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What Are Your Clients Costing You?
Feb 2009
All business owners could benefit by much better tracking and measuring of the numbers. Knowing things like how many leads you generate, how many leads you convert, and the average dollar amount...
Provided by American Express
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6 Tips For Running Your Business Lessons From 2 Failed Restaurateurs
May 2009
Why do restaurants often struggle to succeed? Why are they the first businesses to fold, and often in the shortest amount of time? The answer to these questions goes beyond the adage of "Location,...
Provided by American Express
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An Inside Track To A Big Sale
Jul 2009
Find someone who can materially benefit from owning your company. Sounds obvious, right? It's surprising how many people think that just because someone has money that they are automatically a...
Provided by American Express
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8 Ways To Minimize Costs And Maximize ROI On Employee Travel
Jul 2009
Whether you have a sales force of two that only does the occasional overnight, or you maintain an army of road warriors and have your own travel coordination department, these 8 tips given in this...
Provided by American Express
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Crisis Management: Folding Or Plotting
Jul 2009
Sink or swim. Stick it out or fold up the tent. If only keeping your clients and customers talking about you was as easy as the silly (yet effective) Snickers Snacklish campaign. There are two...
Provided by American Express
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How To Fire A Customer
Jul 2009
If you've done customer profitability analysis, you've probably identified who are your best customers - as well as who are your worst. Those customers who place only small or infrequent orders,...
Provided by American Express
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Time To Upgrade For The Upturn?
Jul 2009
With the economic crisis starting to show signs of coming to an end, firms have to think about preparing to handle the good times after two years of trying to run lean and mean. Trying to predict...
Provided by American Express
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Core Competencies And Saving Money
Jul 2009
What's the core competency of your business? What do you do that sets you apart from your competitors? Perhaps it's customer service. Maybe it's an excellent product. It might be your personal...
Provided by American Express
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How To Set Priorities
Aug 2009
A small company simply doesn't have the resources to compete with bigger, richer companies if it's trying to be all things to all people. While trying to do one thing extremely well, however, you...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Military Veterans Make Good Business Folk
Aug 2009
Small businesses looking to hire don't have to look only to Harvard and Yale graduates. Ranks of military alumni with real world work experience on top of college degrees can also run a company...
Provided by American Express
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Harnessing The New Age Of Customer Frugality
Sep 2009
Many businesses have been bitten by this so-called "Paradox of thrift." frugality might be a great idea for the individual, but for the businesses that rely on the spending of that customer, it...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Trends: Skill Seekers
Sep 2009
As consumers seek more from their purchase experiences, it's worth investigating how to expand your offering with classes and expert knowledge. Acquiring new skills that contribute to personal...
Provided by American Express
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Are You A "Conscious Capitalist"?
Jul 2009
How can highlighting your company's sense of meaning and purpose increase sales? The consumer market is increasingly driven by the demand for meaning and purpose in product sales - witness the...
Provided by American Express
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Never Let A Crisis Go To Waste
Jun 2009
Despite the steady drumbeat of bad economic news, small businesses have a major opportunity shaping up over the next year or two. They could become big businesses. While there's no way to get rid...
Provided by American Express
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Playing To The Recession's Strengths
Jun 2009
You don't live in a world where the economy is booming and consumers are spending freely. It's not "Try to play to the recession" vs. "Try to maintain business as usual". The only alternative to...
Provided by American Express
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Do Perfect Franchises Exist?
Jul 2009
Is the franchise you are thinking of buying perfect for you? Will it meet your criteria? Have you defined your criteria? Your criteria should include things like investment comfort level, hours...
Provided by American Express
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Case Studies
Helping A Wireless Company Achieve High Performance By Executing A Bold China Business Strategy
Apr 2009
The client is a wireless player in the consumer technology industry. A Chinese wireless company, a major player in the consumer technology industry, turned to Accenture when it needed a new...
Provided by Accenture
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Case Studies
Accenture Helps UB Group Spirits And Shaw Wallace Integrate For Success
Nov 2008
Accenture helped two rival spirit producers merge into what has become one of the dominant forces in India and the world, United Spirits. With Accenture's help, the new giant has created a new,...
