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Webcasts
Knowledge Unleashed: Using Customer Intelligence to Move the Needle
Jan 2010
Learn about the benefits of employing enterprise policy management in your organization. Gain strategic insight on how to advance to the next level of service by leveraging customer intelligence...
Provided by Convergys
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Webcasts
Demo: Simple Management with IBM Cognos Express
Oct 2009
IBM Cognos Express includes what midsize businesses need for immediate use in a preconfigured solution. It plugs into your existing infrastructure and can be deployed in as little as an hour. A...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
SWOT Analysis - Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, And Threats
Jan 2010
When conducting strategic planning for any company - online and/or offline - it is useful to complete an analysis that takes into account not only your own business, but your competitor's...
Provided by PowerHomeBiz.com
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White Papers
What You Need To Know About Competitive Analysis For Your Business Plan
Jan 2010
As you draft your business plan, you'll quickly learn that learning as much as possible about the competition is a crucial element to your growth strategy. Whether it's marketing, pricing,...
Provided by Hubpages
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White Papers
Enterprise Performance Management - How Tomorrow's Leaders Will Get Ahead
Jan 2010
Evolve to Thrive: From Operational to Management Excellence, successful companies are connecting disparate management strategies to align performance networks, not just transactional activities....
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Managing for Profitability in Europe
Jan 2010
When managing for profitability, companies depend especially on access to good information on the internal aspects of financial and operating performance in order to allocate resources wisely. Our...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
In Search Of Management Excellence: An IT Focus On Process
Jan 2010
Operational Excellence? Not good enough. Read about this exclusive survey of CIOs and CFOs from IDG Research Services to learn why both camps say Management Excellence - enabled by Enterprise...
Provided by Oracle
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Downloads
Software Trial: AdminStudio® Migrates MSIs to Windows® 7 and App-V® Fast
Feb 2010
AdminStudio® allows IT to quickly prepare reliable virtual and MSI packages for error-free rollout with deployment solutions like SCCM, ZENworks, and LANDesk. AdminStudio also provides tools to...
Provided by Flexera Software
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Presentations
Webinar: Best Practices for Windows 7 Application Compatibility
Feb 2010
Are your business-critical applications compatible with Windows® 7? Join the Microsoft® "App Compat Guy" Chris Jackson to learn best practices for how IT teams are resolving Windows 7 application...
Provided by Flexera Software
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Webcasts
Dynamic Virtual Clients
Jan 2010
Dave Buchholz and Clyde Hedrick from Intel explain how Intel IT is considering implementing Dynamic Virtual Client (DVC) technology that will provide a more robust and flexible platform that users...
Provided by Intel
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Case Studies
Dynamic Virtual Client: What's in store for client technology going forward?
Jan 2010
Dynamic Virtual Client, thin client advantages with rich client user experience and mobility.
Provided by Intel
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Webcasts
Application Virtualization: Easy Application Distribution at Last?
Jan 2010
Application Virtualization is a breakthrough technology that eliminates a number of issues that inherently make application deployment so complex. Are the days of the Windows Installer-based...
Provided by KACE
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White Papers
Top 5 Considerations when Selecting Virtual Appliances
Jan 2010
Virtual machine technology is taking the IT industry by storm. Since VMs are self-contained and transportable, they can be delivered in a pre-configured state as virtual appliances (VAP). This...
Provided by KACE
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White Papers
The Essentials Series: Automation Tools for Windows 7 Migration
Jan 2010
The Essentials Series by industry expert Greg Shields will assist you in understanding those activities and enabling technologies that are available for planning and executing a Windows 7...
Provided by KACE
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Webcasts
WEBCAST: POWER7 Announcement, The Next Generation Power Systems
Feb 2010
IBM introduces the next generation Power Systems™ — the first of a family of systems and storage designed to meet the demands of a smarter planet. From the chip and virtualization capabilities all...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Reduce IT Cost by Simplifying and Improving Data Center Operations Management
Jan 2009
IT workload automation results in average annual savings in staff costs alone of $750,000. Learn more about automating complex IT processes - read the white paper.
