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White Papers
An ERP Guide To Driving Efficiency
Dec 2010
Improving business efficiency is a perennial concern for any company that hopes to achieve "best-in-class" operations. Businesses that successfully improve efficiency stand to reduce operating...
Provided by Sage Software
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Presentations
Collaboration: Four Case Studies
Sep 2008
Four short case study videos show how different small businesses are using technology to collaborate and succeed. See how 3marketeers Advertising collaborates, serves a global customer base, and...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
New Voice in Healthcare: Speech-recognition software offers productivity boost via efficiencies to workflow at point-of-care (PoC)
Jan 2009
As a society we have come to expect medical miracles as a matter of course in the progression of health sciences. Today healthcare practitioners are depending on their own small technology...
Provided by CDW
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White Papers
Time Management Problems With Prioritizing By Importance
Dec 2007
Time flies so fast doesn't it? Deadlines. Scarce resources. Overwhelming chores. And other people who take up way too much of your precious time. Prioritizing by importance or urgency doesn't work...
Provided by Article-Junction
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Presentations
MPC Industries Headquarters Travel with CEO
Jun 2008
MPC Industries is a 52-year old, family-owned manufacturing company with 42 employees, offering plastic injection molding as well as precision machining of both ferrous and non-ferrous alloys...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Resource Center
What is a Wireless Network?: The Basics
Sep 2008
Find out how small businesses are using both wireless networks and WiFi hotspots to stay in touch with co-workers, customers, and partners, regardless of where they are.
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Presentations
Case Study: Medical Office Increases Productivity with New Communications System
Sep 2008
Watch this short video to see how Dr. Sunita Jayakar's small physician practice implemented a Cisco phone system and reduced time required for appointment reminder calls from four hours to 15...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Be there without going there: Web conferencing speeds connections without the costs of travel
Jul 2009
The expense of face-to-face meetings is twofold: travel and time. Web conferencing tools are fast gaining momentum as connecting over the Web becomes simpler and less costly. New...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Making the Most of Fax Virtualization with Boardless Technology
Jan 2009
Virtualization software products such as VMware, Hyper-V and Xen have emerged as powerful tools to answer these challenges by running multiple applications and increasing hardware utilization. At...
Provided by Esker
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White Papers
Customer Data Quality Platform
Aug 2009
Pitney Bowes Customer Data Quality Platform (CDQP) is a domain-specific customer data quality management system that enables tasks such as integration, cleansing, matching, profiling, monitoring,...
Provided by Pitney Bowes
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White Papers
9 Simple Productivity Tips To Avert Multitasking Mayhem!
May 2009
Are you a busy woman who is an expert at multitasking and who can juggle a million and one things? Women, who run a business from home, tend to view their ability to multitask as a requirement to...
Provided by Success Network
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White Papers
How To Conduct An Effective Meeting
Jan 2010
Everyone participates in meetings or is the host of a meeting. Many are productive and others are a complete waste of time. The meeting should have a specific purpose that you should communicate...
Provided by Executive Business Advisers
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White Papers
How To Improve Productivity
Jan 2010
There are many ways to improve productivity. Match the person to the task. Think about the personalities of the people you are managing when you assign tasks. People will perform most effectively...
Provided by Executive Business Advisers
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White Papers
How To Delegate More Effectively
Jan 2010
If you delegate work to a subordinate and that person fails to complete the task, both manager and employee look bad. Use a formal tracking system to keep track of assignments, due dates, and...
Provided by Executive Business Advisers
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White Papers
Understanding Organizational Culture And Leadership - Enhance Efficiency And Productivity
Jan 2010
This paper reviews the existing literature on relationships between innovativeness and organization structure and culture, technical process approach, and encourages employees to find the meaning...
Provided by PMFORUM
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White Papers
The Key To High Sales Productivity Is High Energy
Aug 2006
One of the issues most often raised by my clients is better time management. People have tried prioritizing tasks, blocking out parts of their day for certain tasks, implementing new systems and...
Provided by Exceptional Leadership
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White Papers
How To Solve Everyday Problems
Jan 2010
Looking for tips to everyday problems? Does one lie awake at night thinking about how one can make a better impression on customers and employees, hire better people, or get that promotion one...
