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Whitepapers
Prepare Your Network for the Cloud
Dec 2012
Enterprises, small businesses and governments are looking to cloud-based solutions to solve some of their biggest business and technology challenges: reducing costs, reaching new levels of...
Provided by Cisco
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Whitepapers
The Art of Application Centric Networking
Apr 2013
Trends such as Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), virtualization and cloud are rendering application deployment and delivery more challenging than ever for IT departments. Applications have moved...
Provided by Cisco
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Whitepapers
Create a Referral Program to Grow Your IT Business
Dec 2012
The primary mode of growth for most technology provider businesses is by good, old word of mouth. Yet, many businesses have not established an official referral program to capture as many...
Provided by ConnectWise 2013
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Whitepapers
Four steps to automate compliance and minimize your risks
Feb 2013
Your business can’t afford not to comply with regulations and laws, licensing and privacy agreements, and internal policies. But if you’re attempting to cope with the increasing number of...
Provided by HP
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Whitepapers
Getting the Most Out of Your Applications With Oracle Exalogic
Nov 2012
This paper explores how Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, an engineered system for business applications, can help enterprises deploy and upgrade applications quickly, handle massive transaction...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
Reducing user logon times - Increasing user productivity in the enterprise
Feb 2013
Based on working from Gartner figures, just a 3 minute logon time can cost an organization $800 per user in non-productive waiting around time over 3 years, equating to around 30 hours of lost...
Provided by AppSense
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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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Whitepapers
A Best Practice Guide to Archiving Persistent Data
Jan 2012
How do you manage unstructured data growth in the most cost-effective manner? What are the differences between backup and archive and which is the best policy for both? Discover how the...
Provided by Quantum
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Whitepapers
Business continuity: How to increase workforce resiliency during disasters
Feb 2013
What would happen to your business if your workers were unable to perform their jobs due to natural or manmade disasters? This paper shares five critical areas in which IBM can help you build...
Provided by IBM
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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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Whitepapers
IBM Smart Analytics System - Discover insights and predict outcomes quickly with integrated analytics, business intelligence and data warehousing technology
Oct 2012
The Smart Analytics System 7700 is one of many ways IBM is providing smarter systems for a smarter planet. The solution is preconfigured, pretested and ready to deploy, reducing time to value and...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
The Truth About Working From Anywhere
Oct 2012
With great flexibility comes great responsibility. You need to know how to effectively wield the power of workplace mobility before it can be yours. Get in the habit of structuring collaboration...
Provided by Citrix Online
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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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Downloads
Hardware Inventory Policy
Apr 2013
TechRepublic's Hardware Inventory Policy assists an organization with tracking each hardware component from purchase and deployment to decommissioning and disposal.
Provided by TechRepublic Pro
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Whitepapers
IT Roles Facing Extinction
Jul 2012
Today, there's a huge amount of focus on getting more efficiency using virtualization, the cloud, Web 2.0, networking, and mobility. Better efficiency and innovation will reduce the number of...
Provided by Global Knowledge
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Whitepapers
Universal Video Collaboration
Sep 2012
The virtualization phenomenon is already well under way. Server and storage virtualization have led the way, but network, desktop and application virtualization are rapidly gaining acceptance....
Provided by LifeSize Communications, Inc.
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eBooks
Buy/Market/Sell/Service Smarter eBook
Oct 2012
As new technology and connected consumers redefine how business is done, IBM Smarter Commerce solutions help companies more effectively engage with customers across four critical aspects, which...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Tech Tips: VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
Apr 2013
Straight from our experts at VMware®, follow these technical tips for a successful and smooth implementation of VMware vCenter™ Site Recovery Manager™. From application dependencies to replication...
Provided by VMware
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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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Whitepapers
Endpoint Security with Intelligent Desktop Virtualization
Jan 2012
White paper showcasing how Intelligent Desktop Virtualization (IDV) combines the best end point security with no compromises in user experience, productivity, cost, or flexibility.
Provided by Intel Corporation
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Whitepapers
Creating a collaboration culture throughout the enterprise: An adoption methodology
Feb 2013
The enterprise imperative: successful adoption. This paper introduces an adoption methodology developed by Polycom and built on proven best practices and years of experience. The methodology is...
Provided by Polycom
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Whitepapers
Social Business Behavior: The changing nature of culture and personal interaction in the workplace
Feb 2013
The IBM 2011 Tech Trends Report, which surveyed more than 4,000 IT professionals in 93 countries, shows the importance of social collaboration to overall strategies. Social business etiquette is...