Provided by BMC Software
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Webcasts
Sales PM Demo
Mar 2010
Learn how to turn the information intensity of your job into a competitive advantage. Pay attention to certain sweet spots of information, make better decisions, create better goals, and set...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
IDC: IDC Expert ROI Spotlight
Dec 2009
This research paper outlines how the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General realized a three year ROI if 202% by using NetApp solutions to reduce infrastructure costs, increase user productivity,...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
Tackle the Challenges of Virtualization Management
Dec 2009
Virtualization adds a whole new level of complexity to the IT infrastructure, introducing new challenges in every step of the process - from planning to configuration and management. Read how...
Provided by BMC Software
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White Papers
Strategies for Modernizing IT, Reducing Costs, and Improving Operational Efficiency
Dec 2009
Modernizing IT: Strategies for Improving Service and Reducing Costs. To meet business demands for higher levels of performance and availability - all while adding services and reducing costs - IT...
Provided by BMC Software
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Whitepapers
Improving First-Call Resolution with Team Collaboration Technology
Dec 2009
This new white paper examines key challenges facing customer support organizations and explores the many advantages of collaborative remote support, including ad hoc training, faster first-contact...
Provided by Citrix Online
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Whitepapers
The Next Frontier for Support Centers
Mar 2010
This smith+co white paper explores the importance of the customer experience and the role of technology in creating, nurturing and strengthening customer relationships with every single interaction.
Provided by Citrix Online
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Whitepapers
Leveraging GoToMyPC Corporate to Boost Productivity
Jul 2009
In this new white paper, discover how to improve overall corporate productivity by leveraging Web-based remote access such as Citrix� GoToMyPC� Corporate.
Provided by Citrix Online
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White Papers
Three Forms Of Strategy: Corporate, Competitive And Strategy In General
Jan 2010
The preceding discussion asserts that strategy in general is concerned with how, with courses of action intended to achieve particular objectives. Corporate strategy is concerned with choices and...
Provided by Fred Nickols
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White Papers
Using Business Intelligence for Competitive Advantage
May 2006
Competitive advantages and disadvantages are the strengths and weaknesses of a corporation relative to its present and likely competitors. The overall business intelligence concept is dependent on...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Driver-Based Planning: A Competitive Advantage
May 2006
Driver-based planning is an area of emerging interest within the discipline of Corporate Performance Management, also referred to as Business Performance Management. Analogous to the Oakland A's,...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Welcome to Hypercompetition - Competitive Advantage at Its Fastest
May 2006
Clearly, globalization in the service sector is a strong indicator that it too may be undergoing a shift similar to the manufacturing sector's shift to hypercompetition. Whatever a firm's business...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
May 2006
Too often corporations decide to locate facilities based solely on cost savings. And that's shortsighted, argues the Harvard Business School professor. Instead, business leaders should look for...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Managing IT According to a Hierarchy of Needs
May 2006
In this paper, the author asserts that IT is a commodity and as such offers little competitive distinction and therefore no competitive advantage. As a result, the author suggests that IT...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Strategy and the Balanced Scorecard
May 2006
A key attribute of strategy formation is performing a different set of activities than the rivals. By choosing a distinct set of related activities one has the opportunity to create unique value...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Benchmark Against "Frugal Leaders" to Improve ROI on IT
May 2006
With benchmarking, IT management teams can analyze the company's IT spending, taking a detailed look at total spending on official IT, business unit IT spending (shadow IT), and indirect spending...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Finding Competitive Advantage in Self-Managed Work Teams
May 2006
To build a competitive advantage, a firm must provide buyers with superior value. While companies can secure competitive advantages through investment in capital or technology, such avenues...
Provided by Thomson Gale
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White Papers
Enterprising Ways to Create Competitive Advantage
Feb 2006
Today's leading companies deploy enterprise systems in all areas of operations, and a spectrum of these systems are at work at companies every day. Although each enterprise system has a unique...
Provided by Thomson Gale
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White Papers
Sustaining Competitive Advantage in a High-Technology Environment: A Strategic Marketing Perspective
May 2006
The fortunes of high-technology firms depend on investments in intangible capital, which is comprised of intellectual capital as well as marketing capital. While the importance of intellectual...
Provided by Thomson Gale
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White Papers
Does Porter's Diamond Hold in the Global Automotive Industry?
May 2006
Michael Porter's Theory of the Competitive Advantage of Nations is commonly referred to as Porter's Diamond, as it comprises 4 key elements that lead to national competitiveness. This paper...
