CLOUD-BASED SECURITY THREATS WITH PRESENT CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR MANAGED SERVICE PROVIDERS (MSPS)

A distinguished panel of managing directors and chief executive officers of some of the well-known banks in the country responded to the theme on the challenges and opportunities faced by the Indian banking sector in the liberalized environment. The contributors addressed the following issues: Financial reforms with specific reference to Indian banking industry focusing on implications to the existing players, new entrants, multinationals, and consumer behaviour. New and emerging opportunities: consumer and commercial banking. Competition: players, intensity, market size, profitability, and growth. Responses to challenges with reference to restructuring, automation, product delivery, and process reengineering. Issues related to governance, regulation, and audit. Product engineering, product design, and product delivery. Consumer expectations, feedback, cross-selling, customer relationship management(CRM), market segmentation, marketing, branding, and new products introduction. HR related issues: VR5, compensation, education and training, empowerment, and career plan. Future scenario: Broad trends in the next five years and the expected position. E-banking and its importance. Salient features of the responses included: The Indian banking sector is at an exciting point in its evolution. The opportu- nities to enter new business and new markets and to deliver higher levels of customer service are immense. As the Indian banks position themselves as financial service providers, banking business is getting redefined. Technology is unsettling the earlier business processes and customer behaviour is undergoing change. These have enhanced the forces of competition. Competitive advantage can be achieved through harnessing the potentialavailable in the employees by creating a positive work culture and enlisting the support of all the employees to the organizational goals. Indian banks have adopted better operational strategies and upgraded their skills. They have withstood the initial challenges and have become more adaptive to the changing environment. In the complex and fast changing environment, the only sustainable competitive advantage for banks is to give the customer an optimum blend of technology and traditional service. Four trends are fundamentally altering the banking industry: consolidation, globalization of operations, development of new technologies, and universali- zation of banking.

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The COVID-19 Challenges and Opportunities for Immigrant Career Development

Examining the Career Development Practices and Experiences of Immigrants - Advances in Human Resources Management and Organizational Development ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-5811-9.ch008 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 172-196

Author(s):

Lizette Solis-Cortes ◽

Falu Rami

Keyword(s):

Career Development ◽

Service Providers ◽

The United States ◽

Structural Barriers ◽

Executive Orders ◽

Challenges And Opportunities ◽

Development Paths ◽

Immigrant And Refugee ◽

The Impact ◽

To Receive

This chapter focuses on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, it's disproportionate impact on immigrants' careers and employment opportunities, and the dire need to address inequitable career development opportunities. COVID-19 has also highlighted the anti-immigrant sentiment and structural barriers that impact immigrant career experiences and outcomes. A second interrelated obstacle to immigrant career development paths are recent executive orders signed by Donald Trump in the United States against immigrants and refugees as well as global anti-immigrant and refugee policies such as Brexit and the Citizenship Amendment Act. Immigrant workers require advocacy, protection, and avenues to receive continued support during and post-pandemic. Resources for immigrant employers and employees including international resources, avenues for advocacy, and recommendations to service providers are discussed.

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Engaging persons with dementia in advance care planning: Challenges and opportunities

Dementia ◽

10.1177/1471301220973059 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 147130122097305

Author(s):

Tamara Sussman ◽

Rebecca Pimienta ◽

April Hayward

Keyword(s):

Focus Groups ◽

Family Caregivers ◽

Advance Care Planning ◽

Service Providers ◽

Care Planning ◽

Reflective Process ◽

Challenges And Opportunities ◽

Future Care ◽

Advance Care ◽

Positive Engagement

This study reports findings from a series of focus groups with persons with dementia and family caregivers intended to explore: (1) perceptions of and experiences with advance care planning (ACP); (2) concerns related to future care including, but not limited to, end-of-life care; and (3) practices that may support positive engagement with ACP. A total of 18 participants including 10 persons with dementia and eight family caregivers participated in five focus groups held in two urban cities in Canada. All focus group deliberations were audio recorded, transcribed verbatim, and analyzed in five stages using a semantic thematic approach. All participants expressed some form of engagement in ACP, but understandings were limited and divergence was expressed regarding the timing of more expansive conversations about future care. Although some persons with dementia were ready to engage in future care discussions, most preferred focusing on the present and suggested their families did not require direction. This placed families in the complex dilemma of protecting their loved ones while compromising their own needs for dialogue. Although individually focused models of ACP engagement hold promise for those persons with dementia ready to engage in future planning, our findings suggest that early engagement of families in the reflective process may go a long way in supporting ACP activation. Our findings further suggest that persons with dementia who do not have close family/friends may require extensive ACP encouragement and support from service providers.

