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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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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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White Papers
White paper: Becoming a Decision-centric Enterprise
Apr 2012
Organizations with systems that are centered on processes or functions often struggle to improve business productivity and find it hard to make changes in their systems quickly, despite a pressing...
Provided by IBM
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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
Meetings Can Make A Difference
Feb 2010
Under the shadow of one of the worst economic downturns arguably in history, the meetings and events industry is under fire at a time when it should be looked at as a solution. When done...
Provided by Special D Events
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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
Increasing The Productivity Of Office Staff
Dec 2006
Office productivity is a major concern of managements. One factor is a mistaken view that changes in office productivity cannot be measured and that there is therefore no way of ensuring that...
Provided by Accel-Team
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White Papers
How To Present An Executive Scorecard
Jan 2010
One of the most challenging and stressful situations is presenting a performance scorecard or ROI results to an executive team. The challenge is convincing this highly skeptical and critical group...
Provided by Executive Business Advisers
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White Papers
Trends Driving The Workforce Of One
Oct 2006
Contemporary workplace trends are making it necessary for companies to find a new approach to managing their people to achieve high performance. This research note explores those trends and...
Provided by Accenture
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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
Leading The Rapid Growth Organization
Mar 2010
At the heart of any rapid growth organization is a visionary; one who envisions what could and should be. The visionary leader works more from inspiration and imagination than from the practical....
Provided by EyesOnSales
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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
Top Talent Networks
Nov 2006
Personal networks are too Important not to attend to in leadership and talent programs. As much as 90 percent of the information employees take action on comes from people in their network. The...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
Ability And Employer Learning: Evidence From The Economist Labor Market
Mar 2007
Matching the right workers to the right firms presents one of the largest opportunities to create surplus in employment relationships and in the economy more generally. For decades, labor...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
Three's Company: How To Dramatically Increase Productivity With Small Teams
Sep 2007
Just as breaking large numbers into smaller groups makes them significantly more manageable, organizing your employees into small teams will do the same for your workforce. In fact, if you don't...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Super Size Productivity Now: 3% Automation, 97% Leadership
Jan 2010
Organizations that want to supersize productivity must maintain a dual focus on automation and employee motivation. Companies will soon find that productivity that sustains organizations is 3%...
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
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
6 Desktop Apps For Better Organization And Focus
Nov 2009
With the rise of YouTube, digital cameras, etc, we are becoming much more "visual" in the way we process information. Rather than keeping all of your important bits and bobs tucked away in a...
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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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
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
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
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
Change In The Last Minute
May 2009
At the conclusion of a long project, the last thing we want to do is change everything up. However, it is only at the end of a project that everyone is fully focused. The holes become more clear...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Overseeing Productivity
Apr 2008
In our jobs and daily chores, the oversight of colleagues, wives/husbands, and clients helps us stay focused. In the mishmash of daily life, we must feel accountable in order to stay productive...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Measure The Value Of Meetings With Action!
May 2008
We all have a love-hate relationship with meetings. While some of the greatest ideas and solutions come up in brainstorm meetings, we also lose most of our time in discussion without action....
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Measure Output, Not Input
Jun 2008
One often assumes that the number of hours spent at work are an indication of one's effort, interest, and accomplishment. However, in reality, the greatest ideas and the execution of these ideas...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Trick For Small Team Productivity: Energy Line
Jul 2008
Creative teams juggle multiple projects at once. The constant streams of ideas lead to more ideas. As energy is spread across projects like peanut butter, prioritization is all but lost. Energy...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Some Ideas Must Be Let Go...
Sep 2008
If idea generation is an addiction then killing ideas is the cure. After spending countless hours developing and polishing ideas, one tends to become attached to those same ideas (whether they are...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Time Is Money, Now Act Like It
Aug 2010
You've heard it before hundreds of times, usually from someone waiting on you, trying to get you to hurry up. But time really is money. What it's worth may vary from person to person, of course....
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
A Cohort-Based Model Of Labor Force Participation
Dec 2006
The probability that an individual participates in the labor force declines precipitously beyond age 50. This feature of labor supply suggests that ongoing shifts in the age distribution of the...
