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Killer KPI's For Professional Services
Sep 2007
In this paper you will learn: The growing role Services revenue plays in overall financial performance; Which KPI's (Key Performance Indicators) are essential and what they mean; Typical Key...
Provided by QuickArrow
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White Papers
How To Track Your Projects Project Management Template
Sep 2008
To succeed as a Project Manager, you need to "Watch your projects like a hawk". This means tracking every aspect of your project to ensure you deliver on time. It's a tough challenge; juggling...
Provided by Method123
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Project Management: Challenges and Opportunities
Dec 2005
Project Management (PM) evolved from the days of Gantt charts developed in 1912 to the development and use of CPM and PERT in 1959. These two methods are useful in managing the time dimension...
Provided by American University in Cairo
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Project Management As A Core Corporate Competence
Jan 2009
Individuals developing as project managers need to develop not only the technical aspect of project management but also the attributes of a competent project manager, and combine it with business...
Provided by Project Times
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Sustainable Operations Management
Mar 2006
Operations management researchers and practitioners face new challenges in integrating issues of sustainability with their traditional areas of interest. During the past 20 years, there has been...
Provided by Production and Operations Management Society
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The Correct Shared Services Model Increases Business Process Efficiencies
Mar 2006
To compete in an ever-changing, increasingly aggressive market companies must increase their flexibility and responsiveness by automating processes and streamlining administrative functions....
Provided by KeyMark
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White Papers
When Best Practice Is Just Not Good Enough Why And How You Need To Be Better Than The Best
Jul 2007
One of the management buzz words really getting a lot of air play and column inches these days is "Best Practice." Wherever you look and listen, you will see or hear people writing about or...
Provided by Business Process Trends
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Metrics That Matter: Measuring Professional Services Business
Sep 2007
There are easily over fifty meaningful metrics a management team could use to assess their professional services business. The issue is determining what specific metrics provide the greatest...
Provided by QuickArrow
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White Papers
Managing The Business Risk Of Fraud: A Practical Guide
Jul 2008
All organizations are subject to fraud risks. Large frauds have led to the downfall of entire organizations, massive investment losses, significant legal costs, incarceration of key individuals,...
Provided by Deloitte Development
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White Papers
9 Steps for Implementing Business Process Management
Jan 2009
The benefits of Business Process Management (BPM) implementation are enormous in any economic environment. But achieving business agility in a turbulent, competitive global market is all the...
Provided by TooStep
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White Papers
High Skills, High Growth: Is Tourism An Exception?
Jun 2010
Despite the emphasis placed by growth models on technological progress, recent empirical evidence shows that tourism, a low-skill/low-tech sector and one of the fastest growing industries in the...
Provided by Centre For North South Economic Research
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White Papers
Business Process Knowledge Integration - A Semantic Based Approach
Jun 2008
Knowledge about business processes is one of the most important assets of a modern organization. The knowledge about how an organization works, achieves its business goals, satisfies its...
Provided by University of Madeira
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White Papers
9 Steps To Successful Event Management
Dec 2007
Event management is a union between project management and marketing. The secret to sensational events is early and detailed project planning. Unlike many general projects, planning an event will...
Provided by Transformed
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Webcasts
Professional Edition Demo
Jan 2009
This SuccessFactors' demo gives you the brief tour of its Professional Edition, featuring special introductions to the Performance Review, Goal Management, Employee Profile and Organization Chart,...
Provided by SuccessFactors
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White Papers
How To Get An Unsecured Loan After Bankruptcy - Rebuild Your Credit History Good
Apr 2009
The word "Bankruptcy" does not let you to apply for the regular loan and you do not have any other source of income. Then you do not have to fret how to manage for the cash now. Unsecured loan...
Provided by Article Slide
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White Papers
Building A Successful Company Goals Are Key To Getting Things Done
Jan 2009
Goals are set through an interactive and iterative process lead by the CEO and individually determined by each member of the team. Goals aren't set until the entire team believes in their...
Provided by Sevin Rosen Funds
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White Papers
How To Identify An Effective Goal Setting System
Jan 2009
A goal setting system should never be complex to use; in fact it should be very easy, almost to the point that it is seemingly non-existent. Apart from being easy to use, it should definitely be...