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Challenges and Opportunities to Engaging Emergency Medical Service Providers in Substance Use Research: A Qualitative Study

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine ◽

10.1017/s1049023x16001424 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 32 (2) ◽

pp. 148-155 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Allysha C. Maragh-Bass ◽

Julie C. Fields ◽

Junette McWilliams ◽

Amy R. Knowlton

Keyword(s):

Substance Abuse ◽

Substance Use ◽

Emergency Medical Service ◽

Medical Service ◽

Service Providers ◽

Pilot Program ◽

Motivational Messages ◽

Resource Limitations ◽

Emergency Medical ◽

Challenges And Opportunities

AbstractIntroductionResearch suggests Emergency Medical Services (EMS) over-use in urban cities is partly due to substance users with limited access to medical/social services. Recent efforts to deliver brief, motivational messages to encourage these individuals to enter treatment have not considered EMS providers.ProblemLittle research has been done with EMS providers who serve substance-using patients. The EMS providers were interviewed about participating in a pilot program where they would be trained to screen their patients for substance abuse and encourage them to enter drug treatment.MethodsQualitative interviews were conducted with Baltimore City Fire Department (BCFD; Baltimore, Maryland USA) EMS providers (N=22). Topics included EMS misuse, work demands, and views on participating in the pilot program. Interviews were transcribed and analyzed using grounded theory and constant-comparison.ResultsParticipants were mostly white (68.1%); male (68.2%); with Advanced Life Skills training (90.9%). Mean age was 37.5 years. Providers described the “frequent flyer problem” (eg, EMS over-use by a few repeat non-emergent cases). Providers expressed disappointment with local health delivery due to resource limitations and being excluded from decision making within their administration, leading to reduced team morale and burnout. Nonetheless, providers acknowledged they are well-positioned to intervene with substance-using patients because they are in direct contact and have built rapport with them. They noted patients might be most receptive to motivational messages immediately after overdose revival, which several called “hitting their bottom.” Several stated that involvement with the proposed study would be facilitated by direct incorporation into EMS providers’ current workflow. Many recommended that research team members accompany EMS providers while on-call to observe their day-to-day work. Barriers identified by the providers included time constraints to intervene, limited knowledge of substance abuse treatment modalities, and fearing negative repercussions from supervisors and/or patients. Despite reservations, several EMS providers expressed inclination to deliver brief motivational messages to encourage substance-using patients to consider treatment, given adequate training and skill-building.ConclusionsEmergency Medical Service providers may have many demands, including difficult case time/resource limitations. Even so, participants recognized their unique position as first responders to deliver motivational, harm-reduction messages to substance-using patients during transport. With incentivized training, implementing this program could be life- and cost-saving, improving emergency and behavioral health services. Findings will inform future efforts to connect substance users with drug treatment, potentially reducing EMS over-use in Baltimore.Maragh-BassAC, FieldsJC, McWilliamsJ, KnowltonAR. Challenges and opportunities to engaging Emergency Medical Service providers in substance use research: a qualitative study. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2017;32(2):148–155.

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Halal logistics opportunities and challenges

Journal of Islamic Marketing ◽

10.1108/jima-04-2015-0028 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 127-139 ◽

Cited By ~ 29

Author(s):

Suhaiza Zailani ◽

Mohammad Iranmanesh ◽

Azmin Azliza Aziz ◽

Kanagi Kanapathy

Keyword(s):

Service Providers ◽

Cost Effective ◽

Future Market ◽

Extensive Literature ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Content Type ◽

