Social Networking Services (SNS) are changing the ways in which people use and engage with the internet and with each other. Young people particularly are quick to use the new technology in ways which increasingly blur the boundaries between their online and offline activities. SNS are also changing rapidly as technology changes with new mobile dimensions and features. As such children have…
The emergence and spread of social networking services on Internet 1 is one of the most relevant phenomena to emerge in the field of new technologies in recent years. Appearing at the beginning of the 21st Century, in many cases starting out as communication tools for reduced groups of people in specific contexts, such as university students, some platforms have since expanded rapidly,…
In order to remain competitive in today’s global marketplace, organizations must constantly improve customer service, reduce IT overhead, and increase efficiency—frequently with fewer resources than ever before. This may seem like an impossible feat, but the advent of UCaaS (Unified Communications as a Service) has enabled many IT departments to be viewed as business drivers rather than cos…
The FATS manual is a milestone on the road to EU-wide harmonised Foreign AffiliaTes Statistics (FATS). Its importance becomes even more apparent when we consider the political background to this project. All over the world, ‘globalisation’ is seen as the predominant agent of change and the main policy challenge. At the heart of this complex and somewhat blurry concept, however, lie busi…
This book provides a multidisciplinary interrogation of the global anti-corruption campaigns of the last ten years, arguing that while some positive change is observable, the period is also replete with perverse consequences and unintended outcomes
Over the past decade the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (the Basel Committee) has released a number of consultative documents discussing the management and supervision of the interest rate risk inherent in a bank’s balance sheet1. The Committee’s most recent release on this topic forms part of the proposed New Basel Capital Accord (the New Accord), which comes into effect in 200…
This paper builds upon prior work conducted by Joint Forum working groups in the area of risk integration and aggregation 1 and aims to explore the progress that financial conglomerates have made in identifying, m easuring, and managing risk concentrations on a firm-wide basis and across the major risks to which the firm is exposed. In December 1999, the Joint Forum published its …
OR has been managed already before it has been „ labelled ― so. However ORM has never been an integrated process , rather a set of fragmented activities to deal with a wide variety of risks
This book covers the topic of Governance Risk and Compliance management. It seems that every year since the Enron collapse, there has been a fresh debacle that refuses to lower the spotlight from this area. Before Sarbanes-Oxley forced the management of companies to become risk conscious, if you asked a Chief Executive whether he thought he had adequate internal controls, I think the most like…
GDP in many European countries, provides for public services and re-distributive flows, such as social benefits. There is an increasing interest in the purposes of government expenditure and the way in which these purposes change over time. The focus on the quality of public finances, work led in Europe by the Economic Policy Committee under the direction of the ECOFIN council, requires hi…
Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety (TeamSTEPPS™) is a systematic approach developed by the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to integrate teamwork into practice. It is designed to improve the quality, safety, and the efficiency of health care. TeamSTEPPS is based on 25 years of research related to teamwork, t…