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Live Webcast: Fast and Efficient Business Security Strategies
Check out this webcast to learn more about fast and efficient business security strategies. You're in the midst of an arms race, make sure you win it.
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How Unilever HPC-NA Sold Its Employees on the Balanced Scorecard
May 2006
Since its introduction in the early 1990s, the Balanced ScoreCard (BSC) has evolved from a performance measurement tool to a strategic management tool. Numerous organizations report success in...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Reinventing Leadership Development: Proactive and Progressive Strategies:
Apr 2011
In this tough business climate, this ExecBlueprint's authors see manifold opportunity-for those leaders who can not only change with the times, but who are capable of leading the charge. Such...
Provided by SkillSoft
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White Papers
The Pillars of Performance Management: Free eBook and strategy manual
Mar 2009
Does your organization consider performance management a laborious, tactical annual practice, or is it a strategic, business-critical cycle? Maybe it's time to reassess. Now more than ever, you're...
Provided by SumTotal Systems
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White Papers
Benchmarking - Are You Afraid?
Jun 2009
Administrators need tools to help them know if their operations are running efficiently and benchmarking is one of those commonly used tools. The comparative analysis benchmarking data affords can...
Provided by LabX.com
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White Papers
IPS vs. IDS: Similar on the Surface, Polar Opposites Underneath
Jan 2009
A common notion is that an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) is nothing more than an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) deployed in-line with blocking capabilities. Although IPS and IDS both examine...
Provided by TippingPoint Technologies
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White Papers
Eight Questions To Ask About Your Intrusion-Security Solution
Jan 2009
Network security is too important to fall victim to marketplace confusion and misleading claims. Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) have similar names and...
Provided by TippingPoint Technologies
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White Papers
What Are Your Clients Costing You?
Feb 2009
All business owners could benefit by much better tracking and measuring of the numbers. Knowing things like how many leads you generate, how many leads you convert, and the average dollar amount...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
FLIPS: Hybrid Adaptive Intrusion Prevention
Jan 2009
Intrusion detection systems are fundamentally passive and fail-open. Because their primary task is classification, they do nothing to prevent an attack from succeeding. An Intrusion Prevention...
Provided by Columbia University
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White Papers
Failure Of Six Sigma Benchmarking Efforts - Why?
Jul 2009
Six Sigma Benchmarking efforts are systematic and structured, concentrating on superior performance at the end of the project. The success of each benchmarking efforts is dependent on the...
Provided by Associated Content
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White Papers
Sustainability Matters Why & How Bus is Widening Focus to Consider Needs of Stakeholders
Jan 2010
Companies of all sizes and across many industries have realized that traditional ways of measuring business performance do not account for the needs of all stakeholders. In order to ensure...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Structured Planning Lead To Better Business Performance
Jan 2010
To compete successfully today, companies need to look beyond operating efficiencies to improving their processes for managing performance. Many companies have invested heavily in performance...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
How To Use Benchmarking To Beat Your Competition
Nov 2009
Are you someone who sells products or services? If so, do you have any influence over how your products or services are made or sold? There is a possibility you can bring in more sales by using...
Provided by Associated Content
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White Papers
Enterprise Project Management - IT Governance and the Program Management Office
Jan 2006
Organizations are challenged to track and measure the effectiveness of a large number of projects in various aspects of their work, and aligning Information Technology costs with business...
Provided by Software Spectrum
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White Papers
Learning For The Sustainable Enterprise
Mar 2010
Sustainability is now a hot trend, and often it is associated with environmental responsibility. However, the environmental benefit is just one of the positive outcomes of a sustainable approach....
Provided by SkillSoft
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White Papers
2005 Fuel Cell Industry Survey: A Survey of 2004 Financial Results of Public Fuel Cell Companies
Mar 2006
Published annually, this survey provides the industry and the public with a perspective on the financial performance and activities of publicly traded companies in the fuel cell sector. The PwC...
