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Whitepapers
Gartner 2012 SIEM Magic Quadrant
Feb 2013
The SIEM market is defined by organizations' need to analyze security data in real time for internal and external threat management, and to collect, analyze and report on data for regulatory...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Discover Your Inner Leader
Mar 2013
Do you have the skills to successfully lead your organization? With the right amount of dedication, anyone can be a leader – including you. Now is the time to start harnessing your inner leader to...
Provided by ConnectWise 2013
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Whitepapers
Discover Your Inner Leader -
Mar 2013
Do you have the skills to successfully lead your organization? With the right amount of dedication, anyone can be a leader – including you. Now is the time to start harnessing your inner leader to...
Provided by ConnectWise
-
Whitepapers
Relinquishing the Reins: Reaping the Benefits of Empowering Your IT Team
Apr 2012
Empowering the IT staff is essential for maximizing an organization's productivity, value, and growth. Real authority and responsibility is the prime catalyst for employee engagement and...
Provided by SkillSoft
-
White Papers
The Online MBA at Benedictine University
Jan 2012
If you're a business professional, you know that an MBA can position you to move up into high-level leadership roles. Benedictine's online MBA degree program prepares you to successfully lead...
Provided by Benedictine University
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Whitepapers
Discover Your Inner Leader
Dec 2012
Do you have the skills to successfully lead your organization? With the right amount of dedication, anyone can be a leader - including you. Now is the time to start harnessing your inner leader to...
Provided by ConnectWise
-
White Papers
Is Your Current HR Service Delivery Model Working?
Sep 2011
This whitepaper examines the HR service delivery challenges facing organizations today, outlines a common approach to delivering world-class HR service, and details the technology necessary to...
Provided by Oracle
-
Whitepapers
WebSphere Application Server v7 vs. Oracle WebLogic 11g
Aug 2011
This document briefly covers key differences between IBM® WebSphere® Application Server and Oracle WebLogic Server. While both products are of high quality and will perform well even in demanding...
Provided by IBM
-
Downloads
Download Savvion's Free Business Process Modeling Software
Jul 2006
The first step in improving your business processes is to articulate precisely where bottlenecks exist, and the most efficient way to do that is by simulating your existing processes using...
Provided by Savvion
-
White Papers
Making the Business Case for HR Investments
Jun 2009
Explore how HR systems can provide strategic benefit to both the HR department and the business overall, for use in building a business case for HR investments. In addition, this paper discusses...
Provided by SAP
-
White Papers
HR Analytics Come into their Own
Jun 2009
Read this article from EIU about HR analytics as a critical tool for keeping HR and orgainizational-development executives strategically oriented, and for presenting to business leaders the kind...
Provided by SAP
-
White Papers
IPS vs. IDS: Similar on the Surface, Polar Opposites Underneath
Jan 2009
A common notion is that an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) is nothing more than an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) deployed in-line with blocking capabilities. Although IPS and IDS both examine...
Provided by TippingPoint Technologies
-
White Papers
CRM and Social Networking: Engaging the Social Customer
Jul 2009
Used effectively, social networking sites can enable marketing professionals, salespeople, and customer service agents to develop meaningful relationships with customers in new ways. But the true...
Provided by Microsoft
-
Whitepapers
It's Time To Review � And Renew � Your Telecommuting Policy
Apr 2009
There's no "one size fits all" when it comes to telecommuting. This new Forrester white paper explores how implementing best practices to create a telecommuting program and standardized policy...
Provided by Citrix Online
-
Webcasts
The Business Benefits of Secure Remote Access
Nov 2009
Join industry experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and opinion leaders from SonicWALL, Inc., as they help you make the right call on telecommuting.
Provided by SonicWALL
-
White Papers
Logging on: What is Social media?
Jan 2010
These days, it's no longer unusual to receive an email or visit a Web site and be directed to "connect with us!" through Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or any number of social networking sites. From...
Provided by Career Builder
-
White Papers
The ROI of Human Capital - Chapter 10
May 2006
This is the Information Age, and people are the most important resource. It is true - profoundly true - with implications that are still difficult to fully grasp. Imagine going into the...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
Driving Results Through Culture
Sep 2008
Corporate culture - an organization's personality - is the sum total of the company's values, attitudes, beliefs, behaviors and practices of its members. But many managers may have just a vague...