Provided by Executive Business Advisers
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White Papers
Work At Least 10 Fewer Hours Each Week While Maintaining
Jun 2008
Knowing how to spend time, in other words, is a more valuable skill than knowing how to make, manage, invest, and spend money. Those entrepreneurs who want to be truly successful have to devote...
Provided by ActionCOACH
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White Papers
Home Based Businesses Require Discipline
Feb 2009
Every day businesses pop up and businesses close shop. When it comes to home based businesses a contributing factor of failure is the lack of discipline. There is a big difference in working for...
Provided by Home Based Business Adviser
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White Papers
How To Get Better Organized
Jan 2010
To manage a project team, department, or small business requires exceptional organizational skills. Well organized individuals will undoubtedly improve both performance and the bottom line. Here...
Provided by Executive Business Advisers
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White Papers
Why You Are Not Meeting Your Productivity Targets... And Why You Possibly Never Will
May 2008
As an operations manager you are almost certainly under pressure to deliver a better and faster service at a reduced cost. The reason for this is simple: in todays "Me too" marketplace, you are...
Provided by Reveal Group International
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White Papers
Wharton On Career Management: The Work/Life Balance
Nov 2008
Whether it's deciding which parent continues to work after a child is born, figuring out the jigsaw puzzle of job demands and out-of-work commitments, or simply finding time to take a vacation,...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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White Papers
Measuring Value Creation And Its Distribution Among Stakeholders Of The Firm
Jun 2007
The paper presents a general methodology that uses publicly available data to estimate the magnitude of economic value creation and its distribution among a firm's stakeholders. Based on...
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
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White Papers
Productivity Is A Higher Priority, But Which Initiatives Really Work?
Jul 2008
In the good times, your organization probably doesn't worry about productivity quite as much. It's important but not necessarily crucial. After all, in the good times, your organization's cash...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Does Social Networking Boost Productivity?
Jul 2007
Most employers still don't know what to make of online social networking technologies. In recent years, the press has been abuzz about how young people are crowding onto social networking sites...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Addressing Worker Burnout
Sep 2007
By some measures, the U.S. worker is the hardest-working employee on the planet. The U.N. International Labor Organization reports that U.S. employees put in an average of 1,804 work hours in...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Productivity And Office Design: Beyond Feng Shui
Aug 2006
Imagine the typical office: drab dècor, boring color scheme, sterile lighting. It's not a pretty picture. Nor is it a productive one, at least according to a recent survey conducted by Gensler, an...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Burn-Out-Busting Strategies
Sep 2006
We all experience a certain level of stress in our daily lives. Good stress, called eustress, provides stimulation, excitement and a competitive edge. However, due to continual job deadlines,...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Top Ten Ways Women Entrepreneurs Boost Productivity
Jun 2009
This paper gives the top ten ways women entrepreneurs boost productivity. Write out your to do list the night before, don't wait until morning to make your list. Write your list the night before....
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Six Weeks Or Less To Double Your Productivity In Tough Economic
Dec 2008
Well, the fact is, in our current economic recession, increasing productivity is one of the most important things you can do to save your business from going under. Boosting productivity will...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
A Business For A Funky Mom
Jun 2009
A former banker, OPEN Cardmember Paige Hill started her clothing design business from home so she could be with her three children. In this webcast, this maker of "Funky mom clothes" gives advice...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
3 Ways To Innovate With Your Email Auto-Reply
May 2010
Email ennui: one has all experienced it. You finally manage to carve out some time away from your desk and your business, only to have it ruined by: a) anxiety that urgent items are slipping...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Forget To-Do, Try To-Don't
Dec 2009
To-do lists are universal. Yet, while most of the public can speak eloquently about the system for adding to-dos to the list, one rarely, if ever, discusses how one decides what NOT to do. After...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
4 Ways To Boost Productivity By Slowing Down
Nov 2009
As our ability to instantaneously access everything from a bank account balance to a DVD rental to friends from high school, it's easy to be lulled into the assumption that faster is always...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Deadlines
Oct 2009
Because they are stressful, most of the people try to avoid tight deadlines. A client calls up with a high-paying job, but it needs to be done next week. Is it worth the hassle of interrupting...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Making Meetings More Actionable And Less Painful
Sep 2009
As individuals and business leaders, we're always searching for new ways to increase our productivity: Whether it's figuring out the most efficient way to organize our to-dos, super-charging our...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
How To Combat "Reactionary Workflow"
Sep 2009
Many of us are finding the trek towards "In-box zero" (an empty in-box with no emails awaiting response/action) impossible. In an era of mobile devices, instant connectivity, and automated mailing...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Stumped For A Solution? 3 Ways To Get Moving
Sep 2009
We've all experienced brain-lock. Perhaps it comes when you've got to execute a creative endeavor at the end of a long day, or maybe it sets in when you've been multitasking for so many hours, you...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Be Solutionary, Not Revolutionary
Sep 2009
It is invigorating to accomplish a huge project. When we sit down with a blank canvas or clean sheet of paper, we have the tendency to think big. We tend to ask ourselves, "What can I think of...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
5 Tips For Productive Brainstorming
Aug 2009
The now over-the-hill catchphrase "think outside the box" associated the act of brainstorming with the idea of being free from any sort of structure. If we could just open up our minds to a "blue...