Provided by Thomson Gale
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White Papers
How Can a Firm Convert Its Global Presence to Global Competitive Advantage to Gain Certain Benefits?
May 2006
To convert global presence into a global competitive advantage, companies must exploit five value creation opportunities: adapting to local scale, exploiting economies of global scope, tapping the...
Provided by Thomson Gale
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White Papers
The Essence of Strategic Leadership: Managing Human and Social Capital
May 2006
A new type of strategic leadership is required to help firms successfully navigate the dynamic and uncertain environment in which they compete today. The strategic leadership needed in 21st...
Provided by Thomson Gale
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White Papers
The Brand Capability Value of Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC)
May 2006
It is now widely accepted that intangible assets provide the most sustainable source of competitive advantage. Indeed, brand equity often accounts for a major portion of shareholder value....
Provided by Thomson Gale
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White Papers
Using an Online Commercial Database as a Source of Competitive Advantage in Developing Marketing Strategies and Tactics
May 2006
The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the use of an online database in providing the foundation for developing a successful competitive strategy. In particular, this paper focuses on the...
Provided by Thomson Gale
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White Papers
The Role of Transformational and Transactional Leadership in Creating, Sharing and Exploiting Organizational Knowledge
May 2006
Strategy scholars have argued that managing knowledge effectively can provide firms with sustainable competitive advantages. Leaders are central to the process of managing knowledge effectively....
Provided by Thomson Gale
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Whitepapers
Green and beyond: Getting smarter about the environment
Apr 2011
Environmental sustainability is now a mandate for today's global businesses. More and more, CEOs understand how their business decisions impact the planet. This executive report discusses how...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Industry Concentration And The Cross-section Of Stock Returns: Evidence From The UK
Jan 2011
In this paper, the author examines the relationship between industry concentration and the cross-section of stock returns in the London Stock Exchange between 1985 and 2010. Using Multifactor...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
10x10x10 Framework: A Model for Creating a Nimble, Adaptable Global Workforce:
Apr 2011
Time is the single most precious asset in today's fast-paced business world. Business professionals must make the most of every minute of every day, even as demands on their time have increased...
Provided by SkillSoft
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White Papers
Malicious JavaScript Attacks: What Can You Do?
Mar 2011
As an IT manager, you need to be able to effectively secure all of the websites you manage to avoid attack and the subsequent infection of site visitors. You also need to protect the users within...
Provided by Sophos
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White Papers
An Elementary Theory Of Comparative Advantage
Jan 2009
Comparative advantage, whether driven by technology or factor endowment, is at the core of neoclassical trade theory. Using tools from the mathematics of complementarily, this paper offers a...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Adverse Selection In Competitive Search Equilibrium
Apr 2009
The authors extend the concept of competitive search equilibrium to environments with private information, and in particular adverse selection. Principals (e.g. employers or agents who want to buy...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Webcasts
What Dell Virtualization Solutions Can Do for Your Business
Mar 2011
What's your greatest motivation for considering virtualization? Chances are, it's the cost savings. Yes, virtualization will save you money, but it will also do so much more. Watch this short,...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Layered Tech: Taking IT to the Next Level
Sep 2009
When hosting services leader Layered Tech acquired a major dedicated hosting provider, it suddenly became a much larger company with bigger infrastructure requirements. Layered Tech needed servers...
Provided by VMware & Dell
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White Papers
Competition And R&D Cooperation With Universities And Competitors
Feb 2011
This paper analyzes the relationship between competition and R&D cooperation with universities and competitors. The simple model predicts that more competitors reduce the incentives for horizontal...
Provided by KOF
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White Papers
Liquidity And Competition In Unregulated Markets
Dec 2008
Despite reputedly widespread market manipulation and insider trading, the authors find surprisingly high liquidity and low transactions costs for actively traded securities on the NYSE between...
Provided by Collegio Carlo Alberto
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White Papers
Intensity Of Competition And Market Structure In The Italian Banking Industry
Jun 2007
The aim of this paper is to test the predictions of Sutton's model of independent submarkets for the Italian retail banking industry. This industry, in fact, can be viewed as made of a large...