Provided by IBM Australia
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Whitepapers
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
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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Whitepapers
Defender - The Right Way to Prove Identity and Establish Trust
May 2013
Proving the identity of the other party in an e-transaction or exchange of information is a critical security challenge. So what are today’s best identity solutions? And can they be seamlessly...
Provided by Quest Software, now a part of Dell
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Whitepapers
Infographic: Enterprise Mobility - Not Just for Large Businesses
May 2013
As the world goes mobile, the question for your small or midsize business is not if or when it will embrace the change - it is how. What is your plan? Discover the key considerations when...
Provided by SAP
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Whitepapers
The business of social business
May 2013
The value in social acquaintances Today, social approaches have become the norm for creating meaningful business value. In an IBM® IBV executive study however, nearly three-quarters of...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Create a Referral Program to Grow Your IT Business
Dec 2012
The primary mode of growth for most technology provider businesses is by good, old word of mouth. Yet, many businesses have not established an official referral program to capture as many...
Provided by ConnectWise 2013
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Downloads
Hardware Inventory Policy
Apr 2013
TechRepublic's Hardware Inventory Policy assists an organization with tracking each hardware component from purchase and deployment to decommissioning and disposal.
Provided by TechRepublic Pro
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Whitepapers
The Art of Application Centric Networking
Apr 2013
Trends such as Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), virtualization and cloud are rendering application deployment and delivery more challenging than ever for IT departments. Applications have moved...
Provided by Cisco
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Whitepapers
Tech Tips: VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
Apr 2013
Straight from our experts at VMware®, follow these technical tips for a successful and smooth implementation of VMware vCenter™ Site Recovery Manager™. From application dependencies to replication...
Provided by VMware
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Whitepapers
Getting the Most Out of Your Applications With Oracle Exalogic
Nov 2012
This paper explores how Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, an engineered system for business applications, can help enterprises deploy and upgrade applications quickly, handle massive transaction...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
The Bloor Group white paper : Smart Storage in the Age of the Cloud
Mar 2013
In the Bloor Group’s annual review of the IT industry, it has been identified three major IT trends. None of them could have caused much of a surprise. They were: The growth of cloud computing...
Provided by IBM Australia
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Whitepapers
Getting the Most Out of Your Applications With Oracle Exalogic
Nov 2012
This paper explores how Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, an engineered system for business applications, can help enterprises deploy and upgrade applications quickly, handle massive transaction...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
Reducing user logon times - Increasing user productivity in the enterprise
Feb 2013
Based on working from Gartner figures, just a 3 minute logon time can cost an organization $800 per user in non-productive waiting around time over 3 years, equating to around 30 hours of lost...
Provided by AppSense
-
Whitepapers
Business continuity: How to increase workforce resiliency during disasters
Feb 2013
What would happen to your business if your workers were unable to perform their jobs due to natural or manmade disasters? This paper shares five critical areas in which IBM can help you build...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Social Business Behavior: The changing nature of culture and personal interaction in the workplace
Feb 2013
The IBM 2011 Tech Trends Report, which surveyed more than 4,000 IT professionals in 93 countries, shows the importance of social collaboration to overall strategies. Social business etiquette is...
Provided by IBM Australia
-
Whitepapers
Creating a collaboration culture throughout the enterprise: An adoption methodology
Feb 2013
The enterprise imperative: successful adoption. This paper introduces an adoption methodology developed by Polycom and built on proven best practices and years of experience. The methodology is...
Provided by Polycom
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Whitepapers
Four steps to automate compliance and minimize your risks
Feb 2013
Your business can’t afford not to comply with regulations and laws, licensing and privacy agreements, and internal policies. But if you’re attempting to cope with the increasing number of...
Provided by HP
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Whitepapers
Take a look back at the notable developments in the mobile landscape in 2012.
Feb 2013
By the end of 2012, the number of Android malware grew to 350,000. This was a monumental growth from the 1,000 mobile malware we saw at the end of 2011. Much of this growth was driven by adware...
Provided by Trend Micro Australia
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Whitepapers
2012 Annual mobile Threat and Security Round- up: Repeating History
Feb 2013
By the end of 2012, the number of Android malware grew to 350,000. This was a monumental growth from the 1,000 mobile malware we saw at the end of 2011. Much of this growth was driven by adware...
Provided by Trend Micro Australia
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Whitepapers
Forrester: What's Next in the Mobile Workplace?
Feb 2012
Momentum is growing for corporate mobility - 64% of firms say that unleashing employee mobility is a priority. Forrester examines the trends, outlines deployment priorities, and highlights the...
Provided by Cisco
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Whitepapers
Traditional BI infused with performance management and personal analytics: Balancing user freedom with IT control
Jan 2013
For the best business outcomes, companies need an agile BI solution infused with personal analytics and performance management. Cognos Enterprise is that solution.