Provided by American Express
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Podcasts
Reinventing Business with Next-Generation Social Collaboration in the Cloud
Apr 2012
As the benefits of social business become clear and the case for social business grows more compelling, enterprises are looking for approaches that allow them to cost-effectively roll out these...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Case Study - SnagAJob
Feb 2012
As a fast-growing online job search site, SnagAJob.com needs a continuously quick and reliable online presence. After carefully assessing its web optimization strategy, the company decided to make...
Provided by Riverbed
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Podcasts
Oracle Optimized Solutions
Dec 2011
Beyond efficiency and cost-cutting, many CIOs and other IT professionals are now looking to the competitive advantage that effective information technology can bring to bear - viewing IT as a...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Do German Welfare-to-work Programmes Reduce Welfare And Increase Work?
Mar 2009
Many Western economies have reformed their welfare systems with the aim of activating welfare recipients by increasing welfare-to-work programmes and job search enforcement. The authors evaluate...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Relative Sources Of European Regional Productivity Convergence: A Bootstrap Frontier Approach Forthcoming
Aug 2006
The authors address the issue of Western European regional productivity growth and convergence by means of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), decomposing labor productivity into efficiency change,...
Provided by Lund University
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White Papers
A Sequential Malmquist-Luenberger Productivity Index
May 2009
This paper proposes an alternative methodology for measuring environmentally sensitive productivity growth. The rationale of this methodology is to consider the features of technology...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Redistributive Politics And Market Efficiency: An Experimental Study
Nov 2009
The authors study the interaction between competitive markets that produce large but unequally distributed welfare gains and elections through which the poor majority can redistribute income away...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Corporate R&D And Firm Efficiency: Evidence From Europe's Top R&D Investors
Dec 2009
The main objective of this paper is to investigate the impact of corporate R&D activities on firms' performance, measured by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Sector Switching: An Unexplored Dimension Of Firm Dynamics In Developing Countries
Sep 2007
Much of the literature on industry evolution has found firm dynamics to be an important source of sector-level productivity growth. In this paper, the authors ask whether the delineation of entry...
Provided by Trinity College Dublin
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White Papers
Age, Wage And Productivity
Feb 2010
Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Hidden Action, Identification, And Organization Design
Nov 2010
Incentives often fail in inducing economic agents to engage in a desirable activity; implementability is restricted. What restricts implementability? When does re-organization help to overcome...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
College Degree Supply And Occupational Allocation Of Graduates The Case Of The Czech Republic
Apr 2010
Public funding drives much of the recent growth of college degree supply in Europe, but few indicators are available to assess its optimal level. In this paper, the author investigates an...
Provided by Charles University
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White Papers
The Transatlantic Productivity Gap: Is R&D The Main Culprit?
Mar 2011
The literature has pointed to different causes to explain the productivity gap between Europe and United States in the last decades. This paper tests the hypothesis that the lower European...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Equity And Efficiency In Multi-worker Firms: Insights From Experimental Economics
May 2011
In this paper, the authors discuss recent evidence from economic experiments that study the impact of social preferences on workplace behavior. They focus on situations in which a single employer...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Productivity, Technical Efficiency, And Farm Size In Paraguayan Agriculture
Feb 2007
This paper assesses the relationship between farm size and productivity. Both parametric and nonparametric methods are used to derive efficiency measures. Smaller farms are found to have higher...
