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White Papers
Improving IT service delivery through an integrated approach to software asset management white paper
Oct 2009
This white paper describes the challenges of managing software rights in increasingly complex environments and discusses how SAM can make the entire process more efficient. Specifically, it...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Best Practices in Creating a Strategic Finance Function
May 2006
According to the results of a recent APQC study, finance organizations, no matter what their size, are still spending almost two-thirds of their time on transaction processing, to the detriment of...
Provided by SAP
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White Papers
Comparing Fax Servers to Hosted Fax Solutions
Jul 2007
Today, faxing continues to be a dominant communications tool. While e-mail may be the 'killer app,' the fact is many industries still rely heavily on faxes to transmit data between two or more...
Provided by MyFax
-
White Papers
Judgment Sustained
Jan 2010
Poor judgment in accounting can be costly. Despite the use of rules-based standards in the United States - Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) - poor judgment is one of the leading...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
-
White Papers
Journal of Management Excellence - Creating Value
Feb 2009
The principles underlying TVI are as old as control theory. Accountants audit a company by aligning money, information, and the flow of goods—or core business processes, in more modern terms. It...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Risk Management: Protect and Maximize Stakeholder Value
Feb 2009
Recent economic volatility has given risk management a new focus and eminence. The strongest companies are the ones that are able and willing to adapt, who actively integrate risk management as a...
Provided by Oracle
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Webcasts
Increase developer productivity using IBM RationalTM and WebSphereTM.
Oct 2009
Even in a down economy, it's important to deliver services quickly. This Webcast presentation shows how by using solutions from Rational and WebSphere, development teams can leverage the latest...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
Bigger picture, smarter decisions: Today's BI tools
Oct 2009
With people and systems increasingly interconnected, it's hard to keep up with data. In the ForwardView article, "Bigger picture, smarter decisions: BI tools," you'll learn how Business...
Provided by IBM
-
Research
Optimize your performance with the Smart Work Advisor
Nov 2009
Smart Work Advisor shows how businesses can optimize their performance by providing a decision tree they can use to adapt dynamically, collaborate more effectively and connect people and processes...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
Expanding BI's role
Dec 2009
In today's economic downturn, organizations are looking for ways to improve the way they do business to keep ahead of the competition and grow revenue. The path to success in all of these areas,...
Provided by SAP
-
White Papers
Mid-Market CEO Study
Aug 2008
The rate and scope of change in the business environment is unprecedented. Organizations that approach this climate as an opportunity are the ones experiencing greater financial returns. Explore...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
Smart Decision Making in the Era of New Financial Challenges
Jan 2010
An era of new financial challenges calls for innovative financial planning approaches. Monte Carlo modeling can help manage risk, improve forecasting, and drive growth in turbulent times. Read...
Provided by Oracle
-
White Papers
Best Practices in Selecting Performance Management Software
Feb 2005
A new generation of sophisticated, Web-based database applications is changing the way companies look at planning and financial reporting. These corporate performance management (CPM) solutions...
Provided by Clarity Systems
-
White Papers
The building blocks to a Smarter Planet, Scott Hebner, includes entire cross Rational and IBM messages
May 2009
As a way to differentiate their offerings and optimize business returns, manufacturers across all industries are delivering a new generation of "smarter products."
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Financial Information In Decision Making
Jul 2008
CIMA is the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. It supports over 164,000 members and students in 161 countries. CIMA works with some of the world's leading businesses and provides a...
Provided by MBA Publishing
-
White Papers
Dark Omens In The Sky: Do Superstitious Beliefs Affect Investment Decisions?