Provided by Colin P Dunbar
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White Papers
Improving Project Success Rates With Better Leadership
May 2009
This paper discusses that the root cause for many of these common failure points is really the ability to lead projects, not just manage them. The paper presents the case that project leadership...
Provided by Project Smart
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White Papers
Effective Project Management: Five Laws That Determine Success
Apr 2009
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Yet every year countless projects hit trouble for the same reasons, again and again. Why? Because the...
Provided by Project Smart
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White Papers
The Three P's Of Project Management
Apr 2009
This paper presents the three P's of project management. The three P's are to take into account the elements and structure of project management. People Management is essential in regards to...
Provided by Project Smart
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White Papers
Benefits Of Goal Setting To An Organisation
Jan 2009
Try to make your goals realistic and achievable. Don't set a goal which is too difficult, but likewise don't set a goal which is so easy that it will fail to excite and inspire you. Set lots of...
Provided by Goal Settings Guide
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White Papers
Your Project Does Have A Goal
Apr 2009
Projects don't (or at the very least, really shouldn't) start because there are some developers sitting around twiddling their thumbs, time on their hands, nothing to do. No, a project starts...
Provided by Project Smart
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White Papers
Four Keys To Successful Project Management
Apr 2009
If you can't get your project team to buy into your ideas, if you can't produce high quality written documentation and get the right information to the right people at the right time, you probably...
Provided by Project Smart
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White Papers
Project Management Methods And Quality Standards
Jan 2009
Project managers and core team members have at their disposal a very large number of methods, standards, and tools to assist them in their daily jobs. The multiplicity of methods can easily be...
Provided by Visitask
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White Papers
How Important Is Goal Setting?
Jan 2009
Without goals, there is no direction; no focus; no reason to become involved in anything worthwhile. More importantly, controlling that which we wish to achieve is how we live; how we operate our...
Provided by Vineyardesigns.com
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White Papers
Ten Tips For A Successful Implementation
Jun 2009
One of the most frequent mistakes companies make is to schedule too little time to implement their Enterprise Resource Planning system. While it is a good thing to have a positive attitude so...
Provided by Comarch
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White Papers
Building Your Project Team
Feb 2008
Take care to choose the right people. Pick them for their skills and abilities as they apply to your particular project. You don't necessarily need the person most qualified in absolute terms, but...
Provided by Project Smart
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White Papers
Metrics That Matter In Agile Projects
Mar 2009
Agile project management is on a large part about managing people. Studies show that overall team morale is directly related to the level of individual morale. The amount of personal investment...
Provided by Project Smart
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White Papers
Managing The Supply Chain Papers With ERP
Jan 2009
An integral part of running a business organization is operations management, which is concerned with everything a business uses to make a profit. It concerns itself with managing resources,...
Provided by contentdig.com
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White Papers
A Bit About Oracle ERP
Jan 2009
There are many different systems now available that internet based businesses can use to help organize their various processes much more effectively, one of these being Oracle ERP. In fact of all...
Provided by contentdig.com
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White Papers
Getting The Balance Right: Risk & Control Within Enterprise Resource Planning Systems
Aug 2008
Organisations implement Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems like SAP and Oracle E-Business suite to improve and automate business processes. Expected benefits of implementation include a...
Provided by Deloitte & Touche LLP
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White Papers
The Risk Revolution
Sep 2008
The subjects of this paper are understanding risk and implementing risk tools. The paper is organized into four sections. The first discusses the historical emergence of risk management. The...
Provided by McKinsey & Company
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White Papers
ERP And Change Management - Driving ROI
Jun 2009
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems can support significant improvements in business performance and be an enabler of competitive advantage if properly implemented. Today there are many...
Provided by Symphini
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White Papers
Are You Juggling Multiple Projects?
Jun 2008
In today's fast paced and increasingly competitive market, many companies and, more often than not, some people are trying to juggle at least two or more significant projects at any given time....
Provided by Symphini
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White Papers
Project Management In A Translation Agency
Jun 2009
Nowadays a translation agency experiences an increasing amount of inquiries compared to the past years. This is due to globalization and the increasing use of the internet all over the world, and...
