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White Papers
Free Project Manager Toolkit
Dec 2010
Learn what other project managers are doing to increase team productivity and maximize resources by downloading this free project manager toolkit from @task. This collection of whitepapers,...
Provided by AtTask
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Whitepapers - Video
Smarter Planet: The Energy and Utilities Industry
Jan 2012
Guido Bartels, General Manager, IBM Global Energy and Utilities Industry, and Chairman, Gridwise Alliance, shares his insights on the energy and utilities industry.
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Product Information Management
Dec 2005
This report is a must-read if you're an IT strategist who's currently evaluating product information management (PIM) technologies. It explains why the as-yet-immature PIM market is evolving...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Dispelling the vapor around cloud computing
Jan 2011
It pays to work smarter not harder. According to a recent study by the IBM Institute for Business Value, organizations that are significantly outperforming their industry peers also happen to be...
Provided by IBM
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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
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White Papers
The Impact of Ethical Leadership Behavior on Employee Outcomes
Sep 2006
The topics of authentic leadership and the ethical behavior of leaders have received significant interest in recent years due to the plethora of ethical scandals in corporations. In this paper,...
Provided by AllBusiness.com
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White Papers
Research Shows Men Get Ahead For Being "Disagreeable" In The Workplace; Women Don't
Aug 2011
In the workplace they do, according to new research co-authored by University of Notre Dame Management Professor Timothy Judge. The paper shows a strong negative relationship between agreeableness...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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White Papers
Transforming "the business of IT"
May 2006
Learn how IBM's Component Business Model for the Business of IT can help you uncover the hidden value in your infrastructure. This methodology breaks your IT into its basic building blocks--a...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Factors Of Organizational Culture Change
Nov 2009
Organizational culture has a significant impact on the organization members' life and in general it helps a company to achieve positive financial results. Organizational culture is very important...
Provided by Vilnius University
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White Papers
Learning from Business Process Management Leaders
Jun 2009
Read about the benefits, prerequisites, and impact of successful business process management (BPM) initiatives, with a closer look at the United States. This report on a new IDG Research Services...
Provided by SAP
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Webcasts
Accelerate results by aligning Lean Six Sigma, BPM and SOA
Jul 2009
There has never been a more important time to uncover process waste, reduce non-value adding activity, and increase productivity. Lean Six Sigma (LSS) produces real results, and when combined with...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Behavior-Based Safety Techniques Can Improve Productivity, Quality, And Safety
Jan 2009
Whether an organization is a Fortune 500 company with worldwide operations or a mid-size firm with one facility, employees are absolutely crucial to the overall performance and profitably of the...
Provided by Marsh
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White Papers
The Secrets Of Facilitation: How To Make Meetings Masterful
Jan 2009
A little preparation can transform your meetings from a dreaded chore to a useful tool, and the first step to doing that is to identify your goal. What do you want out of this meeting? What do...
Provided by KLR Consulting
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White Papers
The perfect storm: Why now is the time for open source
Feb 2009
These are unprecedented times. The global economy is in free fall, with no geographic region or industry unaffected by the scarcity of capital, market volatility, and reduced consumer spending....
Provided by Red Hat
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White Papers
BPM Technology Taxonomy: A Guided Tour to the Application of BPM
Mar 2009
This paper provides a survey of the practices and technology related to business process management (BPM). Basic concepts are explained, the transformational effect on the enterprise is examined,...
Provided by SAP
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Downloads
Get Rational Team Concert Express-C Free for up to 10 developers now!
Sep 2009
IBM Rational Team Concert Standard Edition, a member of the Rational Team Concert family of products built on the Jazz Technology Platform. Jazz is a scalable, extensible team collaboration...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Guide to cost optimization: 4 ways to gain operational advantage
Dec 2009
In today's economic environment, companies everywhere seek to reduce the cost of operations. Did you know that organizations today spend up to 80 percent of the IT budgets supporting day-to-day...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Behavior-Profile Clustering for False Alert Reduction in Anomaly Detection Sensors
Oct 2008
Anomaly Detection (AD) sensors compute behavior profiles to recognize malicious or anomalous activities. The behavior of a host is checked continuously by the AD sensor and an alert is raised when...
