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Calculated Risk: Good Surprise, Bad Surprise: The Law Of Unintended Consequences
Jan 2008
One definition of risk management is that it is a discipline for dealing with uncertainty. Managing risk is like an elaborate chess game. Who can foresee the end game? The person who is living...
Provided by Nonprofit Risk Management Center
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Strategic Risk Management: Looking At Both Sides Now
Jan 2008
Events that change your perception of your nonprofit's tomorrow may happen unexpectedly, and usually very suddenly. They arise from risk - that is, from the possibility that the future may be...
Provided by Nonprofit Risk Management Center
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Your Special Skills In Managing Risk: Recognizing Conflict, Reaching Consensus
Jan 2008
On both the upside and the downside, strategic risk management for a nonprofit requires many skills, much knowledge, and vast experience. For some of these, in some technical areas, you may well...
Provided by Nonprofit Risk Management Center
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Scalability and Accuracy in a Large-Scale Network Emulator
Jan 2008
This paper presents ModelNet, a scalable Internet emulation environment that enables researchers to deploy unmodified software prototypes in a configurable Internet-like environment and subject...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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Don't Throw Money Away On Training - Planning Well Will Cut Costs And Increase Value
Jan 2008
The glossy brochure with catchy headlines promoting training courses which seem too good to miss. We either see them ourselves or employees bring them to us with a previously unknown "Need" to...
Provided by contentdig.com
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SWOT Analysis - To Make Your Business More Profitable
Jan 2008
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats (SWOT) Analysis is a well-known method for describing a business or business propositions in terms of those factors that can have the maximum impact....
Provided by contentdig.com
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Do You Have A Strategic Plan?
Jan 2008
In business strategy we may follow the time honored a Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats (SWOT) analysis or Porter Analysis and budgets. We may even be more creative, who knows. The...
Provided by contentdig.com
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Succession Planning - Your Business Needs It Right Now!
Jan 2008
You want to build a succession planning process that works well; you will need to build relationships with your people like never before. It's critical to your success, because relationship...
Provided by contentdig.com
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Better Business Direction With Strong Strategies
Jan 2008
After completing the Vision and Mission Statement portions of a Business Plan, the next step is to come up with strong strategies that will make the business successful. Along with setting the...
Provided by contentdig.com
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Is Your Business Growing As Fast As You Planned?
Jan 2008
An essential part of growing and developing your business revolves around the concept of identifying then tracking and measuring the key indicators in your business. Once you have established what...
Provided by contentdig.com
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Guide To Successful Business Planning
Mar 2008
There is a lot to be gained from business planning but many businesses will search for a million reasons to avoid it. However large or small your business is, planning for the future is critical...
Provided by Bytestart
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The Power Of Planning
Jan 2008
It is surprising that how few sales professionals, independent consultants, and small business owners take the time to plan the strategy for their business. Most people spend more time writing out...
Provided by Robertson Training Group
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How To Get Things Done: A Guide To Strategic Planning
Jan 2008
A step-by-step program for creating a strategic plan and tactical plan guaranteed to help you get more of what you want done. You are pursuing a strategy en route to your vision. Whether it is...
Provided by KalAajKal.com
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Business Development Strategy - Next Years Planning
Jan 2008
If you haven't done so recently, now is a great time to review this year's results, and plan for the coming year. Take a look at how you are doing compared to how you hoped you would do. It...
Provided by KalAajKal.com
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Developing Effective Vision And Mission Statements
Jan 2008
Unfortunately, in recent years, vision and mission statements have become watered down in the corporate world to the point where they are essentially meaningless (bringing a case of beer along on...
Provided by Mansueto Ventures
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Strategic Plan For Your Business
Jan 2008
People think in different ways. If a model works to help you see through the cloud, focus, and develop your strategy, then it is a good thing. Somebody else will use a different conceptual diagram...
Provided by Palo Alto Software
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Strategic Repositioning - Planning For The Future
Jan 2008
A strong strategic plan with a new and powerful dynamic can help you get there. Strategic Planning with a major emphasis on Strategic Repositioning harnesses your unique strengths to achieve...
Provided by Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership
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Your Ten Step, One Day Strategic Plan
Jan 2008
Plan is a living document. It does not have to be perfect or 100 percent complete to start using your strategic plan. A business without a plan is like a car without a steering wheel. A rough...
