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Whitepapers
The New Voice of the CIO
Oct 2009
We listened to more than 2500 CIOs worldwide, including 158 CIOs from midsize firms. Those discussions showed us the demands on CIOs are changing, and in reaction, how today's CIOs are redefining...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
From fear to value; CIO strategies for propelling business through the economic crisis
Oct 2009
Your aspiration: As a Chief Information Officer, drive change, innovation and efficiency to help build a smarter enterprise that will prosper amidst global competition. Your daily challenge: As a...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
How To Jump On The Webinar Trend
Sep 2009
Webinars' popularity is being driven in part by the high cost of travel, not to mention the hassles and time involved. Why not avoid travel if you can? Another reason webinars are getting more...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Innovation In Tough Times
Mar 2009
Why should you be the company that people will always want to return to? If you can develop that area alone, you will have a much brighter future. Small businesses are in a very unique position...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Achieving High Performance In The Global Chemicals Market
Mar 2009
Today's economic downturn not only differs from previous recessionary periods, but it also differs by country and region. For the chemical industry, the recent downturn was caused by the already...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
For Profit, For Good
Aug 2009
Socially-minded venture entrepreneurs want a new kind of company. Choose for-profit, and you are unable to receive grants from foundations looking to fund the very social benefit you are aiming to...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
When Your Business Gets Trashed Online
Apr 2008
As if running a business wasn't challenging enough, now you have to worry about your business getting trashed at voting websites and in blogs. The most alarming part to business owners is that...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Innovation: The Perpetual Hunt
Feb 2009
Innovation is an ongoing process that is essential to the survival of any organization, regardless of size or focus. No matter what kinds of businesses they own, entrepreneurs all know one thing:...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
How Activists Make Or Break Radical Innovations
Jan 2009
What is the theoretical construct of a new product success? New products that constitute radical innovations challenge existing cultural conventions, norms, and interests. Often, they are...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Using Business Model Innovation
May 2009
Successful business model innovation requires identifying new, previously uncovered opportunities and changing how a firm operates. Large corporations struggle with business model innovation....
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Social Innovation - Is It Sustainable?
May 2009
The Obama administration has allocated $50 million in the upcoming budget in a Social Innovation Fund. A component of the new Serve America Act, First Lady Michelle Obama announced the creation of...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
How To Be An Intrapreneur
Jul 2009
As the saying goes, "The grass is always greener." This applies to entrepreneurs as well as cows (if, indeed, it applies to cows). An entrepreneur looks at an intrapreneur inside a large company...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Beware Of Big Company Syndrome
May 2009
Even small businesses are vulnerable to "Big Company Syndrome." What's Big Company Syndrome? It's the innovation malaise often prevalent in large corporations. It goes something like this:...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Twitter Scammers Lure Wannabe Entrepreneurs Into "Evil"
Aug 2009
Usually they're newbies on Twitter - sometimes with dreams of becoming self-employed Internet entrepreneurs. Those with no experience in online businesses may think it's easy to make money through...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
A Model For New World Efficiency
Apr 2009
Multinational corporations face new challenges every day and the need for flexibility is already well reflected in the diversity of structures and processes housed within large corporates' Shared...
Provided by Citigroup
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White Papers
Weathering The Financial Storm
Jan 2009
Companies have long relied on their commercial banks for core banking services to help them manage their working capital. In today's difficult economic climate, the global transaction banks play a...
Provided by Citigroup
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Whitepapers
Cloud Computing: Save Time, Money, and Resources
Oct 2009
Testing your applications before they launch is essential, but so is the right environment. This IBM® Redbook® explains how a private test cloud can help you organize and streamline your test...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
EnLoc: Energy-Efficient Localization for Mobile Phones
Jan 2009
A growing number of mobile phone applications utilize physical location to express the context of information. Most of these location-based applications assume GPS capabilities. Unfortunately, GPS...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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Webcasts
Video: "Taking a Seat at the Executive Table: The Reality of Virtualization"
Dec 2009
This year, for the first time, the number of virtual machines is on track to exceed the number of physical machines shipped. The reasons are clear -- data center cost reduction and greater...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Turning Product Development into Competitive Advantage
Jul 2009
Smarter products. You hear them mentioned in trade journals, in boardrooms and in the press releases of your competitors. What are smarter products? How do you make them? And how do you make them...