Provided by SooperArticles
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White Papers
Project Management For Small Business
Jun 2009
Small business project management is all about learning the industry standard techniques and methods and applying them in way that will best suit your specific needs. For those of you who think...
Provided by Bright Hub
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White Papers
Make Sure That HR Gets A Seat At The ERP Planning Table
Jul 2008
At many businesses, the HR department's input is downplayed or even ignored when ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems are being developed. That's a shame, because the department plays a...
Provided by Tippit
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White Papers
Project Manager Perspective
Jan 2009
In the world of project management, being able to identify a perspective as a perspective is a critical skill. In any project, schedules and scope are often identified by the shortest of...
Provided by Project Times
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White Papers
Commoditizing Project Management For The Mid-market
Jan 2009
If you think of the project management systems market as though it was a pyramid, with the most experienced users at the top and the neophytes at the bottom, then the use of project management so...
Provided by Project Times
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White Papers
Are You A Project Management Baseliner?
Jan 2009
The most common kind of baseline is for the project schedule. Most project management tools include the ability to save the start and finish dates of each task into something called a baseline....
Provided by Project Times
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White Papers
Do Students Expect Compensation For Wage Risk?
Mar 2009
The authors use a unique data set about the wage distribution that Swiss students expect for themselves ex ante, deriving parametric and non-parametric measures to capture expected wage risk....
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Efficient Probit Estimation With Partially Missing Covariates
Mar 2009
A common approach to dealing with missing data is to estimate the model on the common subset of data, by necessity throwing away potentially useful data. The authors derive a new probit type...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
The Growth Of Participant Direction In Defined Contribution Plans
Mar 2009
Since 1990, most pension plans have shifted the responsibility for directing pension assets to the employee. This paper summarizes some of the possible explanations for this rapid shift toward...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Economic Growth With Political Lobbying And Wage Bargaining
Mar 2009
This paper examines an economy with a large number of industries, each producing a different good. Technological change follows a Poisson process where firms improve their productivity through...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
The' Market For Higher Education: Does It Really Exist?
Mar 2009
Higher education, like any other commodity or service, has been viewed in a variety of economic frameworks. Little of this paper, however, appears to have made any effort to define carefully the...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Imposing Economic Constraints In Nonparametric Regression: Survey, Implementation And Extension
Mar 2009
Economic conditions such as convexity, homogeneity, homotheticity, and monotonicity are all important assumptions or consequences of assumptions of economic functions to be estimated. Recent...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Do Immigrants Take The Jobs Of Native Workers?
Apr 2009
In this paper, the authors focus on the short-run adjustments taking place at the workplace level when immigrants are employed. Specifically, they analyze whether individual native workers are...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Risk Attitude And Wage Growth: Replication And Reconstruction
Apr 2009
The authors replicate Shaw (1996) who found that individual wage growth is higher for individuals with greater preference for risk taking. Expanding her dataset with more American observations and...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Works Councils And Separations: Voice, Monopoly, And Insurance Effects
Apr 2009
Using a large linked employer-employee data set for Germany, the authors find that the existence of a works council is associated with a lower separation rate to employment, in particular for men...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Choosing The Field Of Study In Post-secondary Education: Do Expected Earnings Matter?
Apr 2009
This paper examines the determinants of the choice of the major when the length of studies is uncertain, by using a framework in which students entering post-secondary education are assumed to...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Wages And Seniority When Coworkers Matter: Estimating A Joint Production Economy Using Norwegian Administrative Data
Apr 2009
The authors develop an equilibrium model of wages and estimate it using administrative data from Norway. Coworkers interact through a task-assignment model, and wages are determined through...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Access To Banking Services And Poverty Reduction: A State-wise Assessment In India
Apr 2009
Financial inclusion is the broad based delivery of banking and other financial services at affordable cost to the poorest sections of society. In India, financial inclusion emphasizes to include...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Band Spectrum Regressions Using Wavelet Analysis
Jun 2011
In economics it is common to distinguish between different time horizons (i.e. short run, medium run, and long run). Engle (1974) proposed combining the discrete Fourier transform with a band...
