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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...
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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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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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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...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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Service Desk Consolidation Insight
Dec 2009
If your enterprise has multiple service desks in different geographies using disparate, disjointed tools and supporting diverse but possibly overlapping constituencies, you may be wasting hundreds...
Provided by BMC Software
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Predictive Intelligence: Identify Future Problems and Prevent Them from Happening
Dec 2009
There is a natural progression from reactive to proactive, and ultimately predictive technology, and this progression corresponds to the maturity level of your IT organization and the tools you...
Provided by BMC Software
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Optimize And Transform Your Business Collaboration Network
Jan 2010
Every enterprise in business today has a Business Collaboration Network (BCN). Your BCN includes all the customers, partners and suppliers with whom you connect, communicate and collaborate to...
Provided by Sterling Commerce
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Webcasts
Increase Business Responsiveness with SOA and EDA
Mar 2010
Event-driven architecture (EDA) is a form of service-oriented architecture (SOA) that is responsible for intercepting, analyzing and emitting events. Learn about making the most of your SOA...
Provided by InterSystems
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Downloads
Today's Mobile Workforce & What It Means for Your Business
Mar 2010
Listen to this podcast to hear Jim Ware and Charles Grantham, co-founders of The Future of Work program, discuss today's growing mobile workforce and what it means to your business, how to enable...
Provided by Citrix Online
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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
Methodology Cuts 25% To 50% From The Procured Cost Of Goods And Services
Apr 2010
In broad outline, e-LYNXX Patent No. 7,451,106 ("e-LYNXX '106") covers any computer operated system for procuring specification-defined goods or services that matches vendor attributes with...
Provided by e-LYNXX
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Stabilizing Power Sharing
Nov 2007
Power sharing is modeled as a duel over some prize. Each of two players may either share the prize in some ratio or fire at the other player - either in sequence or simultaneously - and eliminate...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Case Studies
Guiding Cell C To A Stronger Strategic Position
Aug 2008
With over 4.8 million mobile subscribers, Cell C is South Africa's third-largest cellular service provider. Cell C looked to Capgemini's Telecom Media and Entertainment practice to help them...
Provided by Capgemini
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Stated Versus Inferred Beliefs: A Methodological Inquiry And Experimental Test
Dec 2008
If asking subjects their beliefs during repeated game play changes the way those subjects play, using those stated beliefs to evaluate and compare theories of strategic behavior is problematic....
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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System Composite Of The Triplet's Of Strategic Overview - Revised Fundamentals
Sep 2010
The STIQE 2004 paper presents the identified triplets at macro and micro level of the socioeconomic system. Through the important triplets identified are the following: European Union (UE) - State...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Strategic Japanese Business Visions - Possible Transposes In Public Services
Sep 2010
Frequently, the "Japanese miracle" was a subject of discussion. The book "The Strategist Brain Power - The Business Art in Japan", by Kenichi Ohmae (Japan, 1975) when the business environment was...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Tourism Demand In Catalonia: Detecting External Economic Factors
Sep 2010
There is a lack of studies on tourism demand in Catalonia. To fill the gap, this paper focuses on detecting the macroeconomic factors that determine tourism demand in Catalonia. The authors also...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Modeling The Set-Up And Management Of A Spin-Out: Evidence From A Case Study
Nov 2010
In this paper the authors explore a special case of venturing, namely the spinout approach. More in particular, this paper has sought to model the spin-out process by combining scholarly...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Collaboration Drives Growth for Discrete Manufacturers - Cambashi
May 2011
Companies with an integrated company-wide business management system (or enterprise resource planning [ERP] system) are likely to have more and more accurate information readily accessible....
