The Management Education (MBA) Challenge a Study of Managerial Competency Needs & how Well MBA's Differentiate

AbstractMBA & Equivalent Courses” are hugely popular among students and corporates. India has the third largest group of B-School applicants after USA and China. (GMAC Report 2012). This surge in interest in MBA Programs has made B schools and management education a significant participant of the economy. These programs claim to build management skills in the participants to serve the corporate world. But a lot of negative feedback from both industry and academia on the direction and outcome of these programs are making it necessary to investigate the issue.The study using primary data collected from 355 Indian managers belonging to a cross section of industry and organizational hierarchy tries to identify key generic managerial competencies that they find most important to successfully perform their managerial role.The research explores whether MBA's show better on these managerial competencies in comparison to Non MBA's while performing their role and found that corporate managers do not find MBA's better equipped than Non MBA's while performing managerial task on most of the competencies

Dynamic Selection of Symmetric Key Cryptographic Algorithms for Securing Data Based on Various Parameters

Most of the information is in the form of electronic data. A lot of electronic data exchanged takes place through computer applications. Therefore information exchange through these applications needs to be secure. Different cryptographic algorithms are usually used to address these security concerns. However, along with security there are other factors that need to be considered for practical implementation of different cryptographic algorithms like implementation cost and performance. This paper provides comparative analysis of time taken for encryption by seven symmetric key cryptographic algorithms (AES, DES, Triple DES, RC2, Skipjack, Blowfish and RC4) with variation of parameters like different data types, data density, data size and key sizes.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, Fifth International Conference on Communications Security & Information Assurance (CSIA 2014) May 24~25, 2014, Delhi, Indi

Electronic health record: standards, coding systems, frameworks, and infrastructures

Discover How Electronic Health Records Are Built to Drive the Next Generation of Healthcare Delivery The increased role of IT in the healthcare sector has led to the coining of a new phrase ""health informatics,"" which deals with the use of IT for better healthcare services. Health informatics applications often involve maintaining the health records of individuals, in digital form, which is referred to as an Electronic Health Record (EHR). Building and implementing an EHR infrastructure requires an understanding of healthcare standards, coding systems, and frameworks. This book provides a