Provided by IBM
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Webcasts
Driving Product Strategy from the top down; How to align business objectives with technical objectives
Dec 2009
If you manage, or are involved with product investment decisions for multiple products, this session will provide practical insights and tools to make your job a little bit easier. If you have...
Provided by IBM
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Webcasts
Developing telecommunications products that give you a competitive edge - today and tomorrow", with Christian Seider, Senior Managing Consultant at IBM
Jul 2009
Join our live webcast with Christian Seider, Senior Managing Consulting, IBM Institute of Business Value, an expert in the electronics industry, and Andy Gurd, Senior Go-to-market Manager, IBM...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Game-Theoretic Model for Collaborative Protocols in Selfish, Tariff-Free, Multihop Wireless Networks
Jun 2007
Traditional networks are built on the assumption that network entities cooperate based on a mandatory network communication semantic to achieve desirable qualities such as efficiency and...
Provided by National University of Singapore School of Business
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White Papers
Infrastructures for Innovation
Jan 2010
"Nearly nine out of ten senior IT and business executives say that data, voice and network services can be leveraged to drive innovation, facilitating remote access to critical applications and...
Provided by Qwest Communications
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White Papers
Management Excellence A Step-by-Step Strategy to Success
Jan 2010
Management processes require flexibility because they deal with uncertainties and can result in a range of outcomes. Using a strategy-to-success framework as your guide, your company can establish...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Creativity Is Different From Innovation
Jan 2010
Innovation is often considered only in the context of products or services, when in fact innovation can, and should be extended to all parts of a business - processes, financing, relationship...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
The Art Of Bold Innovation
Feb 2010
The essence of making revolutionary changes is taking risks. Bold risks produce bold innovation; they launch new products, services, and companies; they improve workplace conditions for employees;...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
Avoid Patch Tuesday Wipeout: Ride the Endpoint Patching Wave
Jan 2010
Patching clients effectively and reliably is becoming a non-stop process for most organizations, demanding a robust, dynamic and automated infrastructure to ensure delivery. In this webinar,...
Provided by KACE
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White Papers
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Your Solaris Alternative
Dec 2009
Review key features and benefits of Solaris and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Learn why Red Hat Enterprise Linux is an ideal solution for enterprises facing Sun and SPARC's uncertain future. Whether...
Provided by Red Hat
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Webcasts
Driving product strategy from the top-down: How to align business objectives with technical objectives
Mar 2010
If you manage, or are involved with product investment decisions for multiple products, this session will provide practical insights and tools to make your job a little bit easier. If you have...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
How requirements engineering can help you deliver smarter products
Sep 2009
Products are becoming smarter. There are now computer chips in everything from running shoes to cars to coffee makers. And as products become more interconnected, instrumented and intelligent, the...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Predictive Intelligence: Identify Future Problems and Prevent Them from Happening
Dec 2009
There is a natural progression from reactive to proactive, and ultimately predictive technology, and this progression corresponds to the maturity level of your IT organization and the tools you...
Provided by BMC Software
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White Papers
A Set of Best Practices for Targeting, Aligning and Measuring Learning
Mar 2010
Learning expectations have never been higher. Changes in the global marketplace and work force demographics are accentuating the need to leverage human capital as a competitive differentiator....
Provided by SkillSoft
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White Papers
Moving the Mountain: Address R&D Efficiencies
Apr 2010
Many research and development (R&D) organizations largely focus on reducing administrative inefficiencies, yet they tend to overlook the bigger issue of engineering churn, which is caused by...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
Funding Growth And Innovation In The 'New Normal': The Next Generation Of Cost Savings
Feb 2010
This paper outlines the discussion in greater detail, including the nature of the challenge, considerations for industry leaders and an opportunity for "Next generation" cost savings. Moving now...
Provided by ICG Commerce
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White Papers
Compete Or Cooperate?: Choosing The Right Commercialization Strategy As A Technology Start-Up
Jul 2007
For generations, would-be entrepreneurs and economists believed that start-up companies were created to bring new innovations to market rapidly and to compete with or displace established firms....