Provided by Universite Catholique de Louvain
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White Papers
Hawks And Doves In Segmented Markets: A Formal Approach To Competitive Aggressiveness
May 2007
Competitive aggressiveness is analyzed in a simple spatial oligopolistic competition model, where each one of two firms supplies two connected market segments, one captive the other contested. To...
Provided by Universite Catholique de Louvain
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White Papers
Corporate Social Responsibility And Competitive Advantage: Overcoming The Trust Barrier
Oct 2010
This research builds on the complementary Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) literatures in strategy and marketing to provide insight into the efficacy of CSR as a challenger's competitive...
Provided by City University of New York
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White Papers
Competitively Neutral Universal Service Obligations
Oct 2010
Universal service obligations impose specific costs on the universal service provider. The measure of these costs and their financing has been studied along two complementary lines of reasoning:...
Provided by Universite Catholique de Louvain
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White Papers
Measuring The Gains From Trade Under Monopolistic Competition
Dec 2009
Three sources of gains from trade under monopolistic competition are: new import varieties available to consumers; enhanced efficiency as more productive firms begin exporting and less productive...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Whitepapers
Meeting the unique needs of small and medium size businesses
Mar 2011
With collaborative solutions from IBM, small and midsize businesses can: Stay within budget while delivering best-in-class, collaborative solutions Provide mobile and remote workers with access...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Comparison of Power VM and VMWare for Virtualization
Mar 2011
Virtualization is becoming a key technology for improving the efficiency and performance of your servers. With the introduction of IBM POWER7™ systems, you have significant new options for server...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Building a Powerful, Resilient, Affordable IT Infrastructure with IBM System x and Vmware
Mar 2011
When you grow your IT, the result is often greater complexity in the IT environment—along with higher operational and administrative costs and reduced efficiency. It's a difficult balance for a...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Whitepaper: virtualization reduces costs and complexity for mid-sized businesses
Mar 2011
While the value of virtualization for large businesses has been well documented, this whitepaper from IBM explains how mid-sized business can benefit from virtualization with some new technologies...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Power to the systems: a cost-effective option for virtualization.
Mar 2011
Virtualization has moved to the forefront of many organizations' IT agendas, because it reduces both the number of physical servers required and the associated costs. This independent study by...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Freedom To Trade And The Competitive Process
Feb 2011
Although antitrust courts sometimes stress the competitive process, they have not deeply explored what that process is. Inspired by the theory of the core, the authors explore the idea that the...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
The Evolution Of Comparative Advantage: Measurement And Welfare Implications
Feb 2011
Using an industry-level dataset of production and trade spanning 75 countries and 5 decades, and a fully specified multi-sector Ricardian model, the authors estimate productivities at the sector...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Case Studies
Sun Microsystems: Transforming Applications Business For Competitive Market Position
Jan 2011
For more than 20 years, Sun Microsystems has been at the forefront of technology innovation, and the company is currently undergoing a major transformation that is changing the way it does...
Provided by Computer Sciences Corporation
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White Papers
Strategies, Contributions And Inhibitors Of Information Systems To Organizational Competitiveness: An Empirical Analysis Within The Caribbean
Oct 2009
This paper investigates how Information Systems (IS) may be managed to determine specific contributions to an organization's competitive position. It is evident that there is little discussion...
Provided by Brunel University
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White Papers
Taking Advantage Of The Pit Stop: How To Prosper In A Recession
Apr 2009
Ruptures in the subprime market began to appear in 2007. Highly geared banks with vault-loads of securitized debt suddenly found themselves in serious trouble. As Lehman Brothers, IKB Deutsche...
Provided by Economist Intelligence Unit
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White Papers
Developing Asia's Competitive Advantage In Green Products: Learning From The Japanese Experience
Jul 2010
Right now, governments around the world are spending record amounts of money to kick start their economies in response to the financial crisis. Fortunately, a great opportunity exists for this...
Provided by Asian Development Bank Institute
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White Papers
Competition And Bias
Apr 2008
The authors attempt to measure the effect of competition on bias in the context of analyst earnings forecasts, which are known to be excessively optimistic due to conflicts of interest. The...
Provided by New York University
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White Papers
Oracle Scorecard And Strategy Management
Feb 2011
More and more executives are realizing the effectiveness of key performance indicators when it comes to measuring and communicating organizational goals. This data sheet explains how the Oracle...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Managing For Sustainability
Feb 2010
Sustainable principles in business were once the preserve of the minority. Over the past decade, these principles have begun moving into the mainstream of business. An increasing number of firms...
