Essays on Mobile Technology

The mobile technology today is such an integral part of our life that it is almost impossible to image the modern world without it. Initially, it was designed only to connect people with the cellular connection and evolved to the point when the majority of our everyday tasks can be performed with a use of it. For example, ordering food, looking for the car nearby, checking the schedule of the communal transport, looking up information, updating day schedule, exchanging emails and messages, listenings to the music, watching videos and, of course, making calls. Unfortunately, because of that, most people ...

Sanofi is a leading pharmaceutical company based in the United States. Having been in the drug production industry, it has over the years been rising and making sales globally through its transformative management they have employed in running of its affairs. Technology in this organization has brought about a more personalized customer experience as marketers bring only the relevant information to customers. They thus choose only the details of the product that they need and discard the rest (Sanchez, Macada, Sagardoy, 2014). Once information is directed to a consumer, this makes them feel special as the company addresses them ...

EXAMINING THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON THE MARKETING STRATEGIES IN SMALL AND MEDIUM FIRMS. THE CASE OF GUERRILLA MARKETING APPROACH.

I: Introduction

The changes in the contemporary business landscape are driven by a variety of factors. External environment places more and more challenges for the companies, as they grow international, internationalize their chains and adopt new technology in thi relashionships with suppliers and customers globally. The external environment of a company is comprised of political, economic, social, technological, environmental and legal factors. Each of them has the significant impact on the ways modern companies conduct their business and build their ...

The advancement in communication technology coupled with improvement in smartphone App application software enhances user flexibility in communication platform supported by the UTAUT (Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology) concepts. The growing tendency of data security concerns among the mobile users is of the essence for smooth trade and efficient payment services to be in place. Regardless of age differences among mobile device users, improvement of data security is of high impact for improved performance of the technology. The existence of the Generation X platform anchored on the G-network accelerates the rate of acceptance of internet services ...

Overview

Technology has both positive and negative implications on the lives of the people. The proliferation and advancement of technology tools have enormous effects on the lives of the people with respect to the odds of space and time thereby influencing the nature of social interactions. In particular, the technological advancements have direct effects on social evolution and social interaction across the globe, especially on the internet. The relationship between technology and social development results in the new realities of the individuals and the society. In particular, the relation between the society and technology encompasses the social networks sites, modern ...

Organization Change

Analysis

When it comes to globalization, the impacts are often looked at in terms of corporations and businesses. However, the scope of the globalization and the change management involved goes quite far beyond that. Just as one example, globalization and its effect on higher education is massive. There are a couple of major theories and trends and some of them are rather different in nature. For example, there is what is as the convergence thesis. This thesis explains and asserts that there is a shift towards homogenization. In other words, there is an attempted fusing of multiple cultures and ...

MOBILE ORDERING PLATFORMS FOR FOODS AND BEVERAGE SERVICES: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY TO INVESTIGATE WHAT KEY FEATURES BUSINESS MANAGERS LOOK FOR PRIOR TO IMPLEMENTATION Mobile Ordering Platforms for Foods and Beverage Services: An Exploratory Study to Investigate What Key Features Business Managers Look for Prior to Implementation

Literature Review

The necessity to approach marketing as an integrated part of management and not as a separate function has been acknowledged decades ago, when Peter Drucker illustrated that marketing tells businesses how to adjust on meeting changing consumer needs and creating a clientele (Webster, 2009). Consumer needs are ever – changing, as Drucker observed, and ...

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The use of wearable and mobile technologies in clinical psychology research and clinical practice Mobile and wearable technologies including smartphones are among the most acceptable and promising technologies that are used by clinical researchers to study different psychopathological disorders such as schizophrenia. These technologies can not only help in the assessment of the problem but also help the patient and his or her family members in the self-management and treatment of the disorder. These technologies are also suitable for patients and researchers as they often come with impressive computational capabilities and they can be connected to ...

Business Problem

Abstract In today’s business world, customer service is a crucial part of the business practices aimed at growing the company and increasing overall effectiveness in the supply chain. Customer satisfaction is an important factor when it comes to customer service and it relates to the customers being satisfied with the services they get in terms of availability of information, speedy responses, and overall convenience. Many companies today have not been active in providing efficient customer service. This is because they rely on traditional communication channels and strategies such as the use of e-mail services and landline phone communications. ...