Provided by Sage Software
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Managerial Communication
Feb 2008
The new spirit of business must be marked by efficient managerial communication. To build, to develop and to run business means, first of all, to communicate, to transmit information, opinions and...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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China's New Development Strategy: Environment And Energy Security
Mar 2008
This paper analyzes China's development strategy by focusing on both global and regional approaches to solving problems of energy security and ecological imbalance by addressing specifically the...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Identifying Individual And Group Effects In The Presence Of Sorting: A Neighborhood Effects Application
Feb 2009
Researchers have long recognized that the non-random sorting of individuals into groups generates correlation between individual and group attributes that is likely to bias naïve estimates of both...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Webcasts
Be Strategic With Certifications
Dec 2010
In this webcast the author, in the title of "Be Strategic with Certifications" discusses the importance of carefully choosing certifications to match the capabilities of your business.
Provided by American Express Company
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Top Five: Managing Your Travel Budget
Dec 2010
This webcast speaks about the high price of travel can easily send your expenses through the roof. Here are five tips for managing your company's travel budget courtesy of AllBusiness.com.
Provided by American Express Company
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Choosing Agents And Monitoring Consumption: A Note On Wealth As A Corruption-controlling Device
Jun 2007
There are a large number of cases where corruption has been discovered investigating levels of consumption that appear to be hard to justify. Yet, in the standard moral hazard model withholding of...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Voluntary Decentralization In Environmental Policy: "Cooperative Federalism" As A Strategic Interaction
Aug 2010
Under most U.S. environmental laws and some health and safety laws, states may apply to implement and enforce the law, through a process known as authorization or primacy. This paper presents a...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Strategic Judicial Decision Making
Aug 2007
This survey paper starts from the basic, and intuitive, assumption that judges are human and as such, can be modeled in the same fashion the authors model politicians, activists, managers: driven...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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CEO Centrality
Dec 2007
The authors find that CEO centrality is negatively associated with firm value (as measured by industry-adjusted Tobin's Q). Greater CEO centrality is also correlated with lower (industry-adjusted)...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Matching And Challenge Gifts To Charity: Evidence From Laboratory And Natural Field Experiments
Jan 2008
This paper designs a natural field experiment linked to a controlled laboratory experiment to examine the effectiveness of matching gifts and challenge gifts, two popular strategies used to secure...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Whitepapers
In-Memory Analytics: Leveraging Emerging Technologies for Business Intelligence
Apr 2011
Read this paper to find out more about new technologies that can make it easier to build and consume analytical applications. In-memory analytics helps make it easier to build high-performance...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Modular data centers: providing operational dexterity for anincreasingly complex world
Apr 2011
Business enterprises are facing increasing complexity operating in a world of extremely high levels of interconnection and interdependency. This white paper discusses how CIOs have the opportunity...
Provided by IBM
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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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Strategic Judgment Proofing
Jul 2008
A liquidity-constrained entrepreneur needs to raise capital to finance a business activity that may cause injuries to third parties - the tort victims. Taking the level of borrowing as fixed, the...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Attitude-dependent Altruism, Turnout And Voting
Sep 2008
This paper presents a goal-oriented model of political participation based on two psychological assumptions. The first is that people are more altruistic towards individuals that agree with them...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Strategic Interaction Among Heterogeneous Price-setters In An Estimated DSGE Model
Apr 2009
The authors consider a DSGE model in which firms follow one of four price-setting regimes: sticky prices, sticky-information, rule-of-thumb, or full-information flexible prices. The parameters of...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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The Strategic Timing Incentives Of Commercial Radio Stations: An Empirical Analysis Using Multiple Equilibria
Nov 2008
Commercial radio stations and advertisers have potentially conflicting interests about when commercial breaks should be played. This paper estimates an incomplete information timing game to...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Strategy-Proofness Versus Efficiency In Matching With Indifferences: Redesigning The New York City High School Match
Apr 2009
The design of the New York City (NYC) High School match involved tradeoffs among efficiency, stability and strategy-proofness that raise new theoretical questions. The authors analyze a model with...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Empirics Of Strategic Interdependence: The Case Of The Racial Tipping Point
Jun 2009
The Schelling model of a "Tipping point" in racial segregation, in which whites flee a neighborhood once a threshold of nonwhites is reached, is a canonical model of strategic interdependence. The...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Endogenous Overconfidence In Managerial Forecasts
Mar 2011
The authors examine whether attribution bias that leads managers who have experienced short-terni forecasting success to become overconfident in their ability to forecast future earnings....