Provided by Federal Reserve Board
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White Papers
Productivity, Aggregate Demand And Unemployment Fluctuations
Jul 2008
What drives unemployment fluctuations at business cycle frequencies? Since the seminal work of Mortensen-Pissarides (1994), a vast literature, including the influential work from Shimer (2005a),...
Provided by Federal Reserve Board
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White Papers
An Assessment Of Portuguese Bank's Costs And Efficiency
Oct 2009
This paper analyses the production technology of Portuguese banks during the 1992-2004 period through the estimation of a translog cost frontier. Banks are modeled as firms which produce loans and...
Provided by Banco de Portugal
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White Papers
Competition And Firm Productivity: Evidence From Firm-Level Data
Mar 2010
This paper presents empirical evidence on the impact of competition on firm productivity. Using firm-level observations from the World Bank Enterprise Survey database, the author finds a positive...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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White Papers
CMIS White Paper
May 2012
Historically, organizations have struggled to find a common way in which they can effectively manage, access, and govern content applications across multiple systems. Today, it is still a...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Oracle Magazine: A Better Choice
Mar 2012
Monsanto Company is a leading global provider of agricultural products that improve farm productivity and food quality. The R&D organization relies on high volumes of data collected during...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
White paper: Becoming a Decision-centric Enterprise
Apr 2012
Organizations with systems that are centered on processes or functions often struggle to improve business productivity and find it hard to make changes in their systems quickly, despite a pressing...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Taking Measure of Talent
Mar 2012
This Harvard Business Review Analytic Services whitepaper, sponsored by Workday, focuses on effective management of your human capital and gaining insight into your workforce's skill, knowledge,...
Provided by Workday
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White Papers
Real-Time Business: Playing to win in the new Global marketplace (Europe)
Mar 2012
To stay ahead of the competition in a global marketplace, firms are increasingly speeding up operations, in many cases adopting real-time systems and tools to allow for instant decision-making and...
Provided by SAP
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White Papers
Real-Time Business: Playing to win in the new Global marketplace (Asia-Pacific)
Mar 2012
To stay ahead of the competition in a global marketplace, firms are increasingly speeding up operations, in many cases adopting real-time systems and tools to allow for instant decision-making and...
Provided by SAP
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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
SME Policy And Firms? Productivity In Latin America
Oct 2009
Very little is known about the effectiveness of SME policies, and a careful look at the structure, mechanisms and incentives provided by these policies suggest caution in their implementation and,...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Knowledge Sharing In Your Organization
Jan 2011
The author says that knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes. Knowledge builds on itself. It helps foster innovations and independent thought. The...
Provided by Holthouse Carlin & Van Trigt
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White Papers
The Silver Lining Of Red Tape
May 2010
An increasing number of international agreements require "Nondiscrimination" from their participants, i.e. the government of one country cannot treat foreign firms differently from domestic firms....
Provided by Trinity College Dublin
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White Papers
Job Creation And The Intra-Distribution Dynamics Of The Firm Size Distribution
May 2011
Based on a structural model for initial firm size, survival and firm growth the authors estimate firm-specific transition probabilities between size classes of the firm size distribution. This...
Provided by Austrian Institute of Economic Research
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White Papers
Organization And Information In The Fight Against Crime: An Evaluation Of The Integration Of Police Forces In The State Of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Oct 2010
This paper explores the experience of information sharing, coordination, and integration of actions of the Civil and Military Polices in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, in the context of the...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
The Impact Of The Non-Distribution Constraint And Its Enforcement On Entrepreneurial Choice, Price, And Quality
Jul 2006
The authors study the conditions under which it is rational for a representative entrepreneur to start a nonprofit firm. Taking as point of departure a model of entrepreneurial choice proposed by...
Provided by Charles University
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White Papers
Three Prominent Tournament Formats: Predictive Power And Costs
Sep 2006
The authors analyze tournaments of heterogeneous players from an organizer's perspective. Using a simple model of a noisy tournament, they demonstrate how the likelihood of selecting the best...
Provided by Charles University
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White Papers
Mixed Competition And Welfare Under Various Nonprofit Objectives Mixed Competition Under Various Cost Configurations
Oct 2006
The author studies the competition between one nonprofit and one for-profit firm under various objective functions of the nonprofit firm. The two firms optimize their objectives with respect to...
