scholarly journals Ecosandals.Com: The Digital Transformation of a Social Enterprise

10.28945/4220 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 001-014
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Social Enterprise ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Operating Model ◽  
Sales Revenue ◽  
Internet Platform ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Future Growth ◽  
Key Questions

The Wikyo Akala Project (WAP) was a cooperative set up as a social enterprise that sought to pool the efforts of the sandal makers in the Korogocho area, Nairobi, Kenya, in order to improve their sales revenue using the internet platform. WAP struggled to survive as a “bricks-and-mortar” social enterprise in the first six years of operation. However, with the adoption of a “clicks-and-mortar” digital strategy through an e-commerce platform, the project witnessed phenomenal growth as the internet architecture provided them with an opportunity to re-think their operating model. The key questions and decisions that faced them were the following: 1. Which operating model would be appropriate for their social enterprise operating in a resource constrained environment? 2. Secondly, how could they incorporate digital technology into the standardization of their services and processes, and to enable integration of their processes? 3. And thirdly the issue of future growth, sustainability and competition needed to be addressed.

scholarly journals A Study of the Covid-19 Impact on Financial Services, Healthcare and Education Sector

2021 ◽  
pp. 01-13
Author(s):  
Dr. Anupam Karmakar
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Style ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Future Prospect ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Management Functions ◽  
The Impact

Organizations have already gone through a major digital transformation with the advent of the internet before. For many years they are incorporating technology in almost every aspect. The outbreak of global pandemic COVID-19 in the year 2020, which again disturbed the equilibrium, and forced the semi-automated and semi-digital legacy system-oriented organizations to shift radically towards digital transformation. In this paper, three major sectors have been covered– healthcare, financial services, and education which have undergone digital revolution effectively due to this pandemic. Digital Revolution has replaced or removed old ways of operations in those sectors and helped to reduce redundancies and waste of resources of any kind. Companies also face tremendous challenges regarding the adaptation of everything digital. The objectives of this paper are – to examine the impact of Digital shift in those sectors due to the COVID-19 pandemic and to predict the future prospect of the business with the current rate of incorporation with digital technology in these sectors, how managerial approaches when it comes to management functions like cost-effectiveness, leadership style, learning experiences have evolved to facilitate and incorporate this technology shift effectively. This research paper also studies the roadblocks faced by the organization on the way of digital transformation.

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN EDUCATION: ACTIVE LEARNERS

2019 ◽  
pp. 14-21
Author(s):  
Sevinç GÜLSEÇEN
Keyword(s):  
Computer Games ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Electronic Music ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Technology Literacy ◽  
Digital Television ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning

It is argued that the digital technology has made possible the vast range of applications and media forms including virtual reality, digital special effects, digital film, digital television, electronic music, computer games, multimedia, the Internet, the World Wide Web, digital telephony and so on [8]. Digital transformation has been particularly influential in new directions of society.Providing schools with digital technology promises a high return on investment. The presence of computers and Internet access raises technology literacy and skills, better preparing the future generations to participate in the information society [12]. To this end, schools represent ideal access points because they cover a large part of the population, especially in developing countries. Starting from 1990s, many educators have been realised the potential of Internet for educational purposes and began to introduce it into classrooms. According to [10] the popularity of web-based teaching and learning lies in the strengths of its distributed nature and the case of its browsing facility. Both the use of digital technology and increased interest in student-centered learning may lead to a significant change of the teacher’s role, as well as the recognition of the active role of the learner in the learning process.

The specifics of mergers and acquisitions of innovative and technological companies

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 1186-1204
Author(s):  
A.V. Fedorov ◽  
Zh.S. Peredera
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Comparison Study ◽  
Technology Sector ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Innovation And Technology ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Traditional Approaches