Jun 2009
Psychological research documents that individuals are more likely to resort to superstitious practices when operating in environments dominated by uncertainty, high stakes, and perceived lack of...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
-
White Papers
Can Geography Affect Your Bank Account?: The Role Of Culture In Economic Decisions
Apr 2007
Do Koreans save more than the British? Are Eastern Europeans more reluctant to invest in stocks? Do Brazilians mistrust financial markets? While modern commerce may be global and pay little...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
-
White Papers
Optimal Asset Allocation In Asset Liability Management
Feb 2007
The authors study the impact of regulations on the investment decisions of a defined benefits pension plan. The authors assess the influence of ex ante (preventive) and ex post (punitive) risk...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
-
White Papers
Holding Business Professionals Accountable For Leadership Malpractice
Mar 2009
As the economic meltdown continues and major blue-chip companies fall into a tailspin, questioning business strategies and senior-level decision making has come into vogue once again. How could...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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White Papers
The Role Of Component Commonality In Product Assortment Decisions
Aug 2009
The paper considers a firm that produces multiple variants of a product. Products are assembled using a combination of common and dedicated components. The paper characterizes the optimal...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
-
White Papers
Overcoming The Crisis Will Take Strong, Ethical Leadership
Jan 2009
Managers consumed with maximizing short-term profits - and with them, the value of their stock options - rather than creating real, sustainable value have destroyed billions of dollars in...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
-
White Papers
Aberdeen - Operational BI: Getting Real Time About Performance
Jul 2010
Read this engaging report and learn about the challenges and benefits of improving the efficiency and performance of many day-to-day and real-time activities, such as customer interactions,...
Provided by SAP
-
White Papers
Building A New Science: The Elements Of Risk And Decision Analysis
Jul 2008
Risk is an issue in most activities, technical as well as economic, internal or external to any organization. It has been considered so far in the context of different disciplines. In engineering...
Provided by University of Texas (Dallas)
-
White Papers
Multivariate Concave And Convex Stochastic Dominance
Apr 2010
Stochastic dominance permits a partial ordering of alternatives (probability distributions on consequences) based only on partial information about a decision maker's utility function. Univariate...
Provided by INSEAD
-
White Papers
Necessary Knowledge For Communications Policy
Aug 2006
Communications policymaking increasingly relies upon large-scale databases manufactured and marketed by commercial organizations. Data providers such as BIA Research, Nielsen Media Research, and...
Provided by Fordham University
-
White Papers
Experience Weighted Attraction In The First Price Auction And Becker Degroot Marschak
Feb 2008
This paper explores the performance of Experience Weighted Attraction (EWA) in two different auction institutions: First Price Sealed Bid, and Becker-DeGroot-Marschak. The results suggest that...
Provided by Fordham University
-
White Papers
Libertarian Paternalism, Information Sharing, And Financial Decision-Making
Mar 2010
Author developed a theoretical model to study the welfare effects of libertarian paternalism on information acquisition, social learning, and financial decision-making. Individuals in the model...
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
-
White Papers
Optimal Liquidity Provision For Decision Makers
Jan 2007
Although prices in financial markets play an important role in improving allocative efficiency in the real economy, few models of securities markets explicitly incorporate resource allocation...
Provided by University of Texas at Austin (McCombs)
-
White Papers
Regional Monitoring Of Capital Flows And Coordination Of Financial Regulation: Stakes And Options For Asia
Feb 2010
The ongoing global economic crisis has punished Asian economies severely, despite the fact that its origins derive from outside the region. The global economic crisis was transmitted through real...
Provided by Asian Development Bank Institute
-
White Papers
Monetary Policy Strategies In The Asia And Pacific Region: What Way Forward?
Feb 2010
Monetary policy frameworks in the Asia and Pacific region have performed well in the past decade as judged by inflation outcomes. The authors argue that this is due to three principal factors: (i)...
Provided by Asian Development Bank Institute
-
White Papers
Liberalization And Regulation Of Capital Flows: Lessons For Emerging Market Economies
Jan 2010
Capital flows to Emerging Market Economies (EMEs) have been characterized by high volatility since the 1980s. In recent years (especially since 2003), although gross as well as net capital flows...
Provided by Asian Development Bank Institute
-
White Papers
Prudential Discipline For Financial Firms: Micro, Macro, And Market Structures
Dec 2009
The recent global financial crisis reflects numerous breakdowns in the prudential discipline of financial firms. This paper discusses ways to strengthen micro- and macroprudential supervision and...
Provided by Asian Development Bank Institute
-
White Papers
A Decision Analysis Tool For Evaluating Fundraising Tiers
Jan 2009
This paper presents a utility function model of donors who need to determine their donation to a charity organization that structures and publishes donations by tiers. By considering the prestige...
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
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White Papers
Is $13.25 A Reasonable Price For A Cup Of Coffee?
Apr 2010
Now $2.65 for a coffee may not sound like a big deal - but when it comes time to sell your business, that coffee may be costing you three, four or five times that amount. Here's the math: when you...
Provided by American Express
-
White Papers
Does Health Affect Portfolio Choice?
