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Measuring The Business Value Of IT

September 25, 2006 12:00am PDT

There's an old management axiom: You can't manage what you don't measure. Yet many organizations do a very poor job (or no job at all) of measuring the business value of their IT investments; but...

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Measuring The Business Value Of IT

September 25, 2006 12:00am PDT

There's an old management axiom: You can't manage what you don't measure. Yet many organizations do a very poor job (or no job at all) of measuring the business value of their IT investments; but...

Provided by: SAP

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The Shortcut Guide to Business Security Measures Using SSL rev

January 4, 2012 12:00am PST

"The Shortcut Guide to Business Security Measures Using SSL" examines current information security threats to business and describes techniques for developing a security management strategy that...

Provided by: VeriSign

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Business Cycle Measurement With Semantic Filtering: A Micro Data Approach

November 27, 2008 12:00am PST

In this paper the authors develop a business cycle measure that can be shown to have excellent ex-ante forecasting properties for GDP growth. For identifying business cycle movements, they use a...

Provided by: KOF

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Information Quality Improvement As A Measure Of Business Intelligence System Benefits

September 1, 2009 12:00am PDT

Since business intelligence systems' impact on performance is first of all long-termed and indirect, most measures of business value are not sufficiently close to immediate influence of such...

Provided by: University of Ljubljana

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ERP in Manufacturing 2010 - Measuring Business Benefit and Time to Value

September 1, 2010 12:00am PDT

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) provides the necessary infrastructure that forms the operational and transactional system of record for manufacturers of all types and sizes. With a history...

Provided by: Epicor Software

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Testing A Business Model Including Nonfinancial Measures In The Homebuilding Industry

July 1, 2008 12:00am PDT

The authors test a business model that includes customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, and financial performance from a company in the homebuilding industry for the period 2001-2004. While...

Provided by: University of Southern California

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Measuring The Business Cycle Similarity And Convergence Trends In The CEECs Towards The Eurozone With Respect To Some Unclear Methodological Aspects

October 1, 2009 12:00am PDT

The adoption of the Euro by Slovakia as of January 2009 and the current world economic crises revived a debate on timing of the Euro adoption in the Czech Republic and other CEECs. The purpose of...

Provided by: Austrian Institute of Economic Research

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10 best practices for business process measurement

April 7, 2009 12:00am PDT

Lean times often present opportunities for analyzing, fine-tuning, and improving business processes. In fact, the economic survival of some organizations may depend on such improvements. Here are...

Provided by: Polly Schneider Traylor

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Operational Efficiency Webinar Measure Business and IT Alignment

January 28, 2010 12:00am PST

In the face of continuous change, global competition, regulatory complexity and tight budgets, the challenge of cost optimization is constant. Aligning complex enterprise IT environments with this...

Provided by: BMC Software

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How Does Your Company Measure Up?: The Business Continuity Management (BCM) Maturity Model

August 8, 2006 12:00am PDT

When requesting budget to improve a person's business continuity plan, when a client seeks reassurance that the person's company will be able to continue to meet it's needs, when a financial...

Provided by: Disaster Resource Guide

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Measuring the Business Impact of Support

July 17, 2008 12:00am PDT

Customer support has long been a business mainstay. Yet, the business impact of support is seldom measured — despite the influence of support on higher revenue; customer satisfaction and loyalty;...

Provided by: Citrix Online

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Measuring the Business Value of Information Technology: Practical Strategies for IT and Business Managers

September 15, 2006 12:00am PDT

Implementing an innovative approach to determine the business value of information technology is an enormous task, but the payoff for the IT organization and the enterprise as a whole is worth the...

Provided by: Intel

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A MEASUR and RUP Combined Business Modeling Method

June 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

Business modeling is a primary task in the information systems development lifecycle. Although both MEASUR (Methods for Eliciting, Analyzing and Specifying User's Requirement) and RUP (Rational...

Provided by: Academy Publisher

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Measuring And Maximizing The Business Impact Of Executive Coaching

December 22, 2008 12:00am PST

This paper addresses the conceptual and methodological issues involved in measuring the business impact of executive coaching. A framework is introduced for identifying the business impacts of...

Provided by: University of Southern California

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Analyze Of The Measuring Performance For Artificially Business Intelligent Systems

December 27, 2008 12:00am PST

This paper analyzes the measuring performance of artificially business intelligent systems. Thousands of persons-years have been devoted to the research and development in the various aspects of...

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Measurement Of Business Cycles

June 1, 2006 12:00am PDT

The authors describe different ways of measuring the business cycle. Institutions such as the NBER, OECD and IMF do this through locating the turning points in series taken to represent the...

Provided by: University of Melbourne

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The problem of really big numbers

January 11, 2012 6:39am PST

We in IT often find comfort in numbers. However, really big numbers may be fraught with invalid assumptions, or simply measuring something that's largely irrelevant to the core business problem.

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Using ROI To Measure The Results Of Business Process Improvement Initiatives

October 1, 2008 12:00am PDT

Given today's economy and the need to do more with reduced resources, budgets, etc., organizations are looking to improve efficiencies across departments and business units. This means reviewing...

Provided by: Business Process Trends

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How to Measure Innovation in Your Business

May 15, 2006 12:00am PDT

It may or may not have occurred to a person how important it is to measure the innovation of his own business. However, if he does not look into the efficacy and processes within his company,...

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