Research
Artificial Intelligence: Uses and Misuses
Artificial Intelligence (AI) was mostly regarded as science-fiction in the past but with the recent advancements in technology, it has silently crept into our lives. From social media to computer games to self-driving cars to military gadgets to personal digital assistants, AI is everywhere. This progress is also due to a paradigm shift in AI community where current trend is to make AI stronger in specific domains rather than making a human-like AI which can do anything. Resultantly, AI can now out-perform humans in many areas. But this progress of AI is scary for some people who are predicting the “rise of machines†in half a century or so if AI progress remains unbridled.
Artificial Intelligence and Customer Communication
There is a rapid increase in the usage of artificial intelligence in the most recent decade. Use of Artificial Intelligence in the customer interaction is gaining traction in the market. It is saving a lot of money because chat bots are taking away the need of physical resources. Best utilization of AI is past the customary contact focus, where an organization's administration impression becomes exponentially. When one considers the aggregate entirety of keen gadgets in an organization today that can convey data about clients and their items to the cloud, an extraordinary wellspring of client administration information is accessible to influence.
A Brief Survey of Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is among the most promising technologies of the recent days, with the potential to reach $204 billion by the end of 2016. Almost all major tech companies provide cloud services of one sort or another like computing clusters and cloud storage. Cloud services can be provisioned as Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and they can be deployed as private, community, public or hybrid clouds. Cloud computing provides several advantages like ease-of-deployment, no maintenance and up-front costs, and rapid and efficient scalability. But it does pose several challenges with regards to security of data and privacy issues, and many security sensitive companies tend to shy away from cloud services due to this very reason.
Social Media Analytics using Data Mining
There is a rapid increase in the usage of social media in the most recent decade. Getting to social media platforms for example, Twitter, Facebook LinkedIn and Google+ via mediums like web and the web 2.0 has become the most convenient way for users. Individuals are turning out to be more inspired by and depending on such platforms for data, news and thoughts of different clients on various topics. The substantial dependence on these social platforms causes them to produce huge information described by three computational issues in particular; volume, velocity and dynamism. These issues frequently make informal organization information exceptionally complex to break down physically, bringing about the related utilization of computational method for dissecting them. Information mining gives an extensive variety of strategies for recognizing valuable information from huge datasets like patterns, examples and standards. Various data mining strategies are utilized for useful data recovery, factual displaying and machine learning. These systems generally do a sort of pre-processing of data, performs the data analysis and information. This study examines distinctive information mining procedures utilized as a part of mining different parts of the informal community over decades going from the chronicled systems to the forward model.
High Performance Working
The performance management makes sure that employees are aware of the goal and objective that they have to achieve. The organization has certain goals and objectives. And it is the best in interest of organization of company and employee that the objectives of both must be in sync. Thus setting up objectives in advance helps the company and organization to be in same page. Further performance management helps the employee to grow with the company. Further this is a process that eliminate the difference and conflicts between the two. Performance management also helps in identifying key resource for the organization who can be rewarded and groomed to be the stars of the future (Walton, R 1985). Further performance management also helps in setting up the reward structure as to what kind of performance must get what kind of award. These incentives the employee to see what is expected and what in return they are going to get.
E-Business and Social Media Marketing
Social media marketing, is a type of web promotion that executes different social networking systems keeping in mind the end goal to accomplish advertising correspondence and marking objectives. Social media marketing basically covers exercises including social sharing of substance, recordings, and pictures for promoting purposes, and additionally paid social networking publicizing. Social media is something which is created by people on the internet using the publishing technologies. Basically it is a big change in the consumers for absorbing and sharing information. It can be termed as a combination of technology & sociology where all the one directional conversation is converted to communication among various parties on the internet (Creamer, M 2011). Social media marketing is a kind of marketing which happens online which is totally location independent and hence it is a very important part of any business’ marketing strategy. In earlier days content for marketing was created by very few stakeholders but now due to social media everyone can produce their own content and put it online and the reason for it is because social media is highly accessible and the medium to use social media is again very is very convenient and easily understood by anyone.
The Impact of E-Commerce on Retail
The research focus of my paper is e-commerce influence as new category of sales activity in US. The problem understanding is described in conceptual model below. In the end I want to know do e-commerce any influence on sales volume in US market and in retail sales category. I have to use methods which extract the dependences between how e-commerce is performing, and what is an influence of e-commerce branch on US market. The research method of to solve this tasks is multiple linear regression. I select this method in statistics, linear regression is an approach for modeling the relationship between a scalar dependent variable y and one or more explanatory variables (David A. Freedman, 2009).
Why American Minorities go to the Entrepreneurship?
In this paper, I have studied the situation of small businesses that owned by ethnic minorities in the United States. I choose the African-American women as a sample to examine the position of their small businesses. Literature review and interactive interviews were used to find the best results. I went through the obstacles faced their businesses and how minorities were affected by the recession. Also, the reasons for increasing the number of entrepreneurs in the recent period, especially African-American women. The paper will end with statistical comparison and the reasons women choose entrepreneurship.
Should Carrefour Expand into Vietnam?
In this paper I have briefly discussed whether should Carrefour expand into Vietnam or not. Hypermarkets market is growing, and Carrefour has built a very impressive brand name and has gone to great heights to become the world's largest retailer. Vietnam also is a growing country, and could be good chance for Carrefour there. I used PEST analyses to find out the possibility of Carrefour expansion into Vietnam. I went through the political, economic, socio-cultural, and technological factors. By the end of this paper, you will find the results and recommendations.
The Effectiveness of Corporate Social Responsibility in Saudi Arabia
In this article we have briefly discussed about the corporate social responsibilities in Saudi Arabia and their effectiveness. After the introduction advantages and disadvantages of CSR are discussed. After that implementation of CSR in Saudi Arabia is discussed giving an overview of how it is executed. After giving some positive developments seen after CSR, the drawbacks of improperly governed CSR are discussed. In the end a conclusion is made highlighting what steps should Saudi Arabia should take in order to overcome these problems.