Provided by Leading Edge British Columbia
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White Papers
Corporate Performance Management, Strategy Map and the Balanced Scorecard - Putting It All Together
May 2006
Despite a sea of collected data, organizations struggle with making sense of it to arrive at these answers. This is not surprising, since, organizations are typically data rich and information...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Nonfinancial Performance Measures and Strategy Execution
May 2006
Are nonfinancial performance measures the key to better strategy execution? They are at the heart of describing strategy and of developing a unique set of performance measures that communicate...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
The Challenge of a Performance Measures System
May 2006
Performance measures use operational and financial data to diagnose the efficiency and effectiveness of an organization's operational results. The Balanced Scorecard advocates the importance of...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Cranfield School of Management Partners With BetterManagement.com to Bring Valuable Research and Insights to Industry
May 2006
BetterManagement.com is the premier performance management Internet resource. The Cranfield School of Management has joined BetterManagement.com's elite group of strategic content partners....
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Communicating and Controlling Strategy: An Empirical Study of the Effectiveness of the Balanced Scorecard Part 1 of 4
May 2006
This paper reports evidence on the effectiveness of the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) as a strategy communication and management-control device. This paper reviews management control and communication...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Communicating and Controlling Strategy: An Empirical Study of the Effectiveness of the Balanced Scorecard Part 2 of 4
May 2006
The company studied in this paper is a U.S. FORTUNE 500 equipment manufacturing company with in excess of 25,000 employees and $6 billion sales. The company began changing its performance...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Communicating and Controlling Strategy: A Study on the Effectiveness of the Balanced Scorecard, Part 3 of 4
May 2006
The company studied in this paper is a U.S. FORTUNE 500 equipment manufacturing company with in excess of 25,000 employees and $6 billion sales. The company began changing its performance...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Communicating and Controlling Strategy: A Study on the Effectiveness of the Balanced Scorecard, Part 4 of 4
May 2006
The Balanced ScoreCard (BSC) is an innovative strategy communication and management control development. However, as with all innovations, establishing its validity takes time, objective evidence,...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
A Learning-and-Growth Metric for Strategy-Focused Organizations, Part I
May 2006
Based on the consulting experience that the conventional enablers of learning and growth in the Balanced Scorecard Framework (BSC) are insufficient for "Driving down" strategy, this paper...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Creating a Strategy-Focused Workforce
May 2006
Human capital is now firmly acknowledged as a strategic source of value creation - indeed, a company's most valued asset - in today's knowledge-based economy. As natural custodians of human...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Executing Strategy With the Balanced Scorecard
May 2006
Strategy is execution. If there's one lesson that can be pulled out of the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s, it is that successfully executing strategy is what creates value. There were plenty of...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Five Distinct Views of Scorecards - And Their Implications
May 2006
Although an organization can have only one overarching strategy, there are five distinct views that stakeholders might have when reviewing a strategy and its associated performance: valuation,...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Know the Score: The Balanced Scorecard Approach to Strategically Assist Clients
May 2006
In the early 1990s, there was concern that many senior executives were focusing exclusively on short-term financial measures to the detriment of the long-term success of their firms. In response,...
Provided by Better Management.com
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Do Your Organisation's Measurements Support Its Goals?
Apr 2006
The most obvious source of organisational performance measures are the stakeholders. In staking out a position in the marketplace, responding to competition and the environment, the organisation...
Provided by EzineArticles.com
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Activity Based Management: Improving Processes and Profitability - Chapter 4, Frameworks for Measurement and Improvement
May 2006
Although ABM can be used as a stand-alone approach to understand processes, product and customer costs and profitability, it provides a more powerful means of decision support if it exists as part...
Provided by Better Management.com
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Benchmarking Your Core Competencies?
May 2006
With an advance in the strategy theory the emphasis has shifted from the ever increasing need to improve efficiency - driven by the need to respond to market demands, to a richer understanding of...
Provided by ITNetwork365
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Equilibrium Prices In The Presence Of Delegated Portfolio Management
Nov 2007
This paper analyzes the asset pricing implications of commonly-used portfolio management contracts linking the compensation of fund managers to the excess return of the managed portfolio over a...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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Optimal Decentralized Investment Management
Mar 2007
The paper studies an institutional investment problem in which a centralized decision maker, the Chief Investment Officer (CIO), for example, employs multiple asset managers to implement and...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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Do Endowment Funds Select The Optimal Mix Of Active And Passive Risks?
