Business Makers

Business can survive and grow only when the environment in which it operates is clean and safe for eel, animals and vegetation.� Therefore, environmental protectionism an important responsibility of business.� Business can contribute to environmental protection in the following ways:

• Use of clean and low waste technology in industry
• Recycling and revising industrial waste e.g. us of combustible waste in industrial boilers
• Scientific treatment of emissions before their release
• Assisting governmental agencies and egos inclining polluted rivers, managing hazardous substances and checking deforestation
• Installation of pollution resistant machinery
• Promoting awareness about ecological balance
• Planting trees on roads to keep the city green
• Use of CNG vehicles
• Fulfilling requirements for products to bear ECOMARK label
• Adopting other environmental friendly measures

The main approaches adopted for checking pollution are as follows:

Environmental Evaluation: The first approach is to make a comprehensive analysis of the impact of eve dry industrial activity before it is undertaken.� The� should not approve any industrial activity until the primary and secondary affects of such an activity are evaluated and all alternatives are considered.� For example, every government agency which wants to undertake a project than affects the environment is required to submit an Environmental Impact Statement.
Establishment of Pollution Standards: Limits on the maximum allowable level of pollutants may be laid down.� For example, pollution standards have been prescribed for air pollution.� Small cars manufactured in India are required to adhere to Euro II emission norms.
Environment Protection Regulations: Government of India has enacted laws to prevent pollution of air, wart and land.� Special regulations r prescribed for major polluting industries.� Licensing procedures are used to regulate discharge of liquid waste by industries to prevent water pollution.� Fiscal incentives are offered for shifting of industries form residential areas and or installation of pollution control equipment.
Ban: Use of substances which are hazardous or unsafe is vane or restricted.� For example, smoking in public places and use of polythene bags is banned income sates.
Awareness and Self Regulation: People should e made aware of ecological imbalance.� They should exercise self restraint while interacting with eh environment.

Environmental pollution poses a serious threat to human health and quality of life.� Pollution makes air harmful to breathe, water unsafe to drink and land unfit taj live on.� Control over environmental pollution is necessary due to the following reasons:

• To Reduce Health Hazards: Environmental pollution is a major cause of cancer, lung and heat diseases.� These diseases have become leading cause of death in modern society.� Most of the health problems which women and infants face arise from the environment in which they work and live.

• To Reduce Safety hazards: Air pollution caused by oil refineries sand other industries leads to poor visibility.� As a result automobiles on highways and aircrafts trying to land or take off from airports face hazards.� Poor visibility has were the cause of serious accidents.

• To Reduce Economic Loss: Pollution spoils clothes, vegetation, livestock, and buildings.� Pollution control is necessary to reduce the damage.� It will reduce washing expenses and cost of repair maintenance of buildings.

• To Reduce Inconvenience: Pollution of rivers and lakes makes them unfit for swimming and fishing.� Air pollution causes eye irritation and respiratory problems.� Air pollutions obstruct normal conversation.� Control over pollution can avoid such nuisance or discomfort.

• To Improve Quality of Life: Pollution control helps to improve the quality of air.� It prevents blackening of buildings by pollution.� For example, environmental experts have stressed the need to protect Taj Mahal from the pollution caused by Matura refinery Pollution control will also reduce foul odours.

The causes of various types of pollution are given below:

• Air Pollution: Smoke and other chemicals from industries and carbon monoxide form vehicles cause pollution of air.� Emission of smoke, gases, fumes, dust and ash leads to or pollution.� These harmful substances reduce the quality of air.
• Water Pollution: Business firms and people dump industrial effluents, waste and chemicals into jives, streams and lakes.� As a result water gees polluted.
• Land Pollution: Dumping of toxic waste and garage gausses pollution of land.� Excessive use of fertilizers, chemicals and pesticide also pollutes the soil.� As a result land becomes infertile and no grass or plants can grow.� It is necessary to restore the quality of land that has already been damaged.� It is also essential to prevent future pollution of land by adopting new methods of disposal of solid waste.
• Noise Pollution: Traffic and industries create noise in cities.

One of India’s leading global IT services companies HCL Technologies and� i2 Technologies, Inc. bringing the power of the i2 Business Content Library to customers worldwide. The companies will leverage HCL’s strength in IT services and vast experience in system integration and implementation, with i2’s deep supply chain management domain knowledge and market-leading products, to create innovative solutions for companies in the supply chain management domain.

“As global supply chain management continues to grow increasingly complex, many companies are facing pressure to become more agile in their supply chain planning,” said Ram Krishna, Corporate VP, Enterprise Transformation Services (ETS), HCL Technologies. “The agreement with i2 is a natural fit for HCL as we share a common goal of delivering customers measurable results through strategic supply chain business transformations. HCL brings the added advantage of an integrated service delivery that spans from high-end process consulting and application implementation/support, to infrastructure setup/management, large infrastructure management and BPO in the supply chain domain.”

HCL Technologies will now have access to i2’s Business Content Library, a robust knowledge base of best practices for supply chain processes that have been successfully implemented across numerous industries worldwide. The i2 Business Content Library will further strengthen HCL’s ETS capabilities and enable HCL’s customers to accelerate the value they receive from supply chain management solutions and resolve their supply chain issues quickly and efficiently.

