Colrain M. Zuppo Marion Technical College (MTC)

ABSTRACT

Subsequent to rapid information and communication technology development, the scope of the definition of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT or ICTs) has been utilized within diverse contexts including economic development, education, IT, business and personal usage. A review of academic literature, trade publications and general information was undertaken to establish a hierarchy of applications for the term ICT or ICTs.

KEYWORDS

ICT, ICTs, education, economics, digital communication, hierarchy

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http://airccse.org/journal/ijmit/papers/4312ijmit02.pdf

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Ehab J.Adwan¹ and Ali Al-Soufi^{2 1&2}Department of Information Systems, University of Bahrain, Kingdom of Bahrain

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A growing awareness in the construction industry has emerged to pay a sharp attention to ICT as a catalyst that would mitigate the deficiencies characterized by this industry. In comparison with other cited review articles, this paper is aimed to 1) compile the research published on “ICT Technologies” in correspondence to “Construction Tasks” in the construction industry over the past two decades (1996- 2016), 2) demonstrate the trends and patterns in the use of different types of ICT Technologies 3) discuss the correspondence of the identified ICT Technologies to the identified Construction Tasks and 4) exhibit the construction needs of ICT. By the employment of a five phases profiling methodology, a set of 68 out of 202 articles and papers indexed by Elsevier’s Scopus database was considered relevant for the current review paper. This research is targeting the beginning researchers and practitioners in the field of ICT in construction.

KEYWORDS

Construction industry, Information, Technology, Ict, Construction Tasks, Article review.

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http://aircconline.com/ijmit/V8N4/8416ijmit01.pdf

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Martin Otu Offei and Kwaku Nuamah-Gyambrah Koforidua Polytechnic , Ghana

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Internet banking has the potential to provide fast and reliable services to customers for which they are relatively happy. Due to the technological changes taking place all over the world, many institutions, including the banking sector have taken giant steps to move in tandem with these changes. In this light most banks, with GCB Bank, Ghana, not being an exception have introduced electronic banking in order to decongest the banking halls of customers who spend time unending in order to transact business. The purpose of this research was to assess the Contribution of Electronic Banking to Customer Satisfaction at GCB Bank-Koforidua, to this end some objectives were set for the study. These were: To assess the availability of electronic banking facilities at GCB Bank, Koforidua. To assess the knowledge and patronage of internet banking services by customers, to examine the effectiveness of the usage of electronic banking facilities, to examine the problem facing an internet banking in GCB Bank, Koforidua. This is a quantitative study that employed the use of questionnaires as the main tools for data collection. Data was collected from management, staff and customers of GCB Bank, Koforidua Branch. Findings from analysis of data revealed that though there was the existence of internet banking facilities of the bank, respondents of the study were not fully aware of the existence of such facilities. It was also found that the use of internet banking was quite expensive and that though the bank was utilizing the facility, customers were not fully patronizing them. It was concluded that internet banking brings efficiency in the operations of the bank. Finally, the study recommended that all branches of GCB Bank adopt internet banking facilities to help in effective banking operations and transactional purposes. To maximize the operations and potential of the bank management must endeavor to educate the customers about the existence of internet banking facilities since a few customers were aware of the existence of such facilities.

KEYWORDS

Internet banking, customer satisfaction, contribution, Ghana, ATM Cards, master cards, visa, debit & credit cards

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http://aircconline.com/ijmit/V8N1/8116ijmit01.pdf

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Yuji Tou¹，Chihiro Watanabe ^2,3，Kuniko Moriya^2,4 ,Victor Vurpillat⁵,Pekka Neittaanmäki^{2 1}Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan ²University of Jyväskylä, Finland, ³International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria, ⁴Research and Statistics Department, Bank of Japan, Japan and ⁵Global Connexus Inc., USA

ABSTRACT

Amazon was the world’s top R&D firm in 2017. Its R&D investment was double that of 2015, quintuple that of 2012, and tenfold that of 2011. It deploys a unique R&D model as conducting “routine or periodic alternations” and “significant improvement” simultaneously. Since traditionally the former is classified as non-R&D, Amazon’s rapid and notable increase has raised the question of a new R&D definition in the digital economy. By means of an empirical analysis of the Amazon’s R&D model, this paper attempted to provide a convincing answer to this question. Amazon has invested considerable resources in extremely innovative business areas, which has developed its assimilation capacity. In parallel with such forefront innovation, Amazon is endeavoring to absorb soft innovation resources from external markets and assimilate them into its business model. This then transforms “routine or periodic alternations” into “significant improvement”, leading to the company becoming the world’s top R&D firm. Such an endeavor has triggered a new concept of R&D in neo open innovation and revealed the significance of a transformation of the R&D concept in the digital economy.