Aug 2007
Health considerations are often paramount in the decision-making of older households. A sudden stroke or a cancer diagnosis can upset a household's expectations about the future, including...
Provided by Federal Reserve Board
-
White Papers
The 'Elusive' Capital-User Cost Elasticity Revisited
May 2009
This paper sheds new light on the estimation of the long-run elasticity of the demand for business capital-for a measure that includes both equipment and structures-to changes in its user cost...
Provided by Federal Reserve Board
-
White Papers
Getronics reduces time to market from as long as four weeks to a few hours with IBM software
Sep 2010
Getronics, a computer service company, needed to decrease the amount of time it took to build new hosted services for their clients. Getronics' new Utility Hosting service is built on a dynamic...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Balance Risks to Improve Performance
Feb 2010
A white paper on how the Oracle Enterprise Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Applications Suite can help present a unified view of risks across an organization and build lasting risk...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
The Fragility Of Sensitivity Analysis: An Encompassing Perspective
Nov 2008
Robustness and fragility in Leamer's sense are defined with respect to a particular coefficient over a class of models. This paper shows that inclusion of the data generation process in that class...
Provided by Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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White Papers
Consensus Forecasts And Inefficient Information Aggregation
Jul 2010
Consensus forecasts are inefficient, over-weighting older information already in the public domain at the expense of new private information, when individual forecasters have different information...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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Webcasts
Survive and Thrive by Managing Information as a Strategic Asset
Mar 2012
Transform your business perspective by transforming the way you manage your enterprise data. Treating information as a strategic asset instead of a liability is essential—especially in an economy...
Provided by SAP
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Webcasts
OSA Interactive Client References Interface on IBM.COM
Aug 2011
Interactive interface for viewing OSA client reference videos and case studies.
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
How Best in Class Plan, Budget and Forecast in Today's Dynamic World
Jul 2011
Highly effective financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting can successfully enable decision making even in periods of unprecedented change. Download this Analyst Insight written by Aberdeen...
Provided by SAP
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White Papers
The Intelligent Enterprise: Creating A Culture Of Speedy And Efficient Decision-Making
Dec 2009
In virtually every industry, success hinges not only on traditional competitive advantages such as a dominant market position, geographical penetration, or even proprietary technology. It also...
Provided by Economist Intelligence Unit
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White Papers
Correlation Neglect In Financial Decision-Making
Feb 2011
Good decision-making often requires people to perceive and handle a myriad of statistical correlations. Notably, optimal portfolio theory depends upon a sophisticated understanding of the...
Provided by University College London
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White Papers
Multiple-Criteria Decision Analysis For Integrated Catchment Management
Nov 2006
Implementation of Integrated Catchment Management (ICM) is hampered by the lack of a conceptual framework for explaining how landowners select farming systems for their properties. Benefit-cost...
Provided by Deakin University
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White Papers
Cloud Buyers- Decision Tree
Jul 2010
This White Paper describes a Decision Tree that could be used to help you discover where Cloud opportunities and solutions might fit in your organization. It is put forward for discussion, with...
Provided by Open Group
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White Papers
Applied Risk And Decision Analysis
Mar 2009
In Year 4, the major research accomplishments in applied risk and decision analysis were: Technical review and advice on the development of the Risk Analysis for Informed Decisionmaking (RAPID)...
Provided by University of Southern California
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White Papers
Decisions In Finance Management At Polish Financial Institutions - Credit Unions And The National Credit Union
Jan 2008
Crediting financial institutions (financial co-operatives) on Polish territories began functioning in the 19th century. They performed duties also in the period of the 2nd Republic of Poland....
Provided by Vilniaus Universiteto Leidykla
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White Papers
Management Decision Support By Using Early Warning Environments
Jul 2009
Successful activities in a dynamic environment of today's economy largely depend on the skills to have an adequate view of activity environment and its changes. The information activities of...
Provided by Vilnius University
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White Papers
The Application Of Financial Valuation Methods In Investment Decisions
Feb 2007
In this paper, value of the company is the benefit of future periods. It is important for investors to choose the optimal collection of valuation methods in order to get reliable results. Many...
Provided by Vilniaus Universiteto Leidykla
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White Papers
The Effects Of Prior Involvement And Accountability On Asset Impairment Decisions
Jan 2008
This study examines whether long-lived asset impairment decisions are biased when the decision maker was also involved in the original decision to invest in the asset. In addition, the study tests...