Provided by Levy Economics Institute
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White Papers
Small Is Beautiful: Evidence Of An Inverse Relationship Between Farm Size And Yield In Turkey
Dec 2008
This paper examines the relationship between farm size and yield per acre in Turkey using heretofore untapped data from a 2002 farm-level survey of 5,003 rural households. After controlling for...
Provided by Levy Economics Institute
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White Papers
Adaptive Experimental Design Using The Propensity Score
Jan 2009
Many social experiments are run in multiple waves, or are replications of earlier social experiments. In principle, the sampling design can be modified in later stages or replications to allow for...
Provided by Yale University
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White Papers
Productivity Volatility And The Misallocation Of Resources In Developing Economies
Jun 2011
The authors investigate the role of dynamic production inputs and their associated adjustment costs in shaping the dispersion of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and static measures of capital...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Innovation And Productivity
Aug 2011
What do we know about the relationship between innovation and productivity among firms? The workhorse model of this relationship is presented and the implications of analysis using this model and...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Deregulation, Consolidation, And Efficiency: Evidence From U.S. Nuclear Power
Aug 2011
For the first four decades of its existence the U.S. nuclear power industry was run by regulated utilities, with most companies owning only one or two reactors. Beginning in the late 1990s...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Decomposition Of Total Factor Productivity Change In The U.S. Hog Industry, 1992-2004
Jul 2006
There have been dramatic structural changes in the U.S. hog industry in the last two decades that have coincided with substantial increases in farm productivity. This paper used a stochastic...
Provided by American Agricultural Economics Association
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White Papers
Market Structure Conduct Performance (SCP) Hypothesis Revisited Using Stochastic Frontier Efficiency Analysis
Jul 2006
Use of efficiency measures as a proxy for performance to test the market Structure-Conduct-Performance (SCP) hypothesis is explored. Utilizing Battese and Coelli specification, the authors...
Provided by American Agricultural Economics Association
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White Papers
Spatial Clustering Of The U.S. Biotech Industry
Jul 2006
The paper develops a county-level spatial tobit model that analyzes factors affecting site-selection of the U.S. biotech industry. The hypothesis of spatial agglomeration economies is confirmed...
Provided by American Agricultural Economics Association
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White Papers
Public Regulation Of R&D Racings
Jul 2006
The purpose of the paper is to theoretically examine the welfare implications of public sector involvement in agricultural biotechnology R&D. The model assumes that firms (either a private duopoly...
Provided by American Agricultural Economics Association
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White Papers
Economic Efficiency, Structure And Scale Economies In The U.S. Dairy Sector
Jul 2006
This paper uses a new dataset based on the 2000 Agricultural Resource Management Survey, the most recent national survey of dairy producers in the United States. A shadow cost function is employed...
Provided by American Agricultural Economics Association
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White Papers
Recursive Sustainability: Intertemporal Efficiency And Equity
Jul 2006
PV-optimality in a capital-resource economy can imply decreasing utility over some portion of the time horizon. Various criteria have been proposed to maintain intergenerational equity defined as...
Provided by American Agricultural Economics Association
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Webcasts
Cost Cutting Efficiency To Value-Creating Productivity: Reduce Costs With Rightshore
Jan 2011
This webcast shows the current economic climate has forced many companies to make survival their immediate and highest priority, necessary actions to reduce costs must be balanced with strategy...
Provided by Capgemini
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Webcasts
Cost Cutting Efficiency To Value-Creating Productivity: Get The Balance Right With Rightshore
Jan 2011
This webcast shows that delivery models are changing. As the world gets flatter, meeting your business goals requires flexible and adaptive models that secure the right balance of talents,...
Provided by Capgemini
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Webcasts
Cost Cutting Efficiency To Value-Creating Productivity: Add Value With Rightshore
Jan 2011
This webcast shows the right outsourcing provider should be a source of real added value. With the right expertise and the right approach to innovation, IT becomes not just an enabler, but a...