Final Destination ◽

Transportation Sector ◽

Logistics Service Providers ◽

Challenges And Opportunities

Purpose The purpose of the paper is to investigate the challenges and opportunities for logistics companies in Malaysia to adopt halal logistics. Logistics plays a key role in protecting the halal integrity of halal food through proper transportation, storage and handling along the supply chain until it reaches its final destination. Design/methodology/approach This research builds on existing research published in the Journal of Islamic Marketing on halal logistics. In addition to an extensive literature review, five focus group discussions were conducted to discover the challenges and opportunities with regards to halal logistics services in Malaysia. Findings The results show that the future market demands and the competitive opportunities related to halal services are the main motivators of first movers in halal logistics. The early adopters of halal logistics face several challenges such as ambiguous halal guidelines, lack of international halal certification, lack of collaboration among governing agencies (i.e. logistics service providers (LSPs), Jabatan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia (JAKIM) and Halal Industry Development Corporation), a lack of cost-effective standards, an overly competitive transportation sector, lack of demand, lack of halal logistics compulsion, financial challenges and a general misunderstanding of halal practices. Practical implications The findings of the present study may help government policy makers recognise the issues that should be addressed in motivating logistics companies to adopt halal practices. Originality/value Although halal logistics plays a key role in protecting the halal integrity of halal products, there are few halal LSPs. This study contributes to the advancement of knowledge on the challenges and opportunities of adopting halal logistics.

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Novel market conditions and marketing consequences in the hungarian guided hunting sector

Acta Agraria Debreceniensis ◽

10.34101/actaagrar/28/2962 ◽

2008 ◽

pp. 47-52

Author(s):

Zoltán Magyar

Keyword(s):

Service Providers ◽

Radical Change ◽

The Other ◽

Consumer Group ◽

Other Hand ◽

Operating Medium ◽

Challenges And Opportunities ◽

High Utility ◽

The One ◽

New Consumer

In Hungary the operating medium of game management and the guided hunting sector is undergoing such a radical change nowadays that on the one hand it considerably influences the profit-producing ability of the sector, and on the other hand it sets the actors of the industry new challenges and opportunities. If the Hungarian hunting industry, which has a traditional past, also wishes to preserve its position in this changed business medium, it is essential that the new situation be thoroughly assessed, and the value-oriented marketing attitude be adapted. The phenomena presented in this essay discuss the consequences and causes of the appearance of new service providers regarding the supply side, and the content changes of the consumer group and the modification of earlier consumption preferences and their causes on the demand side. The changing of the two media jointly generate the adaptation of the value-oriented service - marketing concepts, by using which the areas to be developed and deemed as the narrow cross-section of consumer decisions can be determined. After specifying the target group specific marketing properties of the aove-mentioned – prestige – service, such services of high utility content can already be established successfully that can be positioned as a proper alternative for the new consumer group of higher value expectation. On the other hand, the employment and profitability indexes related to this sector may considerably be improved.

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Freedom from Choice? The Rollout of Person-centered Disability Funding and the National Disability Insurance Scheme

INKLUSI ◽

10.14421/ijds.070102 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 21

Author(s):

Tania Hall ◽

Tara Brabazon

Keyword(s):

Service Providers ◽

South Australia ◽

Research Literature ◽

Unintended Consequences ◽

Disability Services ◽

Group Discussions ◽

Services Sector ◽

For Profit ◽

Disability Support ◽

Challenges And Opportunities

Person-centered funding models are replacing block-funding models in the disability services sector. Australia is part of this international trend. Concerns have been raised by service providers, suggesting that people with disabilities are not benefiting from this system. This paper evaluates the views of service providers from a large non-government organization in South Australia, responsible for leading the transition from a block-funded model of support to a person-centered model of support. Two focus groups were conducted. Two themes emerged from these focus group discussions: customers with disabilities are vulnerable in the market, and marketizing disability services compromises quality. Neoliberal ideologies and market-based values frame the challenges and opportunities for not-for-profit organizations when transitioning to person-centered funding for disability support. This research both enlivens and confirms the existing research literature. Although person-centered funding models offer a socially just model, there is evidence that unintended consequences emerge in an open and competitive quasi-market. This study reveals that the competitive market design had stopped trans-sector collaboration. [Saat ini, model pendanaan berbasis orang banyak menggantikan model pendanaan-blok di sektor layanan disabilitas. Australia adalah bagian dari tren internasional ini. Lembaga layanan sosial khawatir bahwa para difabel tidak akan mendapatkan manfaat dari sistem ini. Artikel ini meninjau pandangan penyedia layanan dari organisasi non-pemerintah besar di Australia Selatan. Dua FGD dilakukan dalam riset ini. Dua tema muncul dari FGD: pelanggan difabel mengalami kerentanan di pasar dan ‘swastanisasi’ layanan disabilitas mengganggu kualitas. Ideologi neoliberal dan nilai berbasis-pasar menyajikan tantangan dan peluang bagi organisasi nirlaba ketika beralih ke pendanaan berbasis orang dalam layanan disabilitas. Penelitian ini mengonfirmasi literatur penelitian yang sudah ada. Meskipun model pendanaan berbasis orang menawarkan model yang adil secara sosial, ada bukti bahwa konsekuensi yang tidak diinginkan dapat muncul dalam pasar kuasi terbuka dan kompetitif. Studi ini mengungkapkan bahwa desain pasar yang kompetitif telah menghentikan kolaborasi lintas sector.]

