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Finance topics
1. Zero working capital
2. Adequacy of working capital
3. The influence of working capital on
profitability
4. A rexamination of Altman's Z score
5. The influence of working capital on
shareholdrs wealth
6. The impact of working capital on corporate
performance of industry listed in S & P
7. The imp[act of negative working capital
8. Anatomy of debt:Equity ratio of particular
industry listed in S & P
9. The impact of working capital on sales
10.Analysis of fixed assest and sales
11. Analysis of Fixed assets and profitability
12. Does technology reduce the requirements
of working capital
13. Accrual Vs Cash Accounting
14. The impact of debt on profitabilty of
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selected industry or companies
15. The comparative study of EPS - Apple Vs
Smasung Alibaba Vs Amazon Walmart VS
Target
16 Black swans - Need for radical change
17 The impacct of Sabanse-Oxley on coporate
governance
18.The allocative efficiency of global share
markets
19.The transactional efficiency of global
share markets
20. The price efficiency of global share
market
21. The transactional cost efficiency of global
share markets
22. The operational efficiency of global share
markets
23. Anatomy of mergers and acquistions
24. Anatomy of risk management in banking
25. Bye bye annual budgeting and welcome to
rolling budgets
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26. Will Bitcon replace dollar?
27. Bitcoin - risk and controls
28. The profile of bitcoin users
29. Pitfalls of bitcoin
30. The other side of the bitcoin
Marketing
1. The influence of Social media on product
development
2. The impact of social media on service
marketing
3. The impact of social media on consumer
behaviour
4. Measurement difficulties of customer
satisfaction
5. Social media and personal selling
6. Social media and B2B
7. Socal media and personal selling
8 social media and sales force
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9. Social media and
10. The evolution of social commerce
11.Selling into micro markets
12. The impact of negative publicity - Maggie
noodles
13. Consumer trust in mobile payment
14. New market developments
15. Market penetration
16. Product failures in tech industry
17. E-tailers
18. The impact of SCM on service industry
19. IT and inventory management
20.
Cybernetics
1. Ememrgence of Cybernetics into corporate
world
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Global Logistics and supply chain
management
1. Developing agile teams for project
execution.
2. Emergence of cybernetics into Logistics
and SCM
3. ADevloping agile team for project
execution: A cybernetics approach
4. The impact of lean management on
operations Management
5. TQM - Is it successful?
6. JIT - Is it successful?
7. The impact of JIT on SCM
8. The impact of cybernetics on production
control systems
9. The impact of predicitve maiuntenance on
operations
10. The impact of predicitive manitenance on
SCM
11. Kaizen Production systems
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12. E-commerce and SCM
13. The strenghtening weakest link in SCM
14. Role of forecasting methods in operatios
mgt
15.
Topics on Inter disciplinary IT Management - E
Business topics
1.
Companies social media efforts
and influence on firm performance
2.
Factors that influence companies
adopt social media/digital marketing
3.
Effectiveness of promotional events
in social media platforms impact on
brands/brand building
4.
Adoption/Implementation of Big
data in Banks and Financial sector
5.
Adoption/Implementation of Big
data for Customer service
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6.
How companies leverage the wealth
of data captured electronically to improve
theirs offerings
7.
Factors that lead to customer
satisfaction with the total e-commerce
experience
8.
Critical success factors in IT
outsourcing i.e. Outsourcing vs Company
performance
9.
IT security implementation,
challenges, critical success factors
10.
Security for private and financial
data in Banking, Finance and Service
industries
11.
Cloud computing adoption by SMEs
in Singapore - Govt Support, Adoption, Policy,
challenges
12.
Smart Nation initiatives - Critical
success factors, best practices
13.
Assessing the impact of eBiz on
firms and supply chains
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14.
New business models for
ebusinesses
15.
Critical success factors of EC
16.
Measuring e-commerce success in
an organization
17.
Elements of Web site design
contribute to user satisfaction with the site
18.
Web design models and their
impacts on eCommerce
19.
Factors that influence consumers
shop from the Internet
20.
E-commerce penetration in
Advanced and Emerging markets Australia,
Singapore, India & Middle East
Great waves of Digital Ocean ( Marketing,
GLSCM, Finance, IT Mgt, Consulting, HRM)
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(Source: Gartner)
* A digital wave is sweeping through every
industry, organization and culture. This a
defining moment for every CIO: a chance to
rise up, take risks, and transform your
mission-critical priorities into bold business
outcomes.
Future of digital world
1.Secure the digital business
2.Internet of Things
3.Customer-centric processes and systems
4.Emerging trends
5.Hybrid IT
6.Organizational change and culture
7. How can you modernize, measure and
manage a mission-critical runtime
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environment and partner ecosystem that is
high-performing, robust, efficient and
responsive to change?
8. Architect the Digital Business
What patterns and practices can you use to
deliver scalable, safe and ethical digital
business solutions?