Provided by Nova Southeastern University
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White Papers
Impact Of The Nature & Characteristics Of Organizations On Nonfinancial Performance Measurement
Jul 2009
Several studies have been devoted to examining Management Accounting (MA) practices in organizations, while few others examined the differences between management accounting practices in services...
Provided by Sultan Qaboos University
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White Papers
Advanced Analytics: Towards Better Business Decision Making In Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) Industry
Dec 2009
This white paper addresses the business challenges facing Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry and how the challenges can be solved using advanced analytics and how to make an enhanced business...
Provided by Tata Consultancy Services
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White Papers
Mondial Assistance group - Blueprint
Dec 2010
Mondial Assistance Group is the worldwide leader in assistance services and travel insurance, spanning 28 countries in 5 continents. Mondial Assistance is best known for services including...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Introduction To Decision Advisor Desktop Application For Designing, Creating And Analyzing Business Models
Jun 2006
Decision Advisor substantially eliminates the drudgery of developing complex business models, freeing analysts to concentrate on model structure, sources of value, and interaction with decision...
Provided by SmartOrg
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White Papers
Annual Report Readability, Current Earnings, And Earnings Persistence
Sep 2006
This paper examines the relationship between annual report readability and firm performance and earnings persistence. This is motivated by the Securities and Exchange Commission's plain English...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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White Papers
New Directions In Value Management
Jan 2008
Every CEO of a public company runs the risk of getting caught between two powerful constituencies: on one side, increasingly demanding investors, determined to maximize their returns relative to...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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White Papers
The Making Of A Blockbuster
Apr 2007
The billionaire investor and business leader spoke April 3 in the James L. Allen Center as part of the NFL Player Development Program, which arose through a partnership between the Kellogg School...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
British Influence On Commonwealth Budget Systems: The Case Of The United Republic Of Tanzania
Apr 2007
Several features of Tanzania's budget system find their roots in the arrangements inherited from the United Kingdom. These include a legal framework that emphasizes accountability; a cabinet of...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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White Papers
The Effect Of Capital Controls On Foreign Direct Investment Decisions Under Country Risk
Apr 2007
This paper examines how capital controls affect FDI decisions and how the impact of these restrictive measures varies with different levels of country risk. The authors construct a model of firms'...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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White Papers
Does Technological Diffusion Explain Australia's Productivity Performance?
Nov 2007
European finance is becoming increasingly cross-border, while the European architecture for safeguarding financial stability - including decision-making processes for providing financial-stability...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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White Papers
Fiscal Policy And Economic Development
Apr 2008
The significant real exchange rate appreciation in Armenia and Georgia since 2003, coupled with persistent current account deficits, raises the question of whether real exchange rates have become...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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White Papers
Inflation Smoothing And The Modest Effect Of VAT In Germany
May 2008
What determines the currency to which countries peg or "anchor" their exchange rate? Data for over 100 countries between 1980 and 1998 reveal that trade network externalities are a key...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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White Papers
Banks And Labor As Stakeholders: Impact On Economic Performance
Jul 2008
The authors analyze the performance of kernel density methods applied to grouped data to estimate poverty (as applied in Sala-i-Martin, 2006, QJE). Using Monte Carlo simulations and household...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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White Papers
The Fundamental Determinants Of Credit Default Risk For European Large Complex Financial Institutions
Jun 2010
This paper attempts to identify the fundamental variables that drive the credit default swaps during the initial phase of distress in selected European Large Complex Financial Institutions...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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White Papers
Some Uncomfortable Arithmetic Regarding Europe's Public Finances
Jul 2010
Traditional fiscal indicators focused on measures of current deficits and debt miss the potentially important implications of current policies for future public finances. This could be...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
-
White Papers
Consensus Forecasts And Inefficient Information Aggregation
Jul 2010
Consensus forecasts are inefficient, over-weighting older information already in the public domain at the expense of new private information, when individual forecasters have different information...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
-
White Papers
The Fragility Of Sensitivity Analysis: An Encompassing Perspective
Nov 2008
Robustness and fragility in Leamer's sense are defined with respect to a particular coefficient over a class of models. This paper shows that inclusion of the data generation process in that class...
Provided by Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
-
White Papers
Balance Risks to Improve Performance
Feb 2010
A white paper on how the Oracle Enterprise Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Applications Suite can help present a unified view of risks across an organization and build lasting risk...
