Islamic financial industry has come a long way during its short history. The future of these institutions, however, will depend on how they cope with the rapidly changing financial world. With globalization and informational technology revolution, scopes of different financial institutions have expanded beyond national jurisdictions. As a result, the financial sector in particular has beco…
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…
his is a book about governance, risk management, and compliance management of a large modern enterprise and how the IT infrastructure, in particular the Oracle IT Infrastructure, can assist in that governance. The IT infrastructure both presents a risk and also provides the infrastructure to mitigate and manage that risk. The IT infrastructure must be shown to be in compliance with policies,…
Navicat is a GUI tool used for managing every aspect of a MySQL Server, such as managing visual tools as well as an intelligent code editor for handcoding SQL and stored procedures. While some of its features are fairly intuitive, some of them require guidance to be discovered and learned. The book starts with creating basic server connection setups, designing databases from scratch, or import…
This article is on defining and measuring of organizational culture and its impact on the organizational performance, through an analysis of existing empirical studies and models link with the organizational culture and performance. The objective of this article is to demonstrate conceptualization, measurement and examine various concepts on organization culture and performance. After analy…
Electronic commerce, in a broad sense, is the use of computer networks to improve organizational performance. Increasing profitability, gaining market share, improving customer service, and delivering products faster are some of the organizational performance gains possible with electronic commerce. Electronic commerce is more than ordering goods from an on-line catalog. It involves all aspe…
Electronic commerce is a revolution in business practices. If organizations are going to take advantage of new Internet technologies, then they must take a strategic perspective. That is, care must be taken to make a close link between corporate strategy and electronic commerce strategy. In this chapter, we address some essential strategic issues, describe the major themes tackled by this bo…
Many motivational experts like to say that leaders are made, not born. I would argue the exact opposite. I believe we are all natural born leaders, but have been deprogrammed along the way. As children, we were natural leaders - curious and humble, always hungry and thirsty for knowledge, with an incredibly vivid imagination; we knew exactly what we wanted, were persistent and determined in…