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Operational Planning: Close The Gap Between Strategy And Execution
Jul 2010
Today's corporate leadership faces enormous pressure brought on by economic challenges and unrelenting competition. But as demand increases, budgets and resources remain flat. In this challenging...
Provided by Planview
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Building An ROI: Application And Network Performance Management
Apr 2009
Believing there are benefits to improved network and application performance is not enough for most organizations. The ability to quantify cost savings, improved productivity or reduced risks is a...
Provided by XO Communications
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Optimizing Your Leadership Pipeline For: Operational Leaders
Nov 2009
When organizations face growth or complex change operational or midlevel leaders play a critical role. Yet when corporations face belt tightening, reengineer their business process, push decision...
Provided by Development Dimensions International
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Telework And Continuity Of Operations
Feb 2009
From the aggressive telework program of the U.S. General Services Administration to Georgia's tax credits for private sector telecommuting programs, agencies at all levels of government are...
Provided by Adobe Systems
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Smart Ways To Improve Contact Center Performance
Oct 2007
Businesses are acutely aware that competition to attract and retain customers has never been fiercer. As a key part of their attempt to win this contest, organizations are looking for new ways to...
Provided by Ventana Research
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How To Effectively Identify, Prioritize And Implement Strategic Projects To Provide Business Value
Aug 2009
The current economic landscape in the United States and around the world has required companies to stop wasting precious budget and resources on poorly performing strategy execution efforts. This...
Provided by RSM McGladrey
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Optimizing Your Leadership Pipeline
Jun 2010
What will drive the success of the business? Aggressive top-line growth? Entering new global markets? Launching the next blockbuster product? Managing through an economic down-turn? No matter...
Provided by Development Dimensions International
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eForms Checklist: Find The Right Automation Solution For Your Business
Jul 2010
Fast, accurate, friendly service helps you to be viable and competitive. At the same time, being effective is vital to cost-efficiency and customer loyalty. Unfortunately, however, fast work often...
Provided by Optical Image Technology
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Role Of Relationship Marketing In Competitive Marketing Strategy
Apr 2009
Competitive Marketing Strategy (CMS) has Relationship Marketing (RM) as one of the key functionality in enhancing business performance. RM is defined as the identification, establishment,...
Provided by Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
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Turning Risk Management Into A True Competitive Advantage
Sep 2009
Chief executives, chief risk officers and board members alike are asking the same questions these days. How is it possible that an entire league of institutions has had record write-offs and...
Provided by McKinsey & Company
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Creating Competitive Advantage Through Integrated PLM And Sourcing Systems
Jun 2009
In a recent study of 101 leading retailers, Kurt Salmon Associates identified a select group of companies that consistently has outperformed the industry - even in today's difficult economy. The...
Provided by Kurt Salmon Associates
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Aligning Knowledge Management With Competitive Strategy: A Framework
Oct 2008
This paper presents a hybrid approach to understanding the knowledge management requirements for a knowledge intensive service organization. It proposes a strategy-knowledge management alignment...
Provided by Academic Conferences
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Webcasts
The People Strategy Most Executives Overlook And Why It Matters!
Feb 2008
What is the top priority of today's workforce? Flexibility. And when organizations really get flexible (think something much more than "Flex-time"), they create significant benefits for employees,...
Provided by SAS Institute
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The Thirty Pitfalls Of Strategic And Operational Planning And How To Overcome Them
Aug 2009
Recent research into the effectiveness of the strategic planning process in an organization indicates that only 25% of United States companies say they have an effective strategic planning...
Provided by Public Health Foundation
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Whitepapers
DAI: Redbook: Experience Java EE!
Jul 2010
"Beginning Java developers will find valuable information in this e-book from IBM® Redbooks: "Experience Java EE! Using WebSphere® Application Server Community Edition 2.1." This essential...
Provided by IBM
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The Mission Driven Strategy Map
May 2008
The cornerstone to an effective Balanced Scorecard, or any strategic measurement system, is to identify strategic priorities and clarify the cause and effect linkages among them. Too many...