Dec 2009
The investment decision confronting managers of multi-asset class portfolios can be characterized in terms of the passive (i.e., benchmark or policy) and active (i.e., market timing and security...
Provided by University of Texas at Austin (McCombs)
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How Outsourcing Buyers Benefit From Benchmarking
Apr 2010
Cost and price. It's crucial that buyers understand both when it comes to outsourcing. What is the cost of providing business services internally? What elements comprise that cost? What is the...
Provided by Everest Partners
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Sybase IQ TPC-H Benchmark With Red Hat Enterprise Linux On HP ProLiant Systems
May 2010
Instant messaging (IM) has experienced tremendous growth, becoming the fastest growing communications medium in the history of communications. Industry analyst firm Meta Group anticipates that IM...
Provided by Sybase
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Assessing FPGA DSP Benchmarks At 40 Nm
Mar 2009
This paper focuses on the commercial building sector in California. Additionally, state agencies and departments that own and operate facilities were given specific goals and assignments. Other...
Provided by Altera
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Shared Services Benchmarking Study
May 2009
Sybase, Red Hat and HP are working together to provide a low total cost of ownership Linux solution for Sybase IQ with enterprise-quality performance, robustness, and scalability for...
Provided by Tides
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Benchmarking Enterprise SSDs
Jun 2009
Benchmarking the performance of algorithms, devices, and programming methodologies is a well-worn topic among developers and research of high-performance computing appliances. Independent and...
Provided by STEC
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Understanding The New Performance Benchmark For IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Architecture To Enable Next-Generation Networking (NGN)
Mar 2008
There have been thousands of references to federal background checks, criminal record checks, security checks, and heightened due diligence. Those working in the background check industry often...
Provided by Intel
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Stratatel, See how a retail/distribution company can monitor and measure performance with easy-to-use dashboards.
Jan 2012
See how a retail/distribution company can monitor and measure performance with easy-to-use dashboards.
Provided by IBM
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Simplifying And Generalizing Some Efficient Frontier And CAPM Related Results
Jun 2008
This paper simplifies, generalizes, extends, surveys and unifies results related to the efficient frontier in portfolio analysis and to asset pricing formulations of the Capital Asset Pricing...
Provided by Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
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Should Benchmark Indices Have Alpha? Revisiting Performance
Dec 2008
Standard Fama-French and Carhart models produce economically and statistically significant nonzero alphas even for passive benchmark indices such as the S&P 500 and Russell 2000. The authors find...
Provided by Yale University
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The Right Foundation for Growing Global
Jul 2011
This landmark research reveals new insights into the real business value of integrated business applications, including cost reductions, data visibility and net income increases. (Bloomberg...
Provided by SAP
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Financial Management Accountability Index (FMAI) In Malaysian Public Sector: A Way Forward
Jul 2010
The National Audit Department (NAD) of Malaysia has introduced the Financial Management Accountability Index (FMAI) within the framework of the audit rating system. This paper shares the Malaysian...
Provided by International Islamic University Malaysia
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Persistently Underpaid CEOs And Their Influence On Pay Benchmarks
Sep 2007
This paper analyzes whether frugal S&P 500 boards have used increasingly transparent pay data on their CEOs' peers to minimize the perceived inequity of persistent underpayment (relative to the...
Provided by Mississippi State University
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Efficiency Analysis Of Energy Networks : An International Survey Of Regulators
Oct 2009
Incentive regulation for networks has been an important part of the reform agenda in a number of countries. As part of this regulatory process, incentives are put in place to improve the cost...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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Can An Active Manager Beat The Benchmark Index Using Anomaly-Based Strategies?
Jul 2007
This paper examines whether an active fund manager can outperform the benchmark index using trading strategies based on asset pricing "Anomalies." The author considers an active manager who faces...
Provided by University of Georgia
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Current Account Benchmarks For Central And Eastern Europe: A Desperate Search?
Jan 2009
This paper examines two competing approaches for calculating current account benchmarks, i.e. the external sustainability approach รก la Lane and Milesi-Ferretti (LM) versus the Structural Current...