Provided by Accenture
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Case Studies
Employees Provident Fund: Business Transformation
Jun 2008
Employees Provident Fund is one of Malaysia's largest and oldest government agencies. It assists employees from both and private non-pensionable public sectors by managing a portion of their...
Provided by Accenture
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Get Used To Living Smaller
Nov 2008
Most small businesses have yet to see the many problems that will come as weakness in the broader economy starts to ripple through all sectors, but barring an economic miracle we're in for a very...
Provided by American Express
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Competitive Pressures And Value Propositions, Is Lean The Answer?
Nov 2009
Modern technology has lowered the barrier to entry for new competitors by allowing international outsourcing, greater agility, quicker product design to market, and specialized focus on niche...
Provided by R3Now.com
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Webcasts
Connecting everything with Smart SOA Connectivity and Integration
Nov 2009
Tune in to this webcast to hear how Liverpool, one of Mexico's most important retailers, was able to reduce costs and streamline information by moving from an inefficient point-to-point...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Cloud Computing: Save Time, Money, and Resources
Oct 2009
Testing your applications before they launch is essential, but so is the right environment. This IBM® Redbook® explains how a private test cloud can help you organize and streamline your test...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Interference-Aware MAC Protocol for Wireless Networks by a Game-Theoretic Approach
Jan 2009
This paper proposes an interference-aware MAC protocol using a simple transmission strategy motivated by a game-theoretic approach. The paper formulates a channel access game, which considers...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
Achieving Success - A Different Perspective
Nov 2009
Success at its core is about embracing change. It is about getting off the hamster wheel of "Busyness as usual", moving out of your comfort zone, and building the capability to continuously...
Provided by Alpine Link
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Downloads
Deduplication Calculator
Nov 2009
Enter the size of your backup or archive dataset and get a analysis of: •Cost comparison using DeDuplication •Network and Storage Consumption •Archive to Tape
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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7 Things Every CIO Should Know About Telecom Expenses
Dec 2009
The truth is that most enterprises waste millions of dollars annually by not managing their telecom spend in a standardized centralized, more accurate way. Having ballooned up to a top four...
Provided by Telesoft
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Webcasts
Building an Efficient IT Infrastructure: Virtualizing Tier1 Applications
Dec 2009
Customers of all sizes are virtualizing mission-critical Exhange environments. This webcast focuses on real world examples and best practices for implementing and managing a virtualized Exchange...
Provided by EMC
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Webcasts
Tough Times, Tough Choices
Dec 2009
This webcast will show how peers have been successful with best practices in a tough market. How to prioritize products and initiatives to deliver customer value. How to transition from Business...
Provided by IBM
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Webcasts
Developing telecommunications products that give you a competitive edge - today and tomorrow", with Christian Seider, Senior Managing Consultant at IBM
Jul 2009
Join our live webcast with Christian Seider, Senior Managing Consulting, IBM Institute of Business Value, an expert in the electronics industry, and Andy Gurd, Senior Go-to-market Manager, IBM...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Video Whitepaper: Managing Risk & Uncertainty
Nov 2009
A time of unprecedented market volatility and competition calls for a new business strategy. Integrated business planning can help you keep your finger on the market pulse, reduce planning...
Provided by Oracle
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Increasing ROI with Data Services
Dec 2009
This white paper will address data services implementation and the role of Oracle Data Service Integrator in that process. It will describe the technical benefits of a data services implementation...
Provided by Oracle
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What Is Customer Profitability And Why Should We Measure It?
Jan 2010
Customer profitability measurement is challenging to implement; it draws into question our understanding of who our customers are and how we make profit. It can add powerful insights throughout...
Provided by Objective Business Services
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Customer Profitability Measurement Systems
Jan 2010
This paper shows that starting out on the road to customer profitability measurement does not necessarily mean that you have to have a huge budget and all of the information that would be required...
Provided by Objective Business Services
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Managing Customer Profitability Measurement Systems
Jan 2010
Throughout the implementation of customer profitability measurement in your organization people are the key ingredient to success. Ensuring that you involve the right people at the right time as...
Provided by Objective Business Services
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White Papers
Use SWOT For Your Business Analysis
Oct 2009
A holistic SWOT analysis should realistically take advantage of Opportunities with your strengths and to reduce the impact of Threats with Strengths. At the same time, a focused program to put in...