Provided by Zeromillion.com
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White Papers
How To Write A Small Business Strategic Plan
Jan 2008
Do you know where your company is headed? Have you established a five-year growth plan? If not, write a strategic plan to set clear goals. A strategic plan can help to steer a company to...
Provided by PageWise
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White Papers
Strategy 21: Reinventing The Strategic Planning Process
Jan 2008
For some organizations, it's time to depart from the "Traditional" strategic planning process. Unfortunately, there is one major problem with the traditional strategic planning process. It simply...
Provided by Birnbaum Associates
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Your Action Plan: Converting Your Strategy Into Action
Jan 2008
"We think in generalities, but we live in detail." This is right and this observation certainly applies to strategic planning. When planning, you'll first develop broad strategies. Then you need...
Provided by Birnbaum Associates
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Monitoring Implementation Of Your Strategic Plan
Jan 2008
Developing an effective strategic plan is only "Half the battle." Getting it implemented is the other, and generally the tougher, half. And an important part of strategy implementation is...
Provided by Birnbaum Associates
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White Papers
What Most Companies Declare As Their Business Strategy Isn't So
Jan 2008
What most companies declare as their business strategy isn't so. What they publicly declare as a strategy, is simply a mix of their policy, objectives, goals, or even mission. To give it a sexy...
Provided by El-Kadi Counsulting
-
White Papers
What Is Strategic Thinking?: Could It Really Be This Simple?
Jan 2008
In business and in life, we sometimes relate strategic thinking to something very expensive or very clever. In reality, this is not the case! In the academic world, the word "Strategic" is...
Provided by El-Kadi Counsulting
-
White Papers
Corporate Strategy And Grand Strategy: Can Not Get Any Easier!
Jan 2008
Corporate Strategy is the overall Glue that binds the organisation together. It sets the guides and principles for the rest of the functions to follow. Thus ensuring that they become Strategic in...
Provided by El-Kadi Counsulting
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White Papers
Strategic Planning And Performance Measurement
Jan 2008
"The biggest differences between the Russian and Western business are distances, management culture and mentality". The traditional Russian leadership style still partly seems to exist in Murmansk...
Provided by Hubpages
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White Papers
What Is A SWOT Analysis And How Can I Use It?
Jan 2008
SWOT (Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, Threats) analysis is a framework in situational analysis to review an organization's strategy. It is straightforward yet powerful in giving insights into...
Provided by HELIUM
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Whitepapers
Business Analytics ROI assessment tool for midsize companies- Aberdeen Research Tool
Jan 2012
In a challenging market, how can you ensure your midsize business has the competitive edge? Get your free detailed assessment and ROI report to see how your company's business analysis abilities...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
McCormick and Schmick's Restaurants Gains New Insight into Dining Trends and Financial Performance with IBM Cognos Express - Success Story
Jan 2012
McCormick & Schmick's Seafood Restaurants needed better insight to understand and take advantage of key business trends. Find out why they chose IBM Cognos Express to deliver that insight.
Provided by IBM
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Short Paper: Troubleshooting Distributed Systems Via Data Mining
Jan 2008
Through massive parallelism, distributed systems enable the multiplication of productivity. Unfortunately, increasing the scale of available machines to users will also multiply debugging when...
Provided by University of Notre Dame (Mendoza)
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White Papers
SWOT Analysis For The Small Business
Sep 2007
SWOT analysis is a formal process for considering the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats that face a company. It's a type of study that's frequently used by large companies and...
Provided by Associated Content
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White Papers
Riding the Growth Wave - Leveraging Economies of Scale
Apr 2008
Capturing the benefits of economies of scale is not always easy. Production disruptions, operational inefficiencies, and customers' demands for fixed-cost bids and higher levels of service can...
Provided by SAP
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White Papers
B2B Marketers Must Better Prepare For Marketing Automation
Dec 2011
Changing buyer behaviors require business-to-business (B2B) marketers to communicate with prospects and customers in new ways, by delivering content that is personalized to their needs, role,...
Provided by Aprimo
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Whitepapers
Beyond Simple Total Cost of Ownership
Mar 2012
When considering new applications, the question has always been "Build or Buy?" But increasingly, the new question facing companies today is "Buy or Rent?" In this paper, we analyze the...