KEYWORDS

R&D, neo open innovation, Amazon, transformation, technology and content

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http://aircconline.com/ijmit/V11N1/11119ijmit02.pdf

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http://airccse.org/journal/ijmit/vol11.html

Yuji Tou¹，Chihiro Watanabe ^2,3，Kuniko Moriya^4,2 ,Pekka Neittaanmäki^{2 1}Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan ²University of Jyväskylä, Finland, ³International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria and ⁴Research and Statistics Department, Bank of Japan, Japan

ABSTRACT

As a consequence of the two-faced nature of information and communication technology (ICT), a majority of ICT leaders have been confronting the critical problem of a dilemma between R&D expansion and productivity decline in the digital economy. However, Amazon has been able to accomplish a skyrocketing increase in R&D and market capitalization. Finland has also accomplished balanced advancement not only of welfare but also economic resurgence. This paper attempted to elucidate the miracle of two ICT leaders. By means of a comparative empirical analysis of respective development trajectories, the sources of their success were analyzed thereby the comparative advantage and disadvantage of each respective trajectories supportive to find a practical solution to the critical problem of a dilemma were identified. The sources of both successes can be attributed to harnessing the vigor of soft innovation resources from the marketplace. However, contrary to Amazon’s complementary use, Finland has depended on substitutionary use. While this approach contributes to easy resurgence, it casts a shadow to the innovative growth in the future. An insightful suggestion regarding balanced sustainable growth by cross learning was thus provided.

KEYWORDS

Digital economy, soft innovation resources, Amazon, Finland, dilemma between R&D and productivity

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http://aircconline.com/ijmit/V11N2/11219ijmit02.pdf

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http://airccse.org/journal/ijmit/vol11.html

David C. Wyld¹ and Michael C. Budden^{2 1}Department of Management, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA USA ²Department of Marketing & Supply Chain Management, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA USA

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This paper explores how RFID (radio frequency identification) technology can be employed to fight the ever-growing shoplifting problem, estimated to cost the world’s retailers almost $100 billion annually. The paper provides an overview of RFID technology. We then analyze how RFID is beginning to see utilization in-store not just for security, but as a vehicle to improve inventory management and business intelligence as well. This paper demonstrates that RFID is poised to usher in a whole new direction in the fight against retail shrinkage, and we discuss what this visibility will mean for their companies, their employees, and their customers.

KEYWORDS

Shoplifting, Retail Security, Loss Prevention, RFID (radio frequency identification) technology, Organized Retail Crime, Business Intelligence

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http://airccse.org/journal/ijmit/1011s1.pdf

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Sitalakshmi Venkatraman School of Engineering, Construction and Design (IT), Melbourne Polytechnic, Australia

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With the recent service enhancements over the Internet, organisations are confronted with a growing magnitude of security intrusions and attacks. Current intrusion detection strategies have not been effective in the long term, as new and obfuscated security attacks keep emerging evading the surveillance mechanisms. With information technology (IT) playing a pivotal role in today’s organizational operations and value creation, security regulatory bodies have identified this situation not solely as a technology issue, rather due to the weakness of an organisation's risk management practices and IT governance. Hence, recent attention has embarked on formulating proactive IT security governance for organisational sustenance. This paper proposes an autonomic framework for IT security governance that postulates a selflearning adaptive mechanism for an effective intrusion detection and risk management. Such a framework would facilitate autonomic ways of integrating existing context-dependent knowledge with new observed behaviour patterns gathered from network as well as host for detecting unknown security attacks effectively using mobile agents. In addition, this paper provides a roadmap for autonomic IT security governance by applying the proposed framework The roadmap employs a continuous improvement feedback loop. for achieving the targeted quality of service (QoS) in an organisation.