Provided by Ascendant Strategy Mangement
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White Papers
6 Steps To An Employer Brand Strategy
May 2009
Having a clearly defined strategy is the most important factor in achieving employer branding objectives. That's the takeaway from the Employer Brand Institute's Global Research Study of more than...
Provided by Borderless Executive Search
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Whitepapers
Smarter Insurance Processes in 2010: Streamline Insurance Processes with Business Rules to Cut Costs, Speed Operations and Respond Dynamically to Change
Aug 2010
Smarter insurance processes go beyond basic automation by adding intelligent decisioning capabilities for greater agility, speed and transparency. This automation not only cuts costs by reducing...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
In A Downturn: Don't Minimize, Optimize
Nov 2008
Optimization is the disciplined use of assets, aimed at adding the greatest value to the bottom line. How well one utilizes an asset depends on the decisions one makes about it. Every day, one...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Common Lies Companies Tell Themselves
May 2008
The author has seen great ideas wither and die because companies tell themselves lies that are ingrained in their corporate makeup, and thus they fail to fix problems. This is why one of the...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
No Excuses: Being Accountable For Your Own Success
Jul 2010
How much of your success would you say is up to you - your choices, your actions, your behaviors - versus outside conditions? If your mind-set is that you're at least 85% responsible for your...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Why Managers Should Care About Employee Loyalty
Aug 2009
Most executives would agree that the long-term success of any company depends on the quality and loyalty of its people. The problem is that when the going gets tough, managers focus on the hard...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
How To Succeed During The Recession: Act Like An Entrepreneur
Feb 2010
Anxiety is running rampant: anxiety about job security (or lack thereof), about the current economic climate, about the future of the country, and even the world. One probably don't need a career...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
You And Your Company: Making The Corporate Brand/Personal Brand Connection
Jan 2010
Corporate branders need to know their competitors well in order to understand why a customer would choose their brand over another. Similarly, personal branders must know something about the other...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Picture This
Apr 2008
By better understanding and taking advantage of the innate visual processing capabilities, we can radically improve how we look at complex information sets. Through just a few simple steps (laying...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
An Antidote For Complexity
Jan 2008
The business news these days can be downright demoralizing. Housing is in the tank. The subprime mortgage debt crisis has made credit much tighter and more expensive. Oil costs are driving energy...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
A Fresh Take On Complexity Costs
Jan 2010
For the last two decades, the pursuit of growth has created massive complexity in companies and, with it, massive complexity costs. In fact, complexity costs are today likely the biggest single...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
The Most Important Decision Every Company Will Make
Jul 2009
In today's market, if you are financially stable, and are positioned to survive for years, not just the next quarter, that's a big Competitive Advantage, and one you should be touting every chance...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Fighting Poverty Through Profits
Jun 2010
Once one cross the big mental divide and start thinking of the people at the bottom of the pyramid as potential consumers, how to do it becomes very obvious. However, because of the way one is...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Middle Management May Hinder Diversity Initiatives
Jun 2007
Middle managers focus on long-term strategy and the status quo. Because they're generally rewarded for maintaining current results, they often become roadblocks to inclusion initiatives. There are...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Could Groupon Save Your Business?
Apr 2010
Groupon is a collective buying discount service. Actually, that idea has been around in variations for years, both on and offline, but Groupon seems to have figured out how to make it simple and...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Stop Wasting Your Time On The Internet
Apr 2010
If you consider yourself a business person, and your business revolves around the internet, it might be good to consider how you spend your time building that business. Why bring this up? Because...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
How To Create A Killer Local Partner Team Program
Apr 2010
Everybody needs a little help from their friends. Businesses large and small can benefit greatly from the partnering mindset, particularly hyper local businesses. The partnering mindset is simply...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
5 Ways To Build A Team That Builds Itself
Mar 2010
People naturally rally around things they can believe in. Is there anything in business as powerful as believing that what you're selling is good for your customers? It takes people to grow a...