Provided by INSEAD
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The Languages Of Strategic Agility: Trapped In Your Jargon Or Lost In Translation?
Jan 2011
At the heart of strategy lie streams, or sequences, of decisions and resource commitments. Such decisions include major strategic moves like internationalization and new market entries or...
Provided by INSEAD
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Webcasts
Bringing Management Tools And Ideas, Collaboration, And Learning-by-Doing To The Challenge Of Global Health Delivery
Jun 2008
The need for practice is a constant theme in the author's view of learning. Just as in music, sports, and chess, practice in management skills results in organizational improvement. That is why...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Moral And Social Constraints To Strategic Default On Mortgages
Jul 2009
The authors use survey data to study American households' propensity to default when the value of their mortgage exceeds the value of their house even if they can afford to pay their mortgage...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Subgame Perfect Implementation With Almost Perfect Information And The Hold-Up Problem
Jul 2009
The foundations of incomplete contracts have been questioned using or extending the subgame perfect implementation approach of Moore and Repullo (1988). The authors consider the robustness of...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Boom And Bust Behavior: On The Persistence Of Strategic Decision Biases And Their Collective Outcome
Jun 2007
Boom and bust or overshoot and collapse dynamics are common among firms in a large range of different industries. Durable consumer electronics (e.g. televisions, VCR's, calculators, etc.),...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
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Creating Business Value Through Location-Based Intelligence
Mar 2011
In spite of the growth of virtual business activities performed via the World Wide Web, every business transaction or operation is performed at a physical place. And as handheld GPS devices drive...
Provided by SAP
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Whitepapers
Business Answers at Your Fingertips: The Real-Time Value of BI
Mar 2011
This Aberdeen Research brief hones in on the critical time element of a Best-in-Class BI strategy. The research shows that these top performers are leveraging real-time or near real-time analytics...
Provided by SAP
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Whitepapers
Gartner "Magic Quadrant" examines communication services vendors
Mar 2011
Selecting a vendor for telecommunications and IT network services can be complex - and can have an enormous impact on your organization. Communications services are important to your operation,...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
IBM Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino software--Connect, create and collaborate, your way
Mar 2011
Read the white paper to see how IBM Lotus Notes and Domino software empowers users to take action, create and share knowledge and collaborate with teams. And discover how this new kind of desktop...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Barnes and Noble College Bookstores Success Story
Mar 2011
Barnes & Noble College Booksellers (Barnes & Noble) continuously seeks new ways to improve the bookstore experience for its students and the broader academic community. Committed to keeping pace...
Provided by IBM
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The Economic Downturn: Coping Strategies And The Way Forward
Sep 2009
Indian industry started experiencing the real impact of the global financial meltdown from the last quarter of 2008. The rapidity with which the slowdown set in too many industry leaders by...
Provided by Vikalpa
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Impact Of Adoption Of Yoga Way Of Life On The Reduction Of Job Burnout Of Managers
Jun 2010
Burnout Is a Prolonged Response to Chronic Emotional and Interpersonal Stressors on the Job, and Is Defined by the Three Dimensions of Exhaustion, Cynicism, and Inefficacy. Job Burn-Out Is a...
Provided by Vikalpa
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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
Service Desk Consolidation Insight
Dec 2009
If your enterprise has multiple service desks in different geographies using disparate, disjointed tools and supporting diverse but possibly overlapping constituencies, you may be wasting hundreds...
Provided by BMC Software
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White Papers
Predictive Intelligence: Identify Future Problems and Prevent Them from Happening
Dec 2009
There is a natural progression from reactive to proactive, and ultimately predictive technology, and this progression corresponds to the maturity level of your IT organization and the tools you...
Provided by BMC Software
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White Papers
Optimize And Transform Your Business Collaboration Network
Jan 2010
Every enterprise in business today has a Business Collaboration Network (BCN). Your BCN includes all the customers, partners and suppliers with whom you connect, communicate and collaborate to...
