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Construction forecasts : construction forecasting and research
No full textPrepared for publication by the Construction Forecasting & Research Team of Experianplc - Economics Unit
How can Experian derive business value through joining up its capabilities to create innovative product proposals?
No full textExperian is a global company; the main business of Experian is in providing information, analytical and marketing services to organisations and consumers to help manage the risk and reward of commercial and financial decisions.
The company combines its unique information tools and deep understanding of individuals, markets and economies; Experian also supports their clients in providing them business insights about the business strategy, acquire customers profitability and maximise the value of their existing customers.
In the UK, Experian managed more than 600 clients in different type of industries, including financial services, retail, home shopping, telecommunications, utilities, media, insurance, automotive, leisure, charity and property. Moreover, Experian also helps public sector organisations in making better decisions around policy formulation and efficient service delivery.
The project is intended to expand the business of Experian by entering a new market with an innovative product and service. The main source of data is anticipated to be the employees at the firm. Face to face interviews are likely to be the most productive method of obtaining information from people. The interview was conducted with more than 26 people in the company from different departments, this was initiated to gain as many information as I could get for the project. In addition to the interview, I've also done a lot of research from the company intranet, websites, and journals to get more insight about the business and search for some opportunities that would be valuable to the company.
The main objective of the project is to link the internal capabilities of Experian with the customer needs; the linkage would be the outcome that will propose several new potential product and services
How can Experian derive business value through joining up its capabilities to create innovative product proposals?
No full textExperian is a global company; the main business of Experian is in providing information, analytical and marketing services to organisations and consumers to help manage the risk and reward of commercial and financial decisions.
The company combines its unique information tools and deep understanding of individuals, markets and economies; Experian also supports their clients in providing them business insights about the business strategy, acquire customers profitability and maximise the value of their existing customers.
In the UK, Experian managed more than 600 clients in different type of industries, including financial services, retail, home shopping, telecommunications, utilities, media, insurance, automotive, leisure, charity and property. Moreover, Experian also helps public sector organisations in making better decisions around policy formulation and efficient service delivery.
The project is intended to expand the business of Experian by entering a new market with an innovative product and service. The main source of data is anticipated to be the employees at the firm. Face to face interviews are likely to be the most productive method of obtaining information from people. The interview was conducted with more than 26 people in the company from different departments, this was initiated to gain as many information as I could get for the project. In addition to the interview, I've also done a lot of research from the company intranet, websites, and journals to get more insight about the business and search for some opportunities that would be valuable to the company.
The main objective of the project is to link the internal capabilities of Experian with the customer needs; the linkage would be the outcome that will propose several new potential product and services
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
PURSUING ORGANIZATIONAL SPIRITUALITY: SOME LESSONS FROM A FINANCIAL SERVICES CORPORATION
Full text linkThere has been scant investigation about workplace spirituality focusing on organizational level. Thus, this paper tries to fulfill this gap by recognizing that organizations have been increasingly forced to address other issues than their traditional concerns. Rather, it suggests that companies should be open to embrace other values such as spiritual principles through organizational re-orientation. Accordingly, this paper presents the case study of Serasa Experian, one of the world’s leading economic and financial analysis and information firms. In addition, it proposes a simplified conceptual framework in which both corporate social responsibility (CSR) and internal marketing concept (IMC) constitute the key constructs of a spiritual organization. Finally, the findings suggest that Serasa Experian has pursued an organizational spirituality orientation, yet it has somewhat lost its impetus toward it. Overall, evidence shows that its features, values, and feats are typical of an organization in which spirituality is more than a word, even though it is unaware of it.corporate culture, corporate social responsibility, employees, internal marketing, virtues, workplace spirituality.
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
PLANNING TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENTS FOR HIGH PAYOFFS: A RATIONAL EXPECTATIONS APPROACH TO GAUGING POTENTIAL AND REALIZED VALUE IN A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT
Full text linkThis paper examines the impact of information security breaches on organizational performance. Up to date, there have been only a few empirical academic studies that have investigated this issue and they have investigated information security breaches with the focus on the short-term impact on the market value of the firm. This study offers an alternate approach to investigate this issue as it explores the impact of breaches on financial performance of the firm, one year after the breach. Using a “matched sampling” methodology, we explored the impact of each type of breach (i.e. confidentiality, integrity, and availability) and also by IT intensity and size. Our results suggest that the direction of the impact (i.e. positive, negative) is dependent on the type of security breaches and also the impact of IT intensive firms is different from non-IT intensive firms. Our study also includes some important implications for managers and stock market investors.Information security, impact, security breach, organizational performance,confidentiality, integrity, availability
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