Provided by SuccessFactors
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Podcasts
Business Intelligence Innovation at Gallup
Mar 2012
Gallup is in the "intelligence" business - their survey's and consulting services deliver relevant, timely, and visionary research on what people around the world think and feel. Ironically one of...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
An On-Demand Solution to Optimize Contract Management (SAP Solution Brief)
Mar 2012
Your company's contracts are critical to your daily operations. After all, they represent all the business relationships throughout the organization. To get the most value from contracts, your...
Provided by SAP
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Whitepapers
Harvard Business Review Article: Mastering the Management System
Mar 2012
Companies have always found it hard to balance pressing operational concerns with long-term strategic priorities. The tension is critical: World-class processes won't lead to success without the...
Provided by SAP
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Whitepapers
Sustainability Nears a Tipping Point - Why companies are profiting
Mar 2012
Findings from the 2011 Sustainability and Innovation Global Executive Study and Research Project.
Provided by SAP
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Whitepapers
Retail Week Tearing Up the Rule Book
Mar 2012
The past decade has seen significant changes in the experience that customers have when they interact with a retailer. The development of multichannel retail has been crucial to this. Whether it...
Provided by SAP
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Whitepapers
Analyst paper: Operational Decision Management - Making better business decisions with flexible, automated business rules and events
Apr 2012
Business rules management technology opens up significant new opportunities for business success. For instance, the ability to automatically make different decisions in real time based on...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Leading Through Uncertainty
Dec 2008
As customer preferences change, competitors falter, opportunities to gain distressed assets emerge, and governments shift from crisis control to economic stimulus, the next year or two will...
Provided by McKinsey & Company
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Communicating With The Right Investors
Apr 2008
Many executives spend too much time communicating with investors they would be better off ignoring. CEOs and CFOs, in particular, devote an inordinate amount of time to one-on-one meetings with...
Provided by McKinsey & Company
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By Invitation: The Halo Effect, And Other Managerial Delusions
Feb 2007
The quest of every high-quality corporate executive is to find the keys to superior performance. Achieving market leadership is hard enough, but staying at the top - given intense competition,...
Provided by McKinsey & Company
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White Papers
The New Role Of Oil Wealth In The World Economy
Jan 2008
Nowadays higher oil prices have been a boon for global financial markets, but, paradoxically, inflation hasn't risen very much. Can higher oil prices really be good for the world economy? As we...
Provided by McKinsey & Company
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Addressing Consumer Concerns About Climate Change
Mar 2008
Businesses must act on global warming and other issues to narrow a general trust gap between them and the public. Business leaders need a nuanced understanding of how the performance of companies...
Provided by McKinsey & Company
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How The World Should Invest In Energy Efficiency
Jul 2008
One hundred and seventy billion dollars a year invested in efforts to boost energy efficiency from now until 2020 could halve the projected growth in global energy demand. What's more, these...
Provided by McKinsey & Company
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Managing Capital Projects For Competitive Advantage
Jun 2008
Investment in capital projects is rising. First-rate contracting will help companies to get a significant leg up on their rivals. A rising global appetite for energy and energy-intensive...
Provided by McKinsey & Company
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Creating Customer Loyalty: A Customer-Centric Approach
Jan 2009
As brands become increasingly commoditized and competition fiercer, keeping and expanding customer relationships depends on the ability to deliver a customer experience tailored to changing...
Provided by Accenture
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Winning Strategies For Uncertain Times: How Retailers Can Achieve High Performance In A Downturn
Dec 2008
Accenture's most recent global survey of cross-industry consumer sentiment shows that though a clear majority (55 percent) expect their financial situation to improve within the next year, 67...
Provided by Accenture
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Achieving High Performance In An Era Of Climate Change
Jan 2008
Demands are increasing on businesses to do their part to respond to the threat of climate change based on their influential position within the global community. But what, exactly, are the impacts...
Provided by Accenture
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Changes You'll See In 2020
Feb 2008
Arguably the single most important issue for retailers nowadays is the environment. Once considered a niche playing field, green retailing has moved from "Nice to have" to "Must have" as both...
Provided by Accenture
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How To Achieve High Performance: Lessons From The Top 40 Utilities
Sep 2007
The Fortnightly 40 ranking celebrates a significant achievement for companies that have delivered superior financial performance on a number of critical balance-sheet and Profit and Loss (P&L)...
Provided by Accenture
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Winning In Emerging Markets : The Quest For High Performance In China, India And Vietnam
Feb 2008
With fast-growing economies and robust GDP growth projections over the next few years, the emerging triumvirate of China, India and Vietnam is set to provide a significant market opportunity for...