“Working with HCL offers us the opportunity to expose more companies to the unique business benefits of the i2 Business Content Library. With a focus on business transformation, HCL is well-suited to introduce companies to the benefits of the i2 Business Content Library. The i2 Business Content Library is an excellent tool for companies looking to transform their supply chains, as it allows users to rapidly tailor workflows according to their business goals and requirements, or use components of workflows to build their own and then implement them across the enterprise,” said i2 Interim Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Pallab Chatterjee.

Benefits of the i2 Business Content Library:

– Access to world-class supply chain management best practices

– A framework to allow companies to achieve process excellence and continuous process innovation

– The ability to support new business innovation and make solution changes quickly and easily to keep up with changing needs of business

– Custom workflow development delivered quickly and easily at a lower total cost of ownership

– No waiting for maintenance releases or upgrades; new workflows will be published and available for download as soon as they are produced

– Flexible pricing options include annual subscription and “pay per design”

SOURCE: i2 Technologies

The 12-point resolution that the business sector unanimously approved during the recently concluded Mindanao Business Conference in General Santos City indicates that the sector will always be an active partner of the government in developing Mindanao.

ICT as development agent

Truly believing that information and communications technology (ICT) is a catalyst for development, the business sector believes that it is an essential part of the overall roadmap for the island and that sufficient infrastructure facilities must be laid out for connectivity to be enhanced.

In this modern world, connectivity is as important as physical infrastructure because it allows real time interaction between and among players of a certain sector and even between the producer and the market. It has tremendously shrunk the world to just about a line between two people, even if the distance is between the north and south poles.

The cities of Davao, General Santos, Cagayan and Zamboanga are all poised to become the ICT hubs of Mindanao. These are the areas where connectivity is present along with a rich source of human capital to support ICT developments.

Power, power

Another major issue that the business sector raised during the event was finding ways to ensure sufficient and steady power supply in Mindanao.

Reliable power supply will not only lure more investments to the island, but also sustain growth.

It is not only necessary for government to ensure that power investments are placed in areas where needed most (in case of Mindanao it is in the southern part which consumes nearly one-half of the power produced in the island), it is also very important that power is brought to all the points, particularly to areas where development is slow.

We must remember that reliable power, like infrastructure facilities such as roads, is a key to development.

And according to the analysis of government agencies, like the National Power Corp. and the National Transmission Corp., Mindanao will run out of power within the next three years unless major decisions are made today.

It is good that the national government decided to set up the transmission line that will bring the excess power supply produced in the northern part of Mindanao, particularly from the 200-megawatt coal-fired plant in Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental, to the rest of the Mindanao grid.

But it is also necessary that new power plants are built in areas where they are needed. But this can only be done if investments in the sector get the much-needed support from government policy-makers.

Efficient shipping services

Considering that Mindanao is a known producer of agricultural products, it is also important to find ways to bring these to the markets in easier and cheaper ways. It is currently more expensive to bring goods from Mindanao to Manila than to send them abroad.

This only shows two things, good port handling facilities are absent and that freight rates are also higher in the domestic shipping sector.

There have been so many attempts to persuade both the government and the industry to find common ground, both in reducing shipping rates and improving port handling facilities. These moves must be realized soon. Otherwise, business will continue to languish and development will not take off.

The term electronic business (e-business) refers to the buying and selling of goods and services online. It comprises on-line shopping, marketing and selling of goods and services over the internet. It involves demonstrating goods on the website, selling or filling orders, conducting transactions and receiving payments.

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E-commerce is a part of E-business which refers to the full breadth of activities comprising a successful internet based enterprise. E-business includes creating a viable business model for assessing where profit can come from, financing the business, putting operating system in place and selling on the internet. E-business represents the sales side of electronic business. For example, Amazon.com started as an online bookstore. But it has now become a complete department store selling all kinds of merchandise online.

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San Francisco: Youtube the world’s most popular video web site has place software for the pirated videos blocking after the allegation of copyright abuses. YouTube is developing this software with joint venture with Google. After the day of purchase of $1.65 billion stock deal Google is on the target of the video owners, entertainment business giant and English soccer league about not talking much suitable steps to prevent posting of the copyrighted clips at their website.
Till now YouTube has on the US law that has provided YouTube about taking copyrighted videos, but as pressure is building up the YouTube is taking further steps to avoid this type of troubles in future.
Viacom based at New-York already pending a billion dollar in against YouTube. This software is now at testing phase at website of YouTube.
Video Identification software will automatically block the pirated video and it also allow the copyright and video owner to identify their content at YouTube and they will decide block or promote the video or not.

A well known name automobile industry in India TATA motors chairman Ratan Tata said that they have good expectation in automobiles area in United Kingdom, in a likely recurrence of his significance in Land Rover and Jaguar. On the occasion of inauguration of Tata Corus plant at Netherlands.
While everyone expecting that he will not comment on the deal itself, “This process is on his path and it is practically private”. Tata motors have show interest in the ford’s Land Rover and Jaguar brands. According to expert opinion this deal will be worth more than USD 1.5 billion.
TATA motors great value in Indian automobile industry and now waving in wing by expanding and forwarding their steps toward global market. TATA earlier announced his 1 lakh car project in which they introducing a car worth Rs. 1 lakh. Let’s hope for the best as it will soon be on news.