Provided by SWOT Analysis Template
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What Strategy To Use For You Consulting Business?
Nov 2009
When you are in business, your are faced with so many variables and uncertainties to deal with as compared to when you are in full time employment. When you prepare for a consulting and training...
Provided by SWOT Analysis Template
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SWOT Factors: Weaknesses Taken As Opportunities
Oct 2009
In SWOT Analysis template, there are four SWOT factors namely: Strengths; Weaknesses; Opportunities and Threats. It is sometimes known as the Internal and External SWOT Factors. Among the four...
Provided by SWOT Analysis Template
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Business Analysis Through SWOT
Oct 2009
SWOT analysis is a framework to examine a firm's competitive position and strategy. By examining a firm's Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats, SWOT evaluates a firm's strategies to...
Provided by Associated Content
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White Papers
Business Analysis Through SWOT: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats
Oct 2009
The SWOT analysis is a methodology for strategic planning, which can apply to a variety of business types and vocational fields. The theory and structure itself is not terribly complex, but...
Provided by Associated Content
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Webcasts
The Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings; Two Housing Secretaries On Urban Revitalization
Jul 2009
Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is likely to be confirmed, but may have set a troubling precedent for future Obama nominees, says Brookings expert; and Housing Secretary joins former...
Provided by Brookings Institution
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Efficient Computation Of Optimal Trading Strategies
Sep 2010
Given the return series for a set of instruments, a trading strategy is a switching function that transfers wealth from one instrument to another at specified times. The authors present efficient...
Provided by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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The Environmental Porter Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence And A Model Of Timing Of Adoption
Aug 2007
The Porter Hypothesis postulates that the costs of compliance with environmental standards may be offset by adoption of innovations they trigger. The authors model this hypothesis using a game of...
Provided by United Nations University
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Approach For Analysing Capabilities In Latecomer Software Companies
Nov 2007
Software development activities have been identified as a 'Window of opportunity' for latecomer companies. Notwithstanding the growth of software development activities in the latecomers, there...
Provided by United Nations University
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Strategic Motivations For Sino-Western Alliances: A Comparative Analysis Of Chinese And Western Alliance Formation Drivers
Nov 2009
This paper compares the key drivers of Sino-foreign alliance formation from the perspective of both Chinese and Western alliance partners. The authors' results indicate that Chinese companies...
Provided by United Nations University
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Agenda Disputes And Strategic Venue Preferences: The Doha Crisis And Europe?s Flight To Regionalism
Aug 2008
Agenda-setting disputes have become increasingly central to the conduct of multilateral trade negotiations. Introducing some simple concepts from Negotiations Theory, the authors focus on the...
Provided by United Nations University
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Nanotechnology Publications And Patents: A Review Of Social Science Studies And Search Strategies
Nov 2009
This paper provides a comprehensive review of more than 120 social science studies in nanoscience and technology, all of which analyze publication and patent data. The authors conduct a...
Provided by United Nations University
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The Role Of Firms In Energy Transformation
Jan 2009
This paper looks at the role of firms in the transformation of fossil fuel based energy systems towards cleaner and greener energy systems. Firms are playing an important role in determining the...
Provided by United Nations University
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Localisation Strategies Of Firms In Wind Energy Technology Development
Sep 2010
The paper looks at the localisation strategies of multinational companies in wind energy sector in the emerging countries of China and India. It seeks to explain why western multinationals are...
Provided by United Nations University
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Response Of Double-Auction Markets To Instantaneous Selling-Buying Signals With Stochastic Bid-Ask Spread
Mar 2011
Statistical properties of order-driven double-auction markets with Bid-Ask spread are investigated through the dynamical quantities such as response function. The authors first attempt to utilize...
Provided by Hokkaido University
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Ising-Like Agent-Based Technology Diffusion Model: Adoption Patterns Vs. Seeding Strategies
Nov 2010
The well-known Ising model used in statistical physics was adapted to a social dynamics context to simulate the adoption of a technological innovation. The model explicitly combines an...
Provided by Universidad Católica Argentina
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The Impossibility Of Management Control Systems?