Provided by Columbia University
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Case Studies
Optimizing the Mobile Environment in Healthcare Systems
Jan 2010
A non-profit Healthcare system delivering high quality health-related services and support for 4,500 practitioners enhanced patient-physician relationships through cost effectively leveraging new...
Provided by ProfitLine
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White Papers
Manage healthcare assets and optimize asset utilization with IBM Maximo Asset Management
Dec 2007
Healthcare organizations are under increasing pressure to manage a sophisticated mix of computerized devices, tools and equipment, systems and technologies. At the same time, healthcare...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
The Total Customer Experience: Best Practices of Cisco, Lands' End, and Air Products and Chemicals
Sep 2005
Regardless of whether we are business customers or independent consumers, we desire "one version of the truth." Learn how best-practice organizations provide one version of truth to employees and...
Provided by APQC
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White Papers
Top 7 Signs Your Organisation Needs A Change In Culture
Jan 2010
One of the major reasons organisations fail to reach their objectives is because of poor culture. This paper highlights the top 7 warning signs that your organisation has a problem with its...
Provided by Chamberlin Consulting & JustHost.com
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White Papers
What Leaders Should Know About Basic Human Behaviors at Work
Jan 2006
Leaders tend to know more about how their cars operate than they do about what motivates and drives the people who work for and with them and that are not saying a lot. People, human beings, carry...
Provided by Leadership Advantage
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White Papers
Engagement: The New Organizational Challenge
Nov 2005
Organizational change appears to be the only predictable element in leadership. The scope and nature of change, however, continues to evolve. The experienced quality management, decentralization...
Provided by The Banff Centre
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Webcasts
Stephen R. Covey: The 8th Habit Live Webinar
May 2010
This live webinar will occur on May 27, 2010 at 1pm EST. Registration and a fee of $149 are required to attend. The Challenge: Rekindling Your Inner Spirit and Growing as a Leader Tens of...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Learning How and Learning What
May 2006
This paper examines effects of tacit and codified knowledge on performance improvement as organizations gain experience with a new technology. The authors' draw from knowledge management and...
Provided by Thomson Gale
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White Papers
Leaders Are Not Born
May 2006
In an increasingly competitive world, successful businesses need leaders, not managers, to handle the heat. Even so, an individual can't anoint him/herself a leader. Leadership is an honorary...
Provided by Speakers Roundtable
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White Papers
bizlife Column Six
May 2006
One is living in extraordinary times. Competition is keen and customers are demanding. What does it take to succeed day in and day out, year in and year out? It takes extraordinary performance....
Provided by Speakers Roundtable
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White Papers
bizlife Column Nine
May 2006
To be a successful executive one must know how to knock down walls. The author does not mean the walls of brick and steel that hold up buildings; he means the bureaucratic barriers that hold up...
Provided by Speakers Roundtable
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White Papers
A Hot Hand
May 2006
When executives and managers realize how their habits influence the entire organization, it's easy to understand how a burning twig can quickly become a forest fire The secret to leading under...
Provided by Speakers Roundtable
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White Papers
Fear Vs Courage: It's Your Choice
May 2006
Everyone moves Fear from the back of their minds to the front of their minds by shifting their concentration away from their own courage, and choosing instead to focus on that which frightens one....
Provided by Speakers Roundtable
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White Papers
Cross-Cultural Leadership
May 2006
Few successful businesses now work with people from only one culture. At the shallowest level, most Western businesses (even those based in one location) employ people from many cultural...
Provided by Mind Tools
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White Papers
Leader Evaluations: What Do They Really Tell Us?
May 2006
A reliable and valid testing device (Managerial Practices Survey, Yukl, 2001) contained fifteen leader behavioral values, based on sets of task, relations, and transformational behaviors. The...
Provided by Affinity Consulting
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White Papers
The New Accountability: Part 1
May 2006
This paper discusses accountability in organizations and how managers can shed the command and control aspects of the old style of accountability in favor of a more humane way of managing, which...
Provided by Affinity Consulting
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White Papers
The New Accountability: Part 2
May 2006
This paper continues the discussion around accountability in organizations and how managers can shed the command and control aspects of the old style of accountability in favor of a more humane...
Provided by Affinity Consulting
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White Papers
Leadership's Most Vital T-A-S-K
May 2006
Organizational dynamics today are bordering on the chaotic. Some would say that they are already out of control and cannot change, despite one's best efforts. Some authors have even emphasized the...
