The relatively recent idea of obtaining competitive advantages through the creative use of Inform... more The relatively recent idea of obtaining competitive advantages through the creative use of Information Systems (IS) has motivated many kinds of research. For example, there have been attempts at least to 1) document and categorize the types of advantages attained via IS; 2) study how IS and IT-Information Technology-can in fact motivate the appearance of new types of organizations or relationships among them; 3) analyze how certain well-known competitive advantages have developed in the corresponding organizations, with the objective of reproducing the conditions that led to them; 4) devise methodologies to aid and structure the process of identifying opportunities for strategic uses of IS, and 5) investigate the organizational implications of trying to be strategically proactive with IS.
Explican los Maestros Sufíes que cuando sentimos la necesidad de un acercamiento a Dios existe en... more Explican los Maestros Sufíes que cuando sentimos la necesidad de un acercamiento a Dios existe en la persona el sentido de obligación, wazífa, palabra técnica usada en árabe y en persa para "repetición" o "ejercicio". El sentido de obligación que conlleva el término supone obligación hacia mi Creador. El maestro da al discípulo una serie de instrumentos o medios con los cuales éste va identificándose y desarrollando su percepción. Junto con la oración una de las técnicas más valiosas es el dikr, frase o palabra, que el discípulo debe repetir un numero de veces de manera que llegue no sólo a tomar conciencia sino además a producir un tipo de energía que supone un valor incalculable.
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differences-gen-z-millennials-use-social-media 95% of generation Z owns a phone Kristine Lu, "Gro... more differences-gen-z-millennials-use-social-media 95% of generation Z owns a phone Kristine Lu, "Growth in mobile use driven by older adults,"
The PwC&IESE e-business Center is a joint initiative of IESE Business School and the professional... more The PwC&IESE e-business Center is a joint initiative of IESE Business School and the professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers aimed at creating a Research Center to analyse the impact of e-business on organizations. The mission of the PwC&IESE e-business Center is to be an international benchmark for companies and universities in the development and communication of new ideas. Based on this mission, the Center has set itself five basic goals: 1) Gather material on "best practices" and "next practices" in e-business. 2) Develop a conceptual framework that will help enable the world of business to understand and control the impact of the Internet and e-business. 3) Diffuse the knowledge generated by research in this field through the usual scientific and professional media. 4) Develop up-to-date, quality teaching materials. 5) Help train managers to understand the complexity of the changes that technology brings about in society and in the way businesses and competitive advantages are developed. These goals will be achieved through three activities: research, training, and communication. The Center's efforts will be focused primarily on research, as the foundation for training and communication of the results obtained.
The mission of the PwC&IESE e-business Center is to be an international benchmark for companies a... more The mission of the PwC&IESE e-business Center is to be an international benchmark for companies and universities in the development and communication of new ideas. Based on this mission, the Center has set itself five basic goals: 1) Gather material on "best practices" and "next practices" in e-business. 2) Develop a conceptual framework that will help enable the world of business to understand and control the impact of the Internet and e-business. 3) Diffuse the knowledge generated by research in this field through the usual scientific and professional media. 4) Develop up-to-date, quality teaching materials. 5) Help train managers to understand the complexity of the changes that technology brings about in society and in the way businesses and competitive advantages are developed. These goals will be achieved through three activities: research, training, and communication. The Center's efforts will be focused primarily on research, as the foundation for training and communication of the results obtained.
This paper is concerned with the methodological steps needed to systematically identify strategic... more This paper is concerned with the methodological steps needed to systematically identify strategic opportunities attainable through the design and utilization of Information Systems (IS) specifically thought for that purpose. The proposed analysis is done at the Strategic Business Unit (SBU) level. The focus of this paper is on how to perform the two main steps of strategy formulation at this level, namely internal scrutiny and environmental scan, with special emphasis on IS. Based on the strengths of the SBU and corporate IS (both present and forecast), the proposed methodology identifies where they can most effectively contribute to reinforcing or even redefining the SBU's strategy. The concrete result is a series of "Information Systems Strategic Actions" (ISSA) coherent with the corporate goals that have to be undertaken in order to attain a sustainable competitive advantage.
El Sistema Nacional de Salud de los 90: estrategia de salud, planificación y mercado : XI Jornadas de Economía de la Salud, celebradas en Alicante, 6, 7 y 8 de junio de 1991, 1992, págs. 105-134, 1992
This chapter analyses two steps of the value chain that have traditionally been considered in iso... more This chapter analyses two steps of the value chain that have traditionally been considered in isolation; in terms of Figure 1.3 (p. 11), these are: (6) local loop operators (usually local telecommunication companies, ‘Baby Bells’ in the USA), and (5) Internet Access Providers (IAPs). As we will see in the chapter, these two steps are intimately related, not only because IAPs must use a local loop to reach their customers, but also because technological advances in the latter will completely restructure the IAP industry in the next few years
Bandwidth is an expression of the speed at which digitized data can travel over a conductor such ... more Bandwidth is an expression of the speed at which digitized data can travel over a conductor such as a telephone wire (relatively slow) or a fibre optic cable (relatively fast). We shall define ‘bandwidth’ simply as the maximum amount of data in megabits per second (mbps) that can be sent from computer A to computer B, thereby expressing the capacity of a networked connection. In essence, the more bandwidth there is, the more data that can travel along that connection within a certain period of time. As Table 4.1 shows, some applications require very little bandwidth, others quite a lot.
