Tahir M. Nisar

Smartphone and App Implementations that Improve Productivity (eBook, ePUB)

How New Technologies Are Implemented in Various Business Operations

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The introduction of digital applications into businesses has revolutionized the way employees and managers carry out their jobs while also benefiting them socially. Smartphone and App Implementations that Improve Productivity looks at the benefits of apps in the workplace and introduces academic perspectives that link prospective advantages with practical commercial examples. The analysis is structured into chapters that include real world application while at the same time critically assess implied benefits of the new app technology and draw out the main findings and conclusions.

Tahir M. Nisar brings into focus the emerging role of digital applications and big data in enterprise decision making. Readers will learn how companies can achieve more efficiency and effectiveness in their business operations through new types of organizational design strategies and mechanisms of employee mobility and work-life balance that draw on digital apps.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Walter de Gruyter
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781547400560
• Artikelnr.: 56851648

Autorenporträt

Tahir M. Nisar, Southampton Business School, University of Southampton, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Preface

Chapter 1 Introduction

Uber: A mobile application

Performance evaluation - App rating system

The drivers - not employees but partners

Flexibility - a key word in Uber's digital practices

What it all comes down to

Chapter outlines

Chapter 2 Mobile Communications and Big Data

Chapter 3 Management of Enterprise Resource Systems

APP types

Enterprise resource planning

Large and small firms and apps

Chapter 4 Technology and Firm capabilities

Web-conferencing

E-learning

Supply-chain

Marketing

Sales force automation (SFA)

Customer relationship management

Retailing

Personalization and unison

Accessibility

Transparency

Chapter 5 Management Processes and Decision Making

Management

Knowledge Management

Teams

Work design

Business process re-engineering

Human resource management

Control and coordination

Motivation

Communication

Monitoring

Training and worker skills

Health and safety

Strategy

Chapter 6 Apps and Performance Outcomes

Productivity

Workplace efficiency

Overhead costs

Mobility

Collaboration

Creative labor

Chapter 7 Mobility and Work-life Balance

What is work-life balance?

Chapter 8 New Digital Markets and Emerging Business Models

Sharing economy

Mobile banking

Social media

Chapter 9 Conclusion

References