Provided by European Central Bank
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An Examination Of Director Compensation: The Roles Of Benchmarking And Asymmetry
Jul 2007
Using a panel of 237 Fortune 500 firms, the authors find evidence that firms utilize competitive benchmarking when determining director compensation. They document asymmetry in the relation...
Provided by University of Nebraska
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Benchmarking Problems, Long Horizon Returns And Survivorship Bias
Jan 2007
This paper investigates the out of sample long run performance of U.S. equities based on an exhaustive set of Asset Pricing Models (APMs) using an expansive collection of individual securities...
Provided by Loyola University
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The Fit Of Business Relationships With Business Strategies
Aug 2010
The concept of strategic fit has been a focus of the contemporary literature on organisational behaviour and strategy. This concept follows the logic of contingency theory and suggests that where...
Provided by University of Manchester
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Evaluating China?s Integration In World Trade With A Gravity Model Based Benchmark
Nov 2006
The rapid transition of China from a closed agricultural society to an industrial powerhouse has been associated with a rapid increase in the share of China in world trade. As the world is taking...
Provided by European Central Bank
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Consortial Benchmarking: A Method Of Academic-Practitioner Collaborative Research And Its Application In A B2B Environment
Aug 2010
The purpose of this paper is to develop a new method for academic-practitioner collaboration, addressing the literature on collaborative research. The research method involves model elaboration...
Provided by University of Twente
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Long Term Orientation And Relationship Strength: How Time-Dependent Are Strong Relationships?
Aug 2010
This paper develops a set of propositions about the nature of the link between the long term orientation of a relationship and its strength. Its overall argument is that the importance of...
Provided by Waterford Institute of Technology
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Global Optimization By Differential Evolution And Particle Swarm Methods: Evaluation On Some Benchmark Functions
Nov 2007
The history of optimization of real valued non-linear functions (including linear ones), unconstrained or constrained, goes back to Gottfried Leibniz, Isaac Newton, Leonhard Euler and Joseph...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Consumption Externalities And Capital Accumulation In An Overlapping Generations Economy
Aug 2009
This paper extends the standard overlapping generation's model of capital accumulation by introducing consumption externalities. It is assumed that each generation's felicity depends on the social...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Performance Of Differential Evolution And Particle Swarm Methods On Some Relatively Harder Multi-modal Benchmark Functions
Nov 2007
Global Optimization (GO) is concerned with finding the optimum point(s) of a non-convex (multi-modal) function in an m-dimensional space. Although some work was done in the pre-1970's to develop...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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E-Governance Of Universities: A Proposal Of Benchmarking Methodology
Nov 2007
This paper aims to provide a benchmarking proposal related to the area of e-governance of universities. An e-governance tool is proposed in order to disseminate both the mission and the...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
A Tool For Scrutinizing Bank Bailouts Based On Multi-Period Peer Benchmarking
Dec 2010
In the wake of the recent global financial crisis central banks and regulators are concerned about redirection of bailout funds into dividends. Yet, the authors do not know much about the extent...
Provided by University of Queensland
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Evaluating Land Administration Systems: A Comparative Method With An Application To Peru And Honduras
Feb 2009
This paper develops a methodology for the evaluation of land administration systems. The authors propose a set of quantitative and qualitative indicators with benchmarks for each one of them that...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Benchmarking And Understanding London's Cultural And Creative Industries
Apr 2009
This paper describes the Greater London Authority's evidence base for its work on the creative and cultural industries. Its main purpose is to show that th9is evidence base is viable, robust, and...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
A Retail Benchmarking Approach To Efficient Two-Way Access Pricing
Oct 2007
The authors study a retail benchmarking approach to determine access prices for interconnected networks. Instead of considering fixed access charges as in the existing literature, they study...
Provided by Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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A Global Vision Over Benchmarking Process: Benchmarking Based Enterprises
Jul 2008
Benchmarking is using the knowledge and the experience of others to improve the enterprise. Starting from the analysis of the performance and underlying the strengths and weaknesses of the...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
The European Central Bank, The Federal Reserve And The Bank Of England: Is The Taylor Rule An Useful Benchmark For The Last Decade?