Provided by American Express
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Downloads
BRMS Demo: Author and deploy rules using WebSphere ILOG JRules Business Rules Management System
Aug 2010
Learn how the WebSphere ILOG JRules Business Rules Management System (JRules BRMS) can automate decision making for data validation, eligibility and pricing in a real-world scenario. This demo...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Enhancing Project Success For Innovation, Efficiency And Competitiveness
Jun 2010
As multinationals accelerate their strategies to further globalisation and expansion into the emerging markets, they continue to invest in major capital expenditure projects that are key to...
Provided by Citigroup
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White Papers
How To Think Big
Jun 2009
The key is figuring out something you can do differently or better than everyone else out there. Or finding something that's never been done. Note that innovation, by itself, is only the...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
How To Exceed Expectations
Jul 2009
One of the secrets to being the kind of business that people naturally talk about is to consistently exceed your customer's expectations. The author suggests to think about more as a strategy and...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
7 Steps To Outperforming Competitors
Apr 2010
In times like these, when your competitors are distracted, that you can get the jump on them. If your competitors have had to lay off staff, or cut expenses, they may be just limping along....
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
The Key Business Lesson From The Facebook Privacy 'Scandal,: If Your Customers Don't Care, Ignore The Critics
Jun 2010
Ever since Facebook introduced its new Open Graph and made some changes to its privacy policy in recent weeks, the tech and media world has been in an uproar. Pundits have called on CEO Mark...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
Contacts Vs. Connections
Mar 2010
"Businesses today are built on connections - quality connections" states Sandra Yancey, Founder and CEO of eWomenNetwork, at the American Express OPEN Women's Business Summit. She discusses the...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
Keep Your Employees Happy
May 2010
Kathryn Roberts, COO of Pump It, Inc., knows how to keep her employees happy. At the American Express OPEN Women's Business Summit, Kathryn discusses the various ways she nurtures her employees so...
Provided by American Express
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Going From Small To Big
Feb 2009
"The emotional tie that entrepreneurs have to an idea is one of the greatest drivers of entrepreneurship," says John Borthwick, CEO and co-founder of Betaworks. What's important, however, is...
Provided by American Express
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Do It Yourself: Getting Organized
Mar 2010
Every office is in need of a good cleaning every so often. It's a great time to get organized. Professional organizer Julie Morgenstern shows one clothing designer how she can do it herself and...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
Better Your Business: Jen Groover And Scott Belsky
Apr 2010
In this webcast, Jen Groover, serial entrepreneur and author of "What If? And Why Not?," and Scott Belsky, founder and CEO of Behance, provide tips to help one better the business.
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
The Importance Of Resilience
Apr 2010
Resilience is key to success says CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo. In her new book, The 10 Laws Of Enduring Success, Bartiromo talks about the importance of recognizing past mistakes and learning from...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
Build Relationships Via Matchmaking
Apr 2010
In this webcast, Maureen Borzacchiello, President and CEO of Creative Displays Solution, discusses how she takes advantage of matchmaking event to increase her chances to win contracts and build...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
Understand Your Business
Apr 2010
Mark Oliver, Director of the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, has years of experience in dealing with small businesses and federal contracts. In this video, Mark discusses...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
Business War Chest: Reinvention
Apr 2010
The ups and downs in the economy have forced many business owners to stay flexible. For some entrepreneurs, that means being ready to reinvent their services in a pinch. In this webcast Pamela...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
Cultivate Relationships
Apr 2010
"From my experience, it's basically all about cultivating relationships" says Lisa Dolan, CEO of Securit. Lisa believes relationship building has been a key component in her contracting success....
Provided by American Express
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Making Your Company Stand Out
May 2010
Most business ideas aren't unique; so, the door is always open for copycats to take away the market share. HopStop CEO Joe Meyer understands this dilemma with behemoth Google Maps breathing down...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
Learning From The Pros: Gary Vaynerchuk
May 2010
It's been a very good year for wine entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk. The host of the vlog "Wine Library TV" and the author of the book "Crush It!" has some vintage advice for small business owners.
