Equity Bank Ltd implemented an innovative strategy in 1994 that transformed the bank. Before 1994, Equity Bank had few customers and low deposits, loans, and profits. Dr. James Mwangi, CEO and Managing Director of Equity Bank Ltd, presented on the bank's innovative strategy and its dramatic positive impact. The strategy increased customer numbers and deposits, loans and advances, and profits for the bank from 1994 to 2008 through innovative products and services that better served customers.
The document discusses the emergence of GeoWeb 2.0, which involves merging geographical location-based information with information on the traditional internet. It notes that geographic functionality is now available in many places online. Examples mentioned include Google Street View, Bing Maps services, and online navigation tools.
BRITISH COUNCIL\'S CRITICISM IN LEADERSHIP Jul 08bckenya
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The document provides an outline for a talk on personal leadership and handling criticism. It discusses different types of criticism, how to handle criticism as a leader, and tips for criticizing others constructively. The main points are:
- Leaders must be prepared to receive criticism as they are always doing, saying, and being something visible.
- There are different types of criticism, some constructive and some destructive, based on factors like intent and timing.
- When receiving criticism, leaders should maintain a positive attitude, look beyond the criticism to the source, and focus on their mission rather than errors.
- When giving criticism, leaders should check their motives, ensure the criticism is specific and helpful rather than hurtful, and balance
The document provides strategies for excelling as an academician and effective teacher. It discusses that effective teachers facilitate learning, motivate students, create a positive learning environment, trigger critical thinking, and communicate clearly. Additional tips include preparing thoroughly, making every lecture interesting, being accessible, providing personalized instruction, and focusing on basics, applications, and implications. Repetition is important for retention, and teachers should lead by example and develop policies to improve the overall learning environment.
Efficiency Leaders undertakes business process analysis to understand organizations' processes, identify inefficiencies, and propose improvements. They analyze both technical requirements and business needs, asking questions to determine optimal solutions. This leads to greater returns than technical specs alone. Efficiency Leaders documents current processes, deficiencies, and proposed reengineered processes. The goal is to eliminate inaccuracies, significantly reduce costs, enable transparency, and minimize risks through education, experience, innovation, and technology.
International Financial Markets in France : Facts and Figuresguest5a2242
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France has become a leading global financial center since adopting the Euro in 1999. Paris accounts for over 45% of privatization transactions in Europe over the last 4 years, demonstrating the strength of France's financial markets. Investment banking in France is driven primarily by equity derivatives business.
Ten tech-enabled business trands to watch - August 10Carl Terrantroy
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1. Advancing technologies are rapidly disrupting traditional business models and forcing strategic changes. Ten emerging tech-enabled business trends were identified that executives need to understand and adapt to, including distributed cocreation, networks as organizations, collaboration at scale, the growing 'Internet of Things', experimenting with big data, and wiring for a sustainable world.
2. To guide strategies in this changing environment, leaders should track the evolution of new technologies, monitor adoption rates, assign accountability for implications across functions, catalyze collaboration across silos, and use "test and learn" methods when implementing technologies to avoid disruptions. Fully exploiting these trends will require transforming organizations into learning laboratories.
The document discusses CA's solutions for enterprise cloud computing. It outlines how CA helps customers accelerate agility, control, and optimize business value through solutions that enable private and hybrid cloud environments. CA's portfolio includes solutions for automating service provisioning, managing identities and access, assuring service quality, and gaining insights to optimize sourcing decisions. The solutions help customers overcome obstacles to cloud success by bringing innovations like Amazon/Google-like agility to their internal IT environments.
The document discusses how cloud computing has gained traction among Australian CIOs over the past year. It profiles Commonwealth Bank of Australia CIO Michael Harte, who has embraced cloud computing to reduce costs and improve flexibility. Harte discusses how the bank is using Amazon Web Services and Savvis for testing and development workloads. The article also mentions how other organizations like Westpac and Curtin University are adopting cloud computing strategies.
The document discusses integrated physical and virtual infrastructure management by CA. It outlines market trends in virtualization adoption and the need for virtualization management. CA's solutions provide unified management of physical and virtual systems. Their solutions address challenges like virtual machine sprawl, decreased agility, and poor performance visibility. CA has strategic partnerships with virtualization vendors and success stories from customers who gained improved service quality and reduced costs using CA's virtualization management capabilities.