Aug 2010
While the research in Management Control Systems (MCS) continues to grow; the authors return to question the underpinnings of MCS. Starting from Anthony (1965) they argue that the rational...
Provided by University of Sydney
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Sustainability And Balanced Scorecard Reporting: What Determines Public Disclosure Decision?"
May 2010
The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether companies providing Sustainability Report (SR) also publicly report their Balanced ScoreCard (BSC) implementation/adoption and to examine if...
Provided by University of Sydney
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White Papers
Where Is Strategy?
Jul 2010
This paper proposes firstly that accounting, as primary practice, shapes strategy as secondary practice rather than the other way round. It recognizes that this challenges a widespread perception...
Provided by University of Sydney
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Successful Promotion Or Segregation From Partnership? The "Post-Senior Manager" Position And Womens Careers In Public Accounting
Feb 2010
Historically public accounting careers have been "Up or out" with progression from staff-senior-manager-senior manager-partner. Recent AICPA data suggests senior managers are increasingly promoted...
Provided by University of Sydney
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The Accounting Imprints Of Strategic Change, Actor-Network Theory In Management Accounting
Jul 2010
This paper critically examines the ability of Actor-Network Theory (ANT) to highlight the supposed constitutive role of Management Accounting (MA) in strategic change. The authors review...
Provided by University of Sydney
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Exploring Factors Influencing Environmental Management Accounting Adoption At RMIT University
Jul 2010
The purpose of this paper is to explore the factors, either based on theories or reflecting participants' own concepts that impede environmental management accounting adoption at RMIT University....
Provided by RMIT University
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White Papers
Strategies Of Persuasion In Social/Environmental Reporting
Jul 2010
The purpose of this paper is illustrate how persuasive strategies utilised in social/environmental reports assist to legitimise prevailing, business-centered understandings of social...
Provided by Victoria University
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Water Management In Australia. Progressing Towards Institutionalisation In 2009
Jul 2010
This paper questions the motivations to develop approaches to controlling water usage within large water consuming organisations and whether those approaches were institutionalised. Semi...
Provided by University of Sydney
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Strategy And Budgeting Alignment
Feb 2010
This paper seeks to gain an understanding of some of the processes of control that operate within organizations, especially those involved in parent-subsidiary relationship. It provides...
Provided by University of Sydney
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Disclosures Strategies By Key Bodies In The Australian Mining Industry In Response To Climate Change: A Test Of Legitimacy Theory
Jul 2010
This paper explores how disclosure is used by key bodies in the Australian mining industry as a means to respond to the climate change and ensure their social license to operate. The paper...
Provided by University of Sydney
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Analysing The Relevance And Utility Of Leading Accounting Research
Jul 2010
The sub-prime banking crisis and credit crunch raised questions over whether the scope of accounting research has been too narrow to serve the longer-term needs of business and society. This paper...
Provided by University of Manchester
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Performance Reporting In A Large Multi-Service Community Welfare Organisation
Jul 2010
Community Welfare Organisations (CWOs) perform an important role in society. Many develop large structures and command significant economic resources in order to undertake their work. While the...
Provided by University of Sydney
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Optimal Transaction Filters Under Transitory Trading: Theory And Empirical Illustration
Apr 2008
If transitory profitable trading opportunities exist, filter rules mitigate transaction costs. The authors use a dynamic programming framework to design an optimal filter which maximizes...
Provided by Rutgers, State University of New Jersey
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Making Strategic Decisions In The Changing Networks - Observations From The Scandinavian Flat Glass Industry
Aug 2010
The paper focuses on the strategic decision making in the situation where the radical technological change is reshaping the network structure dramatically. Especially, the focus is on the...
Provided by Tampere University of Technology
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Value Creation Within Port Supply Network: Methodological Issues
Aug 2010
The paper proposes a theoretical model based on the concept of Supply Chain Management in port environment, aimed at identifying the sources of value creation in an innovative way. The model views...
Provided by National Research Council
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Customer Knowledge Creation In Strategic Business Networks Towards An Analytical Framework
Sep 2009
This paper focuses on customer knowledge creation in strategic business networks. The authors suggest that different knowledge creation processes require different types of interaction between...
