IT Enabled Practices and Emerging Management Paradigms

This book has 52 chapters classified into five sections namely - Internet Technology and Economy; Retail and Technological Innovations; Information Technology for Governance and Rural Development; Data Warehousing, Data Mining and Business Intelligence; and Communication Technologies and Security Issues. The first section comprises Overview of e-Banking and its Core Capabilities; Cyber Crime and its Threats to the Indian Society; e-Banking as an Easy Way to do Banking; Horizons of Knowledge Management and Information Technology; Impact of Information Technology in Improving the Quality Education; Information Technology Enabled Research and Development, Product Development and Innovation Management; Infusion of Information Technology into Public Sector Banks; IT Trends in Banking; Maintaining Quality and Consistency in Service Delivery in the BPO Sector; Online Banking in India; Practical Approach on Business Proposal for e-Procurement Model for Purchase of Inventory; and Role of Information Technology on Indian Stock Market. Section two covers Biometrics in Retailing; Effect of e-Marketing on Branding and Consumer Behavior; Empowering the Supply Chain; Information Technology and its Growing Role in Retail Sector; IT Based Services and Customer Satisfaction in Retail Banking; Preferences regarding Color and Camera Cell Phones; Retail and Technological Innovations; Role of ICT in Knowledge Management and Customer Relationship Management; Role of IT in Retail Management; Technological Innovations in Retail Operations; Radio Frequency Identification Technology in Retailing; and Use of Information Technology in Retail. Section three covers Applying KM in Government Organizations; e-Democracy as New Horizons in e-Governance; e-Governance and Challenges Ahead; e-Governance and e-Government; e-Governance Success Stories and Challenges; e-Healthcare System for Rural India; Factors Affecting Usage of e-Ticketing; Information Technology Approach for Rural Development; IT For Rural Development in India; Role of Information Technology in Rural Pharmaceutical Marketing; Rural Banking and Rural Infrastructural Development in India; and Role of the Common Service Centers in Rural Developments. The fourth section have articles on Application of Data Mining in Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Business; Data Warehousing Technology; Frontiers of Multimedia Databases; Impression of Data Mining on Business Intelligence; Introduction of Various Important Sorting Algorithms with their Comparison and their Advantages in Data Mining and Data Warehouse; Performance Analysis of Data Mining for Fraud Detection; etc. Section five focuses on Biometric Techniques as an Enabler of Change and Innovation in Security Standards; Comparative Analysis of Checkpointing; Confidentiality, Money Matters and Cost Inequality on the Internet; Cyber Crime and its Threats to the Indian Society; Empowering the Supply Chain; Least Resource Consumption Routing Algorithm for Optical Networks Based on Signal Quality Consideration; Security Problems in TCP/IP Protocol Suite; and Wireless Application Protocol.