Provided by Sterling Commerce
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Webcasts
Increase Business Responsiveness with SOA and EDA
Mar 2010
Event-driven architecture (EDA) is a form of service-oriented architecture (SOA) that is responsible for intercepting, analyzing and emitting events. Learn about making the most of your SOA...
Provided by InterSystems
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Downloads
Today's Mobile Workforce & What It Means for Your Business
Mar 2010
Listen to this podcast to hear Jim Ware and Charles Grantham, co-founders of The Future of Work program, discuss today's growing mobile workforce and what it means to your business, how to enable...
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
Methodology Cuts 25% To 50% From The Procured Cost Of Goods And Services
Apr 2010
In broad outline, e-LYNXX Patent No. 7,451,106 ("e-LYNXX '106") covers any computer operated system for procuring specification-defined goods or services that matches vendor attributes with...
Provided by e-LYNXX
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White Papers
How Organizations Can Realize Transparency, Control And Significant Cost Reduction
Apr 2010
The pursuit of expense reduction has led many organizations to conclude that their traditionally effective strategies and tactics applied in the historically target-rich expense categories no...
Provided by e-LYNXX
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Print Management Program Offers Compelling Return On Investment Without Up-Front Investment Or Risk
Apr 2010
As organizations explore and consider speculative cost reduction initiatives, their decisions regarding which initiative(s) to pursue and of those which to prioritize are typically based on a...
Provided by e-LYNXX
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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
The Deloitte Business Simulation Game: Accelerate The Implementation Of Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability
May 2010
The development of effective learning and leadership skills comes through practical experience and structural reflection. However, companies can seldom afford the time and resources to explore and...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
Short-Term Trends Rule The Day In An Unpredictable Recovery
May 2010
With a recovery tentatively underway, many executives are trying to ride the wave of short-term economic trends, making minor strategic adjustments to go farther, faster. Is this the right...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
Pattern-Driven Performance: Should You Start With Tools - Or With Talent?
May 2010
Companies everywhere are catching onto the wisdom of mining information for patterns of performance. Using a combination of advanced statistical tools and good, old-fashioned experience, they're...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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Case Studies
Making The Leap: After Making A Huge Acquisition To Expand Into Services, This Computer Company Needed To Completely Revise Its Playbook
May 2010
Facing a more challenging environment for its hardware-focused business, this computer company did what many of its competitors had already done: it acquired a technology services company to...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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Case Studies
Saving The Pennies That Save Lives: Helping A Non-Profit Organization And Its Chapters Embrace Efficiency To Do More Good
May 2010
A large non-profit relief organization with hundreds of local chapters throughout the United States wanted to reduce costs and improve standardization and control across the enterprise. Deloitte...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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Case Studies
Redrawing The Map: How A Fortune 100 Technology Company Simplified Its Channel Strategy To Improve Profitability, Speed And Service
May 2010
A major high technology company relied on a dizzying variety of routes to move its products to market. While company executives suspected that their approach was inefficient, they had no way of...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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Case Studies
Battle Ready: Revolutionizing Major Weapon System Production For A Major Global Aerospace And Defense Company
May 2010
When this aerospace and defense company landed a major military contract, it needed to develop a global production model to deliver a major weapon system faster, and more efficiently. Deloitte...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
Global Recovery: Assessing Its Durability And Strength
Apr 2010
The financial crisis not only laid open the fault lines of the global economy, it also put to test one of the world's most ambitious economic cooperation projects: the euro. The debt crisis that...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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Case Studies
Paper Profits: Improving Supply Chain Operations, Procurement And Integration At A Major Paper Company
May 2010
A major global packaging systems and paper manufacturing company wanted to solidify its competitive position and reduce costs. But decades-old procurement and supply chain practices posed a...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
Everything Elastic: Accenture Technology Vision 2010
Feb 2010
High-performance businesses use the Vision to help understand potential opportunities - and challenges - that lie ahead. In this vision business capabilities - infrastructure, people and thoughts...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
Smarter, Swifter, Safer: New Imperatives For Achieving High Performance In A Multi-Polar World
Jan 2010
Today's high performers in transport and logistics owe their accomplishment to exceptionally astute global growth strategies and mastery of internal process technologies - core capabilities that...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
Reassessing Your Business Plan
Aug 2009
Business planning experts always stress that a business plan is a living document-one that you should regularly reassess and change as your business grows. Well, now is the time to take that...