Provided by Economist Intelligence Unit
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White Papers
Doing Good Business And The Sustainability Challenge
Feb 2008
Being a good corporate citizen has never been so challenging. Companies have long been under public scrutiny for practices ranging from recruitment to workplace safety, from attitudes to overseas...
Provided by Economist Intelligence Unit
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White Papers
Organisational Agility: How Business Can Survive And Thrive In Turbulent Times
Mar 2009
The market turbulence of the past year may have foreshadowed a new phase of globalization, one in which volatility is likely to remain a constant. Even after the current recession lifts,...
Provided by Economist Intelligence Unit
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White Papers
Value Focused Supply Management - The 21st Century Solution
Feb 2011
Value Focused Supply Management is an approach for creating and implementing long-term strategies for key purchase categories and their suppliers that go beyond just competitive sourcing. This...
Provided by AVS Technologies
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White Papers
Competition And Well-Being: Does Market Competition Make People Unhappy ?
Apr 2008
Empirical research on the role of economic institutions for subjective well-being is still widely lacking, while recent economic-experimental outcomes suggest that experienced utility may depend...
Provided by Stockholm School of Economics
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White Papers
Service-Sector Competition, Innovation And R&D
Oct 2008
The central prediction of the Aghion et al. (2005) model is an inverted U-shaped relation between innovation and competition. The model is built on the assumption of a product market and has not...
Provided by Stockholm School of Economics
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White Papers
Execution Is Everything
Jan 2010
In the increasingly "Interesting" world we live in, long term based strategies or plans are becoming less useful. The world is simply changing so fast - and yet we all need direction and a vision,...
Provided by Management By Process
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White Papers
Responsive Supply Chain:A Competitive Strategy In A Networked Economy
May 2007
Agile Manufacturing (AM) and Supply Chain Management (SCM) differ but each complements the other in objectives for improving organizational competitiveness. The issues of cost and the integration...
Provided by Elsevier
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White Papers
Six Competencies Of The Next Generation News Organization
Nov 2008
In today's changing media world, it is critically important for news organizations to identify advances in technology that will affect the future of news reporting and distribution - and then to...
Provided by Media Management Center
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White Papers
How Do Incumbents Fare In The Face Of Increased Service Competition?
Feb 2011
The authors explore the conditions under which service competition leads to customer defection from an incumbent and which customers are most vulnerable to its effects. They find that customers...
Provided by Harvard Business School
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White Papers
Platform Competition Under Asymmetric Information
Feb 2011
In the context of platform competition in a two-sided market, the authors study how uncertainty and asymmetric information concerning the success of a new technology affects the strategies of the...
Provided by Harvard Business School
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White Papers
Quality Policy And Competitiveness Of The Country
Jun 2010
For survival and institutionalization in the European and world markets, Lithuania needs to create and develop competitive economy, assure the wealth of its society by seeking quality of...
Provided by Vilnius University
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White Papers
Tackle the Challenges of Virtualization Management
Dec 2009
Virtualization adds a whole new level of complexity to the IT infrastructure, introducing new challenges in every step of the process - from planning to configuration and management. Read how...
Provided by BMC Software
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White Papers
Strategies for Modernizing IT, Reducing Costs, and Improving Operational Efficiency
Dec 2009
Modernizing IT: Strategies for Improving Service and Reducing Costs. To meet business demands for higher levels of performance and availability - all while adding services and reducing costs - IT...
Provided by BMC Software
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White Papers
Managing Talent in a Turbulent Economy
Apr 2010
This final edition of Deloitte's year-long longitudinal study indicates that in 2010, companies can no longer depend on the recession as their retention and talent strategy. The key to success...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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Whitepapers
Improving First-Call Resolution with Team Collaboration Technology
Dec 2009
This new white paper examines key challenges facing customer support organizations and explores the many advantages of collaborative remote support, including ad hoc training, faster first-contact...
Provided by Citrix Online
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Whitepapers
The Next Frontier for Support Centers
Mar 2010
This smith+co white paper explores the importance of the customer experience and the role of technology in creating, nurturing and strengthening customer relationships with every single interaction.
