adaptation of national electronic strategies for ICTs in socioeconomic development.

Women Writers and Nineteenth-Century Medievalism
Women Writers and Nineteenth-Century Medievalism

Author: Clare Broome Saunders

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-02-02

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 023061857X

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Saunders uniquely explores how women poets, biographers, historians, and visual artists used medieval motifs, forms, and settings to enable them to comment more freely on controversial contemporary issues, such as war and gender roles.