Provided by Oracle
-
White Papers
Getronics reduces time to market from as long as four weeks to a few hours with IBM software
Sep 2010
Getronics, a computer service company, needed to decrease the amount of time it took to build new hosted services for their clients. Getronics' new Utility Hosting service is built on a dynamic...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
The 'Elusive' Capital-User Cost Elasticity Revisited
May 2009
This paper sheds new light on the estimation of the long-run elasticity of the demand for business capital-for a measure that includes both equipment and structures-to changes in its user cost...
Provided by Federal Reserve Board
-
White Papers
Does Health Affect Portfolio Choice?
Aug 2007
Health considerations are often paramount in the decision-making of older households. A sudden stroke or a cancer diagnosis can upset a household's expectations about the future, including...
Provided by Federal Reserve Board
-
White Papers
Is $13.25 A Reasonable Price For A Cup Of Coffee?
Apr 2010
Now $2.65 for a coffee may not sound like a big deal - but when it comes time to sell your business, that coffee may be costing you three, four or five times that amount. Here's the math: when you...
Provided by American Express
-
White Papers
A Decision Analysis Tool For Evaluating Fundraising Tiers
Jan 2009
This paper presents a utility function model of donors who need to determine their donation to a charity organization that structures and publishes donations by tiers. By considering the prestige...
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
-
White Papers
Prudential Discipline For Financial Firms: Micro, Macro, And Market Structures
Dec 2009
The recent global financial crisis reflects numerous breakdowns in the prudential discipline of financial firms. This paper discusses ways to strengthen micro- and macroprudential supervision and...
Provided by Asian Development Bank Institute
-
White Papers
Liberalization And Regulation Of Capital Flows: Lessons For Emerging Market Economies
Jan 2010
Capital flows to Emerging Market Economies (EMEs) have been characterized by high volatility since the 1980s. In recent years (especially since 2003), although gross as well as net capital flows...
Provided by Asian Development Bank Institute
-
White Papers
Monetary Policy Strategies In The Asia And Pacific Region: What Way Forward?
Feb 2010
Monetary policy frameworks in the Asia and Pacific region have performed well in the past decade as judged by inflation outcomes. The authors argue that this is due to three principal factors: (i)...
Provided by Asian Development Bank Institute
-
White Papers
Regional Monitoring Of Capital Flows And Coordination Of Financial Regulation: Stakes And Options For Asia
Feb 2010
The ongoing global economic crisis has punished Asian economies severely, despite the fact that its origins derive from outside the region. The global economic crisis was transmitted through real...
Provided by Asian Development Bank Institute
-
White Papers
Optimal Liquidity Provision For Decision Makers
Jan 2007
Although prices in financial markets play an important role in improving allocative efficiency in the real economy, few models of securities markets explicitly incorporate resource allocation...
Provided by University of Texas at Austin (McCombs)
-
White Papers
Improving IT service delivery through an integrated approach to software asset management white paper
Oct 2009
This white paper describes the challenges of managing software rights in increasingly complex environments and discusses how SAM can make the entire process more efficient. Specifically, it...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
Comparing Fax Servers to Hosted Fax Solutions
Jul 2007
Today, faxing continues to be a dominant communications tool. While e-mail may be the 'killer app,' the fact is many industries still rely heavily on faxes to transmit data between two or more...
Provided by MyFax
-
Presentations
SAS Business Intelligence Interactive Tour
Apr 2009
This fully interactive, self-guided video tour offers both business and IT leaders the chance to see how SAS® Business Intelligence can help them to improve business processes and make the best...
Provided by SAS Institute
-
White Papers
Journal of Management Excellence - Creating Value
Feb 2009
The principles underlying TVI are as old as control theory. Accountants audit a company by aligning money, information, and the flow of goods—or core business processes, in more modern terms. It...
Provided by Oracle
-
White Papers
Risk Management: Protect and Maximize Stakeholder Value
Feb 2009
Recent economic volatility has given risk management a new focus and eminence. The strongest companies are the ones that are able and willing to adapt, who actively integrate risk management as a...
Provided by Oracle
-
Webcasts
Increase developer productivity using IBM RationalTM and WebSphereTM.
