- Industry: Consulting
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Collectives are aggregations of people who are outside the control of the enterprise, bound by a common action or opinion, and who affect the enterprise’s success. Mobs, formal communities, and informal networks of friends and groups linked by their liking for a particular product or location are examples of collectives. Collectives refers to all informal human forces outside the control of the enterprise that can impact the enterprise’s success or failure. These forces permeate enterprise and social boundaries, existing within and outside the formal enterprise. There are many related (but not identical) concepts, including collective intelligence, “wikinomics,” collaborative decision making, network-centric strategy, wisdom of crowds, social media, open innovation and crowdsourcing. Collectives influences innovation, sourcing, branding, positioning, fads, trends, customer support, hiring and other key aspects of every enterprise’s essential processes. As an adjective, collective is one of the core principles that distinguishes social solutions from nonsocial solutions.
Industry:Technology
An e-business strategy for exploiting new Web-based commerce opportunities across product development and product life cycle processes. CPC opportunities include both inbound (business-to-business) and outbound (business-to-consumer) commerce such as collaborative product development, customer driven design, collaborative product and component sourcing, manufacturing/supply-chain collaboration, and product maintenance self-service portals.
Industry:Technology
Collaborative commerce (C-commerce) describes electronically enabled business interactions among an enterprise’s internal personnel, business partners and customers throughout a trading community. The trading community could be an industry, industry segment, supply chain or supply chain segment.
Industry:Technology
Cognitive radio enables devices to dynamically negotiate spectrum use and to choose appropriate frequencies, protocols and modulation to coexist with other devices. It gives flexibility of operation that goes way beyond that of software-defined radio (SDR). SDR enables wireless devices to switch dynamically between protocols and frequencies, and is also a foundation that can be used to build the more-sophisticated cognitive radio system.
Industry:Technology
A device used to convert analog signals, such as speech, music, or television, to digital form for transmission over a digital medium, and back again to the original analog form. One is required at each end of the channel.
Industry:Technology
Code division multiple access (CDMA) is a spread-spectrum technology standard that assigns a pseudo-noise code to all speech and data bits, sends a scrambled transmission of the encoded speech over the air and reassembles the speech in its original format. By assigning a unique correlating code to each transmitter, several simultaneous conversations can share the same frequency allocation.
Industry:Technology
Ted Codd, whose theoretical work on relational databases stimulated today’s plethora of relational products, defined a fundamental “Rule Zero” for classifying relational database management systems (RDBMSs). The intent of this rule was to help enterprises focus on the requirement for a consistent integrity layer in the RDBMSs they evaluated: “For any system that is advertised as, or claimed to be, a relational database management system, that system must be able to manage databases entirely through its relational capabilities, no matter what additional capabilities the system may support.”
Industry:Technology
Co-creation is a collaborative initiative between companies and their customers enabling the joint design of products and services. These initiatives include the creation of goods, services and experiences, amplifying the process via the inclusion of client intellectual capital.
Industry:Technology
Use of the Common Management Information Protocol (CMIP) to manage gateways in a Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) network.
Industry:Technology
A proprietary network management draft developed jointly by 3Com and IBM that specifies using Common Management Information Protocol (CMIP) over Logical Link Control (LLC) to provide network management of devices on mixed-media local-area networks (LANs).
Industry:Technology