Provided by Affinity Consulting
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White Papers
Humility Aside, Here's Food for Thought
May 2006
Part memoir, part social commentary, part company case study, the book Authentic Leadership is Bill George's wide angle take on, and prescription for, the current state of corporate leadership....
Provided by Lead Well Institute
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Downloads
Managing Up: Make Your Boss Your Strongest Ally
Jun 2006
Scott Adams's comic strip Dilbert is popular and famous because the characters and situations—exaggerated though they may be—remind everyone of familiar examples from their own office lives....
Provided by Business, The Ultimate Resource
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White Papers
Combining Business Process Management and IT
Jun 2006
To remain competitive and cost efficient in today's fast-changing global scenario, where change response times can spell success or doom for a business, organizations need dynamic software...
Provided by CTQ Media
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White Papers
Get Over Yourself: Why We Think We're Forces To Be Reckoned With
May 2010
Withholding criticism creates "A really negative organizational dynamic". Many organizations are probably full of people brimming with relevant feedback, but are reluctant to dish it out....
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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Whitepapers - Video
Smarter Planet: The Energy and Utilities Industry
Jan 2012
Guido Bartels, General Manager, IBM Global Energy and Utilities Industry, and Chairman, Gridwise Alliance, shares his insights on the energy and utilities industry.
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Are All Inside Directors The Same? CEO Entrenchment Or Board Enhancement
Dec 2008
Two opposing theories currently exist concerning the role of inside directors on corporate boards. One theory emphasizes the moral hazard problem associated with CEO influence over...
Provided by University of South Florida
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White Papers
The Life Cycle Of Family Ownership: A Comparative Study Of France, Germany, Italy And The U.K.
Jun 2009
Using firm-level data for the largest four European economies, this paper analyzes the evolution of ownership of the largest 4,000 companies, private or listed, in France, Germany, Italy and the...
Provided by University of Oxford
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White Papers
Legal Corporate Insider Trading And The Price Impact Of Private Information
May 2008
This paper examines the information value of corporate insider trading disclosures for a sample of 2,108 public traded companies located in seven (continental) European countries. Their results...
Provided by Vienna University of Technology
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White Papers
The Diversification Discount Puzzle: Empirical Evidence For A Transactions Cost Resolution
Jun 2007
Prior literature on the diversification discount and the relative efficiency of internal versus external capital markets provides decidedly mixed results. The authors argue that transactions cost...
Provided by Trinity College Dublin
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White Papers
Is The Long-Run Performance Of Cross-Listed Firms Anomalous?
Nov 2007
The authors re-examine previous evidence of long-run underperformance of newly cross-listed firms. These results cannot be reconciled with the numerous advantages provided by cross-listing or with...
Provided by Universite Laval
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White Papers
The Modularity Of Technology And Organisations. Implications For The Theory Of The Firm
Jun 2011
This paper gives a selective overview on contributions studying issues of complexity, near-decomposability and modularity in relation to economic behaviour and the theory of the firm. In the first...
Provided by Austrian Institute of Economic Research
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White Papers
The Relationship Between Directors' Independence, Reputation And Management Earnings Forecasts
Nov 2007
The authors examine the relationship between corporate governance and management earnings forecasts. They extend the prior literature by examining the impact of independent director reputation on...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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White Papers
Two National Surveys Of American Jews, 2000-01: A Comparison Of The NJPS And AJIS
May 2007
While there have been very few national surveys of American Jews, two that the authors do have are from the same period, 2000-01. They were conducted by different researchers using different...
Provided by Levy Economics Institute
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White Papers
3 Common Pitfalls To SLM - And How To Avoid Them
Mar 2011
It seems that for every successful Service Level Management (SLM) initiative, there are several that fail to meet expectations. For all the complexity surrounding SLM, there are three critical...
Provided by CA (Computer Associates)
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White Papers
Research Shows Men Get Ahead For Being "Disagreeable" In The Workplace; Women Don't
Aug 2011
In the workplace they do, according to new research co-authored by University of Notre Dame Management Professor Timothy Judge. The paper shows a strong negative relationship between agreeableness...