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
Does Location Matter For The Adoption Of Internet Technologies In Business?
Aug 2007
From traveling businessmen and women using PDAs as movable offices to large consortiums sharing supercomputing capabilities around the globe, advanced Internet technology has revolutionized the...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
A Matter Of Necessity
Apr 2010
Creating true innovation requires courage. Being unique, standing out from the crowd, going where no business leader has gone before, requires passion and sometimes arrogance. Boldness comes to...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Born Innovators
Feb 2010
These days, innovation and creativity are in high demand in the work world, making them something that a lot of people would like to have. The reality is that some people are more creative and...
Provided by Oxford University Press
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White Papers
Opportunities In Alternative Energy
Nov 2009
In an event held at Columbia Business School, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates spoke on opportunities in alternative energy. Gates identified energy - including renewable sources, like solar -...
Provided by Columbia University
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e-Books
Archiving for Dummies e-book
Mar 2012
Want the smartest IT department? Just surround yourself with Dummies. Data retention in today's digial era is a major challenge for businesses and organizations. This e-book is your guide to the...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
IDC Case Study: Optimizing eCommerce Decisions at TIAA-CREF
Mar 2012
This IDC case study examines the benefits TIAA-CREF, a Fortune 100 financial services firm, gained from automating their eCommerce marketing. By deploying Oracle Real-Time Decisions, TIAA-CREF was...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Taking a Proactive Approach to Patch Management
Feb 2012
It's a fact of business today: because of the economy, most organizations are asking everyone, including the IT staff, to do more with less. But tight budgets and the need for the IT department to...
Provided by VMware
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Whitepapers
McCormick and Schmick's Restaurants Gains New Insight into Dining Trends and Financial Performance with IBM Cognos Express - Success Story
Jan 2012
McCormick & Schmick's Seafood Restaurants needed better insight to understand and take advantage of key business trends. Find out why they chose IBM Cognos Express to deliver that insight.
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
IBM Cognos Express: IBM Financing Advantage for Express Solutions - Fact Sheet
Jan 2012
See how to finance IBM Cognos Express for as low as $25 (USD) per user/month with one-stop financing solutions from IBM.
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Accelerating Innovation and Savings with R&D Cloud
Jan 2012
DuPont is one of the world's premier science companies. Its Central Research & Development (CR&D) IT leaders wanted to provide the company's scientists with the power and flexibility of...
Provided by Intel Corporation
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Research
Tech breakthroughs to watch in 2012
Jan 2012
From invisibility cloaks to virtual atom smashing, 2011 was a year for advancing our knowledge, both on Earth and in space. ZDNet presents this guide to the accomplishments and discoveries from...
Provided by ZDNet
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Whitepapers
Oracle's SPARC T4-1, SPARC T4-2, SPARC T4-4 and SPARC T4-1B Server Architecture
Dec 2011
Delivering on the demands of IT services applications and virtualized, eco-efficient data centers requires a comprehensive approach that includes innovative processors, system platforms, and...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Business Process Platforms 2011 Vendor Analysis
Dec 2011
This IDC study uses the IDC MarketScape model to assess the capabilities of vendors to support mid-range to complex process improvement scenarios using business process management software....
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
Management Skills for Every Leader
Oct 2011
What are the skills required to be a manager, and how do they relate to each other? What is leadership and how is it different from management? The Egan management Skills Model provides answers to...
Provided by Global Knowledge
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Podcasts
Getting Started with Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management
Sep 2011
Designed from the ground-up using the latest technology advances and incorporating the best practices gathered from Oracle's thousands of customers, Fusion Applications are 100 percent open...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Internet Banking In Europe: A Comparative Analysis
Dec 2008
A key strategic issue for banks is the implementation of internet banking. The 'Click and mortar' model that complements classical branch banking with online facilities is competing with pure...
Provided by Universitat de Barcelona
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White Papers
How Do Young Innovative Companies Innovate?
Jul 2009
This paper discusses the determinants of product innovation in Young Innovative Companies (YICs) by looking at in-house and external R&D and at the acquisition of external technology in embodied...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Intrapreneurship Or Entrepreneurship?