Provided by Accenture
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Achieving High Performance With Manufacturing Execution Systems
Feb 2008
Manufacturing execution systems technology is designed to bridge the gap between the plant floor and the rest of the business. Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) is essentially a set of...
Provided by Accenture
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Accenture Performance Analytics Solution For Banking: Driving High Performance
Oct 2008
Financial institutions struggle to measure business performance across the enterprise because they suffer from multiple versions of the "Truth." Data is generated, collected and presented...
Provided by Accenture
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Competing On Analytics: How Pharmaceutical Companies Use Analytics To Achieve High Performance
Jul 2007
In the pharmaceutical industry, business is anything but smooth sailing. Most pharmaceutical companies are under enormous pressure to discover and develop new drugs faster and more frequently as...
Provided by Accenture
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How Consumer Goods Companies Compete On Analytics To Achieve High Performance
Jul 2007
You have only to walk the aisles of your local supermarket or big-box retailer to get a sense of what business-to-consumer companies are up against. They're pinched from both sides - supply and...
Provided by Accenture
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High Performance Banking: A Strategic Approach To Cost Reduction
Sep 2008
Traditional cost-reduction strategies that worked in previous banking downturns won't suffice this time. Now, banks face three factors converging into a pool of uncertainty: a lack of confidence...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
Internet Entertainment: R&D For The 21st Century
Jan 2009
Industry leaders envision streaming entertainment across wireless devices in people's hands or cars, and screens at checkout counters, shopping malls, airports. PDAs, video e-mail and wireless...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
Strategic Workforce Analytics & The Art Of Continuous Improvement
Mar 2009
Continuous improvement in any endeavor is contingent upon active, objective measurement, analysis, and application of the results. This axiom is particularly true in the Human Resources (HR)...
Provided by Softscape
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White Papers
10 Strategies To Raise Capital Effectively
Nov 2008
Despite some inherent challenges for private company CFOs, most are in an ideal position to make a strong positive impact on the success and value of their company. This paper explains 10...
Provided by Lantern Capital Advisors
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Boosting the Bottom Line Through Improved Trade Promotion Effectiveness
Sep 2007
Many companies have attempted programs to improve trade promotion effectiveness, often investing millions in analyzing current performance and deploying systems with the hope of achieving...
Provided by Booz Allen Hamilton
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White Papers
Rethinking Emerging Market Strategies: From Offshoring To Strategic Expansion
Jan 2009
For more than a decade now, manufacturers have flocked into emerging markets under the banner of globalization to access low-cost sourcing in highgrowth economies. Many of these organizations have...
Provided by Deloitte Development
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Value, Protect, Exploit: How Managing Intellectual Property Can Build And Sustain Competitive Advantage
Jul 2007
The pitfalls of poorly executed Intellectual Property (IP) strategies have been widely publicized in the business press. Across the technology sector in particular, multiple instances of copyright...
Provided by Deloitte Development
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The Staying Power Of Sustainability: Balancing Opportunity And Risk In The Hospitality Industry
Jun 2008
Sustainability is a critical business issue that is becoming a mandatory requirement for the hospitality industry. Unlike certain other issues, sustainability is being shaped by drivers outside...
Provided by Deloitte Development
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Getting It Together With Shared Services: A shared Services Center Can Reduce Costs
Dec 2008
For the past quarter-century, companies of every shape and size have been cashing in on shared services - shifting common administrative activities from individual business units to a centralized...
Provided by Deloitte Development
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PMOver: Transforming The Program Management Office Into A Results Management Office
Jul 2008
Regardless of size and complexity, most programs encounter hurdles and issues. Many are able to address stumbling blocks and move forward. Others falter miserably and are terminated. This white...
Provided by Deloitte Development
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It's Not All About The Killer App: Organization Design And Innovative People Strategy Are Critical
Aug 2008
Digital Convergence is creating opportunity - and confusion - in the Technology, Media, and Telecommunications (TMT) industries C-suite TMT executives who wish to compete in this space...
Provided by Deloitte Development
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White Papers
Improving Firm ROI Through A Pro Bono Program That Efficiently Develops Law Firm Associates
Dec 2008
While pro bono work has remained a staple in law firms, growing significantly over time, it has been viewed largely as a means to contribute to communities and individuals in need. Many firms have...