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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White Papers
Building Enterprise Social Communities with Drupal
Aug 2011
Innovations in consumer social web services create both opportunity and risk for your enterprise. Your customers and employees are increasingly gathering in online communities of like-minded...
Provided by Acquia
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White Papers
Should you invest in GRC Tools?
Aug 2011
An organization's GRC strategy is only as good as the tools used to implement it. Home grown GRC tools, perceived by many as a quick fix to undertake complex compliance requirements, often fail to...
Provided by ANXeBusiness Corp
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White Papers
Dealing With Not For Profit Expenses
Jun 2011
Not For Profit (NFP) organisations have a core responsibility to ensure that as much of their income is spent on the target of their organisation. As such, salaries and other direct costs have to...
Provided by Quocirca
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White Papers
The Circulation Of Ideas In Firms And Markets
Apr 2011
Novel early stage ideas face uncertainty on the expertise needed to elaborate them, which creates a need to circulate them widely to find a match. Yet as information is not excludable, shared...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
The Organization Of R&D In American Corporations: The Determinants And Consequences Of Decentralization
May 2011
The authors study the relationship between decentralization of R&D, innovation and firm performance using a novel dataset on the organizational structure of 1,290 American publicly-listed...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Mortgage Modification And Strategic Behavior: Evidence From A Legal Settlement With Countrywide
May 2011
The authors investigate whether homeowners respond strategically to news of mortgage modification programs. They exploit plausibly exogenous variation in modification policy induced by U.S. state...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Banks, Market Organization, And Macroeconomic Performance: An Agent-Based Computational Analysis
Jun 2011
This paper is an exploratory analysis of the role that banks play in supporting the mechanism of exchange. It considers a model economy in which exchange activities are facilitated and coordinated...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Changing Configuration Of Alternative Energy Systems
Nov 2009
Recent and rampant regulatory changes for sustainable development are seeking to transform current energy systems towards cleaner and greener forms of energy sources. In this scenario, alternative...
Provided by United Nations University
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White Papers
The Role Of Firms In Energy Transformation
Jan 2009
This paper looks at the role of firms in the transformation of fossil fuel based energy systems towards cleaner and greener energy systems. Firms are playing an important role in determining the...
Provided by United Nations University
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White Papers
R&D Behaviour And The Emergence Of Fat-Tailed Firm Size Distributions
Nov 2009
This paper presents a simple boundedly rational model of a firm and consumer behaviour. The authors formulate an entry game, where every firm decides on investing in R&D for inventing a new...
Provided by United Nations University
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White Papers
New Organisational And Institutional Vehicles For Managing Innovation In South Asia: Opportunities For Using Research For Technical Change And Social Gain
Oct 2010
This paper sets out to explore the nature of new organisational and institutional vehicles for managing innovation in order to put research into use for social gain. There no longer remains any...
Provided by United Nations University
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White Papers
A Note On Testing For Complementarity And Substitutability In The Case Of Multiple Practices
Sep 2009
Recent empirical studies of firm-level performance have tested complementarity in the case of multiple practices. These papers have drawn conclusions using potentially biased estimates of...
Provided by United Nations University
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White Papers
The Shaping Of NGO Accountability: Aligning Imposed And Felt Accountabilities In Oxfam Novib
Jul 2010
The purpose of this paper is to advance and deepen one's understanding of the shaping of accountability in Non-Governmental Organization (NGOs) contexts. Using a framework drawing on the concepts...
Provided by University of Amsterdam
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White Papers
NGOs As Accountability Promoters: In The Mongolian Case
Jul 2010
Accountability is considered to be one of the main characteristics of democratic countries, but its implications in practice are mixed. In accountability literature, much research has examined...
Provided by Victoria University of Wellington
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White Papers
One Companys Journey
Jul 2010
How does a large (Fortune 100), progressive multinational corporation represent, understand, and operationalize Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)? In addressing this question, the authors...
Provided by University of Sydney
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White Papers
Activity-Based Costing Success (ABC) Implementation In China: The Effect Of Organizational Culture And Structure
Jul 2010
This paper aims to investigate the effect of corporate culture and organizational structure on Activity-Based Costing (ABC) success in China. Data were collected by survey questionnaire from a...