Nov 2009
The Taylor rule has been used in many studies in order to analyse the monetary policies. In this paper the author focuses on the Euro era and compares the ECB with other two central banks, the Fed...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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An Arbitrary Benchmark CAPM: One Additional Frontier Portfolio Is Sufficient
Oct 2008
The benchmark CAPM linearly relates the expected returns on an arbitrary asset, an arbitrary benchmark portfolio, and an arbitrary MV frontier portfolio. The benchmark is not required to be on the...
Provided by Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
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A Retail Benchmarking Approach To Effcient Two-Way Access Pricing: Two-Part Tariffs
Sep 2007
The authors study a retail benchmarking approach to determine access prices for interconnected networks. Instead of considering fixed access charges as in the existing literature, they study...
Provided by NET Institute
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White Papers
Improving International Comparisons Of Real Output: The ICP 2005 Benchmark And Its Implications For China
Nov 2010
The latest round of the International Comparisons Program (ICP 2005) compares the purchasing power of currencies and real output of 146 countries. Using price quote data from nine countries in the...
Provided by University of New South Wales
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An Econometric Model To Quantify Benchmark Downturn LGD On Residential Mortgages
Oct 2010
The paper describes a theoretical approach to determine the downturn LGD for residential mortgages, which is compliant with the regulatory requirement and thus suited to be used for validation, at...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Investment And Value: A Neoclassical Benchmark
Mar 2008
Which investment model best fits firm-level data? To answer this question the authors estimate alternative models using Compustat data. Surprisingly, the two best-performing specifications are...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Reinventing Leadership Development: Proactive and Progressive Strategies:
Apr 2011
In this tough business climate, this ExecBlueprint's authors see manifold opportunity-for those leaders who can not only change with the times, but who are capable of leading the charge. Such...
Provided by SkillSoft
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White Papers
Local Innovation Systems And Benchmarking
May 2008
This paper reviews approaches used for evaluating the performance of local or regional innovation systems. This evaluation is performed by a benchmarking approach in which a frontier production...
Provided by Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
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Benchmarking Local Ecological Performance Using Ecological Footprint Accounts
Nov 2010
Ecological footprint is good at telling how much the authors weight relative to global ecological ressources. However it tells nothing on their geographical origin and makes no distinction between...
Provided by Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe
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Using Premia And Nsp For Constructing A Risk Management Benchmark For Testing Parallel Architecture
Jan 2010
Financial institutions have massive computations to carry out overnight which are very demanding in terms of the consumed CPU. The challenge is to price many different products on a cluster-like...
Provided by Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe
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Product Market Regulation And Market Work: A Benchmark Analysis
Mar 2009
Recent empirical work finds a negative correlation between product market regulation and aggregate employment. The authors examine the effect of product market regulations on hours worked in a...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
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Over-And Under-Investment According To Different Benchmarks
Apr 2008
In a two-stage oligopoly, with investment in the first stage and quantity or price competition in the second stage, there is a kind of Folk Theorem: The authors find over-investment if the goods...
Provided by EconStor
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White Papers
Should Benchmark Indices Have Alpha? Revisiting Performance Evaluation
Dec 2008
Standard Fama-French and Car hart models produce economically and statistically significant nonzero alphas even for passive benchmark indices such as the S&P 500 and Russell 2000. The authors find...
Provided by Arizona State University
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White Papers
Participatory Governance And European Administrative Law: New Legal Benchmarks For The New European Public Order
Oct 2006
European Governance is more than just a policy instrument without legal significance. Its regulatory sub-divisions, such as Comitology, the Lamfalussy procedure, and the growing number of European...
Provided by European University Institute
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White Papers
Term Structure Equations Under Benchmark Framework
Aug 2009
This paper makes use of an integrated benchmark modeling framework that allows deriving term structure equations for bond and forward prices. The benchmark or numeraire is chosen to be the Growth...
Provided by Economics and Econometrics Research Institute
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White Papers
Do Professional Currency Managers Beat The Benchmark?
Dec 2007
The authors investigate an index of returns on professionally managed currency funds and a subset of returns from 34 individual currency fund managers. Over the period 1990-2006, excess returns...