Provided by Lund University
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White Papers
On The Cost-Vs-Quality Tradeoff In Make-Or-Buy Decisions
Mar 2010
The make-or-buy decision is analyzed in a simple two-task principal-agent model. There is a cost-saving/quality tradeoff in effort provision. The principal faces a dichotomous choice between weak...
Provided by Lund University
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White Papers
Executive Compensation Based On Asset Values
Aug 2010
This paper describes how credit default swaps could be employed to create performance based executive compensation portfolios that reflect the value of a firm's debt as well as equity; i.e. the...
Provided by Lund University
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White Papers
Dynamics In Systematic Liquidity
May 2009
The authors develop the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) approach to systematic liquidity measurement by introducing moving and expanding estimation windows. They evaluate these methods along...
Provided by Lund University
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White Papers
Endogenous Social Norms - Implications For Optimal Welfare State Programs
Nov 2009
This paper investigates the implications of an endogenous social work norm for the optimal welfare state program. Assuming that individual productivity is observable, the analysis finds that...
Provided by Lund University
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White Papers
A Flexible Hazard Rate Model For Grouped Duration Data
Nov 2009
This paper proposes a discrete-time hazard regression approach based on the interrelation between hazard rate models and excess over threshold models, which are frequently encountered in extreme...
Provided by Lund University
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White Papers
Debt Relief, Investment And Growth Forthcoming
Aug 2008
The donor community provided around $400 billion in debt relief to developing countries between 1989 and 2004. This paper empirically assesses the impact of debt relief on growth and investment by...
Provided by Lund University
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White Papers
Why Is Chinese Regional Output Diverging?
Dec 2008
In a recent paper Pedroni and Yao (2006) present strong evidence suggesting that Chinese regional output is diverging, a result that strongly contradicts the goal of China's government of a...
Provided by Lund University
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White Papers
A Note On The Pooling Of Individual PANIC Unit Root Tests
Feb 2007
One of the most cited studies in recent years within the field of non-stationary panel data analysis is that of Bai and Ng (2004, A PANIC Attack on Unit Roots and Cointegration. Econometrica 72,),...
Provided by Lund University
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White Papers
Risk Exchange As A Market Or Production Game
Oct 2007
Risk exchange is considered here as a cooperative game with transferable utility. The set-up fits markets for insurance, securities and contingent endowments. When convoluted payoff is concave at...
Provided by Lund University
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White Papers
Trilateral Trade And Asset Allocation - Extending The Grossman-Hart-Moore Model
Dec 2007
This paper extends the Grossman-Hart-Moore model to suite a specific trilateral trade transaction. In this transaction a downstream producer produces the final good using inputs from two different...
Provided by Lund University
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White Papers
Simple Tests For Cointegration In Dependent Panels With Structural Breaks
Jan 2007
This paper develops two very simple tests for the null hypothesis of no cointegration in panel data. The tests are general enough to allow for heteroskedastic and serially correlated errors, unit...
Provided by Lund University
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White Papers
Testing Stationarity In Small And Medium-Sized Samples When Disturbances Are Serially Correlated Forthcoming
Nov 2009
In this paper, the authors study the size distortions of the KPSS test for stationarity when serial correlation is present and samples are small and medium-sized. It is argued that two distinct...
Provided by Lund University
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White Papers
Resisting Economic Integration When Industry Location Is Uncertain
Nov 2006
This paper analyzes the political determination of transportation costs in a new economic geography model. In a benchmark case with certainty about where agglomeration takes place, a majority of...
Provided by Lund University
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White Papers
Finite-Sample Stability Of The KPSS Test
Dec 2006
In the current paper, the finite-sample stability of various implementations of the KPSS test is studied. The implementations considered differ in how the so-called long-run variance is estimated...
Provided by Lund University
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White Papers
A Risk Contribution Approach To Asset Allocation
Nov 2008
The aim of this paper is to verify whether efficient portfolios, obtained using traditional tools of asset allocation, supply real diversification in terms of risk, in addition to the division of...
Provided by University of Siena
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White Papers
The Cass Centre For Asset Management Research
Nov 2008
In this paper, the authors investigate the influence of two factors on the risk taking behaviour of hedge fund managers. The first factor is the past performance of the fund relative to the...
