As the CEO of a social enterprise‚ what lessons would you learn from M-Pesa in term of using IT to serve the under-served and creating social value? M PESA came into existence as Safaricom wanted to develop an alternative finance system for the ‘non banked’ Africans and its initial objective was to allow phone based finance transfers and repayments in the microfinance space at low interest rates. It metamorphosed into a large network for easy‚ cost effective and time saving money transfer. Today
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and Manufacturing systems in the Asian region. Technological Challenges: * Implementation of ERP system in Business units in 7 Asian countries from 3 shortlisted products (Micro dynamics or Oracle Fusion or SAP) * Need for change from weak Legacy system in Asia * Cost of implementation * Time for setting up of ERP system * Implementation strategy – Big Bang‚ Parallel‚ Phased‚ etc. | | Solutions for the QuestionsA. We would recommend that Eliva implement the Oracle Fusion ERP
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features and brand-powers‚ they got the license of WRC (World Rally Championship) in driver & maker part. From then‚ they have great performance and many prizes in WRC. And in 2003‚ they got ‘This Year’s Car’ award during 2003-2004 in Japan with ‘Legacy’. In January 2009‚ they won 6th Machinery Industry conference’s Japan’s Machinery Industrial association president prize about horizontal-faced boxer engine. They’re recognized as high-technological‚ high-performance brand. In January 2010‚ they announced
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KABIRA A) Fault tolerant runtime engine The Kabira Infrastructure Switchis the central host for all Kabira applications. It is a high performance software transaction-switch that provides the infrastructure for building and integrating applications‚ integrating networks‚ and mediating between data flows. It is a fully distributed platform that can be deployed across multiple integrated computer processors within a single physical node‚ as well as across multiple nodes. In addition‚ the Kabira
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Limited (BAL) Part 1 – Executive Summary I am Russell Menere‚ the National Procurement Manager for Boeing Australia Limited (BAL).‚ my decision is to recommend that BAL pursue a cost effective e-procurement system that will interface with the legacy information technology systems that are already in place. This tool should simplify the procurement processes across the different divisions of BAL and support the complex interfaces BAL’s suppliers and customers require. Based on a 6 month to
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Introduction EasyJet was launched in November 1995 with a fleet of two Boeing 737-300 aircraft flying from London to Glasgow and Scotland. Its mission was to offer low-cost airline service to the masses. This was successfully achieved by offering customers low fares with its no frill flights and adopting an efficiency-driven operational model; high brand awareness‚ maintaining a high level of customer satisfaction making it one of the leading low-cost airlines in Europe. One firm that has successfully
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company called Silicon Partners wants to develop an application to handle its employee vacation request process. Before developing the new application‚ the company wants to get an overview of the as-is (mostly manual) vacation request process and legacy systems supporting it. The company’s HR director describes the process as follows: When an employee wishes to go on vacation she/he has to fill out 2 versions of the same paper- based vacation form‚ submitting both to the HR Director.
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that aligned with the company goals was selected. But‚ after going through the first iteration‚ the business managers realized that there were some obvious problems with the new prioritization process. Many factors such as high costs for existing legacy system‚ budget constraints and a complex prioritization process contributed to these problems. Furthermore‚ the high level business managers believed that the IT costs were high in comparison to the actual benefits that were delivered. Thus‚ for VWoA
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flexible to use for employees. The company was already using some of Oracles products and felt implementing other Oracle products would allow them to keep the legacy system they had. Maruti Suzuki also felt that Oracle would grow with their company as time goes on. 4. Why was it important that a vendor’s products be able to integrate with “legacy systems”? The company did not want to spend millions of dollars
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and the other one to children of alumni‚ commonly known as “legacies”. As these various categories suggest‚ entry into selective institutions of higher education has never been decided purely on academic criteria—before or after minority affirmative action came into effect. As the term “affirmative action” encompasses the ideal that institutions promote diversity and growth by including historically excluded groups in their admissions‚ legacy admissions and athletic admissions are considered “affirmative”
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