May 2009
The author explores the factors that determine whether new business opportunities are exploited by starting a new venture for an employer ('Nascent intrapreneurship') or independently ('Nascent...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Openness And Technological Innovation In East Asia: Have They Increased The Demand For Skills?
Oct 2009
This paper asks whether the increased openness and technological innovation in East Asia have contributed to an increased demand for skills in the region. The authors explore a unique firm level...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Co-determination And Innovation
Oct 2009
This paper examines the effect of the German co-determination law of 1976 (MitbestG) on the innovative activity of German firms. Co-determination applies to firms with 2000 employees or more. Data...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Innovation And Market Concentration In Europe's Mobile Phone Industries: Evidence From The Transition From 2G To 3G
Nov 2007
Aiming at both low prices and innovation, policy makers and economists have long argued about the optimal intensity of competition. While the current discussion in telecommunication regulation...
Provided by Austrian Institute of Economic Research
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White Papers
The Meaning Of Entrepreneurship: A Modular Concept
Jun 2009
Entrepreneurship has been characterised as one of the most intriguing but equally elusive concepts in economics. This paper first surveys its major intellectual roots and then proposes a modular...
Provided by Austrian Institute of Economic Research
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White Papers
Passenger Car Use And Climate Change: Quantifying The Impacts Of Technological Innovations Needed For Substantial CO2 Emission Reductions
Nov 2009
The purpose of the paper is to model scenarios of technological innovations in the global passenger vehicle fleet, i.e. improvements in the energy economy of average regional vehicle fleets and...
Provided by Austrian Institute of Economic Research
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White Papers
Technological Regimes And The Variety Of Innovation Behaviour: Creating Integrated Taxonomies Of Firms And Sectors
Feb 2010
This paper presents an integrated set of innovation taxonomies for firms and sectors. It discards the practice of representing industries by some average behaviour, instead characterising them by...
Provided by Austrian Institute of Economic Research
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White Papers
International Competition In Vertically Differentiated Markets With Innovation And Imitation: Trade Policy Versus Free Trade
Aug 2007
The important characteristic of international competition between developed and less developed countries is vertical product differentiation, where firms' quality choices represent strategic...
Provided by Charles University
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White Papers
Assessing The Impact Of Algorithmic Trading On Markets: A Simulation Approach
Dec 2007
Innovative automated execution strategies like algorithmic trading gain significant market share on electronic market venues worldwide, although their impact on market outcome has not been...
Provided by Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
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White Papers
Immigration And Innovation In European Regions
Apr 2011
The concentration of people with diverse socio-cultural backgrounds in particular geographic areas may boost the creation of new ideas, knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship, and economic growth....
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Immigration And Innovation
Apr 2011
The authors combine firm-level innovation data with area-level Census data to examine the relationship between local workforce characteristics, especially the presence of immigrants and local...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Unraveling The Role Of Public Researcher Mobility For Industrial Innovation
May 2011
The authors estimate the relative contribution of mobile scientists who leave academia for the private sector on the subsequent innovative performance of the firms they join. They use data on the...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Entrepreneurship, Economic Conditions, And The Great Recession
May 2011
The "Great Recession" resulted in many business closings and foreclosures, but what effect did it have on business formation? On the one hand, recessions decrease potential business income and...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
High-technology Entrepreneurship In Silicon Valley
May 2011
The economic expansion of the late 1990s created many opportunities for business creation in Silicon Valley, but the opportunity cost of starting a business was also high during this period...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Do The Innovations In A Monetary VAR Have Finite Variances?
Oct 2008
Since Christopher Sims's "Macroeconomics and Reality" (1980), macroeconomists have used structural VARs, or Vector AutoRegressions, for policy analysis. Constructing the impulse-response functions...