Provided by American Express
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Better Your Business: Phil Town And Mike Michalowicz
Jun 2010
Phil Town, investment advisor and author of "Payback Time," and Mike Michalowicz, founder of Obsidian Launch and author of "The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur," provide some tips to help one better the...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
American Business: Bronx Blues
Jun 2010
While some entrepreneurs have expressed a growing optimism about the economy, thousands of mom and pop operations are still struggling. That's the case for one New York City hardware store. It...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
Business Answers: Giving Raises And Burning Bridges
Jun 2010
Jeffrey Bussgang, general partner at Flybridge Capital Partners and author of the book "Mastering the VC Game," and Michael Port, the creator of Book Yourself Solid and author of the book "The...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
Better Your Business: Rod Kurtz And Bob Prosen
Jul 2010
Rod Kurtz, Executive Editor of AOL Small Business, and Bob Prosen, President and CEO of The Prosen Center For Business Advancement and author of "Kiss Theory Goodbye: Five Proven Ways to Get...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Vertical Market Development Strategies For Business-To-Business Marketers
May 2008
Recently, FUSION b2b has witnessed an upsurge in clients' interests, either for entering new markets or entering multiple markets with a targeted approach for each. As FUSION developed marketing...
Provided by FUSION b2b
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Retail Promotions: Gaining Advantage From Global Services
Aug 2007
The Promotions Management Association reports that spending on retail promotions exceeds $300 billion, with in-store promotions accounting for $867 million. Promotional spending is expected to...
Provided by Neo Advisory
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White Papers
Harness The Competitive Advantage Of Your Mobile Workforce Through Sage SalesLogix Mobile
Apr 2009
Workforce mobilization has become a key competitive requirement for most organizations seeking to create greater intimacy and presence with customers. However, enabling mobility is more than just...
Provided by Sage
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White Papers
Taking The Lead: Gaining A Competitive Advantage Through Infrastructure And Platform Optimization
Jun 2008
In an ever-changing global marketplace, companies are looking for every opportunity to gain a competitive advantage and simultaneously grow revenue, profits, and customer loyalty. Meanwhile, new...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Board Diversification Strategy: Realizing Competitive Advantage And Shareowner Value
Feb 2009
The topic of board diversification was until recently an exercise in corporate social responsibility, ethics, morality, and in some parts of the world such as Norway, regulatory compliance. Today,...
Provided by CalPERS
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White Papers
Gaining Competitive Advantage By Using Digital Prototyping To Support Building Information Modeling
Nov 2009
Current trends in the building product manufacturing segment - including HVAC, lighting, plumbing, doors/windows, and furniture systems - require building product manufacturers to deliver very...
Provided by Autodesk
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White Papers
E-Lawyering For Competitive Advantage
Jun 2009
This paper is addressed to partners in small law firms that serve consumers and small business and are exploring strategic alternatives for increasing revenues and profits in an increasingly...
Provided by Epoq Group
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Webcasts
Ask A Question. Find An Answer.
