Think business doesn’t mix with family? A handful of the world’s most powerful mom CEOs might beg to differ. Author Douglas Branson reported to The Wall Street Journal that in 2010, all but two female CEOs at the helm of a Fortune 500 company had children. Take a look at these businesswomen moms and find out more about these inspiring women.
Top Moms in the Business World

1. Patricia Woertz: The mother of three earned a tidy $15.5 million in 2010 as chairman, CEO, and president of agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland. Ranking at #27 on the Fortune 500, this top executive balanced family as she rose up the ranks.
2. Angela Braly: Another mother of three, Braly has made her fame as the chairman, CEO, and president of health plan giant WellPoint. She caught some heat in 2009 for raising health care rates in California by about 40 percent but of course understands first hand the importance of providing quality health care for a family.
3. Indra Nooyi: As the chairman and CEO of PepsiCo, this top businesswoman earns $15.8 million a year. But perhaps it’s her two children that have helped convince her to pair with Michelle Obama in combating child obesity by pulling soda from schools.
4. Irene Rosenfield: At the helm of another kid-friendly brand, Rosenfeld earns $26.3 million yearly as the chairman and CEO of Kraft Foods. The food giant’s recent hostile takeover of Cadbury is the CEO mom’s latest move.
5. Ellen Kullman: In her first year as the chairman and CEO of DuPont, Kullman made the difficult decision to lay off 14.500 of her employees. The mother of three takes home $10 million a year and puts a heavy focus on innovation at her company.
6. Mary Sammons: This mother of two works hard as chairman and CEO of Rite Aid, a retail pharmacy battling flagging sales and a disheartening 11 quarters in the red. Sammons takes home $2.5 million yearly to do her job well.
7. Ursula Burns: This working mother took the helm of Xerox with a 17-year-old daughter and 21-year-old stepson in tow, becoming the first African-American woman to become the CEO of a Fortune 500 company.

Inspiring Businesswomen Moms

The CEO moms above have each done their part to change the face of business. Thanks in part to their education, they were able to scale the career ladder and provide for their families. Join their ranks with a business degree that gives you knowledge to match your ambition.

Happy Womens Day to all !!!!!!!>>>>>>>

Significant areas of application: M-commerce has several major advantages over its fixed counterparts and due to its characteristics such as ease of use, personalization, flexibility, and easy availability, mobile commerce promises exceptional business market potential, greater efficiency and higher customer satisfaction.

Finance Sector: M-Commerce has wide areas of application in the finance sector by including all major financial institutes, banks and stock market. M-Commerce enables the user to perform banking/finance related activities such as transact/transfer money, bill payment etc and can access them through voice calling or SMS services. Non voice services like the instant alert facility can also be availed.

Telecom Sector: Mobile has played a giant role in communication technology through its versatility and superiority. The ubiquity and ease of use has further made it extremely popular across the globe. It has already surpassed the fixed phones in the world. Software platform is essential for operating any mobile and this tool has revolutionized the communication world because of its functioning as a small computer. The booming popularity has forced the corporate world to develop a new commerce platform that can reach to masses. Mobile commerce has attracted massive traffic because of its unique characteristics. The user can change the service of any financial institute or banks if it gets better products and services or user is dissatisfied with the service of the subscribing company. Services/

Retail Sector: Service/Retail sectors are amongst those sectors, which have nurtured most from mobile commerce. M-Commerce has proved a major boon for these sectors. Several business dealings, hiring carrier/courier services etc can be executed with the implementation of M-Commerce. Information Sector: After the bursting of dotcom bubble, e-commerce has steeped downwards whereas mobile commerce has evolved and flourished. A separate sector has evolved to exercise on this field for the IT experts. The webmasters have skilfully exploited this new area of IT-enabled commerce. In the IT field, mobile commerce has been used massively to deliver financial news, stock updates, sports figures and traffic updates and many more onto a single handheld device „mobile’. Critical Success factors: There have been various factors that affect the success of the implementation of M-Commerce:

Availability of Technology: The availability of mobile devices to users, and the cost of acquiring and using these devices, will be critical to the success of mobile commerce.

Interoperability: It is another critical factor which implies that the service providers must feel secure that their investments will yield benefits in the future. This cannot be achieved until equipment and software offered by different suppliers can be made to work together. This is where interoperability comes into play and becomes an important input to the success of M-Commerce.

Availability of Infrastructure: A mobile infra-structure is made up of service providers, software developers and mobile device manufacturers. In order to ensure a sound infrastructure, service providers must implement a common solution across their own disparate networks so that each sub-scriber has the best possible user access to each network.

Security: Security is undoubtedly one of the most important critical success factors of mobile com-merce. Various factors need to be assessed like: Confidentiality of information – to ensure users that their communications are safe and readable only by the intended recipients, Integrity of data – guaranteeing that message contents are not altered during the transmission between the originator and the recipient and User authentication – ena-bling systems and applications to verify user identities and have the authority to access the re-sources.

Speed and Efficiency: Handheld wireless devices such as smart phones and palmtops present a more constrained computing environment than desktop computers. This can be attributed to the limited battery life, less powerful central processing units, less memory, small displays and slower input methods of the devices. Wireless networks need to overcome these limitations, and still deliver an acceptable user experience.
Implications and future course of business

In this era of cut-throat competition where firms enter and exit the industry in the blink of an eye, m-commerce provides a significant competitive advantage. Mobile commerce can be seen as a means of allowing organisations to be introduced to new markets and new channels within that industry. However, certain factors need to be addressed. Security of transactions, speed, infra-structure and bandwidth need to be considered before the organisations implement m-commerce.

We didn’t need shampoo in sachets till we got it. We were happy bargaining and going from shop to shop till the concept of malls emerged. Change is the name of the game. M-commerce can and is drastically changing the course of many industries.

I just bought a pair of shoes and booked my movie ticket thanks to M-commerce. Way to go….!!!!!!