Provided by S. Chris Edmonds
-
White Papers
Creating A Corporate Culture Demonstrating Ethical And Cooperative Leadership
Apr 2009
All organizations seek to establish common goals that will help them meet strategic objectives, rally their employees and inspire shareholders. These goals, set by the senior executive team after...
Provided by Board Advisory Services
-
White Papers
Will That Be Leadership Or Management Development?
Mar 2009
While the plethora of new books and articles on leadership has contributed in an important way to raising the level of awareness and understanding on the subject, it has also created confusion,...
Provided by Leadership World Connect
-
White Papers
How To Build A Great Company Culture
Jan 2010
Being better, faster, and cheaper is no longer good enough to give one an advantage over the competitors. The one thing that can give one's company that elusive, sustainable competitive advantage...
Provided by Executive Business Advisers
-
White Papers
Understanding Organizational Culture And Leadership - Enhance Efficiency And Productivity
Jan 2010
This paper reviews the existing literature on relationships between innovativeness and organization structure and culture, technical process approach, and encourages employees to find the meaning...
Provided by PMFORUM
-
White Papers
Sharpen Your Leadership Skills With Evidence - Based Management
Mar 2008
Bring new insight into your decision-making process by relying on evidence and data, rather than past experiences says the author. Far too often, managers rely on past practices when it comes time...
Provided by MasterCard
-
White Papers
Why Inside Outsiders Are The Key To Succession
Jan 2008
A central challenge facing most companies today is picking their next CEO. Even if a company's CEO has only recently been installed, and even if he or she seems to be doing an outstanding job, the...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
-
White Papers
Leadership And Organizational Strategy
Feb 2009
Strategic planning, an umbrella term used to include and summarize such activities as planning, performance measurement, program budgeting, and the like, has proven to be very useful but limited....
Provided by Eleanor Glor
-
White Papers
Strategy In Action A Strategy Viewpoint
Jun 2007
Corporate executives used to look upon issues of their corporate culture as "Soft and fuzzy" areas over which they had little control. No longer. Today's senior leaders are increasingly finding...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
The Relationship Between Commitment And Organizational Culture, Subculture, Leadership Style
Jan 2010
The concept of organizational commitment has been examined extensively in organizational literature, yet the relationships between organizational culture, subculture and commitment have received...
Provided by University of New South Wales
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White Papers
High Performance With High Integrity
Sep 2008
In an era characterized by accelerating change, economic dislocation, and - all too often - highly visible scandals, a key question has become more and more pressing. It's a question that is posed...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
-
White Papers
How To Conduct Corporate Event Planning
Oct 2009
There are many things to consider when planning a corporate event but very first thing you should consider in corporate event management is the food. More often, the potential and possible success...
Provided by Free Articles Directory
-
White Papers
Senior Leadership Teams: What It Takes To Make Them Great
Feb 2008
The author is an experienced executive, a respected leader, and a veteran of the usual corporate team-building exploits, including trekking through the steamy rain forests of Costa Rica. But...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
-
White Papers
Preparing For The Recovery: Five Ways To Get Your Organization Ready Now
Feb 2010
Companies have expended a great deal of emotional and financial energy in recent months just to deal with the most pressing issues of the economic downturn. But there is no letting up now. As they...
Provided by Accenture
-
White Papers
Leadership That Gets Results
Aug 2008
New research suggests that the most effective executives use a collection of distinct leadership styles - each in the right measure, at just the right time. Such flexibility is tough to put into...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
-
White Papers
The Information Future Of The Corporate Board
Apr 2008
Corporate governance is in the news again. Following the high-profile reversals in the financial-services industry, pressure on boards from shareholder activists and regulators to somehow prevent...
Provided by Accenture
-
White Papers
Godfather Management? The Role Of Leaders In Changing Organizational Culture In Transition Economies
Dec 2009
The objective of the paper is to examine the degree to which national culture and/or the business sector are influencing factors in organization culture change. This paper aims to determine...
Provided by Budapesti Business School
-
White Papers
Organizational Commitment -A Missing Link Between Leadership Behavior And Organizational Performance?
Nov 2008
This paper investigates the effect of executive leadership behaviors on the Organizational Commitment (OC) of subordinate managers and the influence of the latter on measures of company...