Jan 2010
As small businesses are busy reinventing the economy, small business owners have a lot of questions. And where better to find answers than from other business owners? That's why American Express...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
Better Your Business: Tim Furguson And Jerry Silberman
Jan 2010
Better Your Business: Tim Ferguson & Jerry Silberman; Tim Ferguson, founder, chairman and managing partner of Next Street, a merchant bank, and Jerry Silberman, the founder and CEO of Corporate...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
Better Your Business: Marc Lore And Lawrence Gelburd
Feb 2010
Marc Lore, co-founder, CEO and Chairman of Quidsi, the parent company of Diapers.com, and Lawrence Gelburd, an instructor at The Wharton School, provide some helpful tips on how one can better the...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
The Amazing Grass Rule
Feb 2010
"The answer is 'yes' and the question is 'how?'"- The Amazing Grass Rule. In 2002 Brandon Bert and Todd Habermehl ditched their corporate jobs and started a green food supplement company that is...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
The Core Of Resiliency
Feb 2010
Anita Campbell, CEO of smallbiztrends.com, discusses how resilient small businesses weathered difficult times. Here she explores how small business owner's perseverance and commitment to their...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
Strategic Pricing Models
Feb 2010
Anita Campbell, CEO of smallbiztrends.com, explains that small business owners need to be smart and strategic about how they manage the payment process with their customers. Here she discusses how...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
The Trunkettes Rule
Feb 2010
"Don't be afraid to ask."- The Trunkettes Rule. Tired of stealing her husband's trunks, Hillary Genga took matters into her own hands creating a problem solving line of swimming trunks for women,...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
The Brooklyn Industries Rule
Feb 2010
"Be a bull when everyone else is being a bear."- The Brooklyn Industries Rule. In an episode of Small Business Rules, Lexy Funk says embodies the artistic indie spirit of Brooklyn, and so does her...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
Made To Stick: Sparking Curiosity
Feb 2010
Dan Heath, co-author of Made to Stick, speaks with Fast Company about how to get one's ideas across through the power of testable credentials.
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
The Parties That Cook Rule
Feb 2010
"If you don't provide great service, somebody else will." - The Parties that Cook Rule. In an episode of Small Business Rules, Gibby Gignilliat says she grew tired of her corporate job she decided...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
The Green And Greener Rule
Mar 2010
"Date your business before you marry it"- The Green and Greener Rule. Alegre Ramos founded Green and Greener, LA's first Eco-Living Design Center and General Store to make green the easy choice...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
The Chilewich Rule
Mar 2010
"Don't fall in love with your own product" - The Chilewich Rule. After selling off her revolutionary hosiery company, HUE, Sandy Chilewich went out to start her own design studio, where she...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
Find Teaming Resources
Mar 2010
"Subcontracting is probably the best way for small businesses to get their feet wet with government contracting" believes Carey Joan White, University of Houston Procurement Technical Assistance...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
The Upsilon Rule
Mar 2010
"Every rule is breakable" - The Upsilon Rule. Upsilon ventures creates temporary spaces and communities like the pond at Bryant Park, which hosts over 250,000 ice skaters each season. Previously...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
Ask Norm: On Determining The Viability Of A Business
Mar 2010
Columnist Norm Brodsky speaks about how to know if the business is viable. Norm explains that when there is adversity, there's opportunity and it's important to "think differently than everybody...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
American Business: Thrown A Curve
Apr 2010
One entrepreneur decided to expand his brand after getting some pressure from his customers. He's gone from making pitching mounds to becoming a one-stop shop for baseball equipment.
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
Start With Small Contracts
Apr 2010
If one can win and perform on something small then one have past performance and it leads to bigger opportunities believes Julie Weeks, President and CEO of Womenable. During a government...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
The Mission Driven Strategy Map
May 2008
The cornerstone to an effective Balanced Scorecard, or any strategic measurement system, is to identify strategic priorities and clarify the cause and effect linkages among them. Too many...
Provided by Ascendant Strategy Mangement
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White Papers
6 Steps To An Employer Brand Strategy
May 2009
Having a clearly defined strategy is the most important factor in achieving employer branding objectives. That's the takeaway from the Employer Brand Institute's Global Research Study of more than...