Provided by Deloitte Development
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White Papers
2009 Industry Outlook: Process & Industrial Products - Challenging Times, Emerging Opportunities
Jan 2009
The U.S. Process & Industrial Products sector includes chemicals, metals, and paper and packaging companies as well as industrial products and services manufacturers. The sector weathered 2008's...
Provided by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
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2009 Industry Outlook: Retail - Challenging Times, Emerging Opportunities
Jan 2009
For the past 25 years, the U.S. Retail sector has benefited from a very favorable business environment, with a strong dollar, cheap energy, and limited trade restrictions stimulating sector...
Provided by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
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White Papers
Corporate Expectations, Concerns And Strategic Focus
Jan 2009
Mortgage foreclosures are still soaring. The financial system is still writing off billions in bad debt. Job losses are continuing to climb. Consumer spending is further contracting. Economic...
Provided by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
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White Papers
Managing Customers In A Downturn: Maximize Short-Term Revenue Or Position Yourself For Long-Term
Dec 2008
As the global economy continues its downward spiral, companies all over the world face tremendous pressure to generate cash and sales. Businesses that had obsessed about growing revenue are now...
Provided by Deloitte Development
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White Papers
No Credit? Big Problem: Focus On Short-Term Cash Or Long-Term Growth?
Jan 2009
The credit crisis and economic downturn have already pushed some companies to the brink of bankruptcy. Credit is tight and there's no end in sight. Should you hunker down and focus on cash? Or...
Provided by Deloitte Development
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White Papers
Power Play: Resource Nationalism, The Global Scramble For Energy
May 2008
The convergence of international concern about climate change and energy security is the principal force behind the shakeup, buffeting the agendas of energy producers (companies and governments)...
Provided by Deloitte Development
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White Papers
Enterprise Cost Reduction As Part Of A Divestiture
Apr 2008
By utilizing the approach of setting goals top-down, defining functional operating models and defining implementation plans to achieve goals, companies can ensure shareholder value is maximized by...
Provided by Deloitte Development
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White Papers
SG&a Cost Reduction: Six Steps To Sustainability
Aug 2008
No enterprise cost reduction or enterprise transformation effort is complete without some consideration of Selling, General, and Administrative (SG&A) expenses. Because SG&A touches every part of...
Provided by Deloitte Development
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White Papers
Seven Secrets To Downturn Survival
Sep 2008
In a downturn, companies should capitalize on the cost levers at their disposal. For many, that means focusing a higher level of attention on strategic, structural improvements such as...
Provided by Deloitte Development
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White Papers
Resizing A Business In A Downturn: Tactical Or Structural Cost Reduction?
Feb 2009
The recession and credit crisis are causing precipitous declines in consumer and business demand. In response to declining sales, many companies need to resize their business and reduce costs in...
Provided by Deloitte Development
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White Papers
Preparing For An Economic Storm: How Retailers Can Thrive In Challenging Times
Jul 2008
For the world's retailers, and especially those with sales principally in developed economies, this environment is challenging, to say the least. High food and energy prices have caused consumers...
Provided by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
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White Papers
Your Ten Step, One Day Strategic Plan
Jan 2008
Plan is a living document. It does not have to be perfect or 100 percent complete to start using your strategic plan. A business without a plan is like a car without a steering wheel. A rough...
Provided by Zeromillion.com
-
White Papers
How To Write A Small Business Strategic Plan
Jan 2008
Do you know where your company is headed? Have you established a five-year growth plan? If not, write a strategic plan to set clear goals. A strategic plan can help to steer a company to...
Provided by PageWise
-
White Papers
Strategy 21: Reinventing The Strategic Planning Process
Jan 2008
For some organizations, it's time to depart from the "Traditional" strategic planning process. Unfortunately, there is one major problem with the traditional strategic planning process. It simply...
Provided by Birnbaum Associates
-
White Papers
Your Action Plan: Converting Your Strategy Into Action
Jan 2008
"We think in generalities, but we live in detail." This is right and this observation certainly applies to strategic planning. When planning, you'll first develop broad strategies. Then you need...
Provided by Birnbaum Associates
-
White Papers
Monitoring Implementation Of Your Strategic Plan
Jan 2008
Developing an effective strategic plan is only "Half the battle." Getting it implemented is the other, and generally the tougher, half. And an important part of strategy implementation is...