Subject. The article reviews distinctions of M&A deals in innovation and technology. Objectives. We determine the specifics of innovative and technological companies and its impact on the synergy, process, finance, valuation of M&A deals. Methods. The article employs methods of generalization, comprehensive analysis, systematization, specification, comparison, study into trends and the structure. Graphics and tables are used to display the findings. Results. We conducted the content analysis of the term Mergers & Acquisitions, thus finding the divergence of foreign and the Russian approaches. We provide our own definition of the concept and analyzed the dynamics of the overall M&A market and the innovation and technological sector. The article describes operational distinctions of innovative and technological companies and compares them with conventional sectors. The article determined the specifics of synergy, process, finance, valuation of M&A deals in innovation and technology. Conclusions and Relevance. The innovation and technology sector saw M&A deals become more frequent for the recent five years. What distinguishes them is the number of startups and infant businesses, large M&A deals in order to develop their ecosystems, involve digital technology companies. Traditional approaches should be adapted for structuring M&A deals, their arrangement, financing and valuation of target companies. The findings can lay the groundwork for further studies into the specifics of the innovation and technology sector, M&A deals, and set up the methodological framework for the valuation of innovative and technological companies. The findings can also immediately support parties of M&A deals from theoretical perspectives.

Tendencies of development of modern innovative technologies and the digital economy

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-47
Author(s):  
S. M. Doguchaeva
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Successful Development ◽  
Innovative Technologies ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
The Internet Of Things

The era of digital transformation provides the opportunity for leading companies to change priorities - to begin to take care of the support environment using innovative technologies and become a leading creative platform open for innovation. The successful development of the digital world, the blockchain technology, the Internet of things – the mechanism which will change the financial world. 

scholarly journals Practical considerations for creating a strategic and proactive clinical safety and pharmacovigilance organization for the future

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Magnus Nord ◽  
Magnus Ysander ◽  
Tim Sullivan ◽  
Mayur Patel
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
Observation Time ◽  
Operating Model ◽  
Clinical Safety ◽  
Patent Expiry ◽  
Multiple Challenges ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Main Components ◽  
Future Business

OBJECTIVE: In 2012, Patient Safety (PS) in AstraZeneca was facing a situation with multiple challenges, scientifically and structurally. To meet these and support AstraZeneca’s ambition to return to growth after years of patent expiry, we undertook a project to fundamentally revisit ways of working to create an organisation set up to provide strategic safety in support of drug project decision-making. METHOD: In this paper, we describe the challenges we faced, the project to deliver changes to respond to them, and the methodology used. The project had two main components: creating a new operating model and simplifying the procedural framework. RESULTS: It was delivered in a focused effort by internal PS resources with cross-functional input. The framework simplification resulted in a 71% reduction in procedural documents and a survey of PS staff revealed an increase in satisfaction of 10%–20% across all scores. CONCLUSIONS: With >3 years of observation time, this project has provided AstraZeneca with a PS organisation able to provide strategic safety, supporting successful portfolio delivery, while ensuring patient safety and maintaining compliance with global pharmacovigilance regulations. It has driven efficiency and set the foundation for continued organisational evolution to meet future business needs in an everchanging environment.

scholarly journals The Leading Digital Technology Companies and Their Approach to Sustainable Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 6612
Author(s):  
Peter Jones ◽  
Martin Wynn
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Sustainable Future

The increasingly stellar attraction of the digital technologies and the growing, though not universal, consensus of the need to build a sustainable future, are two powerful trends within society. The aim of this article is to offer an exploratory review of how the leading companies within the digital transformation market have addressed sustainable development. As such, the article’s originality and value lie in offering a review of current corporate thinking within that market. The study adopts an inductive, qualitative approach based on an examination of published company reports, and identifies six major sustainability themes being actively promoted and supported. The article concludes that the current sustainability objectives of the technology companies are driven as much by commercial reality as any altruistic motives, and that support and promotion of the circular economy may offer the best opportunity for digital technologies to meaningfully impact sustainable development.

THE POSSIBILITIES OF THE INTERNET-BASED BLACKBOARD PLATFORM IN DISTANCE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF BULGARIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (7(71)) ◽  
pp. 47-50
Author(s):  
V. Simeonova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Distance Teaching ◽  
Electronic Environment ◽  
Internet Platform ◽  
Medical University

The paper presents the effectiveness of teaching Bulgarian as a foreign language in an electronic environment in a medical university through internet platform “Blackboard”.

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