Provided by University of Sydney
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White Papers
Successful Promotion Or Segregation From Partnership? The "Post-Senior Manager" Position And Womens Careers In Public Accounting
Feb 2010
Historically public accounting careers have been "Up or out" with progression from staff-senior-manager-senior manager-partner. Recent AICPA data suggests senior managers are increasingly promoted...
Provided by University of Sydney
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White Papers
Performance On The Right Hand Side: Organizational Performance As An Independent Variable
Jul 2010
Organizational performance in most survey-based management control research appears on the "Left hand side of the equation" as a dependent variable. The objective typically being to identify,...
Provided by University of South Australia
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White Papers
Exploring Accountability Relationships In The NFP Sector
Aug 2010
Accountability relationships in the NFP sector have been insufficiently explored. This paper uses submissions to an Australian Parliamentary enquiry to explore the attitude of the sector to...
Provided by University of Sydney
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White Papers
Accountability And Sustainability: Davidsons And Taylors Means To Engage The World
Jul 2010
Many accountants and accounting theorists believe that objective accounts of the external world are possible. This paper critiques such arguments via an examination of the ethical assumptions...
Provided by University of South Australia
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White Papers
Social Responsibility Disclosure, Accountability Mechanism And Empowerment: The Evidence Of MERCY Malaysia
Aug 2010
Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in Malaysia face increasing attention from the public and government agencies due to their provision of aid. This includes questions regarding the...
Provided by University of Strathclyde
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White Papers
Accountability Of Waqf Management: Learning From Praxis Of Nongovernmental Organisation (NGO)
Jul 2010
The paper aims to explore a conceptual framework in which improvement on waqf management may be made focusing on its relationship with beneficiaries. The paper uses accountability as the main...
Provided by Royal Holloway, University of London
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White Papers
A Conceptual Framework For Not-For-Profit Sustainability: Renovation Or Reconstruction?
Jul 2010
This paper identifies how a stewardship approach can enhance Not-For-Profit (NFP) sustainability, advocates a NFP-specific conceptual framework, and illustrates the potential of a stewardship...
Provided by Queensland University of Technology
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White Papers
The Paradox Of Sustainability Definitions
Jul 2010
This paper aims to encourage debate and reflection over the increasing application of the word sustainability and the implied meanings taken from this usage. It is argued that there are increasing...
Provided by University of Waikato
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White Papers
Firms Vs. Insiders As Traders Of Last Resort
Oct 2007
The authors explore the role of corporate insiders vs. firms as traders of last resort. They develop a simple model of insider trading in which insiders provide price support, as well as...
Provided by IMDEA
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White Papers
Some Reflections On The Economics Of Prosecutors: Mandatory V Selective Prosecution
Feb 2008
Mandatory prosecution is inefficient according to legal economists. The authors argue that when prosecutors are fairly insulated from their performance or are highly risk averse mandatory...
Provided by IMDEA
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White Papers
Firm Behavior, Market Deregulation And Productivity In Spain
Nov 2010
The aim of this paper is to analyze the evolution of productivity and how firm behavior and institutional conditions affects productivity. For that purpose, the authors use a longitudinal sample...
Provided by Banco de España
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White Papers
Multi-Level Study Of Sanctions: The Importance Of Second-Order Sanctions
Aug 2010
In this paper, the author uses observational data to analyze instances of sanction conflict in a workplace, with the goal of understanding how sanctions may compete or interact. Using a data...
Provided by Rutgers, State University of New Jersey
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White Papers
Factors Of Organizational Culture Change
Nov 2009
Organizational culture has a significant impact on the organization members' life and in general it helps a company to achieve positive financial results. Organizational culture is very important...
Provided by Vilnius University
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White Papers
The Effects of Positive Affect and Gender on the Influence Tactics - Job Performance Relationship
Sep 2006
Influence tactics are goal-oriented behaviors that individuals use to obtain desired outcomes. Thus, it is important that managers understand subordinates' use of influence tactics and the effects...
Provided by AllBusiness.com
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White Papers
Ethics In Organizations: The Case Of Tata Steel
Jun 2006
The concern for ethical decision-making among the regulators, social groups, and managers has substantially increased in recent years following the failure of some of the prominent business...
Provided by Vikalpa
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White Papers
Free Project Manager Toolkit
Dec 2010
Learn what other project managers are doing to increase team productivity and maximize resources by downloading this free project manager toolkit from @task. This collection of whitepapers,...