Provided by Elsevier
-
White Papers
How Leaders Can Optimize Organizational Culture
Apr 2009
Realigning processes and roles to fit a new organizational reality is daily work for leaders. Planning and implementing changes is a fundamental set of skills at which all leaders must excel to...
Provided by Management Performance International
-
White Papers
Organizational Imprinting: Informing Firm Behavior In Domestic And International Contexts
Oct 2008
The authors argue that organizational imprinting theory provides an important causal mechanism and originating source for numerous behaviors which are applicable to several research literatures....
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
Economic Performance And Enterprise Culture
Jun 2010
This paper explores the impact of economic performance on national culture and specifically, whether higher levels of economic performance contribute to the formation of an "Enterprise" culture...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
New Center At Notre Dame Studies Financial Regulation
Oct 2009
In September 2008, as the stock market began its precipitous slide, federal regulators abruptly moved to ban short sales of financial stocks. The hope was to protect companies whose stock was...
Provided by University of Notre Dame (Mendoza)
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White Papers
Think Like An Entrepreneur For Corporate Success
Apr 2009
Corporate leaders looking for guidance in the prolonged economic crisis should check their rearview mirrors for fast-approaching global entrepreneurs, Thunderbird Professor Robert Hisrich, Ph.D.,...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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Whitepapers
Discover Your Inner Leader
Mar 2013
Do you have the skills to successfully lead your organization? With the right amount of dedication, anyone can be a leader – including you. Now is the time to start harnessing your inner leader to...
Provided by ConnectWise 2013
-
Whitepapers
Discover Your Inner Leader -
Mar 2013
Do you have the skills to successfully lead your organization? With the right amount of dedication, anyone can be a leader – including you. Now is the time to start harnessing your inner leader to...
Provided by ConnectWise
-
Whitepapers
“Follow The Yellow Brick Road” To Business Value
Dec 2012
In this new whitepaper, Naomi Bloom Managing Partner at Bloom & Wallace presents her "travel guide for 'Following The Yellow Brick Road' to effective use of HR technology.
Provided by Workday
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Whitepapers
Gartner 2012 SIEM Magic Quadrant
Feb 2013
The SIEM market is defined by organizations' need to analyze security data in real time for internal and external threat management, and to collect, analyze and report on data for regulatory...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Discover Your Inner Leader
Dec 2012
Do you have the skills to successfully lead your organization? With the right amount of dedication, anyone can be a leader - including you. Now is the time to start harnessing your inner leader to...
Provided by ConnectWise
-
Whitepapers
Getting a better grip on mobile devices
Jul 2012
Taking the daily grind out of managing mobile devices In a recent survey of smartphone users, over 83% said that their mobile phones were more important than a morning coffee. While such devices,...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Working Around the Clock: How HR & IT Collaboration Can Improve Global HCM
Apr 2012
Three HR leaders discuss how working around the clock has become a painful reality for many companies as they grapple with the challenges of staying competitive across languages, cultures, and...
Provided by SkillSoft
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Whitepapers
Relinquishing the Reins: Reaping the Benefits of Empowering Your IT Team
Apr 2012
Empowering the IT staff is essential for maximizing an organization's productivity, value, and growth. Real authority and responsibility is the prime catalyst for employee engagement and...
Provided by SkillSoft
-
White Papers
The Online MBA at Benedictine University
Jan 2012
If you're a business professional, you know that an MBA can position you to move up into high-level leadership roles. Benedictine's online MBA degree program prepares you to successfully lead...
Provided by Benedictine University
-
White Papers
Is Your Current HR Service Delivery Model Working?
Sep 2011
This whitepaper examines the HR service delivery challenges facing organizations today, outlines a common approach to delivering world-class HR service, and details the technology necessary to...
Provided by Oracle
-
Whitepapers
WebSphere Application Server v7 vs. Oracle WebLogic 11g
Aug 2011
This document briefly covers key differences between IBM® WebSphere® Application Server and Oracle WebLogic Server. While both products are of high quality and will perform well even in demanding...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
New Book Promotes Corporate Social Responsibility
Sep 2008
Peace through Commerce: Responsible Corporate Citizenship and the Ideals of the United Nations Global Compact includes essays by major business leaders and scholars who discuss the issues...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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White Papers
Students Spend Summer Immersed In Chinese Business, Culture
Aug 2009
Designed to provide students with the opportunity to explore, experience and examine business and culture in China, the course offered presentations by guest professors and business leaders, as...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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White Papers
Why Ease of Use and Quality of User Experience Are The Most Critical Criteria for Successful video conferencing Deployments
Aug 2011
So you are about to consider video conferencing for your organization. Management has discussed the opportunity to engage with one another more frequently and they don't have an extensive travel...