Provided by Cass Business School
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White Papers
Integrated Foreign Exchange Risk Management: The Role Of Import In Medium-Sized, Manufacturing Firms
Mar 2009
Empirical research has focused on export as a proxy for the exchange rate exposure and the use of foreign exchange derivatives as the instrument to deal with this exposure. This empirical study...
Provided by University of Aarhus
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White Papers
What Fuels Oil Company Risk?
May 2009
This paper has a simple research question: what determines the risks of oil producing companies listed in Australia and the United States, and are there any differences between their risk...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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White Papers
A Distinction Between Business Groups And Diversified Firms: The Limited Liability Effect
Apr 2009
An affiliate of a business group is an independent legal entity which can raise its own external capital with limited liability while a division of a diversified firm is not. In spite of the...
Provided by Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
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White Papers
Inefficient Continuation Decisions, Entry Costs, And The Cost Of Fluctuations
May 2011
Fluctuations in firms revenues reduce firms survival chances and are costly from a social welfare point of view even when agents are risk neutral if the decision to continue operating a firm is...
Provided by University of Amsterdam
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White Papers
Appendix To "Anticipated Growth And Business Cycles In Matching Models": Simplified Version With Analytical Results
Feb 2009
Using a two-period version of the model, this appendix shows that Pigou cycles are not possible when the Hosios condition holds, that is, when the surplus is divided such that the competitive...
Provided by University of Amsterdam
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White Papers
The Term Structure Of Interest Rates In A DSGE Model
Jul 2006
The paper evaluates the implications of the Smets and Wouters (2004) DSGE model for the US yield curve. Bond prices are modelled in a way that is consistent with the macro model and the resulting...
Provided by National Bank of Belgium
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White Papers
A New Keynesian Model With Unemployment
Oct 2006
The authors develop a utility based model of fluctuations, with nominal rigidities, and unemployment. In doing so, they combine two strands of research: the New Keynesian model with its focus on...
Provided by National Bank of Belgium
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White Papers
Simulation, Estimation And Welfare Implications Of Monetary Policies In A 3-Country NOEM Model
Oct 2006
In this paper, the authors derive a microfounded macro New Keynesian model for open economies, be them large or small. They consider habit formation in consumption, sectoral linkages, domestic and...
Provided by National Bank of Belgium
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White Papers
Nominal Wage Rigidies In A New Keynesian Model With Frictional Unemployment
Oct 2006
In this paper, the authors propose a search and matching model with nominal stickiness à la Calvo in the wage bargaining. They analyze the properties of the model, first, in the context of a...
Provided by National Bank of Belgium
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White Papers
Can Excess Liquidity Signal An Asset Price Boom?
Aug 2007
This paper analyzes the relationship between the prevailing liquidity conditions (such as measures of money, credit and interest rates) and developments in asset prices from a monetary analysis...
Provided by National Bank of Belgium
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White Papers
Failure Prediction Models: Performance, Disagreements, And Internal Rating Systems
Dec 2007
The authors address a number of comparative issues relating to the performance of failure prediction models for small, private firms. They use two models provided by vendors, a model developed by...
Provided by National Bank of Belgium
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White Papers
Process Governance Best Practices: Building a BPM Center of Excellence
Sep 2006
As organizations begin to deploy enterprise-wide solutions for managing key business processes, they are encountering many obstacles and challenges associated with cross-departmental interaction...
Provided by Business Process Trends
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White Papers
High Growth Firms And Job Creation In Finland
Jun 2008
The goal of this descriptive paper is to identify which firms add the most employment in Finland. The analysis is based on firm and establishment data from the Finnish Business Register (period...
Provided by ELINKEINOELÄMÄN TUTKIMUSLAITOS
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White Papers
Project Health Check
Dec 2006
This is the second paper in a series about managing a project in crisis. It covers how to carry out a project health check to establish exactly what is happening in a project that may be in...
Provided by Project Perfect
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White Papers
The Relationship Between Perceived Risk, Perceived Value And Project Competencies
Aug 2010
Perceived risk and value. The concept of perceived risk has been conceptualised as corresponding to situations when there are potentially negative outcomes. Later studies distinguished between...