Provided by Turku School of Economics
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Towards A Taxonomy Of Strategic Research In The IMP Tradition
Aug 2008
The project reported in this paper is part of a wider project, the aim of which is to investigate the contribution that interaction and networks (IMP) research has made to the field of strategy...
Provided by Middlesex University
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Coping With Business Network Dynamics - Strategizing Through Role And Position
Aug 2008
The paper aims at contributing to the ongoing debate concerning management in business networks. Strategy thinking is combined with the business network approach through the concepts of role and...
Provided by Åbo Akademi University
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What Does CEOs' Personal Leverage Tell Us About Corporate Leverage?
Aug 2009
The authors find that firms behave remarkably similarly to how their CEOs behave personally when it comes to leverage choices. They start the analysis by compiling a comprehensive sample of home...
Provided by Stockholm Institute for Financial Research
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Whitepapers
Five Calls To Make When Developing a Mobile Learning Strategy
Jun 2011
With smartphones becoming commonplace and new mobile devices such as tablets skyrocketing in popularity, the interest in mobile learning has begun to heat up as well. Many organizations see the...
Provided by SkillSoft
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TDWI Checklist Report: Operational Data Quality
May 2011
Failing to ensure high-quality operational data may put at risk many worthwhile business goals for operational excellence. There are many areas within the average enterprise where high-quality...
Provided by Trillium Software
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A Structural Model For Corporate Profit In The U.S. Industry
Nov 2007
The author estimates a theoretically and statistically satisfying model to account for corporate profit represented by Net Rental Income (NRI) for one of the largest Real Estate Investment Trust...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Analysis And Intuition: Californian Survey On Strategic Decision Making
Jun 2008
Many management scholars believe that the process used to make strategic decisions affects the quality of those decisions. Several authors, however, have observed a lack of research on the...
Provided by Universitatea Petru Maior
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Should Informal Sector Be Subsidised?
Nov 2007
This is the first sentence of the author's introduction. The author's paper examines the impact of subsidy policies, given to the informal sector, on urban unemployment and domestic factor income....
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Beyond City Living: Remaking The Inner Suburbs
Mar 2011
This paper explores the emerging regeneration strategies for inner suburban areas. Drawing on evidence from Liverpool, Manchester and Leeds, the authors argue that regeneration of these inner...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Institutions And Development Processes: The Role Of Strategic Complementarities. A Review Of Main Literature
Feb 2008
This paper is an overview on the literature that investigates the relationship between the institutions and development processes. The attention it has been focus, in sequence, on the ways in...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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South Asia: A Development Strategy For The Information Age
Jul 2008
Development strategies have gone through several major shifts. In this paper it is argued that another such shift is probably appropriate in the case of South Asia today. Over the last 50 years,...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Exploiting Site-Level Information To Improve Web Search
Oct 2010
Ranking Web search results has long evolved beyond simple bag-of-words retrieval models. Modern search engines routinely employ machine learning ranking that relies on exogenous relevance signals....
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Inference For Stochastic Volatility Model Using Time Change Transformations
Nov 2007
The authors address the problem of parameter estimation for diffusion driven stochastic volatility models through Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). To avoid degeneracy issues they introduce an...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
What Is Customer Profitability And Why Should We Measure It?
Jan 2010
Customer profitability measurement is challenging to implement; it draws into question our understanding of who our customers are and how we make profit. It can add powerful insights throughout...
Provided by Objective Business Services
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White Papers
Customer Profitability Measurement Systems
Jan 2010
This paper shows that starting out on the road to customer profitability measurement does not necessarily mean that you have to have a huge budget and all of the information that would be required...
Provided by Objective Business Services
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White Papers
Managing Customer Profitability Measurement Systems
Jan 2010
Throughout the implementation of customer profitability measurement in your organization people are the key ingredient to success. Ensuring that you involve the right people at the right time as...
Provided by Objective Business Services
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White Papers
Use SWOT For Your Business Analysis
Oct 2009
A holistic SWOT analysis should realistically take advantage of Opportunities with your strengths and to reduce the impact of Threats with Strengths. At the same time, a focused program to put in...
Provided by SWOT Analysis Template
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White Papers
What Strategy To Use For You Consulting Business?