Provided by New York University
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White Papers
Reinventing Leadership Development: Proactive and Progressive Strategies:
Apr 2011
In this tough business climate, this ExecBlueprint's authors see manifold opportunity-for those leaders who can not only change with the times, but who are capable of leading the charge. Such...
Provided by SkillSoft
-
White Papers
The Pillars of Performance Management: Free eBook and strategy manual
Mar 2009
Does your organization consider performance management a laborious, tactical annual practice, or is it a strategic, business-critical cycle? Maybe it's time to reassess. Now more than ever, you're...
Provided by SumTotal Systems
-
White Papers
Benchmarking - Are You Afraid?
Jun 2009
Administrators need tools to help them know if their operations are running efficiently and benchmarking is one of those commonly used tools. The comparative analysis benchmarking data affords can...
Provided by LabX.com
-
White Papers
IPS vs. IDS: Similar on the Surface, Polar Opposites Underneath
Jan 2009
A common notion is that an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) is nothing more than an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) deployed in-line with blocking capabilities. Although IPS and IDS both examine...
Provided by TippingPoint Technologies
-
White Papers
Eight Questions To Ask About Your Intrusion-Security Solution
Jan 2009
Network security is too important to fall victim to marketplace confusion and misleading claims. Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) have similar names and...
Provided by TippingPoint Technologies
-
White Papers
What Are Your Clients Costing You?
Feb 2009
All business owners could benefit by much better tracking and measuring of the numbers. Knowing things like how many leads you generate, how many leads you convert, and the average dollar amount...
Provided by American Express
-
White Papers
FLIPS: Hybrid Adaptive Intrusion Prevention
Jan 2009
Intrusion detection systems are fundamentally passive and fail-open. Because their primary task is classification, they do nothing to prevent an attack from succeeding. An Intrusion Prevention...
Provided by Columbia University
-
White Papers
Failure Of Six Sigma Benchmarking Efforts - Why?
Jul 2009
Six Sigma Benchmarking efforts are systematic and structured, concentrating on superior performance at the end of the project. The success of each benchmarking efforts is dependent on the...
Provided by Associated Content
-
White Papers
Sustainability Matters Why & How Bus is Widening Focus to Consider Needs of Stakeholders
Jan 2010
Companies of all sizes and across many industries have realized that traditional ways of measuring business performance do not account for the needs of all stakeholders. In order to ensure...
Provided by Oracle
-
White Papers
Structured Planning Lead To Better Business Performance
Jan 2010
To compete successfully today, companies need to look beyond operating efficiencies to improving their processes for managing performance. Many companies have invested heavily in performance...
Provided by Oracle
-
White Papers
How To Use Benchmarking To Beat Your Competition
Nov 2009
Are you someone who sells products or services? If so, do you have any influence over how your products or services are made or sold? There is a possibility you can bring in more sales by using...
Provided by Associated Content
-
White Papers
Enterprise Project Management - IT Governance and the Program Management Office
Jan 2006
Organizations are challenged to track and measure the effectiveness of a large number of projects in various aspects of their work, and aligning Information Technology costs with business...
Provided by Software Spectrum
-
White Papers
Learning For The Sustainable Enterprise
Mar 2010
Sustainability is now a hot trend, and often it is associated with environmental responsibility. However, the environmental benefit is just one of the positive outcomes of a sustainable approach....
Provided by SkillSoft
-
White Papers
2005 Fuel Cell Industry Survey: A Survey of 2004 Financial Results of Public Fuel Cell Companies
Mar 2006
Published annually, this survey provides the industry and the public with a perspective on the financial performance and activities of publicly traded companies in the fuel cell sector. The PwC...
Provided by Leading Edge British Columbia
-
White Papers
Corporate Performance Management, Strategy Map and the Balanced Scorecard - Putting It All Together
May 2006
Despite a sea of collected data, organizations struggle with making sense of it to arrive at these answers. This is not surprising, since, organizations are typically data rich and information...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
Nonfinancial Performance Measures and Strategy Execution
May 2006
Are nonfinancial performance measures the key to better strategy execution? They are at the heart of describing strategy and of developing a unique set of performance measures that communicate...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
The Challenge of a Performance Measures System
May 2006
Performance measures use operational and financial data to diagnose the efficiency and effectiveness of an organization's operational results. The Balanced Scorecard advocates the importance of...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
Cranfield School of Management Partners With BetterManagement.com to Bring Valuable Research and Insights to Industry
May 2006
BetterManagement.com is the premier performance management Internet resource. The Cranfield School of Management has joined BetterManagement.com's elite group of strategic content partners....
