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From e-commerce to m-commerce : a new competitive environment for wireless vendors
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
The Internet has created a revolution in business. It is allowing companies to connect like they have never been able to previously. Traditional companies are having to radically transform themselves as new business models ...
NTT's global strategy after re-organization
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), the largest telecommunication carrier in the world, was broken up, and reconstituted NTT mad a new start on July 1, 1999. On that day, free competition in the telecommunication ...
New value chain in the precription drug industry : a mandate to change
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
This thesis focuses on an analysis of strategy in the prescription drug industry. For prescription drug companies, the ultimate consumers are patients, but intermediate customers are physicians. Because of regulations and ...
A study of partnership models in distribution channels
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
Recently Japanese oil companies have been struggling to provide customers with differentiated services and satisfaction, and to capture their perception. They tried changing the relationship with dealers over multiple ...
Strategies and scenarios for wireless information systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
This thesis investigates the emerging market for wireless information services caused by the convergence of Internet, information and telecommunication technologies. Portals and content and application providers are now ...
Internet and business transformation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
The Internet is currently keeping managers awake at night. Surveys conducted in various industries and regions around the globe typically show that more than 90% of the executives consider that the Internet will transform ...
Outsourced knowledge: knowledge transfer and strategic implications from design outsourcing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
Design is an especially effective means to transfer organizational product knowledge; yet, design outsourcing, or the contracting of a supplier to perform the design of a product or product component, has grown in acceptance ...
Speed and consensus in standardization : a theoretical and empirical analysis of third generation communication systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
International standardization has been playing an important role in telecommunications industries. The primary benefits of the large committee standardization are interoperability and scales of economy. However, mainly due ...
Application service provider : a business plan
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
An Application Service Provider (ASP) provides a contracted service, which offers to deploy, host, manage and rent access to popular packaged software applications. Customers, primarily enterprises, are served from centrally ...
Science and technology driving change in drug R&D : some lessons for the Japanese pharmaceutical industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
The technology platform in the research and development of pharmaceutical drugs is changing dramatically -- from the traditional trial-and-error method to modem sophisticated methods that use Combinatorial Chemistry (CC), ...