Provided by University of Szeged
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White Papers
Matching The Right Project Managers With The Right Project Types
Mar 2011
This paper could be seen as an extension to his "Notes on credentialing and assessing project managers" in a recent issue of this journal. However, it moves away from generic assessments and...
Provided by PM World Today
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White Papers
Successful Project Management Is Critical!
Jan 2008
Project Management is of fast growing importance to organisations whether large or small because it deals effectively with the management of change. As a small business owner you know that your...
Provided by contentdig.com
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White Papers
Bankruptcy Regimes During Financial Distress
May 2009
A question frequently asked at the onset of economic crises is whether the existing bankruptcy regimes can adequately deal with the increase in corporate and bank failures. This paper describes...
Provided by World Bank Group
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White Papers
Liquidity Risk Management Readiness Checklist
Sep 2008
Are you ready for the more onerous liquidity risk management requirements that were recently proposed by the Basel Committee and the Committee of European Banking Supervisors? The Basel Committee...
Provided by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
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White Papers
How To Get An Unsecured Loan After Bankruptcy - Rebuild Your Credit History Good
Apr 2009
The word "Bankruptcy" does not let you to apply for the regular loan and you do not have any other source of income. Then you do not have to fret how to manage for the cash now. Unsecured loan...
Provided by Article Slide
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White Papers
Building A Successful Company Goals Are Key To Getting Things Done
Jan 2009
Goals are set through an interactive and iterative process lead by the CEO and individually determined by each member of the team. Goals aren't set until the entire team believes in their...
Provided by Sevin Rosen Funds
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White Papers
How To Identify An Effective Goal Setting System
Jan 2009
A goal setting system should never be complex to use; in fact it should be very easy, almost to the point that it is seemingly non-existent. Apart from being easy to use, it should definitely be...
Provided by Colin P Dunbar
-
White Papers
Improving Project Success Rates With Better Leadership
May 2009
This paper discusses that the root cause for many of these common failure points is really the ability to lead projects, not just manage them. The paper presents the case that project leadership...
Provided by Project Smart
-
White Papers
Effective Project Management: Five Laws That Determine Success
Apr 2009
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Yet every year countless projects hit trouble for the same reasons, again and again. Why? Because the...
Provided by Project Smart
-
White Papers
The Three P's Of Project Management
Apr 2009
This paper presents the three P's of project management. The three P's are to take into account the elements and structure of project management. People Management is essential in regards to...
Provided by Project Smart
-
White Papers
Benefits Of Goal Setting To An Organisation
Jan 2009
Try to make your goals realistic and achievable. Don't set a goal which is too difficult, but likewise don't set a goal which is so easy that it will fail to excite and inspire you. Set lots of...
Provided by Goal Settings Guide
-
White Papers
Your Project Does Have A Goal
Apr 2009
Projects don't (or at the very least, really shouldn't) start because there are some developers sitting around twiddling their thumbs, time on their hands, nothing to do. No, a project starts...
Provided by Project Smart
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White Papers
Four Keys To Successful Project Management
Apr 2009
If you can't get your project team to buy into your ideas, if you can't produce high quality written documentation and get the right information to the right people at the right time, you probably...
Provided by Project Smart
-
White Papers
Project Management Methods And Quality Standards
Jan 2009
Project managers and core team members have at their disposal a very large number of methods, standards, and tools to assist them in their daily jobs. The multiplicity of methods can easily be...
Provided by Visitask
-
White Papers
How Important Is Goal Setting?
Jan 2009
Without goals, there is no direction; no focus; no reason to become involved in anything worthwhile. More importantly, controlling that which we wish to achieve is how we live; how we operate our...
Provided by Vineyardesigns.com
-
White Papers
Ten Tips For A Successful Implementation
Jun 2009
One of the most frequent mistakes companies make is to schedule too little time to implement their Enterprise Resource Planning system. While it is a good thing to have a positive attitude so...
Provided by Comarch
-
White Papers
Building Your Project Team
Feb 2008
Take care to choose the right people. Pick them for their skills and abilities as they apply to your particular project. You don't necessarily need the person most qualified in absolute terms, but...