Nov 2009
When you are in business, your are faced with so many variables and uncertainties to deal with as compared to when you are in full time employment. When you prepare for a consulting and training...
Provided by SWOT Analysis Template
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White Papers
SWOT Factors: Weaknesses Taken As Opportunities
Oct 2009
In SWOT Analysis template, there are four SWOT factors namely: Strengths; Weaknesses; Opportunities and Threats. It is sometimes known as the Internal and External SWOT Factors. Among the four...
Provided by SWOT Analysis Template
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White Papers
Business Analysis Through SWOT
Oct 2009
SWOT analysis is a framework to examine a firm's competitive position and strategy. By examining a firm's Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats, SWOT evaluates a firm's strategies to...
Provided by Associated Content
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White Papers
Business Analysis Through SWOT: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats
Oct 2009
The SWOT analysis is a methodology for strategic planning, which can apply to a variety of business types and vocational fields. The theory and structure itself is not terribly complex, but...
Provided by Associated Content
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White Papers
SWOT Analysis: A Powerful Tool For Business Decision Making
Jul 2009
SWOT analysis is a powerful tool that can help decision makers achieve their goals and objectives. For businesses, this tool can be of great importance. SWOT analysis allows decision makers to...
Provided by Associated Content
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Conducting Break Even Analysis For Improved Success In Evaluating New Business Ideas
Sep 2009
Creating a break-even analysis may sound difficult and complicated however it is the responsibility of every businessperson to prepare it as one of the first steps in evaluating a new business...
Provided by Associated Content
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White Papers
Developing The Best Business Plans And Projects
Oct 2009
One of the challenges every organization faces is creating the proper research and making decisions. Business decisions do need a great deal of research to be progressive and productive; however,...
Provided by Associated Content
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White Papers
Why Fundamental Analysis & Technical Analysis Are The Same
Feb 2008
For decades, analysts of one camp argued about the ineffectiveness of the other and provided reasons and evidences how one method of analysis can be used at the exclusion of the other. For...
Provided by Associated Content
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White Papers
SWOTT Analysis
Jul 2008
A SWOTT Analysis is used to identify the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats and Trends present within a company's environment. Identifying these things gives a list the company has...
Provided by Associated Content
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White Papers
How To Use Performance Driver Analysis To Diagnose Business Performance
Jun 2009
Performance analysis is the systematic diagnosis of how a business, a department or an individual is performing in terms of both performance drivers and brakes. Performance analysis is an...
Provided by Associated Content
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White Papers
SWOT Analysis Defined
May 2009
A SWOT analysis is a tool that companies (and even individuals) use to identify their existing strengths and weaknesses (which are controlled internally), as well as opportunities and threats...
Provided by Associated Content
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White Papers
Using SWOT Analysis To Improve Your Business
Jan 2010
Analyzing the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) of a business is a well-established tool that is widely used by academics, consultants, and advisors. Although it is a simple...
Provided by contentdig.com
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White Papers
How To Conduct A SWOT Analysis On Your Business
Jan 2010
Every business owner shares at least one identical objective: To succeed. One way to ensure your business is on the right path to success is to conduct a SWOT analysis on your business. SWOT which...
Provided by contentdig.com
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White Papers
SWOT Your Home Business To Success
Jan 2010
SWOT stands for Strengths - Weaknesses - Opportunities - and Threats. It is a great way to easily analyze many things in your home business, including opportunities, and how you should proceed to...
Provided by contentdig.com
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Planning Your New Business: Feasibility Analysis Part One
Jan 2010
The first concern for many would-be business owners is a creeping fear that whatever business they start, it will end up failing miserably and leave the company's founder with a lot less than what...
Provided by contentdig.com
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White Papers
Increase Performance With Organizational Management Analysis
Jan 2010
Are your employees aligned with your organization's vision, mission, purpose and goals? This paper provides you with information on organizational management analysis - it can help you staff your...
Provided by contentdig.com
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White Papers
SWOT Analysis: Evaluating Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, And Threats
Jan 2010
It is useful to complete an analysis that takes into account not only your own business, but your competitors' activities and current industry happenings as well when conducting strategic planning...