Provided by Charles University
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White Papers
Foreign Ownership And Corporate Performance: The Czech Republic At EU Entry
Sep 2009
Does foreign ownership improve corporate performance or do foreign firms merely select more productive targets for takeover? Do workers benefit from foreign acquisitions? The authors answer these...
Provided by Charles University
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White Papers
Publication Productivity Of Czech Sociology In Scientific Journals Within The Last Decade
Sep 2009
The paper maps publication outcomes of Czech sociologists in journals with impact factor within the last decade. The methodology the authors employ is similar to that used in recently published...
Provided by Charles University
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White Papers
Field Experiments With Firms
May 2011
The authors discuss how the use of field experiments sheds light on long standing research questions relating to firm behavior. They present insights from two classes of experiments: within and...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
When Knowledge Is An Asset: Explaining The Organizational Structure Of Large Law Firms
Oct 2006
The authors study the economics of employment relationships through theoretical and empirical analyses of an unusual set of firms, large law firms. Their point of departure is the "Property...
Provided by Levy Economics Institute
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White Papers
The Incredible Shrinking Portuguese Firm
Jul 2011
Using Portugal's extensive matched employer-employee data set, this paper documents an unusual feature of the Portuguese economy. For decades, the entire Portuguese firm size distribution has been...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
The Impact Of Trade On Organization And Productivity
Aug 2011
A firm's productivity depends on how production is organized given the level of demand for its product. To capture this mechanism, the authors develop a theory of an economy where firms with...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Vertical Integration And Optimal Reimbursement Policy
Aug 2011
Health care providers may vertically integrate not only to facilitate coordination of care, but also for strategic reasons that may not be in patients' best interests. Optimal Medicare...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Top Business Executives Share Insights In Notre Dame Lecture Series
Aug 2009
The purpose of the Boardroom Insights series is to invite executives to reflect on critical issues and experiences in the business world, sharing their insights in a mix of lecture and discussion...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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Case Studies
ClickSchedule Enables Tomra To Optimize Service Scheduling
May 2007
Consumers in states that charge a deposit for beverage bottles and cans are familiar with reverse vending machines, which automatically refund the money in exchange for the empty containers. The...
Provided by ClickSoftware
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Case Studies
KinCare Revolutionizing The Australian Homecare Market With ClickSoftware
Apr 2009
KinCare is one of Australia's leading providers of in-home care and support services and has become one of the fastest growing community care services in Australia. The $2.5 billion in-home care...
Provided by ClickSoftware
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Case Studies
ClickSchedule Helps Canadian Utility Cut Costs While Increasing Maintenance Visits By Nearly 50%
Sep 2006
Gaz Metropolitain Plus operates as a subsidiary of Gaz Metropolitain, which provides gas to homes and businesses in Quebec. In 2004, Gaz Metropolitain Plus took over field service dispatching from...
Provided by ClickSoftware
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Webcasts
Carbon Strategy: Driving Results Throughout A Large Organization
May 2010
Many businesses are striving for carbon management success as pressures from the marketplace and stakeholders continue to grow. Even once initiatives are underway, knowing how to get started and...
Provided by GreenBiz Group
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Webcasts
How To Make Sustainability Everyone's Job - Dave Stangis
Apr 2011
The presenter discusses how he had integrated sustainability into the fabric and culture of Campbell Soup Company. The presenter also shares employee engagement strategies that can be employed at...
Provided by GreenBiz Group
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White Papers
Best Practices For Rapid Content Development
May 2011
While eLearning content creation used to be a very expensive and complicated endeavor, new rapid development tools are making the process much simpler and less costly. How? Essentially, these new...
Provided by SumTotal Systems
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White Papers
Inside Organizations: Pricing, Politics, And Path Dependence
Dec 2009
When economists have considered organizations, much attention has focused on the boundary of the firm, rather than its internal structures and processes. In contrast, this paper sketches three...
