Smart city concept business model: A case study of Peniche city

The current literatures are underlining a gap concerning a business model for smart city. With the development of new technology and of the structure of the city is important for businesses to re-define their business model in order to be competitive in the market and to keep up with the evolution. The main objective of this research is to analyze if the true concept of smart tourism is well known, to revise the conception of smart city and its level of maturity in the literature and collect directions for a business model proposal for smart cities using Peniche City as a case. In order to accomplish these objectives, information from the literature review are taking in consideration and an in-depth interview was conducted with 16 participants related to Peniche as tourists or entrepreneurs. The interview’s goal aims to gather ideas for the nine blocks of the Business Model Canvas in order to propose a model for the city of Peniche. Overall, the results showed that the topic is not well known from the participants and that the model obtain with their information can be a starting point for further study to implement the business model for smart city in Peniche.As literaturas atuais destacam uma lacuna em relação a um Business Model para Smart City. Com o desenvolvimento de novas tecnologias e da estrutura da cidade é importante que as empresas redefinam o seu Business Model para serem competitivas no mercado e acompanhar a evolução. O principal objetivo desta dissertação é analisar se o verdadeiro conceito de Smart Tourism é bem conhecido, rever o significado de Smart City e o nível de maturidade na literatura e recolher direções para uma proposta de Business Model para Smart City utilizando a cidade de Peniche como caso. Para atingir estes objetivos, foram tidas em consideração informações provenientes da revisão da literatura e foi realizada uma entrevista em profundidade a 16 participantes relacionados com Peniche como turistas ou empresários. O objetivo da entrevista visa reunir ideias para os nove blocos do Business Model Canvas de forma a propor um modelo para a cidade de Peniche. Globalmente, os resultados mostraram que o tema é pouco conhecido pelos participantes e que o modelo obtido com a sua informação pode ser um ponto de partida para um estudo mais aprofundado para implementar o Business Model Canvas para Smart City em Peniche

Addressing Employee Use of Personal Clouds

Cloud computing is one of the most useful innovations in the digital age. While much of the attention on recent advances has focused on smartphones, tablet computers, and wearable technology, the cloud is perhaps unrivaled in its utility for organizations. From simplified data storage to innovative software platforms, enterprise-grade cloud solutions provide cost-effective alternatives to acquiring expensive computer hardware and software. Enterprise clouds also offer a collaborative work environment for a mobile and widespread work force, enabling businesses to maximize worker productivity

Navigating the Discovery Chess Match Through Effective Case Management

The challenges with civil discovery are often overwhelming. At times, counsel may feel powerless to avoid discovery quagmires and the resulting costs and delays. Nevertheless, counsel can guide a matter through these complexities if they learn how to better manage the discovery process. In Navigating the Discovery Chess Match through Effective Case Management, I expound on three methods that can facilitate case management in discovery. The first emphasizes the benefits of proportionality in resolving preservation disputes over electronic data. The next involves providing early and more fulsome initial disclosures to enhance the FRCP 26(f) discovery conference. The final method focuses on the advantages of cooperation and transparency over unilateral conduct in the use of search methodologies. These methods should enable counsel to more efficiently manage the discovery chess match and guide a matter more effectively toward its ultimate resolution

Getting Serious: Why Companies Must Adopt Information Governance Measures to Prepare for the Upcoming Changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

[W]ithout a corresponding change in discovery culture by courts, counsel and clients alike, the proposed rules modifications will likely have little to no effect on the manner in which discovery is conducted today

Digital Cultural Mapping: Transformative Scholarship and Teaching in the Geospatial Humanities

"Digital Cultural Mapping: Transformative Scholarship in the Geospatial Humanities" is a proposal for a three-week summer institute at UCLA for an interdisciplinary group of 12 humanities scholars and advanced graduate students to learn how to develop innovative publications and courses that harness the theoretical and practical approaches of the "geospatial humanities." Situated at the intersection of critical cartography and information visualization, the Institute will combine a survey of the state of the art in interoperable geospatial tools and publication models, with hands-on, studio-based training in how to integrate GIS data into humanities scholarship, develop robust spatial visualizations, and deploy a suite of mapping tools in the service of creating publication- ready research articles and short monographs. The Institute will culminate in an "impact and evaluation" seminar of these publications with representatives from major university presses and journals

Inviting Scrutiny: How Technologies Are Eroding the Attorney-Client Privilege

The attorney-client privilege is sacrosanct, but its protections are eroding. Always narrowly construed, its zone of protection is becoming even smaller, particularly for in-house counsel. This is due to organizations’ inability to address the impact that technological innovations have had on the privilege. In many instances, new and disruptive technologies are assaulting the privilege as a result of unsuspecting corporate practices. This Article details how technology advancements coupled with heightened judicial scrutiny have chipped away at the protections the privilege affords to internal counsel. The historical basis for increased court scrutiny of in-house counsel’s privilege claims is detailed. With respect to technology, e-mail is spotlighted as a principal causation element in this process.1 In addition, the Article explores how social networking sites, cloud computing, and corporate “bring your own device” policies all have the potential to undermine the privilege assertions of in-house counsel. Finally, some best practices are discussed which, if followed, can help prevent further erosions to such claims

The New ESI Sanctions Framework Under the Proposed Rule 37(e) Amendments

The debate over the necessity, substance, and form of the proposed e-Discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (Rules) has been ongoing for over four years. Since the Duke Conference convened in May 2010, the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on the Civil Rules (Committee) has been working to address many of the perceived shortcomings in the current Rules regime

Estudos dos mecanismos para a redução do nível de inadimplência de uma empresa de equipamentos para suinocultura localizada no município de Urussanga – SC

Monografia apresentada para a obtenção do grau de Bacharel em Administração de Empresas, da Universidade de Extremo Sul Catarinense, UNESC.O presente estudo tem por seu objetivo elaborar mecanismos que inibam a inadimplência de uma empresa de equipamentos para suinocultura localizada no município de Urussanga. Para alcançar esse objetivo, foi preciso levantar o volume de contas a receber e o volume de contas em atraso da empresa, identificar a causa dos atrasos, através de uma pesquisa de campo com os clientes da empresa que geralmente atrasam os pagamentos. Foi realizada uma pesquisa bibliográfica de autores renomados no assunto, abordando os temas da administração e focando em assuntos relacionados a parte financeira de uma empresa. Através disso foi feita uma proposta de mudança na forma de cobrança da empresa, adequando-a as preferências do cliente tanto no modo de cobrança bancária, quanto no prazo. Assim a empresa poderá inibir a inadimplência e consequentemente obter melhores resultados

New Utah Rule 26: A Blueprint for Proportionality Under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

Article published in the Michigan State Law Review