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Communicating and Controlling Strategy: An Empirical Study of the Effectiveness of the Balanced Scorecard Part 1 of 4
May 2006
This paper reports evidence on the effectiveness of the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) as a strategy communication and management-control device. This paper reviews management control and communication...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
Communicating and Controlling Strategy: An Empirical Study of the Effectiveness of the Balanced Scorecard Part 2 of 4
May 2006
The company studied in this paper is a U.S. FORTUNE 500 equipment manufacturing company with in excess of 25,000 employees and $6 billion sales. The company began changing its performance...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
Communicating and Controlling Strategy: A Study on the Effectiveness of the Balanced Scorecard, Part 3 of 4
May 2006
The company studied in this paper is a U.S. FORTUNE 500 equipment manufacturing company with in excess of 25,000 employees and $6 billion sales. The company began changing its performance...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
Communicating and Controlling Strategy: A Study on the Effectiveness of the Balanced Scorecard, Part 4 of 4
May 2006
The Balanced ScoreCard (BSC) is an innovative strategy communication and management control development. However, as with all innovations, establishing its validity takes time, objective evidence,...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
A Learning-and-Growth Metric for Strategy-Focused Organizations, Part I
May 2006
Based on the consulting experience that the conventional enablers of learning and growth in the Balanced Scorecard Framework (BSC) are insufficient for "Driving down" strategy, this paper...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
Creating a Strategy-Focused Workforce
May 2006
Human capital is now firmly acknowledged as a strategic source of value creation - indeed, a company's most valued asset - in today's knowledge-based economy. As natural custodians of human...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
Executing Strategy With the Balanced Scorecard
May 2006
Strategy is execution. If there's one lesson that can be pulled out of the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s, it is that successfully executing strategy is what creates value. There were plenty of...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
Five Distinct Views of Scorecards - And Their Implications
May 2006
Although an organization can have only one overarching strategy, there are five distinct views that stakeholders might have when reviewing a strategy and its associated performance: valuation,...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
How Unilever HPC-NA Sold Its Employees on the Balanced Scorecard
May 2006
Since its introduction in the early 1990s, the Balanced ScoreCard (BSC) has evolved from a performance measurement tool to a strategic management tool. Numerous organizations report success in...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
Know the Score: The Balanced Scorecard Approach to Strategically Assist Clients
May 2006
In the early 1990s, there was concern that many senior executives were focusing exclusively on short-term financial measures to the detriment of the long-term success of their firms. In response,...
Provided by Better Management.com
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Do Your Organisation's Measurements Support Its Goals?
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Activity Based Management: Improving Processes and Profitability - Chapter 4, Frameworks for Measurement and Improvement
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Benchmarking Your Core Competencies?
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With an advance in the strategy theory the emphasis has shifted from the ever increasing need to improve efficiency - driven by the need to respond to market demands, to a richer understanding of...
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Equilibrium Prices In The Presence Of Delegated Portfolio Management
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Optimal Decentralized Investment Management
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The paper studies an institutional investment problem in which a centralized decision maker, the Chief Investment Officer (CIO), for example, employs multiple asset managers to implement and...
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Sybase IQ TPC-H Benchmark With Red Hat Enterprise Linux On HP ProLiant Systems
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Instant messaging (IM) has experienced tremendous growth, becoming the fastest growing communications medium in the history of communications. Industry analyst firm Meta Group anticipates that IM...
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This paper focuses on the commercial building sector in California. Additionally, state agencies and departments that own and operate facilities were given specific goals and assignments. Other...
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Shared Services Benchmarking Study
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Sybase, Red Hat and HP are working together to provide a low total cost of ownership Linux solution for Sybase IQ with enterprise-quality performance, robustness, and scalability for...
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Benchmarking Enterprise SSDs
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Understanding The New Performance Benchmark For IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Architecture To Enable Next-Generation Networking (NGN)
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