Provided by Website Marketing Plan .com
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White Papers
How To Perform A SWOT Analysis
Jan 2010
The SWOT analysis is a valuable step in your situational analysis. Assessing your firm's strengths, weaknesses, market opportunities, and threats through a SWOT analysis is a very simple process...
Provided by Palo Alto Software
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White Papers
How To Use Business SWOT Analysis
Jan 2010
Business SWOT analysis is a key element of strategic planning that business leaders use to evaluate important decisions that they make for their company. If your company is not using business SWOT...
Provided by eHow
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How To Apply A SWOT Analysis In An Audit
Jan 2010
Applying a SWOT analysis to any part of business management is largely based on intellectual, honest and critical thinking. To apply a SWOT analysis to an audit, you must analyze all expenditures...
Provided by eHow
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White Papers
7 Ways your 2009 IT and Telecom Procurement Practices will Fail you in 2010
Jan 2010
2009 was a tough year for IT and Telecom departments and many enterprises were forced to use sourcing as a hammer to slash costs instead of using it as a well-planned strategic activity. As a...
Provided by ProfitLine
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White Papers
How to Generate Immediate Savings from Mobile Spend
Jan 2010
Do you know what your mobility costs are? How many devices you have connected to your systems? How are employees using them? What are the cost impacts? Security implications? If you are like...
Provided by ProfitLine
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Webcasts
Demo: Analysis with IBM Cognos Express
Sep 2009
Midsize businesses need the ability to spot business problems immediately and recognize emerging trends quickly. They should be able to easily answer essential business questions such as, "Which...
Provided by IBM
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Presentations
Live Event: Learn how to save with Desktop Virtualization
Jan 2010
Join us for this LIVE Event on: Thursday, March 18, 2010 12:00 PM ET / 9:00 AM PT Looking at Desktop Virtualization? Thinking about Windows 7 migration; Interested in VDI? Want to save on costs...
Provided by Microsoft
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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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Webcasts
DAI: Replay of Oracle Webcast How does WAS V7 compare to Oracle?
Nov 2009
In this Webcast, you'll learn how adopting a Smart SOA Application Foundation built on IBM WebSphere allows you to cost-effectively and efficiently build, deploy and manage robust SOA applications.
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Journal of Management Excellence - Introducing Management Excellence
Jan 2010
Being smart, agile and aligned are not characteristics of operational excellence, but define what we call management excellence. Management makes the difference, and enterprise performance...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Management Excellence Leveraging Tech & Techniques
Jan 2010
Extending operational excellence to management excellence is the next strategic imperative for organizations of all sizes, in every market around the world. In difficult economic times,...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Developing An Integrated View Of Stakeholder Information In Latin America
Jan 2010
Like the rest of the world, Latin American countries have felt the effects of the global economic downturn in the last two years. The concentration of exporters in Latin America makes the region...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Financial Services Executives Recognize Weaknesses In Sanctions Compliance Efforts
Aug 2009
Multinational organizations are beginning to feel the business need and regulatory imperative to coordinate economic and trade sanctions compliance activities across borders. Increasing global...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
The Leadership Journey: Preparing Your Leadership Team To Navigate The Transition To A New Organization
Dec 2009
Most executive leaders know that a successful Merger and Acquisition (M&A) transaction and integration hinges on a smooth transition for employees and customers. Appropriately, they make...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
Talking About Whose Generation?: Why Western Generational Models Can't Account For A Global Workforce
Jan 2010
Each generation that enters the workforce introduces a unique set of motivations and strengths to the workplace. A successful talent strategy can hinge on an organization's understanding of what...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Your Solaris Alternative
Dec 2009
Review key features and benefits of Solaris and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Learn why Red Hat Enterprise Linux is an ideal solution for enterprises facing Sun and SPARC's uncertain future. Whether...
Provided by Red Hat
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White Papers
What Is The Proper Relationship For The CIO, CEO, And CFO?
Feb 2010
The CIO role in business has been changing almost as fast as technology itself for the last decade. In the past it was enough to focus on business processes and automation. It was enough to...
Provided by R3Now.com
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White Papers
Virtualized In-Cloud Security Services for Mobile Devices
Jul 2009
Modern mobile devices continue to approach the capabilities and extensibility of standard desktop PCs. Unfortunately; these devices are also beginning to face many of the same security threats as...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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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