Provided by Project Smart
-
White Papers
Metrics That Matter In Agile Projects
Mar 2009
Agile project management is on a large part about managing people. Studies show that overall team morale is directly related to the level of individual morale. The amount of personal investment...
Provided by Project Smart
-
White Papers
Managing The Supply Chain Papers With ERP
Jan 2009
An integral part of running a business organization is operations management, which is concerned with everything a business uses to make a profit. It concerns itself with managing resources,...
Provided by contentdig.com
-
White Papers
A Bit About Oracle ERP
Jan 2009
There are many different systems now available that internet based businesses can use to help organize their various processes much more effectively, one of these being Oracle ERP. In fact of all...
Provided by contentdig.com
-
White Papers
Getting The Balance Right: Risk & Control Within Enterprise Resource Planning Systems
Aug 2008
Organisations implement Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems like SAP and Oracle E-Business suite to improve and automate business processes. Expected benefits of implementation include a...
Provided by Deloitte & Touche LLP
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White Papers
The Risk Revolution
Sep 2008
The subjects of this paper are understanding risk and implementing risk tools. The paper is organized into four sections. The first discusses the historical emergence of risk management. The...
Provided by McKinsey & Company
-
White Papers
ERP And Change Management - Driving ROI
Jun 2009
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems can support significant improvements in business performance and be an enabler of competitive advantage if properly implemented. Today there are many...
Provided by Symphini
-
White Papers
Are You Juggling Multiple Projects?
Jun 2008
In today's fast paced and increasingly competitive market, many companies and, more often than not, some people are trying to juggle at least two or more significant projects at any given time....
Provided by Symphini
-
White Papers
Project Management In A Translation Agency
Jun 2009
Nowadays a translation agency experiences an increasing amount of inquiries compared to the past years. This is due to globalization and the increasing use of the internet all over the world, and...
Provided by SooperArticles
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White Papers
Project Management For Small Business
Jun 2009
Small business project management is all about learning the industry standard techniques and methods and applying them in way that will best suit your specific needs. For those of you who think...
Provided by Bright Hub
-
White Papers
Make Sure That HR Gets A Seat At The ERP Planning Table
Jul 2008
At many businesses, the HR department's input is downplayed or even ignored when ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems are being developed. That's a shame, because the department plays a...
Provided by Tippit
-
White Papers
Project Manager Perspective
Jan 2009
In the world of project management, being able to identify a perspective as a perspective is a critical skill. In any project, schedules and scope are often identified by the shortest of...
Provided by Project Times
-
White Papers
Commoditizing Project Management For The Mid-market
Jan 2009
If you think of the project management systems market as though it was a pyramid, with the most experienced users at the top and the neophytes at the bottom, then the use of project management so...
Provided by Project Times
-
White Papers
Are You A Project Management Baseliner?
Jan 2009
The most common kind of baseline is for the project schedule. Most project management tools include the ability to save the start and finish dates of each task into something called a baseline....
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Project Management As A Core Corporate Competence
Jan 2009
Individuals developing as project managers need to develop not only the technical aspect of project management but also the attributes of a competent project manager, and combine it with business...
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How To Avoid Being Seen As 'Project Management Overhead'
Jan 2009
Ultimately, the best way to avoid being viewed as 'Project management overhead' is to deliver real value to the organization, which means executing projects successfully. It is not enough to...
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The Project Management System Maturity Model
Jan 2009
The Project Management Maturity (PMM) model is a pretty hot topic these days. There are waves of consultants who can help organizations assess their "Maturity level" which is pretty much always...
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Project Management To The Rescue: No Bailout Necessary
Jan 2009
Good project management enables companies and organizations to: Develop and deliver high-quality, low-cost products customers need and want. Use your Project Management skills to make your own...
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Shutdown Project Management
Jan 2009
Shutdown/Turnaround project scheduling is, in many ways, the epitome of the project scheduling paradigm and, like everything else in the project management industry, it too has evolved in recent...
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From Small Projects, Large Projects Grow
Jan 2009
We look at projects to see whether we can divide up their functionality by geography, functionality, people or source of funding. If you stop and look at the whole, there's almost always a way to...
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