Corruption in Islamic Perspective and the Roles of Information and Communication Technology(ICT) to Control It

Corruption is a hurdle for development and good governance in the least developed countries (LDC), and emerging and development economies (EDE). In Islamic Shariah it is a great sin. It has a bad impact upon the socio-economic development of any nation. Since the last couple of decade Academics have given strong attention on controlling corruption. In this modern information age Information and Communication Technology (ICT) becomes almost compulsory in daily life. Effort of this study is to see ICT as an anti corruption tool to prevent corruption to comply Shariah rules. Key Words: ICT, Corruption, Islamic Ethics, Social Developmen

Branding strategies for service firms- a study on the selected Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Bangladesh

Research work has been done on how to create a brand supporting behaviour but most of the time the existing insights have generally stemmed from research with management, brand practitioner’s and even consumers’ perspectives. Very little has been done to research the employees’ perception towards internal branding and to compare the view of the management and employees’ on internal communication. The existing researches are also done on mostly in the context of the businesses in industrialize countries whereas this research would be an intent to find the internal branding practice in a service firm in a country of developing economy. This would able to identify the gap in the practice of internal branding in different socio-economical context. This research is dedicated to find out both back end and front end skilled employees’ view towards internal communication in a service firm and based on the findings attempt would be done to see whether the staffs perceive their role differently towards the brand. For conducting the research qualitative data were gathered from the qualitative survey by questioning different employee and management about the internal brand communication and the analysis was done on that. With the respondents view on the internal marketing process, the management do not have fully structured plan to implement a sound internal branding strategy. With a given economical constraint it is not always possible to practice all the aspect of management science, but from the study of the company we can see that service firms such as ISP (internet service provider) companies in weaker economical countries could increase the internal communication practice by just altering the existing inter-departmental communication monitored by innovative senior management, co-ordination of HRM and Marketing with input from engineers. &nbsp

Problems and Prospects of SME Financing in Bangladesh

The present study is conducted to analyze the potential of SMEs in the economy of Bangladesh. Data were collected from 100 SME units by using simple random technique. A structural questionnaire was developed to get the responses from different SME units in the country. For Bangladesh SMEs have assumed special significance for poverty reduction programmes and potential contribution to the overall industrial and economic growth. Some of the constraints related SME financing are identified and some pointers for the future are provided through the study

Problems and Prospects of SME Financing in Bangladesh

The present study is conducted to analyze the potential of SMEs in the economy of Bangladesh. Data were collected from 100 SME units by using simple random technique. A structural questionnaire was developed to get the responses from different SME units in the country. For Bangladesh SMEs have assumed special significance for poverty reduction programmes and potential contribution to the overall industrial and economic growth. Some of the constraints related SME financing are identified and some pointers for the future are provided through the study. &nbsp

Branding strategies for service firms- a study on the selected Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Bangladesh

Research work has been done on how to create a brand supporting behaviour but most of the time the existing insights have generally stemmed from research with management, brand practitioner’s and even consumers’ perspectives. Very little has been done to research the employees’ perception towards internal branding and to compare the view of the management and employees’ on internal communication. The existing researches are also done on mostly in the context of the businesses in industrialize countries whereas this research would be an intent to find the internal branding practice in a service firm in a country of developing economy. This would able to identify the gap in the practice of internal branding in different socio-economical context. This research is dedicated to find out both back end and front end skilled employees’ view towards internal communication in a service firm and based on the findings attempt would be done to see whether the staffs perceive their role differently towards the brand. For conducting the research qualitative data were gathered from the qualitative survey by questioning different employee and management about the internal brand communication and the analysis was done on that. With the respondents view on the internal marketing process, the management do not have fully structured plan to implement a sound internal branding strategy. With a given economical constraint it is not always possible to practice all the aspect of management science, but from the study of the company we can see that service firms such as ISP (internet service provider) companies in weaker economical countries could increase the internal communication practice by just altering the existing inter-departmental communication monitored by innovative senior management, co-ordination of HRM and Marketing with input from engineers

Designing a 36 Segment Display for Bengali Compound Character

Summary Characters can be represented in hardware using dot matrix system or segmented display. Dot matrix display costs extra memory, power and time compared to segmented display as large numbers of dots are required to be manipulated in dot matrix system. But due to the high cost and complexity of matrix displays, segment display is generally used to display characters. Although recently different segmented display models for Bangla characters have been proposed, the quality of the characters stay below the mark. In this paper, 36-segments display for Bangla compound character has been proposed. From the review it appears that it is the first proposed display in the world for Bangla compound Character

LRFMV: An efficient customer segmentation model for superstores.

The Recency, Frequency, and Monetary model, also known as the RFM model, is a popular and widely used business model for determining beneficial client segments and analyzing profit. It is also recommended and frequently used in superstores to identify customer segments and increase profit margins. Later, the Length, Recency, Frequency, and Monetary model, also known as the LRFM model, was introduced as an improved version of the RFM model to identify more relevant and exact consumer groups for profit maximization. Superstores have a varying number of different products. In RFM and LRFM models, the relationship between profit and purchased quantity has never been investigated. Therefore, this paper proposed an efficient customer segmentation model, namely LRFMV (Length, Recency, Frequency, Monetary and Volume) and studied the profit-quantity relationship. A new dimension V (volume) has been added to the existing LRFM model to show a direct profit-quantity relationship in customer segmentation. The V stands for volume, which is derived by calculating the average number of products purchased by a frequent superstore client in a single day. The data obtained from feature extraction of the LRMFV model is then clustered by using conventional K-means, K-Medoids, and Mini Batch K-means methods. The results obtained from the three algorithms are compared, and the K-means algorithm is chosen for the superstore dataset of the proposed LRFMV model. All clusters created using these three algorithms are evaluated in the LRFMV model, and a close relationship between profit and volume is observed. A clear profit-quantity relationship of items has yet not been seen in any prior study on the RFM and LRFM models. Grouping customers aiming at profit maximization existed previously, but there was no clear and direct depiction of profit and quantity of sold items. This study applied unsupervised machine learning to investigate the patterns, trends, and correlations between volume and profit. The traits of all the clusters are analyzed by the Customer-Classification Matrix. The LRFMV values, larger or less than the overall average for each cluster, are identified as their traits. The performance of the proposed LRFMV model is compared with the legacy RFM and LRFM customer segmentation models. The outcome shows that the LRFMV model creates precise customer segments with the same number of customers while maintaining a greater profit

Determined Volume (V).

Determined Volume (V).</p

Number of customers (%) in each cluster for LRFMV model.

Number of customers (%) in each cluster for LRFMV model.</p