Provided by AtTask
-
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
Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Product Information Management
Dec 2005
This report is a must-read if you're an IT strategist who's currently evaluating product information management (PIM) technologies. It explains why the as-yet-immature PIM market is evolving...
Provided by IBM
-
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
Learning from Business Process Management Leaders
Jun 2009
Read about the benefits, prerequisites, and impact of successful business process management (BPM) initiatives, with a closer look at the United States. This report on a new IDG Research Services...
Provided by SAP
-
Webcasts
Accelerate results by aligning Lean Six Sigma, BPM and SOA
Jul 2009
There has never been a more important time to uncover process waste, reduce non-value adding activity, and increase productivity. Lean Six Sigma (LSS) produces real results, and when combined with...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
Behavior-Based Safety Techniques Can Improve Productivity, Quality, And Safety
Jan 2009
Whether an organization is a Fortune 500 company with worldwide operations or a mid-size firm with one facility, employees are absolutely crucial to the overall performance and profitably of the...
Provided by Marsh
-
White Papers
The Secrets Of Facilitation: How To Make Meetings Masterful
Jan 2009
A little preparation can transform your meetings from a dreaded chore to a useful tool, and the first step to doing that is to identify your goal. What do you want out of this meeting? What do...
Provided by KLR Consulting
-
White Papers
The perfect storm: Why now is the time for open source
Feb 2009
These are unprecedented times. The global economy is in free fall, with no geographic region or industry unaffected by the scarcity of capital, market volatility, and reduced consumer spending....
Provided by Red Hat
-
White Papers
BPM Technology Taxonomy: A Guided Tour to the Application of BPM
Mar 2009
This paper provides a survey of the practices and technology related to business process management (BPM). Basic concepts are explained, the transformational effect on the enterprise is examined,...
Provided by SAP
-
Downloads
Get Rational Team Concert Express-C Free for up to 10 developers now!
Sep 2009
IBM Rational Team Concert Standard Edition, a member of the Rational Team Concert family of products built on the Jazz Technology Platform. Jazz is a scalable, extensible team collaboration...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
Guide to cost optimization: 4 ways to gain operational advantage
Dec 2009
In today's economic environment, companies everywhere seek to reduce the cost of operations. Did you know that organizations today spend up to 80 percent of the IT budgets supporting day-to-day...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
-
White Papers
Behavior-Profile Clustering for False Alert Reduction in Anomaly Detection Sensors
Oct 2008
Anomaly Detection (AD) sensors compute behavior profiles to recognize malicious or anomalous activities. The behavior of a host is checked continuously by the AD sensor and an alert is raised when...
Provided by Columbia University
-
Case Studies
Optimizing the Mobile Environment in Healthcare Systems
Jan 2010
A non-profit Healthcare system delivering high quality health-related services and support for 4,500 practitioners enhanced patient-physician relationships through cost effectively leveraging new...
Provided by ProfitLine
-
White Papers
Manage healthcare assets and optimize asset utilization with IBM Maximo Asset Management
Dec 2007
Healthcare organizations are under increasing pressure to manage a sophisticated mix of computerized devices, tools and equipment, systems and technologies. At the same time, healthcare...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
The Total Customer Experience: Best Practices of Cisco, Lands' End, and Air Products and Chemicals
Sep 2005
Regardless of whether we are business customers or independent consumers, we desire "one version of the truth." Learn how best-practice organizations provide one version of truth to employees and...
Provided by APQC
-
White Papers
Top 7 Signs Your Organisation Needs A Change In Culture
Jan 2010
One of the major reasons organisations fail to reach their objectives is because of poor culture. This paper highlights the top 7 warning signs that your organisation has a problem with its...
Provided by Chamberlin Consulting & JustHost.com
-
White Papers
What Leaders Should Know About Basic Human Behaviors at Work
Jan 2006
Leaders tend to know more about how their cars operate than they do about what motivates and drives the people who work for and with them and that are not saying a lot. People, human beings, carry...
Provided by Leadership Advantage
-
White Papers
Engagement: The New Organizational Challenge
Nov 2005
Organizational change appears to be the only predictable element in leadership. The scope and nature of change, however, continues to evolve. The experienced quality management, decentralization...
