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Designing Legally Compliant RFID and Software Agent Architectures for Retail Processes and Beyond
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To illustrate how future technologies will shape future sports, Subirana and Laguarte explore an imaginary future—following a fictional character and her family through a day in their lives. They highlight pot...
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In this chapter, Sarma, Subirana, and Frevel look at trend and innovation radars, in general, and discuss how sports organizations and their management can benefit from a systematic approach to handling emergi...
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In this chapter, the authors provide a snapshot of the opportunities, challenges, and development of the sportstech industry and propose a sportstech taxonomy comprised of the definition of sportstech and the ...
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In this chapter, Sarma, Subirana, and Frevel look at trend and innovation radars, in general, and discuss how sports organizations and their management can benefit from a systematic approach to handling emergi...
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To illustrate how future technologies will shape future sports, Subirana and Laguarta explore an imaginary future—following a fictional character and her family through a day in their lives. They highlight pot...
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In this chapter, the authors provide a snapshot of the opportunities, challenges, and development of the sportstech industry and propose a sportstech taxonomy comprised of the definition of sportstech and the ...
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Designing Legally Compliant RFID and Software Agent Architectures for Retail Processes and Beyond
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In this paper, I contend that executive leaders can and should be prepared to spot timely opportunities and prevent major failures, even if it requires understanding IT technical details. An essential part of ...
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This case is intended to serve as the basis for one or two sessions of an introductory Information Technology course at an MBA program or for one session at a senior executive program. The aim is to address wh...
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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’ simp...
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Stage (4) of the value chain deals (see Figure 1.3, p. 11) with the firms who build the computer devices that end-users employ to access the Internet. The devices run software that allows them to make requests...
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Only someone recently roused from a 25-year sleep can be unaware of the ways that information and communication technologies (ICTs) have reshaped our daily routines. To be sure, in the early 1980s there were t...
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The hosting stage (3) (see Figure 1.3, p. 11) consists of two types of companies — Web hosting firms and application service providers (ASPs). The former provide outsourcing services for corporate customers to...
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Strategic management tries to explain how value is created by the firm’s activities and how this value reflects in the firm’s performance. Strategic management as a discipline developed in the 1960s and 1970s. Fr...
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The final three stages in the online value chain in Figure 1.3 (p. 11) — (8) operating systems for user hardware, (9) Internet browsers and (10) software applications — can be reviewed as one entity in that, e...
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So far, we have concentrated on a linear information value-chain scenario mainly centred on the Internet and on media content. In this chapter we would like to give a broader perspective of what sources of inf...
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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 com...
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Although stages (1) and (2) in Figure 1.3 share much in common, it will be useful to distinguish their different approaches to serving customers by treating each separately. In section 7.1 we will look at cont...
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This paper analyses how transactions related to the exchange of goods and services are being performed on the Internet. The adoption of electronic markets in an industry has a disintermediation potential becau...