Oct 2009
Even in a down economy, it's important to deliver services quickly. This Webcast presentation shows how by using solutions from Rational and WebSphere, development teams can leverage the latest...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
Bigger picture, smarter decisions: Today's BI tools
Oct 2009
With people and systems increasingly interconnected, it's hard to keep up with data. In the ForwardView article, "Bigger picture, smarter decisions: BI tools," you'll learn how Business...
Provided by IBM
-
Research
Optimize your performance with the Smart Work Advisor
Nov 2009
Smart Work Advisor shows how businesses can optimize their performance by providing a decision tree they can use to adapt dynamically, collaborate more effectively and connect people and processes...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
Expanding BI's role
Dec 2009
In today's economic downturn, organizations are looking for ways to improve the way they do business to keep ahead of the competition and grow revenue. The path to success in all of these areas,...
Provided by SAP
-
White Papers
Mid-Market CEO Study
Aug 2008
The rate and scope of change in the business environment is unprecedented. Organizations that approach this climate as an opportunity are the ones experiencing greater financial returns. Explore...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
Smart Decision Making in the Era of New Financial Challenges
Jan 2010
An era of new financial challenges calls for innovative financial planning approaches. Monte Carlo modeling can help manage risk, improve forecasting, and drive growth in turbulent times. Read...
Provided by Oracle
-
White Papers
Judgment Sustained
Jan 2010
Poor judgment in accounting can be costly. Despite the use of rules-based standards in the United States - Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) - poor judgment is one of the leading...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
-
White Papers
Best Practices in Selecting Performance Management Software
Feb 2005
A new generation of sophisticated, Web-based database applications is changing the way companies look at planning and financial reporting. These corporate performance management (CPM) solutions...
Provided by Clarity Systems
-
White Papers
The building blocks to a Smarter Planet, Scott Hebner, includes entire cross Rational and IBM messages
May 2009
As a way to differentiate their offerings and optimize business returns, manufacturers across all industries are delivering a new generation of "smarter products."
Provided by IBM
-
Case Studies
Financial Information In Decision Making
Jul 2008
CIMA is the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. It supports over 164,000 members and students in 161 countries. CIMA works with some of the world's leading businesses and provides a...
Provided by MBA Publishing
-
White Papers
Dark Omens In The Sky: Do Superstitious Beliefs Affect Investment Decisions?
Jun 2009
Psychological research documents that individuals are more likely to resort to superstitious practices when operating in environments dominated by uncertainty, high stakes, and perceived lack of...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
-
White Papers
Can Geography Affect Your Bank Account?: The Role Of Culture In Economic Decisions
Apr 2007
Do Koreans save more than the British? Are Eastern Europeans more reluctant to invest in stocks? Do Brazilians mistrust financial markets? While modern commerce may be global and pay little...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
-
White Papers
Optimal Asset Allocation In Asset Liability Management
Feb 2007
The authors study the impact of regulations on the investment decisions of a defined benefits pension plan. The authors assess the influence of ex ante (preventive) and ex post (punitive) risk...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
-
White Papers
Holding Business Professionals Accountable For Leadership Malpractice
Mar 2009
As the economic meltdown continues and major blue-chip companies fall into a tailspin, questioning business strategies and senior-level decision making has come into vogue once again. How could...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
-
White Papers
The Role Of Component Commonality In Product Assortment Decisions
Aug 2009
The paper considers a firm that produces multiple variants of a product. Products are assembled using a combination of common and dedicated components. The paper characterizes the optimal...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
-
White Papers
Overcoming The Crisis Will Take Strong, Ethical Leadership
Jan 2009
Managers consumed with maximizing short-term profits - and with them, the value of their stock options - rather than creating real, sustainable value have destroyed billions of dollars in...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
-
White Papers
Aberdeen - Operational BI: Getting Real Time About Performance
Jul 2010
Read this engaging report and learn about the challenges and benefits of improving the efficiency and performance of many day-to-day and real-time activities, such as customer interactions,...
Provided by SAP
-
White Papers
Building A New Science: The Elements Of Risk And Decision Analysis
Jul 2008
Risk is an issue in most activities, technical as well as economic, internal or external to any organization. It has been considered so far in the context of different disciplines. In engineering...
Provided by University of Texas (Dallas)
-
White Papers
Multivariate Concave And Convex Stochastic Dominance
Apr 2010
Stochastic dominance permits a partial ordering of alternatives (probability distributions on consequences) based only on partial information about a decision maker's utility function. Univariate...