Provided by MIT SLOAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
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White Papers
Unintended Media Effects In A Conflict Environment: Serbian Radio And Croatian Nationalism
Apr 2011
Do media broadcasts matter when they reach audiences that are not their target? In a conflict, the media may have an unintended effect of increasing ethnic animosity. The authors consider radio...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Individual Preferences, Organization, And Competition In A Model Of R&D Incentive Provision
May 2011
Understanding the organization of R&D activities requires the simultaneous consideration of scientific workers' talent and tastes, companies' organizational choices, and the characteristics of the...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Fiscal Shocks And Real Rigidities
Jun 2008
In this paper, the authors show that empirically plausible results on the effects of fiscal shocks in Galí, López-Salido and Vallés (2007) rely on a high degree of price stickiness and a large...
Provided by Norges Bank
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White Papers
Mean Reversion In Profitability For Non-listed Firms
Dec 2009
The presence of mean reversion in profitability at the firm level is important for valuation and prediction of growth and earnings. The authors investigate the mean reversion in accounting...
Provided by Norges Bank
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White Papers
Improvements And Future Challenges For The Research Infrastructure In The Field Firm Level Data
Jun 2008
This paper discusses issues related to the use of confidential firm level data in Germany. It starts by defining firm level data (in section 1) and reminding us what they are good for (in section...
Provided by Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
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White Papers
Organizational Commitment: Do Workplace Practices Matter?
Jul 2008
Using nationally-representative linked employer-employee data for Britain this paper considers whether employers are able to influence the Organizational Commitment (OC) of their employees through...
Provided by Centre for Economic Performance
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White Papers
New Approaches To Measuring Management And Firm Organization
Feb 2010
The authors detail the methodology that they have been using to quantify managerial and organizational practices across firms and countries in recent years. This has been used in many pieces of...
Provided by Centre for Economic Performance
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White Papers
Recent Advances In The Empirics Of Organizational Economics
Feb 2010
The authors present a survey of recent contributions in the empirical organizational economics, focusing on management practices and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and...
Provided by Centre for Economic Performance
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White Papers
The Spatial Organization Of Multinational Firms
Dec 2010
Using six years of firm-level data covering 224 regions of the enlarged European Union, the authors evaluate the importance to a firm of locating its activities (production, headquarters, R&D,...
Provided by Centre for Economic Performance
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White Papers
Anatomy Of A Paradox: Management Practices, Organisational Structure And Energy Efficiency
Dec 2010
This paper presents new evidence on managerial and organizational factors that explain firm level energy efficiency and TFP. The authors interviewed managers of 190 randomly selected manufacturing...
Provided by Centre for Economic Performance
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White Papers
Meetings Can Make A Difference
Feb 2010
Under the shadow of one of the worst economic downturns arguably in history, the meetings and events industry is under fire at a time when it should be looked at as a solution. When done...
Provided by Special D Events
-
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
Increasing The Productivity Of Office Staff
Dec 2006
Office productivity is a major concern of managements. One factor is a mistaken view that changes in office productivity cannot be measured and that there is therefore no way of ensuring that...
Provided by Accel-Team
-
White Papers
How To Present An Executive Scorecard
Jan 2010
One of the most challenging and stressful situations is presenting a performance scorecard or ROI results to an executive team. The challenge is convincing this highly skeptical and critical group...
Provided by Executive Business Advisers
-
White Papers
Trends Driving The Workforce Of One
Oct 2006
Contemporary workplace trends are making it necessary for companies to find a new approach to managing their people to achieve high performance. This research note explores those trends and...
Provided by Accenture
-
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
Leading The Rapid Growth Organization
Mar 2010
At the heart of any rapid growth organization is a visionary; one who envisions what could and should be. The visionary leader works more from inspiration and imagination than from the practical....
Provided by EyesOnSales
-
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
Top Talent Networks
Nov 2006
Personal networks are too Important not to attend to in leadership and talent programs. As much as 90 percent of the information employees take action on comes from people in their network. The...
Provided by Accenture
-
White Papers
Ability And Employer Learning: Evidence From The Economist Labor Market
Mar 2007
Matching the right workers to the right firms presents one of the largest opportunities to create surplus in employment relationships and in the economy more generally. For decades, labor...
Provided by Stanford University
-
White Papers
Three's Company: How To Dramatically Increase Productivity With Small Teams
Sep 2007
Just as breaking large numbers into smaller groups makes them significantly more manageable, organizing your employees into small teams will do the same for your workforce. In fact, if you don't...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
Super Size Productivity Now: 3% Automation, 97% Leadership
Jan 2010
Organizations that want to supersize productivity must maintain a dual focus on automation and employee motivation. Companies will soon find that productivity that sustains organizations is 3%...