Provided by Citrix Online
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Whitepapers
Leveraging GoToMyPC Corporate to Boost Productivity
Jul 2009
In this new white paper, discover how to improve overall corporate productivity by leveraging Web-based remote access such as Citrix� GoToMyPC� Corporate.
Provided by Citrix Online
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White Papers
Three Forms Of Strategy: Corporate, Competitive And Strategy In General
Jan 2010
The preceding discussion asserts that strategy in general is concerned with how, with courses of action intended to achieve particular objectives. Corporate strategy is concerned with choices and...
Provided by Fred Nickols
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White Papers
Using Business Intelligence for Competitive Advantage
May 2006
Competitive advantages and disadvantages are the strengths and weaknesses of a corporation relative to its present and likely competitors. The overall business intelligence concept is dependent on...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Driver-Based Planning: A Competitive Advantage
May 2006
Driver-based planning is an area of emerging interest within the discipline of Corporate Performance Management, also referred to as Business Performance Management. Analogous to the Oakland A's,...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Welcome to Hypercompetition - Competitive Advantage at Its Fastest
May 2006
Clearly, globalization in the service sector is a strong indicator that it too may be undergoing a shift similar to the manufacturing sector's shift to hypercompetition. Whatever a firm's business...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
May 2006
Too often corporations decide to locate facilities based solely on cost savings. And that's shortsighted, argues the Harvard Business School professor. Instead, business leaders should look for...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Managing IT According to a Hierarchy of Needs
May 2006
In this paper, the author asserts that IT is a commodity and as such offers little competitive distinction and therefore no competitive advantage. As a result, the author suggests that IT...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Strategy and the Balanced Scorecard
May 2006
A key attribute of strategy formation is performing a different set of activities than the rivals. By choosing a distinct set of related activities one has the opportunity to create unique value...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Benchmark Against "Frugal Leaders" to Improve ROI on IT
May 2006
With benchmarking, IT management teams can analyze the company's IT spending, taking a detailed look at total spending on official IT, business unit IT spending (shadow IT), and indirect spending...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Finding Competitive Advantage in Self-Managed Work Teams
May 2006
To build a competitive advantage, a firm must provide buyers with superior value. While companies can secure competitive advantages through investment in capital or technology, such avenues...
Provided by Thomson Gale
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White Papers
Enterprising Ways to Create Competitive Advantage
Feb 2006
Today's leading companies deploy enterprise systems in all areas of operations, and a spectrum of these systems are at work at companies every day. Although each enterprise system has a unique...
Provided by Thomson Gale
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White Papers
Sustaining Competitive Advantage in a High-Technology Environment: A Strategic Marketing Perspective
May 2006
The fortunes of high-technology firms depend on investments in intangible capital, which is comprised of intellectual capital as well as marketing capital. While the importance of intellectual...
Provided by Thomson Gale
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White Papers
Does Porter's Diamond Hold in the Global Automotive Industry?
May 2006
Michael Porter's Theory of the Competitive Advantage of Nations is commonly referred to as Porter's Diamond, as it comprises 4 key elements that lead to national competitiveness. This paper...
Provided by Thomson Gale
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White Papers
How Can a Firm Convert Its Global Presence to Global Competitive Advantage to Gain Certain Benefits?
May 2006
To convert global presence into a global competitive advantage, companies must exploit five value creation opportunities: adapting to local scale, exploiting economies of global scope, tapping the...
Provided by Thomson Gale
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White Papers
The Essence of Strategic Leadership: Managing Human and Social Capital
May 2006
A new type of strategic leadership is required to help firms successfully navigate the dynamic and uncertain environment in which they compete today. The strategic leadership needed in 21st...
Provided by Thomson Gale
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White Papers
The Brand Capability Value of Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC)
May 2006
It is now widely accepted that intangible assets provide the most sustainable source of competitive advantage. Indeed, brand equity often accounts for a major portion of shareholder value....
Provided by Thomson Gale
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White Papers
Using an Online Commercial Database as a Source of Competitive Advantage in Developing Marketing Strategies and Tactics
May 2006
The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the use of an online database in providing the foundation for developing a successful competitive strategy. In particular, this paper focuses on the...