Provided by LifeSize Communications
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Whitepapers
Trends in HR Shared Service Delivery: Service Quality is Gaining Importance on the Agendas of Shared Service Decision-Makers
Jul 2011
Explore the role of technology in HR service delivery - and what shared-services owners should consider when choosing their HR shared service delivery platform. (Workforce Solutions, 2011)
Provided by SAP
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White Papers
When Workforce Goals Meet Corporate Strategy: Six Tips For Getting The Greatest Value From Alignment
May 2011
Successful goal alignment, as part of a unified approach to talent development, can help your company significantly enhance its competitive edge by accelerating time-to-market and increasing...
Provided by SumTotal Systems
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White Papers
The Libyan Accounting Profession: Historical Factors And Economic Consequences
Jul 2010
The aim of this paper is to trace the historical development of the accounting profession in Libya, in order to identify challenges facing the profession as the country moves from a closed to...
Provided by University of Sydney
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White Papers
Privatization Meets Fijian Cultural And Social Impediments: A Case Study Of A Telecommunications Company
Jul 2010
The paper aims to illustrate a resistance to accounting change at a Fijian TeLecommunication company (FTL). The paper explains how change was introduced and was resisted at various levels of...
Provided by University of Waikato
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White Papers
Sustainability In An Australian University: Staff Perceptions
Jul 2010
The last two decades witnessed a surge of research into sustainability, in particular, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reporting. The foci were on the motivations, characteristics, formats...
Provided by University of Sydney
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White Papers
Theoretical Perspectives On Corporate Narrative Disclosures: New Insights From Psychology, Sociology, And Critical Perspectives
Jul 2010
Theories from traditional finance (e.g. agency theory) are not suitable for impression management research as they are based on fundamental assumptions of manager and investor rationality. For the...
Provided by University of Sydney
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White Papers
Contrasting Realities: Corporate Environmental Disclosure And Stakeholder-Released Information
Jul 2010
This paper studies the informational dynamics taking place between a firm and its stakeholders with respect to corporate environmental management. The analysis rests on a longitudinal case study...
Provided by Universite Laval
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White Papers
Do Culture And Governance Structure Influence CSR Reporting Quality: Evidence From China, India, Malaysia And The United Kingdom
Jul 2010
This paper provides preliminary findings on CSR disclosure practices in various reporting media used by 70 big corporations in China, India, Malaysia and the UK. It also investigates whether...
Provided by University of Sydney
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White Papers
Competition, Cooperation, And Corporate Culture
Jul 2007
Teamwork and cooperation between workers can be of substantial value to a firm, yet the level of worker cooperation often varies between individual firms. The authors show that these differences...
Provided by University of Zurich
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White Papers
Corporate Disclosure Determinants: A Cross-Country Investigation
Nov 2007
The wave of bankruptcies that have followed one upon the other in recent years as the consequence of financial scandals and the integration among the financial systems of various countries have...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Corporate Culture And Shareholder Value In Banking Industry
Apr 2008
This paper analyses the casual relationship between corporate culture and shareholder value using a sample of large banks in the French, German, Italian and U.K. banking systems over the 2000 to...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Structural Models And Endogeneity In Corporate Finance: The Link Between Managerial Ownership And Corporate Performance
Nov 2007
This paper presents a parsimonious, structural model that captures primary economic determinants of the relation between firm value and managerial ownership. Supposing that observed firm size and...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Productivity In Contests: Organizational Culture And Personality Effects
Jul 2010
The authors study the interaction of organizational culture and personal prosocial orientation in team work where teams compete against each other. In a computerized lab experiment with minimal...
Provided by Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
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White Papers
Culture And Cooperation
May 2010
Does the cultural background influence the success with which genetically unrelated individuals cooperate in social dilemma situations? In this paper the authors provide an answer by analyzing the...
Provided by University of Nottingham
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White Papers
Reciprocity, Culture, And Human Cooperation: Previous Insights And A New Cross-Cultural Experiment
Mar 2009
Understanding the proximate and ultimate sources of human cooperation is a fundamental issue in all behavioural sciences. In this paper the authors review the experimental evidence on how people...
