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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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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
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
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
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
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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White Papers
Leverage Your Network For Greater Productivity
Jul 2007
Network infrastructure can do more - much more - than transfer voice and data from point A to point B. Whether the network is brand new or several years old, there are a number of ways to leverage...
Provided by West Gate Networks
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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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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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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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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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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
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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White Papers
IDC Executive Brief: How Small Businesses Can Boost Worker Productivity with Wireless Technology
Nov 2007
Mobile technology, particularly the voice and data coordination available in smartphones, represents an important potential resource to help small businesses become more efficient and extend their...
Provided by Palm
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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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Downloads
Podcast: Best practices for building and deploying employee self-service solutions
Jun 2007
Improving workforce effectiveness is a key business objective that most organizations face today. Companies purchase solutions aimed at increasing employee productivity and access to relevant...
Provided by IBM
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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
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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Case Studies
Needle & Rosenberg uses Palm smartphones to keep attorneys connected and productive
Nov 2007
Needle & Rosenberg PC, an intellectual property law firm, caters to a wide range of global clients--from Fortune 500 companies to the sole inventor. Boasting an experienced team of legal and...
Provided by Palm
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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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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: 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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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
The Power of the Pen
Dec 2007
More than at any other time in the history of personal computing solutions, pen computing today provides performance and flexibility that is opening doors for all types of industries and users....
Provided by Fujitsu
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White Papers
The Importance Of Time Management In Your Life
Mar 2007
Time is something that you can never take back. Whats done is done. Nothing in history can be changed. The most we can do about anything that has already been done is to take counter measures to...
Provided by Many-Articles.com
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White Papers
Improve the Efficiency and Productivity of Healthcare Workers
Sep 2007
NetMotion Wireless enables mobile healthcare workers to maintain and optimize connections to applications as they move across various networks and in and out of wireless coverage areas....
Provided by NetMotion Wireless
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White Papers
Maximize Your Effectiveness!
Dec 2007
Do you look at other people, and admire their focus, effectiveness and drive? Do you wonder how they seem to be so organized and in control, and how they always seem to do the right thing at the...
Provided by Mind Tools
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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
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
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
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
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
Brainstorm Options Before You Negotiate...
May 2007
A common mistake is to go into a negotiation thinking that there is only one acceptable outcome: what you want. One of the best things you can do to prepare for a negotiation is to think about all...
Provided by Moxie-Drive.com
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White Papers
Brainstorming For Beginners
Dec 2007
Often the author asks his clients to come up with a list of possibilities. Sometimes it's a list of ways to solve a problem they face, other times it might be a list of things they would like to...
Provided by Life Coaching
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White Papers
Time Management And The Paradox Of "More"
Jun 2007
"I wish I had more time." Is there anyone who has never thought that? There is no question that the pace of modern life soaks up every minute of the day and still leaves many things undone. Yet if...
Provided by Great Management
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White Papers
Time Management Quiz
Jun 2007
Time is something that you can never take back. What's done is done. Nothing in history can be changed. The most we can do about anything that has already been done is to take counter measures to...
Provided by Great Management
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White Papers
Time-Out
Jun 2007
Winning at Working. When young children misbehave, many parents, teachers and caregivers insist on a time-out. Think how much better your workplace would be if you initiated the same approach. No,...
Provided by Nan S. Russell
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White Papers
Managing Versus Doing: Getting The Balance Right
Jun 2007
One of the biggest challenges facing those taking on a management or supervisory role is finding the time to manage. It can sometimes feel like that you have 100% of your time allocated to doing...
Provided by Great Management
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White Papers
Time Management: Common Meeting Failures
Jun 2007
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. Why is it that in the world of corporations and government that meetings, more times than not, do not work? What characterises the...
Provided by Great Management
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White Papers
Time Management - Defining Stupidity
May 2007
Stupidity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results No one should be billing themselves as stupid. After all you are operating in a very high-paced world, handling...
Provided by Great Management
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White Papers
TIP: Reduce Your Level Of Insecurity Work!
Jun 2009
Creative professionals, entrepreneurs, and anyone else trying to make a name for him or herself has likely spent not insignificant amounts of time repeatedly checking their website's analytics,...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
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...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
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...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
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...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
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 -...
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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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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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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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
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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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 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
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
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
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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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
Safety First: Securing Your Mobile Office
Jan 2008
If you're a business professional who sends and receives documents and information via mobile devices in your car, you must make sure these transmissions are secure. This paper gives some advice...
Provided by Progressive Casualty Insurance
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White Papers
Creating Predictable IT Strategies in an Unpredictable Business Climate
Mar 2009
Typical IT approaches to meet business needs have focused on fast-deployment, capital-intensive infrastructure investments. In economic downturns, this approach is unsustainable. Download this...
Provided by NEC Corporation of America
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Whitepapers
7 Ways to Optimize Project Team Productivity
Dec 2008
Experts share tips for successful teamwork: Simple strategies that enable tighter project control and help eliminate mistakes New project management software options: what you need to know...
Provided by Intuit
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White Papers
Enabling Point-of-Care Diagnostics: No forklift infrastructure overhaul needed to improve patient safety and organization efficiency
Sep 2008
It is perhaps one of the biggest ironies of American business. Healthcare, the industry whose providers are the most burdened with paper-based processes, is the last to embrace electronic data...
Provided by CDW
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White Papers
Organizational Goal Alignment in Ten Easy Steps
Oct 2008
How aligned is your organization? Companies that manage goal alignment well boast significant productivity and profitability improvements. And while performance management technology can help...