Provided by Levy Economics Institute
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White Papers
For Benevolence And For Self-interest: Social And Commercial Entrepreneurial Activity Across Nations
Jun 2011
The authors conceptualize social entrepreneurship as a source of social capital which, when present in the environment, enhances commercial entrepreneurship. They also argue that social...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Long-term Barriers To The International Diffusion Of Innovations
Aug 2011
The authors document an empirical relationship between the cross-country adoption of technologies and the degree of long-term historical relatedness between human populations. Historical...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Ethnic Innovation And U.S. Multinational Firm Activity
Aug 2011
This paper studies the impact that immigrant innovators have on the global activities of U.S. firms by analyzing detailed data on patent applications and on the operations of the foreign...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Notre Dame Launches New Master's Program In Engineering, Science And Technology Entrepreneurship
Aug 2009
The Engineering, Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Excellence Master's (ESTEEM) program, which is a collaboration among the College of Science, the College of Engineering and the Mendoza...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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White Papers
Notre Dame Dean Brings Back Visions Of Hope From East Asia Trip
Sep 2009
Names such as the Swat Valley and the Kashmir Mountains are becoming increasingly familiar to Americans as Afghanistan and Pakistan regularly command the news, mostly due to the violence and...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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Webcasts
Introducing Merlin: A Look At One Of The Most Sustainable Data Centers In The World
Jan 2011
This webcast shows that Merlin is Capgemini's newest data center and is one of the most sustainable facilities of its type in the world. It will provide Capgemini clients with cost-effective,...
Provided by Capgemini
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Webcasts
Finding Innovation At Google Creative Lab
Nov 2010
High-tech companies need problem solvers, but the speaker says engineers and other creative professionals first need scrappy managers who know how to define the right problems, assemble the right...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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Webcasts
From Donkeys To Bullet Trains: China's Four Miraculous Transformations
Aug 2011
In this podcast, the speaker states that the donkeys would move the engines around to different stations to pick up buckets of tool and parts. The speaker describes miraculous transformations she...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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Webcasts
The Art Of Teaching Entrepreneurship And Innovation
May 2009
In this webcast, the presenter shares rich insights in creative thinking and the entrepreneurial mindset. The presenter's talk, based on her 2009 book, What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20, cites...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
Funding Thunder Lizard Entrepreneurs
Oct 2010
In this webcast, the presenter offers insight into the democratization of innovation in the Internet age, and its affect on investment cycles. Additionally, the presenter speaks candidly about the...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
Social Entrepreneurship Changing Education
Jan 2011
In this webcast, the presenter is driven to end educational inequity across the nation. In this webcast, the presenter shares her entrepreneurial story of starting Teach For America straight out...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
Delivering Innovation For The Enterprise
Jan 2011
The presenter is an entrepreneur who seeks to reinvent how enterprise businesses share content across their organizations. In 2005, the presenter saw the need for affordable storage on the...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
Video: "Taking a Seat at the Executive Table: The Reality of Virtualization"
Dec 2009
This year, for the first time, the number of virtual machines is on track to exceed the number of physical machines shipped. The reasons are clear -- data center cost reduction and greater...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Turning Product Development into Competitive Advantage
Jul 2009
Smarter products. You hear them mentioned in trade journals, in boardrooms and in the press releases of your competitors. What are smarter products? How do you make them? And how do you make them...
Provided by IBM
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Webcasts
Driving Product Strategy from the top down; How to align business objectives with technical objectives
Dec 2009
If you manage, or are involved with product investment decisions for multiple products, this session will provide practical insights and tools to make your job a little bit easier. If you have...
Provided by IBM
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Webcasts
Developing telecommunications products that give you a competitive edge - today and tomorrow", with Christian Seider, Senior Managing Consultant at IBM
Jul 2009
Join our live webcast with Christian Seider, Senior Managing Consulting, IBM Institute of Business Value, an expert in the electronics industry, and Andy Gurd, Senior Go-to-market Manager, IBM...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Game-Theoretic Model for Collaborative Protocols in Selfish, Tariff-Free, Multihop Wireless Networks
Jun 2007
Traditional networks are built on the assumption that network entities cooperate based on a mandatory network communication semantic to achieve desirable qualities such as efficiency and...
Provided by National University of Singapore School of Business
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White Papers
Infrastructures for Innovation
Jan 2010
"Nearly nine out of ten senior IT and business executives say that data, voice and network services can be leveraged to drive innovation, facilitating remote access to critical applications and...