Provided by Capgemini
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White Papers
Communications: Building And Maintaining Effective Business Relationships
Jul 2011
The phrase "What we've got here is (a) failure to communicate" is a famous line we've all quoted at one time or another from the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke. Similar to the film, it's not that...
Provided by CastlePointe
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White Papers
Accelerated Simulation Performance Through High Performance Computing For Advanced Sealing Applications
May 2011
The automotive and heavy-duty industries are heavy users of Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) for development, design and performance optimization of their products. As a technology driven company,...
Provided by Dassault Systèmes
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Case Studies
Unisys Drives Significant Productivity Improvements While Reducing Costs With Optimized Scheduling
Nov 2010
Unisys is a leading technology company, providing a number of services for its diverse clientele. In the early days of Unisys' service organization, field technicians were mainly supporting...
Provided by ClickSoftware
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Case Studies
Optimized Scheduling Delivers Huge Efficiencies To Ohio Department Of Commerce (ODC)
May 2008
The Division of Industrial Compliance (DIC) for the State of Ohio is responsible for overseeing enforcement of the Ohio building code. Ohio's Division of Industrial Compliance faced several...
Provided by ClickSoftware
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Case Studies
Icelandic Utility Provider Orkuveita Reykjavikur Improves Mobile Workforce Productivity With ClickSoftware
Jan 2010
Orkuveita Reykjavikur (OR) is an Icelandic utilities company that operates in several diverse fields. It produces, distributes and sells electricity, geothermal hot water and cold water. The...
Provided by ClickSoftware
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Case Studies
Holistic Service Transformation At Nashuatec
Sep 2006
Nashuatec and its sister companies, (Gestetner and Rex-Rotary) are part of the international sales and service arm of the NRG Group which is part of the Ricoh Group, one of the world's largest...
Provided by ClickSoftware
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Case Studies
Managing All Work In One System Drives Productivity Improvements For ETSA Utilities
Aug 2008
ETSA Utilities is the electricity distribution business for the state of South Australia, delivering power via a distribution network to nearly 800,000 residential and business customers...
Provided by ClickSoftware
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Case Studies
Bosch Improves Customer Service And Dispatch Efficiency
Apr 2008
Bosch Communication Center is a division of the German-based Bosch Group. Junkers and Bosch were challenged to both improve customer service and maximize productivity through greater call center...
Provided by ClickSoftware
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Case Studies
Improved Efficiency At ABB Cewe-Control
Oct 2006
The Cewe-Control division of ABB Automation Products manufactures, develops and markets products and solutions that control and distribute electrical energy at voltages of up to 1,000 volts....
Provided by Capgemini
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Webcasts
Pulling The Plug On Phantom Power
Nov 2008
Data centers and office buildings waste energy when their electronic devices are plugged in but are sitting in standby or no-load operation mode. Now there is a universal power adapter called...
Provided by GreenBiz Group
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Webcasts
Closing The Loop For Carpeting
Jan 2009
For more than 15 years Zeftron Nylon's 6ix Again program has collected and recycled waste commercial carpet, turning used nylon 6 - a type of nylon that is infinitely recyclable - into brand new...
Provided by GreenBiz Group
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White Papers
The Stock Exchange Of Mauritius: A Study Of Segmentation Versus Integration At The Regional And Global Level
Oct 2010
The present research investigates the Stock Exchange of Mauritius and whether there is enough evidence to conclude that the market is segmented or integrated both at the regional level and at the...
Provided by Monash University
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Case Studies
Cisco Smart Business Roadmap - Operational Efficiency
Jun 2006
The Cisco Smart Business Roadmap Helps Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Improve Operational Efficiency through Technology. The pace of business change continues to accelerate. As businesses...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Communications: Building And Maintaining Effective Business Relationships
Jul 2011
The phrase "What we've got here is (a) failure to communicate" is a famous line we've all quoted at one time or another from the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke. Similar to the film, it's not that...
Provided by CastlePointe
-
White Papers
Be there without going there: Web conferencing speeds connections without the costs of travel
Jul 2009
The expense of face-to-face meetings is twofold: travel and time. Web conferencing tools are fast gaining momentum as connecting over the Web becomes simpler and less costly. New...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
Making the Most of Fax Virtualization with Boardless Technology
Jan 2009
Virtualization software products such as VMware, Hyper-V and Xen have emerged as powerful tools to answer these challenges by running multiple applications and increasing hardware utilization. At...