KEYWORDS

IT Security Governance, Intrusion Detection, Autonomic Framework, Self-learning & Mobile Agents

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http://aircconline.com/ijmit/V9N3/9317ijmit01.pdf

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http://airccse.org/journal/ijmit/vol9.html

H. Obaidat and M. A. Otair Amman Arab University, Jordan

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The study aimed at identifying the impact of knowledge management on the function of employee performance appraisals (it is one of the most important functions of human resources management) in Jordanian industrial public shareholding companies, relying on the descriptive analytical approach. A questionnaire has been developed and distributed on individuals of the study sample consisting of managers of departments and sections of human resources in each company. The number of questionnaire retrieved and valid for statistical analysis (294) representing (86.5%) of the distributed questionnaires. In order to analyze the study sample, reliance was placed on descriptive statistics, represented in the arithmetic means and standard deviations, in addition to the multiple linear regression analysis in hypothesis testing. The study reached a number of findings, most importantly, the presence of statistically significant impact at the level of (α=0.05) for the knowledge management including its dimensions (knowledge generation, knowledge storage, knowledge sharing, knowledge application) on the function of employee performance appraisals in Jordanian industrial public shareholding companies. The study has recommended that the Jordanian industrial public shareholding companies should follow an efficient evaluation system capable of identifying the employees’ weaknesses.

KEYWORDS

Human resources management, Knowledge Management, Employee Performance Appraisals, Industrial Companies

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http://aircconline.com/ijmit/V10N4/10418ijmit03.pdf

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http://airccse.org/journal/ijmit/vol10.html

AKM Bahalul Haque Depart of Electrical and Computer Engineering North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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Cyber security is one of the burning issues in modern world. Increased IT infrastructure has given rise to enormous chances of security breach. Bangladesh being a relatively new member of cyber security arena has its own demand and appeal. Digitalization is happening in Bangladesh for last few years at an appreciable rate. People are being connected to the worldwide web community with their smart devices. These devices have their own vulnerability issues as well as the data shared over the internet has a very good chances of getting breached. Common vulnerability issues like infecting the device with malware, Trojan, virus are on the rise. Moreover, a lack of proper cyber security policy and strategy might make the existing situation at the vulnerable edge of tipping point. Hence the upcoming new infrastructures will be at a greater risk if the issues are not dealt with at an early age. In this paper common vulnerability issues including their recent attacks on cyber space of Bangladesh, cyber security strategy and need for data privacy policy is discussed and analysed briefly.

KEYWORDS

CyberSecurity, Cyberdefence, Security Policy, Vulnerability, Cyber Threat, Security Strategy

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http://aircconline.com/ijmit/V11N1/11119ijmit03.pdf

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Yuji Tou¹，Chihiro Watanabe ^2,3，Pekka Neittaanmäki^{2 1}Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, ²University of Jyväskylä, Finland and ³International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria

ABSTRACT

Amazon became the world R&D leader in 2017 by rapidly increasing R&D investment. The company’s extremely large amount of R&D funds is the result of an ample free cash flow generated by sophisticated cash conversion cycle (CCC) management. Increased R&D induced business advancement and lean cost structure construction leading to further increase in cash flow which has stimulated interaction between vendors, customers, and Amazon via the Amazon marketplace. Activated interaction accelerated CCC advancement, a subsequent free cash flow increase, and user-driven innovation, thus accelerated the transformation of routine and periodic alteration activities into significant improvement simultaneously. All of these components function together as a consolidated sophisticated machine.

In light of the increasing concern to R&D resources development without the dilemma of a productivity decline that most digital economies are now confronting, this paper demonstrated the above hypothetical view.

An intensive empirical analysis focusing on the development trajectory of Amazon’s techno-financing system over a period from 1997 to 2018 was conducted.

An insightful suggestion to neo open innovation that fuses financing management and R&D management was thus provided

KEYWORDS

R&D, Transformation, Cash flow management, Cash conversion cycle, Amazon

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http://aircconline.com/ijmit/V11N3/11319ijmit01.pdf