This document provides information about a proposed Cloud Services Measurement Consortium led by Carnegie Mellon University. The consortium aims to develop standardized measures to quantify the benefits, costs, and risks of cloud-based services compared to traditional internal data center services. Members would contribute resources like personnel, funding, and expertise to help create a framework for organizing service measures. The benefits of joining include helping shape the results, early access to drafts, collaborating with industry peers, and contributing to an important industry issue.
Research and Development of Early Natural Disaster Warning System with Real-T...Chingchai Humhong
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Research and Development of Early Natural Disaster Warning System with Real-Time Based on Web Processing Service in Lom Kao District, Phetchabun Province
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This presentation was presented to the Executives of Queen Sirikit Botanical Garden on the occasion of signing ceremony of cooperation between the National Electronics and Computer Technology Center and Queen Sirikit Botanical Garden at NECTEC, Pathumthani on August 16, 2010.
The document discusses CA's solutions for enterprise cloud computing. It outlines how CA helps customers accelerate agility, control, and optimize business value through solutions that enable private and hybrid cloud environments. CA's portfolio includes solutions for automating service provisioning, managing identities and access, assuring service quality, and gaining insights to optimize sourcing decisions. The solutions help customers overcome obstacles to cloud success by bringing innovations like Amazon/Google-like agility to their internal IT environments.
The document discusses how cloud computing has gained traction among Australian CIOs over the past year. It profiles Commonwealth Bank of Australia CIO Michael Harte, who has embraced cloud computing to reduce costs and improve flexibility. Harte discusses how the bank is using Amazon Web Services and Savvis for testing and development workloads. The article also mentions how other organizations like Westpac and Curtin University are adopting cloud computing strategies.
The document discusses integrated physical and virtual infrastructure management by CA. It outlines market trends in virtualization adoption and the need for virtualization management. CA's solutions provide unified management of physical and virtual systems. Their solutions address challenges like virtual machine sprawl, decreased agility, and poor performance visibility. CA has strategic partnerships with virtualization vendors and success stories from customers who gained improved service quality and reduced costs using CA's virtualization management capabilities.
This document provides information about a proposed Cloud Services Measurement Consortium led by Carnegie Mellon University. The consortium aims to develop standardized measures to quantify the benefits, costs, and risks of cloud-based services compared to traditional internal data center services. Members would contribute resources like personnel, funding, and expertise to help create a framework for organizing service measures. The benefits of joining include helping shape the results, early access to drafts, collaborating with industry peers, and contributing to an important industry issue.
Research and Development of Early Natural Disaster Warning System with Real-T...Chingchai Humhong
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Research and Development of Early Natural Disaster Warning System with Real-Time Based on Web Processing Service in Lom Kao District, Phetchabun Province
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This presentation was presented to the Executives of Queen Sirikit Botanical Garden on the occasion of signing ceremony of cooperation between the National Electronics and Computer Technology Center and Queen Sirikit Botanical Garden at NECTEC, Pathumthani on August 16, 2010.
1. The document discusses how to connect various GIS software including ESRI ArcGIS, MapGuide, MapServer, and GeoServer to PostGIS spatial databases.
2. Basic steps for connecting MapGuide to PostGIS include downloading the FDO provider, copying files, and creating a provider configuration file.
3. For MapServer, PostGIS support must be compiled in and the CONNECTIONTYPE parameter set to POSTGIS, with CONNECTION used to specify database connection details and DATA to define layers from PostGIS tables.
4. GeoServer supports connecting directly to PostGIS spatial tables.
The document discusses Geo Mush up and Application by Chaipat Nengcomma. It describes Google Maps and Google Earth APIs which allow embedding maps and 3D globes into web applications. It also talks about the GeoEye-1 satellite launched by GeoEye and Google that provides high resolution imagery of 41 cm used in Google Earth and Maps.
1) AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. It allows web pages to update parts of a page asynchronously by exchanging data with a web server behind the scenes without reloading the whole page.
2) AJAX is based on open standards like JavaScript, XML, HTML and CSS. It allows for cross-browser and cross-platform applications.
3) The document discusses how AJAX uses the XMLHttpRequest object to send and receive data from a server asynchronously by HTTP requests in the background. This makes web applications more interactive and responsive.
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