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
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
-
White Papers
6 Desktop Apps For Better Organization And Focus
Nov 2009
With the rise of YouTube, digital cameras, etc, we are becoming much more "visual" in the way we process information. Rather than keeping all of your important bits and bobs tucked away in a...
Provided by American Express
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
White Papers
Change In The Last Minute
May 2009
At the conclusion of a long project, the last thing we want to do is change everything up. However, it is only at the end of a project that everyone is fully focused. The holes become more clear...
Provided by American Express
-
White Papers
Overseeing Productivity
Apr 2008
In our jobs and daily chores, the oversight of colleagues, wives/husbands, and clients helps us stay focused. In the mishmash of daily life, we must feel accountable in order to stay productive...
Provided by American Express
-
White Papers
Measure The Value Of Meetings With Action!
May 2008
We all have a love-hate relationship with meetings. While some of the greatest ideas and solutions come up in brainstorm meetings, we also lose most of our time in discussion without action....
Provided by American Express
-
White Papers
Measure Output, Not Input
Jun 2008
One often assumes that the number of hours spent at work are an indication of one's effort, interest, and accomplishment. However, in reality, the greatest ideas and the execution of these ideas...
Provided by American Express
-
White Papers
Trick For Small Team Productivity: Energy Line
Jul 2008
Creative teams juggle multiple projects at once. The constant streams of ideas lead to more ideas. As energy is spread across projects like peanut butter, prioritization is all but lost. Energy...
Provided by American Express
-
White Papers
Some Ideas Must Be Let Go...
Sep 2008
If idea generation is an addiction then killing ideas is the cure. After spending countless hours developing and polishing ideas, one tends to become attached to those same ideas (whether they are...
Provided by American Express
-
White Papers
Time Is Money, Now Act Like It
Aug 2010
You've heard it before hundreds of times, usually from someone waiting on you, trying to get you to hurry up. But time really is money. What it's worth may vary from person to person, of course....
Provided by American Express
-
White Papers
A Cohort-Based Model Of Labor Force Participation
Dec 2006
The probability that an individual participates in the labor force declines precipitously beyond age 50. This feature of labor supply suggests that ongoing shifts in the age distribution of the...
Provided by Federal Reserve Board
-
White Papers
Productivity, Aggregate Demand And Unemployment Fluctuations
Jul 2008
What drives unemployment fluctuations at business cycle frequencies? Since the seminal work of Mortensen-Pissarides (1994), a vast literature, including the influential work from Shimer (2005a),...
Provided by Federal Reserve Board
-
White Papers
An Assessment Of Portuguese Bank's Costs And Efficiency
Oct 2009
This paper analyses the production technology of Portuguese banks during the 1992-2004 period through the estimation of a translog cost frontier. Banks are modeled as firms which produce loans and...
Provided by Banco de Portugal
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Competition And Firm Productivity: Evidence From Firm-Level Data
Mar 2010
This paper presents empirical evidence on the impact of competition on firm productivity. Using firm-level observations from the World Bank Enterprise Survey database, the author finds a positive...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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Achieving A Soft Landing: The Role Of Fiscal Policy
Jan 2008
This paper provides empirical evidence on the response of labor productivity to the arrival of new inventions. The benchmark measure of technological progress is given by data on patent...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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Knowledge Management For Enterprise Systems
Jan 2009
Anecdotal evidence suggests that the lifecycle-wide management of Enterprise System (ES) related knowledge is critical for ES health and longevity. At a time where many ES-vendors now offering...
Provided by Association for Information Systems
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The Marshall Model of Organisational Evolution
Oct 2010
Ad-hoc organisations are characterised by a belief that there is little practical value in paying attention to the way things get done, and therefore few attempts are made to define how the work...
Provided by falling blossoms
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Training And Hiring Strategies To Improve Firm Performance
Oct 2007
The authors study how upgrading skills of personnel affects a firm's performance. Two different strategies are examined: 1) providing formal training and 2) strategic recruitment and separation...
Provided by Tinbergen Institute