Provided by University of Nottingham
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White Papers
Firm Leadership And The Gender Pay Gap: Do Active Owners Discriminate More Than Hired Managers?
Dec 2010
Using a large linked employer-employee data set for Germany, the authors investigate differences in the unexplained gender pay gap between owner-run and manager-run rms. They hypothesise that...
Provided by EconStor
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Case Studies
Biotechnology And Biological Sciences Research Council: Creating A Culture In Which Women Can Progress
Jan 2011
The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) is the UK's leading funding agency for the promotion and support of world-class research and postgraduate training in the...
Provided by UKRC
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Case Studies
Rolls-Royce - Site Visit Starts A Change In Culture
Jan 2011
Rolls-Royce is committed to encouraging a diverse workforce and promoting equality of opportunity for everyone. The UKRC/IOP Site Visit was a great way to make sure the equal opportunity policies...
Provided by UKRC
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White Papers
Social Capital As Good Culture
Dec 2007
To explain the extremely long-term persistence (more than 500 years) of positive historical experiences of cooperation (Putnam 1993), the authors model the intergenerational transmission of priors...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Institutions, Culture, And Open Source
Feb 2010
The paper analyzes the impact of institutional and cultural factors on a remarkable economic activity: the production of so-called Open Source Software (OSS). OSS is marked by free access to the...
Provided by Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
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White Papers
Corporate Social Responsibility Through An Economic Lens
May 2008
Business leaders, government officials, and academics are focusing considerable attention on the concept of "Corporate Social Responsibility" (CSR), particularly in the realm of environmental...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Webcasts
The Culture Beat And New Media
Nov 2009
Celebrity culture and the brutal economics of print journalism have conspired to kill arts criticism, but it has begun migrating to the web, where it just may survive and even thrive. Panelists...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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White Papers
History, Culture, And Trade: A Dynamic Gravity Approach
Jul 2010
What determines trade patterns? Habit persistence in consumer tastes and learning-by-doing in production imply that history and culture matter. Deriving a dynamic gravity equation from a simple...
Provided by Economics and Econometrics Research Institute
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White Papers
Dilemma Of Corporate Action: Empirical Evidences Of Bonus Issue Vs. Stock Split
Sep 2008
Corporate action is usually believed to offer some good news to the investors, particularly in case of amalgamation and mergers. In many cases, corporate actions do not involve any potential...
Provided by Vikalpa
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White Papers
Effect Of Organizational Culture On Creating Learned Helplessness Attributions In R&D Professionals: A Canonical Correlation Analysis
Jun 2008
Organizations must make effective use of their resources in order to succeed in today's global marketplace. To get the most out of their human resources, organizations empower employees to allow...
Provided by Vikalpa
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White Papers
Cultural Integration In Europe
Dec 2009
This paper investigates the integration processes of immigrants in Germany by comparing certain immigrant groups to natives differentiating by gender and immigrant generation. Indicators which are...
Provided by German Institute of Economic Research (DIW Berlin Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung e.V.)
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Whitepapers
Gartner 2012 SIEM Magic Quadrant
Feb 2013
The SIEM market is defined by organizations' need to analyze security data in real time for internal and external threat management, and to collect, analyze and report on data for regulatory...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Discover Your Inner Leader -
Mar 2013
Do you have the skills to successfully lead your organization? With the right amount of dedication, anyone can be a leader – including you. Now is the time to start harnessing your inner leader to...
Provided by ConnectWise
-
Downloads
Download Savvion's Free Business Process Modeling Software
Jul 2006
The first step in improving your business processes is to articulate precisely where bottlenecks exist, and the most efficient way to do that is by simulating your existing processes using...
Provided by Savvion
-
White Papers
Why Ease of Use and Quality of User Experience Are The Most Critical Criteria for Successful video conferencing Deployments
Aug 2011
So you are about to consider video conferencing for your organization. Management has discussed the opportunity to engage with one another more frequently and they don't have an extensive travel...
Provided by LifeSize Communications
-
White Papers
Making the Business Case for HR Investments
Jun 2009
Explore how HR systems can provide strategic benefit to both the HR department and the business overall, for use in building a business case for HR investments. In addition, this paper discusses...