Provided by Qwest Communications
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White Papers
Management Excellence A Step-by-Step Strategy to Success
Jan 2010
Management processes require flexibility because they deal with uncertainties and can result in a range of outcomes. Using a strategy-to-success framework as your guide, your company can establish...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Creativity Is Different From Innovation
Jan 2010
Innovation is often considered only in the context of products or services, when in fact innovation can, and should be extended to all parts of a business - processes, financing, relationship...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
The Art Of Bold Innovation
Feb 2010
The essence of making revolutionary changes is taking risks. Bold risks produce bold innovation; they launch new products, services, and companies; they improve workplace conditions for employees;...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
Avoid Patch Tuesday Wipeout: Ride the Endpoint Patching Wave
Jan 2010
Patching clients effectively and reliably is becoming a non-stop process for most organizations, demanding a robust, dynamic and automated infrastructure to ensure delivery. In this webinar,...
Provided by KACE
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White Papers
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Your Solaris Alternative
Dec 2009
Review key features and benefits of Solaris and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Learn why Red Hat Enterprise Linux is an ideal solution for enterprises facing Sun and SPARC's uncertain future. Whether...
Provided by Red Hat
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Webcasts
Driving product strategy from the top-down: How to align business objectives with technical objectives
Mar 2010
If you manage, or are involved with product investment decisions for multiple products, this session will provide practical insights and tools to make your job a little bit easier. If you have...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
How requirements engineering can help you deliver smarter products
Sep 2009
Products are becoming smarter. There are now computer chips in everything from running shoes to cars to coffee makers. And as products become more interconnected, instrumented and intelligent, the...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Predictive Intelligence: Identify Future Problems and Prevent Them from Happening
Dec 2009
There is a natural progression from reactive to proactive, and ultimately predictive technology, and this progression corresponds to the maturity level of your IT organization and the tools you...
Provided by BMC Software
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White Papers
A Set of Best Practices for Targeting, Aligning and Measuring Learning
Mar 2010
Learning expectations have never been higher. Changes in the global marketplace and work force demographics are accentuating the need to leverage human capital as a competitive differentiator....
Provided by SkillSoft
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White Papers
Moving the Mountain: Address R&D Efficiencies
Apr 2010
Many research and development (R&D) organizations largely focus on reducing administrative inefficiencies, yet they tend to overlook the bigger issue of engineering churn, which is caused by...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
Funding Growth And Innovation In The 'New Normal': The Next Generation Of Cost Savings
Feb 2010
This paper outlines the discussion in greater detail, including the nature of the challenge, considerations for industry leaders and an opportunity for "Next generation" cost savings. Moving now...
Provided by ICG Commerce
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White Papers
Compete Or Cooperate?: Choosing The Right Commercialization Strategy As A Technology Start-Up
Jul 2007
For generations, would-be entrepreneurs and economists believed that start-up companies were created to bring new innovations to market rapidly and to compete with or displace established firms....
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
Does Location Matter For The Adoption Of Internet Technologies In Business?
Aug 2007
From traveling businessmen and women using PDAs as movable offices to large consortiums sharing supercomputing capabilities around the globe, advanced Internet technology has revolutionized the...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
A Matter Of Necessity
Apr 2010
Creating true innovation requires courage. Being unique, standing out from the crowd, going where no business leader has gone before, requires passion and sometimes arrogance. Boldness comes to...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Born Innovators
Feb 2010
These days, innovation and creativity are in high demand in the work world, making them something that a lot of people would like to have. The reality is that some people are more creative and...
Provided by Oxford University Press
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White Papers
Protecting personally identifiable information: What data is at risk and what you can do about it
Jun 2010
Virtually every organization acquires, uses and stores personally identifiable information about its customers, employees, patients, students and other individuals. These organizations are...
Provided by Sophos
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White Papers
Opportunities In Alternative Energy
Nov 2009
In an event held at Columbia Business School, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates spoke on opportunities in alternative energy. Gates identified energy - including renewable sources, like solar -...