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
A Best Practice Guide to Archiving Persistent Data
Jan 2012
How do you manage unstructured data growth in the most cost-effective manner? What are the differences between backup and archive and which is the best policy for both? Discover how the...
Provided by Quantum
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Podcasts
IBM SPSS Predictive Analytics
Jan 2013
Predict with confidence what will happen next so that your medium size business can make smarter decisions, solve problems and improve outcomes.
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Prepare Your Network for the Cloud
Dec 2012
Enterprises, small businesses and governments are looking to cloud-based solutions to solve some of their biggest business and technology challenges: reducing costs, reaching new levels of...
Provided by Cisco
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Whitepapers
Create a Referral Program to Grow Your IT Business
Dec 2012
The primary mode of growth for most technology provider businesses is by good, old word of mouth. Yet, many businesses have not established an official referral program to capture as many...
Provided by ConnectWise
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Whitepapers
Executive report: Achieving success with a flexible workplace.
May 2012
Forward thinkers best practices to enhance productivity, spur innovation and reduce cost. In our hyperconnected world, employees expect to work from anywhere, at any time, with any device....
Provided by IBM Australia
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Case Studies
Throughput Comparison: Dell PowerEdge R720 Drive Options
Feb 2012
The new Dell PowerEdge R720 comes with more than just the power to handle your heavy mixed workloads -- it offers many storage solutions to deliver the level of performance you need. In our tests,...
Provided by Principled Technologies
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eBooks
Buy/Market/Sell/Service Smarter eBook
Oct 2012
As new technology and connected consumers redefine how business is done, IBM Smarter Commerce solutions help companies more effectively engage with customers across four critical aspects, which...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
IBM Smart Analytics System - Discover insights and predict outcomes quickly with integrated analytics, business intelligence and data warehousing technology
Oct 2012
The Smart Analytics System 7700 is one of many ways IBM is providing smarter systems for a smarter planet. The solution is preconfigured, pretested and ready to deploy, reducing time to value and...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
The Truth About Working From Anywhere
Oct 2012
With great flexibility comes great responsibility. You need to know how to effectively wield the power of workplace mobility before it can be yours. Get in the habit of structuring collaboration...
Provided by Citrix Online
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Whitepapers
Universal Video Collaboration
Sep 2012
The virtualization phenomenon is already well under way. Server and storage virtualization have led the way, but network, desktop and application virtualization are rapidly gaining acceptance....
Provided by LifeSize Communications, Inc.
-
Whitepapers
Endpoint Security with Intelligent Desktop Virtualization
Jan 2012
White paper showcasing how Intelligent Desktop Virtualization (IDV) combines the best end point security with no compromises in user experience, productivity, cost, or flexibility.
Provided by Intel Corporation
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Whitepapers
Valero: Reducing Energy Usage and Costs
Jul 2012
Leading oil refiner Valero Energy Corporation used a distributed network of the SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence application at its many refineries to gain greater visibility into...
Provided by SAP
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Whitepapers
IT Roles Facing Extinction
Jul 2012
Today, there's a huge amount of focus on getting more efficiency using virtualization, the cloud, Web 2.0, networking, and mobility. Better efficiency and innovation will reduce the number of...
Provided by Global Knowledge
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Whitepapers
The Relevance & Value of a Storage Hypervisor
Jun 2012
The need for economic and operational efficiencies transcends all organizations. Commercial businesses, non-profits, government departments, and large and small enterprises are all striving to...
Provided by IBM Corp.
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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
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
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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Whitepapers
Prepare Your Network for the Cloud
Dec 2012
Enterprises, small businesses and governments are looking to cloud-based solutions to solve some of their biggest business and technology challenges: reducing costs, reaching new levels of...
Provided by Cisco
-
Whitepapers
The Art of Application Centric Networking
Apr 2013
Trends such as Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), virtualization and cloud are rendering application deployment and delivery more challenging than ever for IT departments. Applications have moved...
Provided by Cisco
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Whitepapers
Getting the Most Out of Your Applications With Oracle Exalogic
Nov 2012
This paper explores how Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, an engineered system for business applications, can help enterprises deploy and upgrade applications quickly, handle massive transaction...
Provided by Oracle
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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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Whitepapers
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
-
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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Whitepapers
Universal Video Collaboration
Sep 2012
The virtualization phenomenon is already well under way. Server and storage virtualization have led the way, but network, desktop and application virtualization are rapidly gaining acceptance....
Provided by LifeSize Communications, Inc.
-
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
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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
-
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
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
-
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
-
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)
-
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
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...
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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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