Provided by SAP
-
White Papers
HR Analytics Come into their Own
Jun 2009
Read this article from EIU about HR analytics as a critical tool for keeping HR and orgainizational-development executives strategically oriented, and for presenting to business leaders the kind...
Provided by SAP
-
White Papers
IPS vs. IDS: Similar on the Surface, Polar Opposites Underneath
Jan 2009
A common notion is that an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) is nothing more than an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) deployed in-line with blocking capabilities. Although IPS and IDS both examine...
Provided by TippingPoint Technologies
-
White Papers
CRM and Social Networking: Engaging the Social Customer
Jul 2009
Used effectively, social networking sites can enable marketing professionals, salespeople, and customer service agents to develop meaningful relationships with customers in new ways. But the true...
Provided by Microsoft
-
Whitepapers
It's Time To Review � And Renew � Your Telecommuting Policy
Apr 2009
There's no "one size fits all" when it comes to telecommuting. This new Forrester white paper explores how implementing best practices to create a telecommuting program and standardized policy...
Provided by Citrix Online
-
Webcasts
The Business Benefits of Secure Remote Access
Nov 2009
Join industry experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and opinion leaders from SonicWALL, Inc., as they help you make the right call on telecommuting.
Provided by SonicWALL
-
White Papers
Logging on: What is Social media?
Jan 2010
These days, it's no longer unusual to receive an email or visit a Web site and be directed to "connect with us!" through Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or any number of social networking sites. From...
Provided by Career Builder
-
White Papers
The ROI of Human Capital - Chapter 10
May 2006
This is the Information Age, and people are the most important resource. It is true - profoundly true - with implications that are still difficult to fully grasp. Imagine going into the...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
Driving Results Through Culture
Sep 2008
Corporate culture - an organization's personality - is the sum total of the company's values, attitudes, beliefs, behaviors and practices of its members. But many managers may have just a vague...
Provided by S. Chris Edmonds
-
White Papers
Creating A Corporate Culture Demonstrating Ethical And Cooperative Leadership
Apr 2009
All organizations seek to establish common goals that will help them meet strategic objectives, rally their employees and inspire shareholders. These goals, set by the senior executive team after...
Provided by Board Advisory Services
-
White Papers
Will That Be Leadership Or Management Development?
Mar 2009
While the plethora of new books and articles on leadership has contributed in an important way to raising the level of awareness and understanding on the subject, it has also created confusion,...
Provided by Leadership World Connect
-
White Papers
How To Build A Great Company Culture
Jan 2010
Being better, faster, and cheaper is no longer good enough to give one an advantage over the competitors. The one thing that can give one's company that elusive, sustainable competitive advantage...
Provided by Executive Business Advisers
-
White Papers
Understanding Organizational Culture And Leadership - Enhance Efficiency And Productivity
Jan 2010
This paper reviews the existing literature on relationships between innovativeness and organization structure and culture, technical process approach, and encourages employees to find the meaning...
Provided by PMFORUM
-
White Papers
Sharpen Your Leadership Skills With Evidence - Based Management
Mar 2008
Bring new insight into your decision-making process by relying on evidence and data, rather than past experiences says the author. Far too often, managers rely on past practices when it comes time...
Provided by MasterCard
-
White Papers
Why Inside Outsiders Are The Key To Succession
Jan 2008
A central challenge facing most companies today is picking their next CEO. Even if a company's CEO has only recently been installed, and even if he or she seems to be doing an outstanding job, the...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
-
White Papers
Leadership And Organizational Strategy
Feb 2009
Strategic planning, an umbrella term used to include and summarize such activities as planning, performance measurement, program budgeting, and the like, has proven to be very useful but limited....
Provided by Eleanor Glor
-
White Papers
Strategy In Action A Strategy Viewpoint
Jun 2007
Corporate executives used to look upon issues of their corporate culture as "Soft and fuzzy" areas over which they had little control. No longer. Today's senior leaders are increasingly finding...
Provided by Accenture
-
White Papers
The Relationship Between Commitment And Organizational Culture, Subculture, Leadership Style
Jan 2010
The concept of organizational commitment has been examined extensively in organizational literature, yet the relationships between organizational culture, subculture and commitment have received...
