Teleconferencing and when telecommuting implies the live exchange and mass articulation of information among several persons. The telecommunications systems that allow us to teleconference have existed from more than 35 years. But it was not until recently, and due to the COVID-19 pandemic, that employers and employees have opted use them. Is it important to pay attention to this strategy? Does it add any value to companies? Has it changed the way we teleconference compared to 35 years ago?
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When writting SQL queries that will scan millions of rows it is important to optimize them. Otherwise, they could turn to be slow and processor consuming. In this post, some techniques that can be applied effectively to improve the performance of SQL queries are explained.
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The concept of sustainability is confusing and not fully understood due to the large variety of meanings that it takes and the lack of agreement among the scientific community (Schäfer, 2013). However, a common vision on this concept is firstly needed to be shared in order to achieve a common view on how can this problem be approached (White, 2009).
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Up to the 1990s, Finland’s economy was based on natural resources. After that, Finland’s GDP started to grew dramatically, with annual growth rates of 10%. The country became the world leader in telecommunication technology with Nokia as its flagship company. How did the country achieve such goal?
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What is the story behing Android? How Google made Android successful? And how did it become so popular in such a short period of time? This post aims to think about the drivers that made Android the popular mobile operating system we all know.
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In a globalized world where big companies rely on the IT outsourcing and the cloud computing to be more competitive, is there a way to achieve a competitive advantage? Yes, there is! And the answer relies on the concept of business ecosystem.
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The Facebook ecosystem has evolved deeply since the acquisition of Instagram and WhatsApp. But before that, Facebook had to raise its own ecosystem. First, the company that was founded around the idea of watching people’s profiles, commenting and creating structured content fought to become the most popular social network on Earth. And after that, Facebook successfully tried to gain revenue from its business and started to build its own ecosystem, its own empire. Let’s look at how did they approached this goal.
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