Provided by Borderless Executive Search
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Whitepapers
Smarter Insurance Processes in 2010: Streamline Insurance Processes with Business Rules to Cut Costs, Speed Operations and Respond Dynamically to Change
Aug 2010
Smarter insurance processes go beyond basic automation by adding intelligent decisioning capabilities for greater agility, speed and transparency. This automation not only cuts costs by reducing...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Smarter Banking Processes in 2010: Shrink Costs, Build Profitability and Respond Dynamically with Business Rules in Banking
Aug 2010
Lenders use business rule management systems (BRMS) to externalize business logic from hard-coded applications, creating dramatic improvements in flexibility, speed and efficiency. BRMS enhances...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
In A Downturn: Don't Minimize, Optimize
Nov 2008
Optimization is the disciplined use of assets, aimed at adding the greatest value to the bottom line. How well one utilizes an asset depends on the decisions one makes about it. Every day, one...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Common Lies Companies Tell Themselves
May 2008
The author has seen great ideas wither and die because companies tell themselves lies that are ingrained in their corporate makeup, and thus they fail to fix problems. This is why one of the...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
No Excuses: Being Accountable For Your Own Success
Jul 2010
How much of your success would you say is up to you - your choices, your actions, your behaviors - versus outside conditions? If your mind-set is that you're at least 85% responsible for your...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Why Managers Should Care About Employee Loyalty
Aug 2009
Most executives would agree that the long-term success of any company depends on the quality and loyalty of its people. The problem is that when the going gets tough, managers focus on the hard...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
How To Succeed During The Recession: Act Like An Entrepreneur
Feb 2010
Anxiety is running rampant: anxiety about job security (or lack thereof), about the current economic climate, about the future of the country, and even the world. One probably don't need a career...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
You And Your Company: Making The Corporate Brand/Personal Brand Connection
Jan 2010
Corporate branders need to know their competitors well in order to understand why a customer would choose their brand over another. Similarly, personal branders must know something about the other...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Picture This
Apr 2008
By better understanding and taking advantage of the innate visual processing capabilities, we can radically improve how we look at complex information sets. Through just a few simple steps (laying...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
An Antidote For Complexity
Jan 2008
The business news these days can be downright demoralizing. Housing is in the tank. The subprime mortgage debt crisis has made credit much tighter and more expensive. Oil costs are driving energy...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
A Fresh Take On Complexity Costs
Jan 2010
For the last two decades, the pursuit of growth has created massive complexity in companies and, with it, massive complexity costs. In fact, complexity costs are today likely the biggest single...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
The Most Important Decision Every Company Will Make
Jul 2009
In today's market, if you are financially stable, and are positioned to survive for years, not just the next quarter, that's a big Competitive Advantage, and one you should be touting every chance...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Fighting Poverty Through Profits
Jun 2010
Once one cross the big mental divide and start thinking of the people at the bottom of the pyramid as potential consumers, how to do it becomes very obvious. However, because of the way one is...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Middle Management May Hinder Diversity Initiatives
Jun 2007
Middle managers focus on long-term strategy and the status quo. Because they're generally rewarded for maintaining current results, they often become roadblocks to inclusion initiatives. There are...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Could Groupon Save Your Business?
Apr 2010
Groupon is a collective buying discount service. Actually, that idea has been around in variations for years, both on and offline, but Groupon seems to have figured out how to make it simple and...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Stop Wasting Your Time On The Internet
Apr 2010
If you consider yourself a business person, and your business revolves around the internet, it might be good to consider how you spend your time building that business. Why bring this up? Because...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
How To Create A Killer Local Partner Team Program
Apr 2010
Everybody needs a little help from their friends. Businesses large and small can benefit greatly from the partnering mindset, particularly hyper local businesses. The partnering mindset is simply...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
5 Ways To Build A Team That Builds Itself
Mar 2010
People naturally rally around things they can believe in. Is there anything in business as powerful as believing that what you're selling is good for your customers? It takes people to grow a...
Provided by American Express
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Downloads
BRMS Demo: Author and deploy rules using WebSphere ILOG JRules Business Rules Management System
Aug 2010
Learn how the WebSphere ILOG JRules Business Rules Management System (JRules BRMS) can automate decision making for data validation, eligibility and pricing in a real-world scenario. This demo...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Enhancing Project Success For Innovation, Efficiency And Competitiveness
Jun 2010
As multinationals accelerate their strategies to further globalisation and expansion into the emerging markets, they continue to invest in major capital expenditure projects that are key to...
