1. ICT APPLICATION TOOLS - INTRODUCTION ICT has beyond doubts made huge contribution to the development of hospitality and tourism services. Due to the advancement in technology‚ the fierce competition and also due to the complexity of the hospitality and tourism markets‚ organizations from all over the world now depend almost on the use of ICT to plan‚ manage and market their services. There was a time when organizations would depend on using effective BPOs also known as call-centres to reach
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Cross-cultural differences impact all interactions. Today we are going to look at how they impact the organization within a business. Many readers may not quite be here yet. But I thought this would be interesting to look at. Are There Differences? What makes an international business different? Does an international business function differently from one that is not international? Are there international growing pains? Apart from the legalities of operating an international company‚ it
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Specific/ diffuse Internal/ external Time CULTURE DIMENSIONS’ IMPACT ON MANAGEMENT PRACTICES 5 Safety vs. risk Individual rewards vs. group rewards Centralized decision-making vs. decentralized decision-making: Informal procedures vs. formal procedures. High organization loyalty vs. low organization loyalty: Cooperation vs. competition Short terms horizons vs. long-term horizon Stability vs. innovation: BUSINESS STRATEGIES 6 Ethnocentric Parochial Synergetic CONCLUSION
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6th Oct - 19 Oct‚ 2008 Volume 4‚ Issue 12 A Fortnightly publication from the Office of the Vice-Chancellor PS Opens Phase II of the Arts Complex he Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education‚ Prof. Karega Mutahi o ff i c i a l l y o p e n e d K e n y a t t a University Phase II of the Arts Complex on September 26th‚ 2008. The Phase II of the Arts Complex constructed at the cost of Ksh. 39 million has 69 offices to be used by Deans‚ Chairmen and Lecturers from various schools‚ one lecture
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taken the business community by storm since the early 1990s. When the community realised the potentiality of the Internet they hailed it as the most transforming invention in history. It has the ability to completely change the way business is being done. And‚ it is doing so at a feverish pace‚ turning business upside down and inside out (The Economist 1999). Information Technology (IT) experts went on to use the Internet technology to spin off the Intranet and Extranet to enhance business competition
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Merika Alexander 16/9/13 Management of Business Globalization and its impact on Caribbean business organizations . Globalization is an economic process in which the barriers between countries which have both positive and negative effects are decreased or removed altogether and there is interaction among different countries brought about by dramatic advances in technology and
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Introduction Business environment is the combination of all centralized and peripheral aspects that affects a corporation. Both external and centralized aspects can repercussion each other and endeavor together to influence a corporation. The business environment includes some elements like clients and suppliers‚ competition and owners‚ technology‚ government initiatives and market‚ social and economic trends. The internal factors are that impact the approach and success of the company’s operations
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Appendices Appendix 1a p.14 – 17 Appendix 1b p. 18 – 21 Appendix 2 p. 22 & 27 Reference Reference p. 29 & 30 Image Cited p. 30 & 31 1a) Information and Communication Technology Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Hospitality and Tourism industry can be explain in two parts. Firstly‚ it simply means information like‚ time of flights‚ rates of hotel rooms‚ availability of seats and making of reservations being done through technology means. The technology
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119 THE IMPACT OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ON THE GLOBAL ECONOMY Niki Geiersbach Abstract With the dawn of globalization‚ international business is becoming increasingly popular. Multinational organizations are among the most profitable in the world. A company needs to be aware of the language and culture of the country where it plans to embark with its investment. Politics and laws of the nation can either make international business easy or hard. With the success of international business‚ its future
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Rodriguez‚ Paul Angelo R. Orata‚ Ma. Leah Uy‚ Richie Maximillan Pangilinan‚ Erika IT1041 The article that we are going to give a reaction paper about is entitled “Current and Future Trends in ICT” by Gordon Segal. Basically the topic talks about the progress and changes in the field of IT and ICT. It gives information on what has become and what are the things that must improve more. Not to mention the facts it gives that others need to focus also for it may be a great contribution upon the
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