Provided by SumTotal Systems
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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
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
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
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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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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Case Studies
Needle & Rosenberg uses Palm smartphones to keep attorneys connected and productive
Nov 2007
Needle & Rosenberg PC, an intellectual property law firm, caters to a wide range of global clients--from Fortune 500 companies to the sole inventor. Boasting an experienced team of legal and...
Provided by Palm
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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
-
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
-
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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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
The Power of the Pen
Dec 2007
More than at any other time in the history of personal computing solutions, pen computing today provides performance and flexibility that is opening doors for all types of industries and users....
Provided by Fujitsu
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White Papers
The Importance Of Time Management In Your Life
Mar 2007
Time is something that you can never take back. Whats done is done. Nothing in history can be changed. The most we can do about anything that has already been done is to take counter measures to...
Provided by Many-Articles.com
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White Papers
Improve the Efficiency and Productivity of Healthcare Workers
Sep 2007
NetMotion Wireless enables mobile healthcare workers to maintain and optimize connections to applications as they move across various networks and in and out of wireless coverage areas....
Provided by NetMotion Wireless
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White Papers
Maximize Your Effectiveness!
Dec 2007
Do you look at other people, and admire their focus, effectiveness and drive? Do you wonder how they seem to be so organized and in control, and how they always seem to do the right thing at the...
Provided by Mind Tools
-
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
-
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
-
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
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
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
Brainstorm Options Before You Negotiate...
May 2007
A common mistake is to go into a negotiation thinking that there is only one acceptable outcome: what you want. One of the best things you can do to prepare for a negotiation is to think about all...
Provided by Moxie-Drive.com
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White Papers
Brainstorming For Beginners
Dec 2007
Often the author asks his clients to come up with a list of possibilities. Sometimes it's a list of ways to solve a problem they face, other times it might be a list of things they would like to...
Provided by Life Coaching
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White Papers
Time Management And The Paradox Of "More"
Jun 2007
"I wish I had more time." Is there anyone who has never thought that? There is no question that the pace of modern life soaks up every minute of the day and still leaves many things undone. Yet if...
Provided by Great Management
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White Papers
Time Management Quiz
Jun 2007
Time is something that you can never take back. What's done is done. Nothing in history can be changed. The most we can do about anything that has already been done is to take counter measures to...
Provided by Great Management
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White Papers
Time-Out
Jun 2007
Winning at Working. When young children misbehave, many parents, teachers and caregivers insist on a time-out. Think how much better your workplace would be if you initiated the same approach. No,...
Provided by Nan S. Russell
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White Papers
Managing Versus Doing: Getting The Balance Right
Jun 2007
One of the biggest challenges facing those taking on a management or supervisory role is finding the time to manage. It can sometimes feel like that you have 100% of your time allocated to doing...
Provided by Great Management
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White Papers
Time Management: Common Meeting Failures
Jun 2007
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. Why is it that in the world of corporations and government that meetings, more times than not, do not work? What characterises the...
Provided by Great Management
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White Papers
Time Management - Defining Stupidity
May 2007
Stupidity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results No one should be billing themselves as stupid. After all you are operating in a very high-paced world, handling...
Provided by Great Management
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White Papers
Managers Time - 57% Is Spent Dealing With Difficult Staff
May 2007
Announcing ways to deal with difficult staff. As a manager, how do you deal with difficult staff? How much of your management time is spent unwisely with difficult staff? Would you like to know...
Provided by Great Management
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White Papers
New "Brainstorming" Principles
Jan 2008
This paper presents six new principles emerging from four decades of academic and industry research on the generation of high-quality creative ideas by "Brainstorming". The principles are:...
Provided by University of New South Wales
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White Papers
Maximize Your Workout Time: Top 10 Ways
Dec 2007
When you've got a busy schedule crammed full of meetings and work, you don't have time to mess around with your workout. You want to get the best results possible for the time you invest - the...
Provided by Launch 3
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White Papers
Time Management: Important For Goal Realization
Dec 2007
You know where you want to go and what you want to do and maybe even how to get there. You have goals. But did you know that time management is an important part in getting those goals realized?...
Provided by Launch 3
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White Papers
Time-Tested Money Saving Tips
Dec 2007
People are always trying to save money, especially with today's economy. No matter what your reason for saving, through this guide, you will discover ways never considered. The price of everything...
Provided by Launch 3
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White Papers
Improve Your Memory: 5 Ways To Remember Anything
Dec 2007
The concept of time management has been in existence for more than 100 year believe it or not. Unfortunately the term "Time management" creates a false impression of what a person is able to do....
Provided by Launch 3
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White Papers
Brainstorming Tip: Think Inside The Box
Dec 2007
Many managers fail to generate a stream of solid ideas because they employ two common techniques: They encourage their people to go wild and think outside the box or they assign them the task of...
Provided by Behance
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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
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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Tools & Templates
2008 Julian Calendar With Room For Notes
Dec 2007
This is a template for 2008 julian calendar with room for notes.
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Be Here Now
Dec 2007
Time is the great equalizer, given in singular 24-hour chunks by the rising of the sun and the setting of the moon. No money can buy it, no power can hold it, no army can stop it. We need to...
Provided by PowerHomeBiz.com
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White Papers
How Developing Routines Can Increase Productivity
Nov 2007
Working solo is challenging because there's no-one to push you along. At the end of the week, you might wonder where the time's gone. Still, there is one way to increase productivity and it's by...
Provided by Flying Solo
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White Papers
Five Strategies To Get Motivated
Jun 2007
Every soloist has found themselves staring blankly at their computer screen, unable to get motivated. This paper explains five motivation tips to rejuvenate, inspire and help get you off your butt...
Provided by Flying Solo