Provided by University of New South Wales
-
White Papers
High Performance With High Integrity
Sep 2008
In an era characterized by accelerating change, economic dislocation, and - all too often - highly visible scandals, a key question has become more and more pressing. It's a question that is posed...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
-
White Papers
How To Conduct Corporate Event Planning
Oct 2009
There are many things to consider when planning a corporate event but very first thing you should consider in corporate event management is the food. More often, the potential and possible success...
Provided by Free Articles Directory
-
White Papers
Senior Leadership Teams: What It Takes To Make Them Great
Feb 2008
The author is an experienced executive, a respected leader, and a veteran of the usual corporate team-building exploits, including trekking through the steamy rain forests of Costa Rica. But...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
-
White Papers
Preparing For The Recovery: Five Ways To Get Your Organization Ready Now
Feb 2010
Companies have expended a great deal of emotional and financial energy in recent months just to deal with the most pressing issues of the economic downturn. But there is no letting up now. As they...
Provided by Accenture
-
White Papers
Leadership That Gets Results
Aug 2008
New research suggests that the most effective executives use a collection of distinct leadership styles - each in the right measure, at just the right time. Such flexibility is tough to put into...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
-
White Papers
The Information Future Of The Corporate Board
Apr 2008
Corporate governance is in the news again. Following the high-profile reversals in the financial-services industry, pressure on boards from shareholder activists and regulators to somehow prevent...
Provided by Accenture
-
White Papers
Godfather Management? The Role Of Leaders In Changing Organizational Culture In Transition Economies
Dec 2009
The objective of the paper is to examine the degree to which national culture and/or the business sector are influencing factors in organization culture change. This paper aims to determine...
Provided by Budapesti Business School
-
White Papers
Organizational Commitment -A Missing Link Between Leadership Behavior And Organizational Performance?
Nov 2008
This paper investigates the effect of executive leadership behaviors on the Organizational Commitment (OC) of subordinate managers and the influence of the latter on measures of company...
Provided by Elsevier
-
White Papers
How Leaders Can Optimize Organizational Culture
Apr 2009
Realigning processes and roles to fit a new organizational reality is daily work for leaders. Planning and implementing changes is a fundamental set of skills at which all leaders must excel to...
Provided by Management Performance International
-
White Papers
Organizational Imprinting: Informing Firm Behavior In Domestic And International Contexts
Oct 2008
The authors argue that organizational imprinting theory provides an important causal mechanism and originating source for numerous behaviors which are applicable to several research literatures....
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
Economic Performance And Enterprise Culture
Jun 2010
This paper explores the impact of economic performance on national culture and specifically, whether higher levels of economic performance contribute to the formation of an "Enterprise" culture...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
New Center At Notre Dame Studies Financial Regulation
Oct 2009
In September 2008, as the stock market began its precipitous slide, federal regulators abruptly moved to ban short sales of financial stocks. The hope was to protect companies whose stock was...
Provided by University of Notre Dame (Mendoza)
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White Papers
Think Like An Entrepreneur For Corporate Success
Apr 2009
Corporate leaders looking for guidance in the prolonged economic crisis should check their rearview mirrors for fast-approaching global entrepreneurs, Thunderbird Professor Robert Hisrich, Ph.D.,...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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Whitepapers
What You Can Learn From College Sports Coaches About Building Team Resilience
Apr 2010
Sports teams face obstacles like losing players to injury, falling into slumps and losing focus. But some teams are good at dealing with adversity and bouncing back. Ben Rosen, the Robert March...
Provided by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
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Whitepapers
An Experiential Approach To Developing Leaders Is Right On Target
Oct 2009
Leadership is one of those things that is difficult to have a classroom presentation and then suddenly you get it. Working on projects with classmates who came from public service, industry,...
Provided by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
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The Role Of Boards Of Directors In Corporate Governance: A Conceptual Framework & Survey
Apr 2009
This paper is a survey of the literature on boards of directors, with an emphasis on research done subsequent to the Hermalin and Weisbach (2003) survey. The two questions most asked about boards...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
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The New Deal At The Top
Jun 2007
Most companies have managers reporting directly to the CEO on a one-to-one basis, with responsibility for their units or regions," says Yves Doz, who holds the Timken chair in Global Technology...
Provided by INSEAD
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Using Facilitation To Drive Change - The Change Leader's Guide
Jul 2007
This paper will help you to become a more sophisticated user of facilitation - to know what questions to ask facilitators before you hire them; to know how to judge the quality of a facilitator's...
Provided by IMD