Provided by Esker
-
White Papers
Customer Data Quality Platform
Aug 2009
Pitney Bowes Customer Data Quality Platform (CDQP) is a domain-specific customer data quality management system that enables tasks such as integration, cleansing, matching, profiling, monitoring,...
Provided by Pitney Bowes
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White Papers
9 Simple Productivity Tips To Avert Multitasking Mayhem!
May 2009
Are you a busy woman who is an expert at multitasking and who can juggle a million and one things? Women, who run a business from home, tend to view their ability to multitask as a requirement to...
Provided by Success Network
-
White Papers
How To Conduct An Effective Meeting
Jan 2010
Everyone participates in meetings or is the host of a meeting. Many are productive and others are a complete waste of time. The meeting should have a specific purpose that you should communicate...
Provided by Executive Business Advisers
-
White Papers
How To Improve Productivity
Jan 2010
There are many ways to improve productivity. Match the person to the task. Think about the personalities of the people you are managing when you assign tasks. People will perform most effectively...
Provided by Executive Business Advisers
-
White Papers
How To Delegate More Effectively
Jan 2010
If you delegate work to a subordinate and that person fails to complete the task, both manager and employee look bad. Use a formal tracking system to keep track of assignments, due dates, and...
Provided by Executive Business Advisers
-
White Papers
Understanding Organizational Culture And Leadership - Enhance Efficiency And Productivity
Jan 2010
This paper reviews the existing literature on relationships between innovativeness and organization structure and culture, technical process approach, and encourages employees to find the meaning...
Provided by PMFORUM
-
White Papers
The Key To High Sales Productivity Is High Energy
Aug 2006
One of the issues most often raised by my clients is better time management. People have tried prioritizing tasks, blocking out parts of their day for certain tasks, implementing new systems and...
Provided by Exceptional Leadership
-
White Papers
How To Solve Everyday Problems
Jan 2010
Looking for tips to everyday problems? Does one lie awake at night thinking about how one can make a better impression on customers and employees, hire better people, or get that promotion one...
Provided by Executive Business Advisers
-
White Papers
Work At Least 10 Fewer Hours Each Week While Maintaining
Jun 2008
Knowing how to spend time, in other words, is a more valuable skill than knowing how to make, manage, invest, and spend money. Those entrepreneurs who want to be truly successful have to devote...
Provided by ActionCOACH
-
White Papers
Home Based Businesses Require Discipline
Feb 2009
Every day businesses pop up and businesses close shop. When it comes to home based businesses a contributing factor of failure is the lack of discipline. There is a big difference in working for...
Provided by Home Based Business Adviser
-
White Papers
How To Get Better Organized
Jan 2010
To manage a project team, department, or small business requires exceptional organizational skills. Well organized individuals will undoubtedly improve both performance and the bottom line. Here...
Provided by Executive Business Advisers
-
White Papers
Why You Are Not Meeting Your Productivity Targets... And Why You Possibly Never Will
May 2008
As an operations manager you are almost certainly under pressure to deliver a better and faster service at a reduced cost. The reason for this is simple: in todays "Me too" marketplace, you are...
Provided by Reveal Group International
-
White Papers
Wharton On Career Management: The Work/Life Balance
Nov 2008
Whether it's deciding which parent continues to work after a child is born, figuring out the jigsaw puzzle of job demands and out-of-work commitments, or simply finding time to take a vacation,...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
-
White Papers
Measuring Value Creation And Its Distribution Among Stakeholders Of The Firm
Jun 2007
The paper presents a general methodology that uses publicly available data to estimate the magnitude of economic value creation and its distribution among a firm's stakeholders. Based on...
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
-
White Papers
Productivity Is A Higher Priority, But Which Initiatives Really Work?
Jul 2008
In the good times, your organization probably doesn't worry about productivity quite as much. It's important but not necessarily crucial. After all, in the good times, your organization's cash...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
Does Social Networking Boost Productivity?