Provided by INSEAD
-
White Papers
Necessary Knowledge For Communications Policy
Aug 2006
Communications policymaking increasingly relies upon large-scale databases manufactured and marketed by commercial organizations. Data providers such as BIA Research, Nielsen Media Research, and...
Provided by Fordham University
-
White Papers
Experience Weighted Attraction In The First Price Auction And Becker Degroot Marschak
Feb 2008
This paper explores the performance of Experience Weighted Attraction (EWA) in two different auction institutions: First Price Sealed Bid, and Becker-DeGroot-Marschak. The results suggest that...
Provided by Fordham University
-
White Papers
Libertarian Paternalism, Information Sharing, And Financial Decision-Making
Mar 2010
Author developed a theoretical model to study the welfare effects of libertarian paternalism on information acquisition, social learning, and financial decision-making. Individuals in the model...
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
-
White Papers
Optimal Liquidity Provision For Decision Makers
Jan 2007
Although prices in financial markets play an important role in improving allocative efficiency in the real economy, few models of securities markets explicitly incorporate resource allocation...
Provided by University of Texas at Austin (McCombs)
-
White Papers
Regional Monitoring Of Capital Flows And Coordination Of Financial Regulation: Stakes And Options For Asia
Feb 2010
The ongoing global economic crisis has punished Asian economies severely, despite the fact that its origins derive from outside the region. The global economic crisis was transmitted through real...
Provided by Asian Development Bank Institute
-
White Papers
Monetary Policy Strategies In The Asia And Pacific Region: What Way Forward?
Feb 2010
Monetary policy frameworks in the Asia and Pacific region have performed well in the past decade as judged by inflation outcomes. The authors argue that this is due to three principal factors: (i)...
Provided by Asian Development Bank Institute
-
White Papers
Liberalization And Regulation Of Capital Flows: Lessons For Emerging Market Economies
Jan 2010
Capital flows to Emerging Market Economies (EMEs) have been characterized by high volatility since the 1980s. In recent years (especially since 2003), although gross as well as net capital flows...
Provided by Asian Development Bank Institute
-
White Papers
Prudential Discipline For Financial Firms: Micro, Macro, And Market Structures
Dec 2009
The recent global financial crisis reflects numerous breakdowns in the prudential discipline of financial firms. This paper discusses ways to strengthen micro- and macroprudential supervision and...
Provided by Asian Development Bank Institute
-
White Papers
A Decision Analysis Tool For Evaluating Fundraising Tiers
Jan 2009
This paper presents a utility function model of donors who need to determine their donation to a charity organization that structures and publishes donations by tiers. By considering the prestige...
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
-
White Papers
Is $13.25 A Reasonable Price For A Cup Of Coffee?
Apr 2010
Now $2.65 for a coffee may not sound like a big deal - but when it comes time to sell your business, that coffee may be costing you three, four or five times that amount. Here's the math: when you...
Provided by American Express
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Does Health Affect Portfolio Choice?
Aug 2007
Health considerations are often paramount in the decision-making of older households. A sudden stroke or a cancer diagnosis can upset a household's expectations about the future, including...
Provided by Federal Reserve Board
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The 'Elusive' Capital-User Cost Elasticity Revisited
May 2009
This paper sheds new light on the estimation of the long-run elasticity of the demand for business capital-for a measure that includes both equipment and structures-to changes in its user cost...
Provided by Federal Reserve Board
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Getronics reduces time to market from as long as four weeks to a few hours with IBM software
Sep 2010
Getronics, a computer service company, needed to decrease the amount of time it took to build new hosted services for their clients. Getronics' new Utility Hosting service is built on a dynamic...
Provided by IBM
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Balance Risks to Improve Performance
Feb 2010
A white paper on how the Oracle Enterprise Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Applications Suite can help present a unified view of risks across an organization and build lasting risk...
Provided by Oracle
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The Fragility Of Sensitivity Analysis: An Encompassing Perspective
Nov 2008
Robustness and fragility in Leamer's sense are defined with respect to a particular coefficient over a class of models. This paper shows that inclusion of the data generation process in that class...
Provided by Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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Consensus Forecasts And Inefficient Information Aggregation
Jul 2010
Consensus forecasts are inefficient, over-weighting older information already in the public domain at the expense of new private information, when individual forecasters have different information...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