9.Plan for the Digital Future
What should be on your 3- or 5-year
technology and business radar? Further out?
What should you be thinking aboutthat
currently youre not?
10.LEADERSHIP
Lead the Digital Enterprise
How do you become a more effective leader in
the digital enterprise?
11.Organizational development
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Create a Dynamic Organization
How can you harness the potential of people
and skills to change the culture and to build
digital business?
12.BUSINESS OUTCOMES
Drive Business Growth
How can you help grow the business,
especially through new revenue streams and
high-value outcomes?
How is your industry being transformed by
digital business?
13.Adopt a PLM maturity Model to Enable
Greater Product Strategy Success
14.Business Moments: The New Speed of
Business
How Mobility can add business value in BFSI
Preparing for IoT Implementation a
Five-Point Checklist
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15.Unleash the Power of the Core or Face
Failure in the Race to Digital Banking
16.Design and Develop Enterprise Mobile
Applications for Manufacturing industry in
2016
17.Digital Business Models That Rock the
Insurance Industry
18.Digitally Remastering the Financial
Services Industry
19.Thing Talk: Thing Relationship
Management Can Transform Your Business
20.Customer Experience Management
through empowering customers and
employees
21.Developing Key Performance Indicators for
Digital Insurers
22.How to create a digital workplace
execution strategy
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23.Move to Adaptive Sourcing to Support
Business Growth and Digital Transformation
24.PLM Maturity Model
25.BYOD What's Working, What's Not?
26. Digital Trends and Core Banking
27.Digital Business Architecture Fuels Digital
Business Strategy
28.Leveraging IoT to Improve Production
Processes
29.Is data center open source and
commoditization here to stay or just a fad?
30.Mobile containerization strategies
31.Does Your Organization Need a CDO a CAO
or both?
32.Winning and Retaining Customers With
Ambient Experiences
33.Architecting Digital Business: Building on
Cloud: The Architectural Foundation for
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Digital Business
34.Disruptive Digital Business Models and
Capabilities
35.Opening Up Without Falling Over: A
Comprehensive approach to Trust, Security,
and Ethics in the Digital Mesh
36.core principles of application architecture
for digital business and IoT
37.Contract Negotiation Clinic: Leveraging
best practices to save on your Networking
Costs
38.Six Styles of Customer Analytics for the
Digital Business
39.The Future of Your Data Center in the
Cloud Era
40.The Mobile Scenario: Taking Mobility to
the Next Level
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41.Dark Side of organizational politics Digital world
42.Deep Creativity: How to Be Awesomely
Innovative
43.The Future of Global Information Security:
Information Security Five-Year Scenario
44.The Role of Money in Digital Initiatives:
Economic, financial and innovation
perspectives.
45.Facts and Myths about Strategies to
Reduce End-user Computing Costs
46.Customer Engagement will Accelerate to
the Speed of Digital Business
47.Harnessing the Internet of Things to Drive
Digital banking
48.The Emerging Role of the Digital
Information Architect
49.What are the benefits and challenges of
adopting DevOps?
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50.The Internet of Things: Impact on
Operational Technology Ecosystems
51.Bimodal IT is the best way to deliver
Application Rationalization
52.Creating a Digital Customer Experience
Vision
53.The Digital Business Scenario: Major
Business, Economic, and Technology Trends
Ahead
54.Understanding the Real Impact of Digital
Business
55.Internet of Things:Contract Negotiation
Clinic: Negotiating with Infrastructure and
Cloud IAAS vendors
56.Digital Commerce 2020 - Trends Shaping
Tomorrow's Sales
57.Leading From the Heart: The Art of Leading
High-Performing Teams and Absolute Truths
About Talent Management in Digital Business
58.Create a Data Quality Strategy
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59.The Digital Workforce Transformation
How Do We get There?
60.Enable the Digital Workplace With Mobile
App Integration
61.How digital business reshapes mobile
security
62.How the Smart Machine Big Bang Will
Transform Digital Business
63.People-Centric Security: Experiences and
Lessons Learned
64.What can Application Leaders expect from
Enterprise Architects in Application Strategy
and Governance
65.Private Clouds Are Failing, and How to
Succeed
66.Who owns responsibility for digital
business the CEO, CIO or a new Chief Digital
Officer?
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67.Contract Negotiation Clinic: Negotiating
with BI Vendors
68.How to Deploy IoT Without Making a Mess
67.Convert Big Data Potential to Smarter
Decisions, Processes, Operations
68.Megavendor cloud strategies
69.Key trends and best practices in the use of
cloud platforms for digital business initiatives
70.Application Security Survival Guide in the
digital world
71.How The Top Vendors Driving the Future of
Mobility
72.Why Roles Will Not Matter in the Digital
Workplace of the Future
73. An examination of open computing
concepts
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