Provided by Thomson Gale
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White Papers
The Role of Transformational and Transactional Leadership in Creating, Sharing and Exploiting Organizational Knowledge
May 2006
Strategy scholars have argued that managing knowledge effectively can provide firms with sustainable competitive advantages. Leaders are central to the process of managing knowledge effectively....
Provided by Thomson Gale
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White Papers
Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) and Brand Identity as Critical Components of Brand Equity Strategy
May 2006
For practitioners, Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) has become widely accepted, has pervaded various levels within the firm, and has become an integral part of brand strategy that requires...
Provided by Thomson Gale
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White Papers
Task and Relationship-Oriented Trust in Leaders
May 2006
The study presented in this paper examines the relative influence of competence, consistency and motivational intention upon the defined task and relationship dimensions of trust in leaders. A...
Provided by Thomson Gale
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White Papers
An Agent-Based Knowledge Management Framework for the e-Commerce Environment
May 2006
Knowledge Management (KM) is emerging as one of the management tools to gain competitive advantage and e-businesses are beginning to invest in KM initiatives. Though several organizations have...
Provided by Thomson Gale
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Downloads
Analyzing Your Business's Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats
Jun 2006
SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) is a method of assessing a business, its resources, and its environment. It helps you discover what you do well; how you could...
Provided by Business, The Ultimate Resource
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White Papers
How To Adopt A Competitive Strategy In An Organization
Jan 2010
Creating a competitive strategy as part of a marketing and business plan can aide you in competing in the marketplace and focus your efforts. When developing a competitive strategy, it is...
Provided by eHow
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White Papers
How To Compare A Business Model With A Competitive Strategy
Jan 2010
A business model is the method a business uses to generate revenue through the sale of its products or services. A competitive strategy focuses on how a business will systematically compete and...
Provided by eHow
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White Papers
Brand Scandal Spillover: When Will A Brand Scandal Spill Over And How Should Competitors Respond?
Oct 2008
Brand scandal is more likely to spill over to a particular competitor is perceived to be highly similar on the attribute involved in the scandal. For example, a scandal involving hamburgers but...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
Games Hospitals Play: How hospitals Cope With Competition
Jan 2008
Businesses generally find competition unwelcome. When facing the possible arrival of a new competitor in their market, many firms work to make the newcomer's entry more difficult. Cutting prices,...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
The State Of Customer Experience,2010
Feb 2010
With tighter budgets and fewer resources, companies across North America are turning to improved customer experience as a way to build business and enhance brand loyalty. The biggest obstacle to...
Provided by Adobe Systems
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Case Studies
Think Global. Serve Local: Helping A Global Bank In Its Efforts To Increase Competitive Advantage
May 2010
A global bank needed to improve the customer experience of clients in its highly profitable "Transaction services" business. As the business evolved and clients expanded their global footprint,...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
The Ownership Quotient
Apr 2009
Lanham Napier is CEO of Rackspace Hosting, based in San Antonio, Texas. Napier is obsessed with the development of customer owners, even though he doesn't use the term. His organization, which...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
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White Papers
Customer Acquisition And Retention: Using Customer Experience For Competitive Advantage In Uncertain Times
Mar 2009
Accenture High Performance Business research has shown that the ability to deliver a customer experience consistently aligned around customer needs and intentions has a significant impact on a...
Provided by Accenture
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Analyze Your Competition
Jan 2010
There are businesses out there trying to do what one does, only better. Conduct a competitive analysis in the market so one know where the business stands and can rise above the competition....
Provided by MasterCard
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Looking Back, Leaning Forward
Feb 2010
For many business owners-large or small-there may not be much interest in looking back at the year that was 2009. Sure, the personal retirement savings may have rebounded, but the stock market's...
Provided by Bank of America
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Hone Your Competitive Edge
Jan 2010
When your corporate competition discovers a hot new product or service, it has to go through proper channels-meaning that by the time the new product or service is finally given the green light,...
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Strategic Competition in Social Entrepreneurship
Dec 2008
This post on the challenges facing social entrepreneurship is drawn from remarks made on October. 23, 2008 at "Leadership for the 21st Century," an interactive training session held at the U.S....
Provided by Columbia University
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On Competition
Sep 2008
In essence, the job of the strategist is to understand and cope with competition. Often, however, managers define competition too narrowly, as if it occurred only among today's direct competitors....
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