Provided by Bank of America
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White Papers
High Performance Business In China 2007: In Pursuit of Profitable Growth
Aug 2007
The astonishing growth rates of so many Chinese companies have become a matter of great pride for the nation's business leaders - and a matter of concern for competitors around the world. But can...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
Envy At Work
Apr 2010
Comparing yourself with successful coworkers can be motivating, but it can also trigger envy. The authors' research suggests that such feelings may cause real damage, both to your own career and...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
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White Papers
Banking On Recycling
Aug 2008
Ron Gonen will change the way you think about recycling. He's been honing his strategy ever since the day he convinced his high school of the economic benefits of purchasing reusable metal...
Provided by Columbia University
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White Papers
Franchise Vs. Independent: Learning From The Other Guy
Jan 2010
There are many paths to small business triumph: You can introduce a product or service that no one else offers, put a spin on an existing commodity that no one else has yet, or apply your business...
Provided by MasterCard
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White Papers
A Bigger Bang: Making The Right Workforce Investments
Oct 2007
Historically, human resource management and investments in workforce capabilities have largely been applied in the same way across all types of jobs and roles. This has been, in part, due to...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
Tomorrow's Global Giants? Not The Usual Suspects
Oct 2008
In the largest emerging markets, established multinationals and local players are battling for dominance. Conventional wisdom says MNCs rule in high-end, knowledge intensive businesses; local...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
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White Papers
Five Stages Of A Turnaround
Dec 2009
Rising competition, cyclical financial markets and economic volatility have created a climate where no business can take economic stability for granted. As once-stable companies struggle to...
Provided by Bank of America
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White Papers
Tips For Managing A Fast-Growing Company
May 2008
It seems like any entrepreneur would kill for the chance to become an early leader in one of the many fast-growing global industries. Yet fast growth can lead to a wide range of problems, from...
Provided by Columbia University
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Lab Work For Your Business Model
Apr 2010
Management professor Rita McGrath says experimentation must be an integral part of a company's strategy in order to remain competitive in the future. "The level of uncertainty and speed of change...
Provided by Columbia University
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Reduce Maintenance Costs
Apr 2008
Maintenance usually isn't top priority for many companies until something breaks at the worst possible time. Then it's a matter of urgency to get everything up and running on schedule again. But...
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Do Your Commitments Match Your Convictions?
Mar 2008
How many people struggle hard every day to uphold obligations to the bosses, families and communities even as the quality of the lives erodes? And how many feel too overwhelmed to examine the...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
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Paper Or Plastic
Oct 2009
The statistics staring at budding entrepreneurs are ugly-nearly two out of three new businesses won't survive past six years. A lack of a rigorous business plan, insufficient marketing, and poor...
Provided by Bank of America
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Vaccinate Your Small Business
Dec 2009
As the H1N1 flu outbreak looks to spread throughout the upcoming winter, many small businesses could find the disease a serious threat to their profitability and, perhaps, long-term survivability....
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Mastering The Challenge Of Reach For High Performance: The Clock Is Ticking
Feb 2010
Achieving and maintaining compliance with the "Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals" (REACH) legislation puts pressure on each and every organization in the...
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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...
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Make The Right Moves During Business Downturns
Jan 2010
Downturns and slowdowns are inevitable in every company. In order to weather slow periods, you've got to cut costs and build business. How you do each will have a major impact on the future of...
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Business Plan 2.0
Oct 2009
A sound business plan is the foundation of any successful business, but this particular foundation should not be set in stone. The world changes faster and more frequently now than it ever has...
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