Provided by Birnbaum Associates
-
White Papers
What Most Companies Declare As Their Business Strategy Isn't So
Jan 2008
What most companies declare as their business strategy isn't so. What they publicly declare as a strategy, is simply a mix of their policy, objectives, goals, or even mission. To give it a sexy...
Provided by El-Kadi Counsulting
-
White Papers
What Is Strategic Thinking?: Could It Really Be This Simple?
Jan 2008
In business and in life, we sometimes relate strategic thinking to something very expensive or very clever. In reality, this is not the case! In the academic world, the word "Strategic" is...
Provided by El-Kadi Counsulting
-
White Papers
Corporate Strategy And Grand Strategy: Can Not Get Any Easier!
Jan 2008
Corporate Strategy is the overall Glue that binds the organisation together. It sets the guides and principles for the rest of the functions to follow. Thus ensuring that they become Strategic in...
Provided by El-Kadi Counsulting
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Whitepapers - Video
Smarter Planet: The Energy and Utilities Industry
Jan 2012
Guido Bartels, General Manager, IBM Global Energy and Utilities Industry, and Chairman, Gridwise Alliance, shares his insights on the energy and utilities industry.
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Strategic Planning And Performance Measurement
Jan 2008
"The biggest differences between the Russian and Western business are distances, management culture and mentality". The traditional Russian leadership style still partly seems to exist in Murmansk...
Provided by Hubpages
-
White Papers
What Is A SWOT Analysis And How Can I Use It?
Jan 2008
SWOT (Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, Threats) analysis is a framework in situational analysis to review an organization's strategy. It is straightforward yet powerful in giving insights into...
Provided by HELIUM
-
Whitepapers
Gartner-A step-by-step approach to successful Business Intelligence
Jan 2012
Organizations that have the most success with BI typically approach it incrementally. Discover a step-by-step strategy for success in this newsletter featuring research from Gartner.
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Business Analytics ROI assessment tool for midsize companies- Aberdeen Research Tool
Jan 2012
In a challenging market, how can you ensure your midsize business has the competitive edge? Get your free detailed assessment and ROI report to see how your company's business analysis abilities...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
McCormick and Schmick's Restaurants Gains New Insight into Dining Trends and Financial Performance with IBM Cognos Express - Success Story
Jan 2012
McCormick & Schmick's Seafood Restaurants needed better insight to understand and take advantage of key business trends. Find out why they chose IBM Cognos Express to deliver that insight.
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Short Paper: Troubleshooting Distributed Systems Via Data Mining
Jan 2008
Through massive parallelism, distributed systems enable the multiplication of productivity. Unfortunately, increasing the scale of available machines to users will also multiply debugging when...
Provided by University of Notre Dame (Mendoza)
-
White Papers
SWOT Analysis For The Small Business
Sep 2007
SWOT analysis is a formal process for considering the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats that face a company. It's a type of study that's frequently used by large companies and...
Provided by Associated Content
-
White Papers
Riding the Growth Wave - Leveraging Economies of Scale
Apr 2008
Capturing the benefits of economies of scale is not always easy. Production disruptions, operational inefficiencies, and customers' demands for fixed-cost bids and higher levels of service can...
Provided by SAP
-
White Papers
B2B Marketers Must Better Prepare For Marketing Automation
Dec 2011
Changing buyer behaviors require business-to-business (B2B) marketers to communicate with prospects and customers in new ways, by delivering content that is personalized to their needs, role,...
Provided by Aprimo
-
Whitepapers
Beyond Simple Total Cost of Ownership
Mar 2012
When considering new applications, the question has always been "Build or Buy?" But increasingly, the new question facing companies today is "Buy or Rent?" In this paper, we analyze the...
Provided by SuccessFactors
-
Podcasts
Business Intelligence Innovation at Gallup
Mar 2012
Gallup is in the "intelligence" business - their survey's and consulting services deliver relevant, timely, and visionary research on what people around the world think and feel. Ironically one of...
Provided by Oracle
-
Whitepapers
An On-Demand Solution to Optimize Contract Management (SAP Solution Brief)
Mar 2012
Your company's contracts are critical to your daily operations. After all, they represent all the business relationships throughout the organization. To get the most value from contracts, your...
Provided by SAP
-
Whitepapers
Harvard Business Review Article: Mastering the Management System
Mar 2012
Companies have always found it hard to balance pressing operational concerns with long-term strategic priorities. The tension is critical: World-class processes won't lead to success without the...