Introduction

Rapid revolution in information and technology is believed to be one of the significant changes that are taking place in the modern society. The emerging technologies have fundamentally redefined the way we live and work, the values we place on social institutions like health and education and even the family. Currently, there are some emerging technologies in the health sector, which are being used to manage healthcare information. It is also widely believed that the technologies have the potential of enhancing health care quality, improve the safety of patients and physicians, and reduce the healthcare cost. However, there are ...

The incidence of electronic surveillance and cell phone searches by the law enforcement agencies have increased in recent times. Cell phone searches can offer police officers, valuable information pertaining to public safety, accomplice in crime, evidences and also information required to locate a person. However, not all cell phone searches are in compliance with law. Cell phone searches can be done without a legal warrant when a lawful arrest of the person is made. Cell searches can be done to a person who is not arrested, but such searches are to be ‘truly incidental’ and not done with the ...

As medical practices merge, it is certain that systems will change. As a result of the merger, the organization will want to operate as a combined system and to do this, plans have to be developed to change some or all of the systems. In the plan, it is important to consider the role of technologies vis-à-vis the need to promote patient safety and enhance the quality of patient care. In addition, it is also vital to consider implementing health information systems that meet the regulatory requirements as set by the federal government. When it comes to the ...

Introduction

Amazon is the most important retail website in the occidental hemisphere and second in the world on the websites of the Alibaba Group. Amazon since 1995 has been an innovative company thanks to the entrepreneurship of Jeff Bezos since the foundation of the company. The first innovation was to offer music CD and books with an extensive catalog of more than one million titles with an affordable shipping cost. The company in all its life has increased its inventory in categories and items quantity. The company, compared with Apple is not a pioneer in technology; but it is a ...

Intrapreneurship Plan

Business

Executive Summary Even top companies are facing difficulties when it comes to finding the most suitable innovation that will bring forth a considerable success for the business. On the other hand, sailing into the vast ocean of entrepreneurship does not mean doing it alone because the business has several talents on board that could contribute ideas for business innovation. In the food and beverage industry innovation can be observed in the number of technological platforms integrated into the food service in order to create more value to the products and services and ultimately to provide convenience. For the ...

Abstract

Every health organization has the goal of providing quality, safe, and cost-effective care to patients. Some safety issues reported in hospitals today question the role of the health sector in improving the health outcome of the community. Many hospitals record poor patient outcomes because of the inability of the management to plan duties and changes in shifts between nurses caring for patients in hospital wards. Poor inter-shift reports between registered nurses act as one of the most common problems threatening patients' safety and delivery of quality care in hospitals today. Technology plays a significant role in influencing communication between ...

Abstract

Lately, the health care sector in New Zealand has been facing challenges related to the old-fashioned method used in offering services. In many occasions, it has made it difficult for patients to access affordable health services since many health hospitals lack the technological capacity to handle the increasing numbers of patients with different ailments. Due to this, the relevant agencies have been pushing health service sector, particularly the public health sector, to embrace modern technology so as to address the health crisis in the country. This has seen many health organizations to launch programs geared towards adherence to the ...

Transnationalism is defined as a phenomenon where there is high interconnectivity among people, which in turn undermines the economic and social significance of physical boundaries. Transnationalism happens in various ways such as economic, political and cultural boundaries. This paper focuses on the socio-cultural concept of transnationalism. Socio-cultural transnationalism widely covers cultural exchange of ideas and meanings. Such socio-cultural exchanges happen when people visit other countries. Sometimes non-immigrants visit their friends and family living in the receiving country. There are, however, increasing correspondence of other agents such as emails, telephone calls, text messaging, and online chat sessions. According to Iris-Aya ( ...

The world is a global village, this is stated with regards to the way the world is connected from all aspects be it business or personal, every era is defined by a trend, and this era is defined by its globalized economy popularly known as ‘globalization’ and this trend shift started with the inception of the world wide web (www) for the global audience in the year 1993 that sparked a revolution that is still growing by each passing day, creating new trends in the shape of online shopping, social media platforms, video chats and much more and quintessentially ...