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ADULT DAY SERVICES IN A RURAL REGION: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

Innovation in Aging ◽

10.1093/geroni/igz038.555 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽

pp. S154-S155

Author(s):

Sandra S Butler ◽

Jennifer Crittenden ◽

Dyan Walsh ◽

Lenard Kaye

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Family Caregivers ◽

Service Providers ◽

Positive Impact ◽

Private Insurance ◽

Insurance Coverage ◽

Adult Day Services ◽

Challenges And Opportunities ◽

Day Services ◽

Intergenerational Programming

Abstract Adult day services (ADS) programs provide stimulation and socialization for older adults with cognitive and physical disabilities, and much needed respite for family caregivers. Like many services for older adults, ADS programs are far less available in rural regions of the country than in more urban settings. This paper reports on a needs assessment for an ADS program in a small city, which serves as a health and human services hub for a large rural area; a particular focus of the study was to assess the feasibility and interest in intergenerational programming. Family caregivers were surveyed (n = 84) about their use and knowledge of and interest in ADS. Less than one in five respondents were using or had ever used ADS. Cost (20%) and ignorance of such programs (20%) were primary reasons for not using ADS; reduction of stress was the most frequently cited reason for using ADS (73%). Ten in-person interviews were conducted with ADS program directors and service providers who refer clients to ADS. Funding issues emerged as the key challenge given lack of private insurance coverage and poor reimbursement levels from public insurance programs. Challenges around transportation, stigma, and marketing of services also surfaced in the interviews. Nonetheless, all ten informants spoke of the positive impact of ADS for both consumers and their caregivers, and generally endorsed intergenerational activities, though with caveats. Implications will be discussed, including the need for greater financial support for this valuable aspect of our long-term supports and services system.

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Security in Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing Service and Deployment Models ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-2187-9.ch011 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 208-221

Author(s):

Alpana M. Desai ◽

Kenrick Mock

Keyword(s):

Cloud Computing ◽

Service Providers ◽

Cloud Service ◽

Cloud Services ◽

Security Threats ◽

Security Risks ◽

Cloud Service Providers ◽

International Data ◽

It Executives ◽

Privacy Issues

Cloud computing has recently emerged in prominence and is being rapidly adopted by organizations because of its potential and perceived benefits of flexibility and affordability. According to surveys conducted in 2008 and 2009 by International Data Corporation (IDC) of IT executives and CIOs, security was cited as the top concern for the adoption of cloud computing. Enterprises that plan to utilize cloud services for their infrastructure, platform, and/or software needs must understand the security risks and privacy issues related to cloud computing. This chapter discusses the technical, legal, and policy/organizational security risks of cloud computing, and reviews recommendations/strategies for managing and mitigating security threats in cloud computing. It also presents vendor-specific solutions and strategies that cloud service providers are implementing for mitigating security risks in cloud computing.

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Globalisation and psychiatry

Advances in Psychiatric Treatment ◽

10.1192/apt.9.6.464 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 9 (6) ◽

pp. 464-470 ◽

Cited By ~ 26

Author(s):

Brendan D. Kelly

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Large Scale ◽

Service Providers ◽

Models Of Care ◽

Focused Attention ◽

Challenges And Opportunities ◽

The Usa ◽

Training Policy ◽

Positive Engagement ◽

The Relationship

Globalisation means crossing borders. It is a complex, large-scale social phenomenon that presents to mental health services both challenges and opportunities. These relate to the increased cultural diversity of service users and service providers; the effects of migration on mental health; and the implementation of international protocols in relation to training, policy and education. In the aftermath of 11 September 2001 in the USA, the relationship between large-scale social change and mental health has also focused attention on the concepts of anomie and social capital. An explicit return to the principles of biopsychosocial psychiatry and a positive engagement with globalisation will advance the development of effective, evidence-based models of care appropriate to the changing needs of patients.

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