Provided by SAP
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Whitepapers
The Informed Manufacturer - A Comical look at best practices
Mar 2012
Access our comic book package and exclusive report for the manufacturing strategies you need. The MPI Group: The Informed Manufacturer - Tips, Tricks and Tactics for Discrete Manufacturers...
Provided by SAP
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Whitepapers
SAP HANA Demystified, an Overview of SAP's Game-Changing In-Memory Technology
Mar 2012
It's both ironic and unfortunate: Across organizations, decision makers are swimming in information, yet they still struggle to really "know" their business. They cannot access relevant data...
Provided by SAP
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Whitepapers
Sustainability Nears a Tipping Point - Why companies are profiting
Mar 2012
Findings from the 2011 Sustainability and Innovation Global Executive Study and Research Project.
Provided by SAP
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Whitepapers
Retail Week Tearing Up the Rule Book
Mar 2012
The past decade has seen significant changes in the experience that customers have when they interact with a retailer. The development of multichannel retail has been crucial to this. Whether it...
Provided by SAP
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Webcasts
Social Analytics is key to being a Social Business
Apr 2012
Leveraging Social Analytics allows organizations to gain actionable insight from the massive amounts of data generated from people, devices and sensors and more easily align these insights to...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Analyst paper: Operational Decision Management - Making better business decisions with flexible, automated business rules and events
Apr 2012
Business rules management technology opens up significant new opportunities for business success. For instance, the ability to automatically make different decisions in real time based on...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
IDC White Paper - The Evoloution of the Datacenter and the Need for a Converged Infrastructure
Apr 2012
As the economy begins to recover from the recession, organizations will begin to reevaluate how they deploy technology. Currently, enterprise datacenters are very heterogeneous environments that...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
IW Social Business
May 2012
When AIIM started tracking Enterprise 2.0 in March 20081, only 13% of respondents felt their organization had any real understanding of what it was about. That report focused on the definition and...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Using SP for ECM
May 2012
As the non-profit association dedicated to nurturing, growing and supporting the ECM (Enterprise Content Management) community, AIIM is proud to provide this research at no charge. In this way,...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
King Fish Media: How Analytics Bring Organizations Closer to Their Customers
May 2012
To succeed today, it's imperative for every business to get to know their customers much better than most have in the past. Find out how IBM Business Analytics solutions can help your company turn...
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Complimentary Gartner MQ report for CRM Customer Service
Jun 2012
Business requirements for customer-centricity start with consistent customer service across all channels, including social ones. Gartner's 2012 Magic Quadrant for CRM Customer Service Contact...
Provided by Salesforce.com
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IDC White Paper: The Evoloution of the Datacenter and the Need for a Converged Infrastructure
Jul 2012
In many enterprise datacenters, virtualization and blade computing have become key technologies deployed by the IT department in an effort to consolidate resources and cut costs while still...
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ACH Foods: Speeding Product Initiation by 75%
Jul 2012
Famous food brands from ACH Food Companies Inc. - like Mazola, Spice Islands, and Durkee - are in nearly every pantry in America, yet have you heard of this company? That's because, historically,...
Provided by SAP
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Market Focus Report - Mobile and Social CRM Guide
Jan 2011
Adding mobile access and social collaboration to CRM delivers significant benefits. Get the Nucleus Research survey of CRM decision makers, showing the the significant ROI opportunity all...
Provided by Salesforce.com
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New Era Of Fundamental Change Calls For Peak Performance
Jul 2012
Financial services firms are facing challenges today that are more severe and intractable than any they have encountered before. As they move forward in this new environment, they will likely be...
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Easy Configuration with Intel® Core™ vPro™ Setup and Configuration Software 8.0
Aug 2012
Intel® Setup and Configuration software helps set up remote management capabilities quickly and easily.
Provided by Intel Corporation
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New Rules of Enterprise Mobility: Delivering & Managing Corporate App Stores
Aug 2012
If your organization is like many others, it's got a good handle on how to manage mobile devices throughout the environment. With that foundation firmly in place, it's now time to devise a viable...
Provided by Fiberlink Communications
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The New Economic Environment: A Strategic Workforce Perspective
Nov 2008
Economic slowdown can serve as a catalyst for organizations to take a more strategic workforce perspective. It can create the impetus for organizations to take a more intelligent, fact-based...
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