Provided by Columbia University
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White Papers
Finding And Grooming Breakthrough Innovators
Jan 2009
Just 5% - 10% of your high-potential managers have the skills to become breakthrough innovators. If you don't find and groom these rarities, some other company will mastermind the next big thing....
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
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White Papers
Imitation Is More Valuable Than Innovation
Mar 2010
Imitation is underappreciated. It can be more important to business growth than innovation is. Imitation is not mindless repetition; It's and intelligent search for cause and effect. The author...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
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White Papers
Off Season Training
Jun 2009
Running a seasonal business may seem like an entrepreneur's dream: Work hard for part of the year and earn enough for the whole of it. But running a seasonal business, just like any other kind, is...
Provided by Bank of America
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White Papers
Investing To Sustain High Performance Examining The Two Sides Of The Innovation Coin
Feb 2009
With an uncertain economy, now is the time to examine both sides of the innovation coin. Whether your organization selects heads for cost efficiencies, tails for customer retention and acquisition...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
An Innovative And Market Tested Approach To Migrating To An IP-Based Intelligent Network Environment
Nov 2009
Intelligent networks are critical to the cost-effective provisioning of network services by today's global communications operators. The Intelligent Network (IN) is a service-independent...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
Prize-Winning Thinking
Dec 2009
In the midst of a struggling economy, a disturbing flu pandemic, and an ongoing national debate over health insurance reform, most small business owners can be forgiven if they didn't pay much...
Provided by Bank of America
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White Papers
Marketing Malpractice: The Cause And The Cure
Mar 2007
Thirty thousand new consumer products hit store shelves each year. Ninety percent of them fail. Why? We're using misguided market-segmentation practices. For instance, we slice markets based on...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
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White Papers
Strategic Parts Pricing For Original Equipment Manufacturers
Jan 2010
Reduced capital spending and tight money conditions have created a difficult business environment for original equipment manufacturers. Facing a dramatic drop in demand, many Original Equipment...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
Strategic Competition in Social Entrepreneurship
Dec 2008
This post on the challenges facing social entrepreneurship is drawn from remarks made on October. 23, 2008 at "Leadership for the 21st Century," an interactive training session held at the U.S....
Provided by Columbia University
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White Papers
Managing New Product Development And Innovation In Challenging Times Driving High Performance Through Profitable Innovation
Mar 2009
During challenging economic times, communications and high-tech companies may be tempted to scale back on product development. Yet such a decision risks cutting off the lifeblood of innovation...
Provided by Accenture
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Driving Growth And Innovation In China?s Telecommunications Marketplace
Nov 2009
Customer-centricity is critical to achieving high performance for today's communications, high-tech and media companies. Organizations now must compete more than ever on how well they understand...
Provided by Accenture
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Small Business Innovation
Dec 2009
In order for Small Businesses to compete in the Global Competitive Business Marketplace, Innovation is imperative. One factor affecting Innovation is Pressure. Pressure from the Competition urges...
Provided by ABC Business Consulting
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The New Wave Of Growth And Innovation: The Communications Industry Retools Itself For High Performance
Feb 2010
The tide is turning. A sense of cautious optimism is now increasingly being expressed by communications industry executives. The past couple of years have been tough, to say the least. And the...
Provided by Accenture
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Product Development Mastery Achieving High Performance In Product Development Through Superior Innovation And Execution
Sep 2009
Beyond excelling at the basics, masters in product development leverage the broader ecosystem (suppliers, academia, customers and partners) for product innovation, and optimize their global...
Provided by Accenture
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Strategic Parts Pricing: Insights And Innovations For Original Equipment Manufacturers For High Performance
Jan 2010
Reduced capital spending and tight money conditions have created a difficult business environment for original equipment manufacturers. The objective of this Accenture point of view is to...
Provided by Accenture
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Enhancing The Open Model Through The Use Of Community
Aug 2009
Often firms are unsure of where to start when it comes to creating an open innovation community, particularly when it comes to determining the amount of time and resources to invest. However,...
Provided by Decision Analyst
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The Innovator's Guide To Growth
May 2008
Trees don't grow to the sky forever." With that sentence, the CEO of a multibillion dollar media company urged a cross-functional group of senior managers to develop innovative ideas. It was 2005....
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