The relatively recent idea of obtaining competitive advantages through the creative use of Inform... more The relatively recent idea of obtaining competitive advantages through the creative use of Information Systems (IS) has motivated many kinds of research. For example, there have been attempts at least to 1) document and categorize the types of advantages attained via IS; 2) study how IS and IT-Information Technology-can in fact motivate the appearance of new types of organizations or relationships among them; 3) analyze how certain well-known competitive advantages have developed in the corresponding organizations, with the objective of reproducing the conditions that led to them; 4) devise methodologies to aid and structure the process of identifying opportunities for strategic uses of IS, and 5) investigate the organizational implications of trying to be strategically proactive with IS.
Explican los Maestros Sufíes que cuando sentimos la necesidad de un acercamiento a Dios existe en... more Explican los Maestros Sufíes que cuando sentimos la necesidad de un acercamiento a Dios existe en la persona el sentido de obligación, wazífa, palabra técnica usada en árabe y en persa para "repetición" o "ejercicio". El sentido de obligación que conlleva el término supone obligación hacia mi Creador. El maestro da al discípulo una serie de instrumentos o medios con los cuales éste va identificándose y desarrollando su percepción. Junto con la oración una de las técnicas más valiosas es el dikr, frase o palabra, que el discípulo debe repetir un numero de veces de manera que llegue no sólo a tomar conciencia sino además a producir un tipo de energía que supone un valor incalculable.
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differences-gen-z-millennials-use-social-media 95% of generation Z owns a phone Kristine Lu, "Gro... more differences-gen-z-millennials-use-social-media 95% of generation Z owns a phone Kristine Lu, "Growth in mobile use driven by older adults,"
The PwC&IESE e-business Center is a joint initiative of IESE Business School and the professional... more The PwC&IESE e-business Center is a joint initiative of IESE Business School and the professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers aimed at creating a Research Center to analyse the impact of e-business on organizations. The mission of the PwC&IESE e-business Center is to be an international benchmark for companies and universities in the development and communication of new ideas. Based on this mission, the Center has set itself five basic goals: 1) Gather material on "best practices" and "next practices" in e-business. 2) Develop a conceptual framework that will help enable the world of business to understand and control the impact of the Internet and e-business. 3) Diffuse the knowledge generated by research in this field through the usual scientific and professional media. 4) Develop up-to-date, quality teaching materials. 5) Help train managers to understand the complexity of the changes that technology brings about in society and in the way businesses and competitive advantages are developed. These goals will be achieved through three activities: research, training, and communication. The Center's efforts will be focused primarily on research, as the foundation for training and communication of the results obtained.
The mission of the PwC&IESE e-business Center is to be an international benchmark for companies a... more The mission of the PwC&IESE e-business Center is to be an international benchmark for companies and universities in the development and communication of new ideas. Based on this mission, the Center has set itself five basic goals: 1) Gather material on "best practices" and "next practices" in e-business. 2) Develop a conceptual framework that will help enable the world of business to understand and control the impact of the Internet and e-business. 3) Diffuse the knowledge generated by research in this field through the usual scientific and professional media. 4) Develop up-to-date, quality teaching materials. 5) Help train managers to understand the complexity of the changes that technology brings about in society and in the way businesses and competitive advantages are developed. These goals will be achieved through three activities: research, training, and communication. The Center's efforts will be focused primarily on research, as the foundation for training and communication of the results obtained.
This paper is concerned with the methodological steps needed to systematically identify strategic... more This paper is concerned with the methodological steps needed to systematically identify strategic opportunities attainable through the design and utilization of Information Systems (IS) specifically thought for that purpose. The proposed analysis is done at the Strategic Business Unit (SBU) level. The focus of this paper is on how to perform the two main steps of strategy formulation at this level, namely internal scrutiny and environmental scan, with special emphasis on IS. Based on the strengths of the SBU and corporate IS (both present and forecast), the proposed methodology identifies where they can most effectively contribute to reinforcing or even redefining the SBU's strategy. The concrete result is a series of "Information Systems Strategic Actions" (ISSA) coherent with the corporate goals that have to be undertaken in order to attain a sustainable competitive advantage.
El Sistema Nacional de Salud de los 90: estrategia de salud, planificación y mercado : XI Jornadas de Economía de la Salud, celebradas en Alicante, 6, 7 y 8 de junio de 1991, 1992, págs. 105-134, 1992
This chapter analyses two steps of the value chain that have traditionally been considered in iso... more This chapter analyses two steps of the value chain that have traditionally been considered in isolation; in terms of Figure 1.3 (p. 11), these are: (6) local loop operators (usually local telecommunication companies, ‘Baby Bells’ in the USA), and (5) Internet Access Providers (IAPs). As we will see in the chapter, these two steps are intimately related, not only because IAPs must use a local loop to reach their customers, but also because technological advances in the latter will completely restructure the IAP industry in the next few years
Bandwidth is an expression of the speed at which digitized data can travel over a conductor such ... more Bandwidth is an expression of the speed at which digitized data can travel over a conductor such as a telephone wire (relatively slow) or a fibre optic cable (relatively fast). We shall define ‘bandwidth’ simply as the maximum amount of data in megabits per second (mbps) that can be sent from computer A to computer B, thereby expressing the capacity of a networked connection. In essence, the more bandwidth there is, the more data that can travel along that connection within a certain period of time. As Table 4.1 shows, some applications require very little bandwidth, others quite a lot.
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