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Whitepapers
Target the disconnects between development and operations
Jan 2013
In most IT organizations, the development and operations teams are separate entities, and the recent trend toward closer collaboration between them, commonly referred to as DevOps, indicates a...
Provided by HP
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Whitepapers
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
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
Unifying security and IT operations
Feb 2013
Every additional tool, process, and handoff creates another opportunity for a defense to be breached, service to be degraded, or for additional time and cost due to overlapping tools and...
Provided by HP
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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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Whitepapers
Help accelerate desktop virtualization with cloud computing
Oct 2012
Transitioning from a traditional desktop workplace to a virtualized environment can incur time and skills you may not have in-house. IBM Smart Business Desktop Cloud leverages cloud computing to...
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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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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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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White Papers
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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Downloads
Application/Project Development Policy
May 2013
This Application/Project Development Policy outlines the guidelines organizations should follow before starting and during a new project.
Provided by TechRepublic Pro
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Whitepapers
Transaction-Centric vs. Infra-Centric APM
Feb 2013
When it comes to managing application performance, the approaches that organizations take vary significantly based on how the data is being collected, types of metrics captured and how these...
Provided by Quest Software, now a part of Dell
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Whitepapers
Unifying security and IT operations
Feb 2013
Every additional tool, process, and handoff creates another opportunity for a defense to be breached, service to be degraded, or for additional time and cost due to overlapping tools and...
Provided by HP
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Whitepapers
A Social Business is a Productive Business
Jan 2013
A study published by McKinsey Global Institute - recently reported in WAtoday -says the average office worker spends 28 hours a week (60% of their time) writing emails, searching for information,...
Provided by IBM Australia
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Whitepapers
Simplify Your Route to the Internet: Three Advantages of Using LISP
Jan 2013
The Location ID separation protocol (LISP) simplifies the process of connecting multi-homed sites, and also presents distinct advantages for networks. These advantages include simplicity over BGP,...
Provided by Global Knowledge
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Whitepapers
Target the disconnects between development and operations
Jan 2013
In most IT organizations, the development and operations teams are separate entities, and the recent trend toward closer collaboration between them, commonly referred to as DevOps, indicates a...
Provided by HP
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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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Whitepapers
Help accelerate desktop virtualization with cloud computing
Oct 2012
Transitioning from a traditional desktop workplace to a virtualized environment can incur time and skills you may not have in-house. IBM Smart Business Desktop Cloud leverages cloud computing to...
Provided by IBM
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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
Playing to win in real time
Jul 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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Whitepapers
Achieving success with a flexible workplace
Jul 2012
In our hyperconnected world, employees expect to work from anywhere, at any time and with any device. Each of these new access points, however, increases the IT security perimeter. In the flexible...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
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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Whitepapers
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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Whitepapers
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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Whitepapers
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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Whitepapers
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
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
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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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
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
-
White Papers
How To Improve Productivity
Jan 2010
There are many ways to improve productivity. Match the person to the task. Think about the personalities of the people you are managing when you assign tasks. People will perform most effectively...
Provided by Executive Business Advisers
-
White Papers
How To 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
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
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
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
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
-
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
-
White Papers
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
-
White Papers
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
-
White Papers
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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White Papers
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
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White Papers
3 Surprising Don'ts For Better Productivity
Nov 2010
When it comes to boosting productivity in your work and life, there are the usual suspects. Yes, better managing your calendar and eliminating distractions is important. And, of course, we could...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Use Deadlines To Become A Learning Organization
Sep 2010
For some teams, deadlines are a science. For others, deadlines are more of an art. For all, deadlines are a daunting yet necessary component of any project. When you're involved in a creative...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Google Apps For The University Of Minnesota
Aug 2010
This paper is to describe the various services associated with Google Apps for the University of Minnesota that are administered by the Office of Information Technology (OIT), and identify related...
Provided by University of Minnesota
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White Papers
The Business Benefits Of Broadband
Sep 2009
Broadband means speed. It is the collective name given to a range of high speed internet connections that are (normally) always switched on. Always on, always available - just like your...
Provided by EBS
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White Papers
Microsoft Online Services : Giving Businesses A New Choice For Productivity Tools
Jul 2008
This white paper takes a look at three myths that are used to explain and even justify why over 85% of all organizations still run their own email and other productivity tools software. The...
Provided by IDC
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Webcasts
Winning With Value
Jan 2011
Too many companies focus on just the cost of software systems, rather than look at the business value they generate. That may not be surprising given the complexities of trying to assess the value...
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