Provided by The Banff Centre
-
Webcasts
Stephen R. Covey: The 8th Habit Live Webinar
May 2010
This live webinar will occur on May 27, 2010 at 1pm EST. Registration and a fee of $149 are required to attend. The Challenge: Rekindling Your Inner Spirit and Growing as a Leader Tens of...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
Transforming "the business of IT"
May 2006
Learn how IBM's Component Business Model for the Business of IT can help you uncover the hidden value in your infrastructure. This methodology breaks your IT into its basic building blocks--a...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
Learning How and Learning What
May 2006
This paper examines effects of tacit and codified knowledge on performance improvement as organizations gain experience with a new technology. The authors' draw from knowledge management and...
Provided by Thomson Gale
-
White Papers
Leaders Are Not Born
May 2006
In an increasingly competitive world, successful businesses need leaders, not managers, to handle the heat. Even so, an individual can't anoint him/herself a leader. Leadership is an honorary...
Provided by Speakers Roundtable
-
White Papers
bizlife Column Six
May 2006
One is living in extraordinary times. Competition is keen and customers are demanding. What does it take to succeed day in and day out, year in and year out? It takes extraordinary performance....
Provided by Speakers Roundtable
-
White Papers
bizlife Column Nine
May 2006
To be a successful executive one must know how to knock down walls. The author does not mean the walls of brick and steel that hold up buildings; he means the bureaucratic barriers that hold up...
Provided by Speakers Roundtable
-
White Papers
A Hot Hand
May 2006
When executives and managers realize how their habits influence the entire organization, it's easy to understand how a burning twig can quickly become a forest fire The secret to leading under...
Provided by Speakers Roundtable
-
White Papers
Fear Vs Courage: It's Your Choice
May 2006
Everyone moves Fear from the back of their minds to the front of their minds by shifting their concentration away from their own courage, and choosing instead to focus on that which frightens one....
Provided by Speakers Roundtable
-
White Papers
Cross-Cultural Leadership
May 2006
Few successful businesses now work with people from only one culture. At the shallowest level, most Western businesses (even those based in one location) employ people from many cultural...
Provided by Mind Tools
-
White Papers
Leader Evaluations: What Do They Really Tell Us?
May 2006
A reliable and valid testing device (Managerial Practices Survey, Yukl, 2001) contained fifteen leader behavioral values, based on sets of task, relations, and transformational behaviors. The...
Provided by Affinity Consulting
-
White Papers
The New Accountability: Part 1
May 2006
This paper discusses accountability in organizations and how managers can shed the command and control aspects of the old style of accountability in favor of a more humane way of managing, which...
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The New Accountability: Part 2
May 2006
This paper continues the discussion around accountability in organizations and how managers can shed the command and control aspects of the old style of accountability in favor of a more humane...
Provided by Affinity Consulting
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Leadership's Most Vital T-A-S-K
May 2006
Organizational dynamics today are bordering on the chaotic. Some would say that they are already out of control and cannot change, despite one's best efforts. Some authors have even emphasized the...
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Humility Aside, Here's Food for Thought
May 2006
Part memoir, part social commentary, part company case study, the book Authentic Leadership is Bill George's wide angle take on, and prescription for, the current state of corporate leadership....
Provided by Lead Well Institute
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Managing Up: Make Your Boss Your Strongest Ally
Jun 2006
Scott Adams's comic strip Dilbert is popular and famous because the characters and situations—exaggerated though they may be—remind everyone of familiar examples from their own office lives....
Provided by Business, The Ultimate Resource
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Combining Business Process Management and IT
Jun 2006
To remain competitive and cost efficient in today's fast-changing global scenario, where change response times can spell success or doom for a business, organizations need dynamic software...
Provided by CTQ Media
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Get Over Yourself: Why We Think We're Forces To Be Reckoned With
May 2010
Withholding criticism creates "A really negative organizational dynamic". Many organizations are probably full of people brimming with relevant feedback, but are reluctant to dish it out....
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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Toxic Organizations - Welcome To The Fire Of An Unhealthy Workplace
Jan 2010
A toxic organization shows two characteristics that distinguish it from healthier workplaces. First, it has a history of poor performance, and poor decision-making. In extreme cases, that poor...
Provided by Robert Bacal