Jul 2007
Most employers still don't know what to make of online social networking technologies. In recent years, the press has been abuzz about how young people are crowding onto social networking sites...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
Addressing Worker Burnout
Sep 2007
By some measures, the U.S. worker is the hardest-working employee on the planet. The U.N. International Labor Organization reports that U.S. employees put in an average of 1,804 work hours in...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
Productivity And Office Design: Beyond Feng Shui
Aug 2006
Imagine the typical office: drab dècor, boring color scheme, sterile lighting. It's not a pretty picture. Nor is it a productive one, at least according to a recent survey conducted by Gensler, an...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
Burn-Out-Busting Strategies
Sep 2006
We all experience a certain level of stress in our daily lives. Good stress, called eustress, provides stimulation, excitement and a competitive edge. However, due to continual job deadlines,...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
Top Ten Ways Women Entrepreneurs Boost Productivity
Jun 2009
This paper gives the top ten ways women entrepreneurs boost productivity. Write out your to do list the night before, don't wait until morning to make your list. Write your list the night before....
Provided by American Express
-
White Papers
Six Weeks Or Less To Double Your Productivity In Tough Economic
Dec 2008
Well, the fact is, in our current economic recession, increasing productivity is one of the most important things you can do to save your business from going under. Boosting productivity will...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
A Business For A Funky Mom
Jun 2009
A former banker, OPEN Cardmember Paige Hill started her clothing design business from home so she could be with her three children. In this webcast, this maker of "Funky mom clothes" gives advice...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
3 Ways To Innovate With Your Email Auto-Reply
May 2010
Email ennui: one has all experienced it. You finally manage to carve out some time away from your desk and your business, only to have it ruined by: a) anxiety that urgent items are slipping...
Provided by American Express
-
White Papers
Forget To-Do, Try To-Don't
Dec 2009
To-do lists are universal. Yet, while most of the public can speak eloquently about the system for adding to-dos to the list, one rarely, if ever, discusses how one decides what NOT to do. After...
Provided by American Express
-
White Papers
4 Ways To Boost Productivity By Slowing Down
Nov 2009
As our ability to instantaneously access everything from a bank account balance to a DVD rental to friends from high school, it's easy to be lulled into the assumption that faster is always...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Deadlines
Oct 2009
Because they are stressful, most of the people try to avoid tight deadlines. A client calls up with a high-paying job, but it needs to be done next week. Is it worth the hassle of interrupting...
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Making Meetings More Actionable And Less Painful
Sep 2009
As individuals and business leaders, we're always searching for new ways to increase our productivity: Whether it's figuring out the most efficient way to organize our to-dos, super-charging our...
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How To Combat "Reactionary Workflow"
Sep 2009
Many of us are finding the trek towards "In-box zero" (an empty in-box with no emails awaiting response/action) impossible. In an era of mobile devices, instant connectivity, and automated mailing...
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Stumped For A Solution? 3 Ways To Get Moving
Sep 2009
We've all experienced brain-lock. Perhaps it comes when you've got to execute a creative endeavor at the end of a long day, or maybe it sets in when you've been multitasking for so many hours, you...
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Be Solutionary, Not Revolutionary
Sep 2009
It is invigorating to accomplish a huge project. When we sit down with a blank canvas or clean sheet of paper, we have the tendency to think big. We tend to ask ourselves, "What can I think of...
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5 Tips For Productive Brainstorming
Aug 2009
The now over-the-hill catchphrase "think outside the box" associated the act of brainstorming with the idea of being free from any sort of structure. If we could just open up our minds to a "blue...
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Plan Less, Act More
Jul 2009
Conventional wisdom privileges the notion of coming up with a well-thought-out plan over taking incremental action and learning as we go along. Of course, the real truth - and the best method -...
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Kill All Your Darlings
Jul 2009
Every new idea for a product or service has a certain level of intoxication or romance built in - but often this is just the pure charm of novelty. Half the appeal of any new endeavor is that it's...
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Write It Down!
Jun 2009
No matter how many times we remind ourselves of their undeniable truth, certain simple ideas seem to require constant reiteration to stick in our minds. Things like: doing the hard task first...
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Daylighting: A Violation Or An Opportunity?
Jun 2009
Some call it the side hustle, others call it the side project, but the official term for the practice of working other jobs while on the clock at your full-time job is "Daylighting." And for the...
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