Provided by Citigroup
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White Papers
How To Think Big
Jun 2009
The key is figuring out something you can do differently or better than everyone else out there. Or finding something that's never been done. Note that innovation, by itself, is only the...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
How To Exceed Expectations
Jul 2009
One of the secrets to being the kind of business that people naturally talk about is to consistently exceed your customer's expectations. The author suggests to think about more as a strategy and...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
7 Steps To Outperforming Competitors
Apr 2010
In times like these, when your competitors are distracted, that you can get the jump on them. If your competitors have had to lay off staff, or cut expenses, they may be just limping along....
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
The Key Business Lesson From The Facebook Privacy 'Scandal,: If Your Customers Don't Care, Ignore The Critics
Jun 2010
Ever since Facebook introduced its new Open Graph and made some changes to its privacy policy in recent weeks, the tech and media world has been in an uproar. Pundits have called on CEO Mark...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Creating A Smooth Business Transition When You Sell Your Company
May 2010
Selling your business may be your ultimate goal when you start the company, or it may be a decision you come to after years of running it. Either way, you want to be able to smoothly transition...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
The Magic Word That Can Transform Your Business
May 2010
Sure, Yes may cost you some time and money, and yes, Yes can be a pain in the rear sometimes. But when you think about some of the great businesses, they are great because their answer is Yes: ·...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
The Secret To A Successful Business? Say You Will And Do
Apr 2010
Promises. Does the very word make you uncomfortable? Does it conjure up images of promises forgotten, broken or never fulfilled? If promises don't make one uncomfortable, then one has not been...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
The 2-Pronged Strategy For Post-Recession Success
Mar 2010
It is probably safe to say that recessions mark hard times for everyone. Consumers cannot afford to spend as much as they used to; companies lose sales every day; employees suffer wage cuts or...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
The Quick Guide To Handling A PR Crisis
Mar 2010
Crises happen. A product is recalled, services are suspended, a private email goes public, an unexpected change hits top management - all these scenarios can destroy the smallest and the biggest...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
How To Stay Ahead Of The Competition
Feb 2010
To succeed in today's rapidly changing world you have to focus more on competitors, and less on executing your old success formula. You have to be part of disrupting and changing markets in order...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
How To Deal With Negative Feedback
Feb 2010
We often say that social media is a conversation, and what we mean by that is unlike traditional broadcast and print mediums, which are often one-directional, social media is very much a two-way...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
The Single Best Way To Get The Biggest, Baddest Results On The Planet
Dec 2009
The successful companies circulating out and about in the world seem to have one thing in common: Many of them seem to be knee deep in collaboration. For some, it's a very natural way of doing...
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How To Optimize Your Focus: ^Maker Time^ Vs ^Management Time^
Dec 2009
If you've ever been interrupted by a phone call or a nosy coworker when you were right in the middle of a creative marathon, you know how such distractions can quickly knock you out of a...
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Why You Need To Polish Your Unique Selling Proposition
Aug 2008
Why should a customer do business with you instead of a competitor? Do you provide the highest level of service, or are you the low-cost leader? Knowing what makes you unique in the market, your...
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Beating Competitors In The Long Run
Dec 2008
Staying ahead of the bear is of little benefit if you keep running in blind panic and die of exhaustion a while later. Even in a downturn, a business also needs to plan to conserve resources and...
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The Art Of Contrarianism: Working Against The Grain
Sep 2009
Contrarianism is the practice of approaching problems and brainstorming new ideas by purposely thinking against the grain. Or, more specifically, the act of ignoring entrenched societal beliefs -...
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Limitation Is The New Competitive Advantage
Aug 2009
As we have ever-increasing amounts of content to choose from in the world of blogging and journalism, curation is becoming more important. When there are only two articles featured, you're more...
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Plan Less, Act More
Jul 2009
Conventional wisdom privileges the notion of coming up with a well-thought-out plan over taking incremental action and learning as we go along. Of course, the real truth - and the best method -...
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