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Collab LotusLive: Cloud Advantage Podcast Series
Aug 2010
Join us for a series of podcasts where experts weigh in on the value of cloud computing. You'll hear why cloud is such a hot topic, how secure it is to collaborate with, and if it's right for your...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
Crafting A Bold And Compelling Future
Jan 2010
Many companies begin formulating their strategy without addressing the hallway conversations. Others go through the motions without addressing critical context issues. In both cases, they...
Provided by American Management Association
-
Whitepapers
BRMS Whitepaper: Agile Decision Services: How IBM ILOG's Business Rule Management System Helps Organizations Deliver Fast Time to Value for Business and IT
Aug 2010
This paper explores the challenges that organizations face in trying to deliver quick time-to -value for IT projects and achieve the status of 'agile enterprise'. It illustrates how IBM®...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
Picture This
Apr 2008
By better understanding and taking advantage of the innate visual processing capabilities, we can radically improve how we look at complex information sets. Through just a few simple steps (laying...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
Middle Management May Hinder Diversity Initiatives
Jun 2007
Middle managers focus on long-term strategy and the status quo. Because they're generally rewarded for maintaining current results, they often become roadblocks to inclusion initiatives. There are...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
Lessons In Business... From The Humble Firefly
May 2010
The mimicry studies suggest that, when meeting people for the first time, you can develop good relationships in a quicker time by repeating back selectively the same words that they use. In fact,...
Provided by American Express
-
White Papers
Stop Wasting Your Time On The Internet
Apr 2010
If you consider yourself a business person, and your business revolves around the internet, it might be good to consider how you spend your time building that business. Why bring this up? Because...
Provided by American Express
-
Webcasts
Cardmember Profile: BP Landscapes
Jun 2009
Pieter Rossi combined his business talents with his partner's background in landscape architecture, but waited to bring on staff until they learned every aspect of the business on their own - a...
Provided by American Express
-
White Papers
How To Deal With Negative Feedback
Feb 2010
We often say that social media is a conversation, and what we mean by that is unlike traditional broadcast and print mediums, which are often one-directional, social media is very much a two-way...
Provided by American Express
-
Webcasts
Made To Stick: Creating A Simple Strategy
Nov 2009
Dan Heath, co-author of Made to Stick, speaks with Fast Company about running a successful business by keeping things simple.
Provided by American Express
-
Whitepapers
Addressing IT governance, risk and compliance (GRC) to meet regulatory requirements and reduce operational risk in financial services organizations
Aug 2010
Effective IT governance, risk and compliance (GRC) is essential for financial services organizations to meet increasingly stringent regulatory and audit requirements and reduce business...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
IT service management in an uncertain economy: Resetting IT priorities in the financial services industry.
Aug 2010
Recent economic turmoil and uncertainty are driving important changes in how financial services organizations are investing in IT, according to a global survey of CIOs and other IT investment...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
IBM Service Management for the Intelligent Utility Network.
Aug 2010
One of the key challenges facing the utilities industry is how to take advantage of new technologies to better manage the delivery of service to customers today and into the future. While...
Provided by IBM
-
Webcasts
Making Strategy Happen
Jan 2010
In this Webcast, Freek Vermuelen offers advice on how leaders can develop a new strategic direction for an uncertain future.
Provided by London Business School
-
Webcasts
Paul Levy, CEO, Beth Israel Deaconess, On Transparency In The Medical Center Setting
Apr 2008
Paul Levy, CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess (BID) medical center, discusses transparency at BID and across the health sector. He describes the resistance he initially faced when BID began publishing...
Provided by Boston University School of Management
-
Webcasts
Sadler's Wells Theatre Case Study
Jan 2010
Freek Vermeulen, Associate Professor of Strategic and International Management, highlights the strategic lessons to be learned from a case study of London's successful Sadler's Wells theatre.
Provided by London Business School
-
White Papers
New Technology for a Compelling Web Channel Experience - CMO
Sep 2010
This is a destination-specific version of an asset. You may propose changes to this version, but your changes will not automatically apply to the original asset or other destination-specific...
Provided by SAP
-
White Papers
Get Closer to Your Best Customers - CMO
Sep 2010
Learn what companies can do in economic downturns to position themselves for later success. Find out what changes to make to customer strategy; how to align your organization to best support a...
Provided by SAP
-
Whitepapers
Business Strategy for Cloud Providers. The Case for Potential Cloud Services Providers.
Jul 2010
Get no nonsense, practical guidance on how to succeed as a cloud provider in the marketplace. Focusing on reality and not hype, this whitepaper addresses how to best evaluate cloud...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
IBM POV: Security & Cloud Computing
Sep 2010
You may be turning to cloud computing solutions to provide flexible, cost-effective and proven delivery of IT services. Cloud resources can be rapidly deployed and easily scaled and processes,...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Cloud computing for the enterprise: Part 1: Capturing the cloud
Sep 2010
This article discusses cloud computing in general, then dissects the layers of the cloud, presents the different cloud types, along with their benefits and drawbacks, and explains why this...
Provided by IBM
-
Webcasts
IBM Advances Research Through Cloud Computing to Help Solve Real-World Problems
Sep 2010
Cloud computing is a computing model that delivers technology as a service. This computing model is an excellent way to reduce IT operational costs and shift the IT balance toward tasks that can...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
User Experience Management: Is it Right for You?
Sep 2010
Your business as a whole and your specific IT group count on user experience management (UEM) to deliver the best web app user experience possible. However, both groups look at the UEM...
Provided by Quest Software, now a part of Dell
-
Whitepapers
Developing eLearning Communities to Enhance Your Online Training Program
Sep 2010
This white paper explores how integrating eLearning with traditional learning methods can help training organizations increase productivity, create a larger learning base and achieve...
Provided by Citrix Online
-
Whitepapers
Effectively Balancing Speed, Quality and Cost Metrics
Sep 2010
This TSIA white paper explores 3 fundamental metrics - operational, quality and cost - that you should include in your services dashboard, outlines specific measurements to track in each area and...
Provided by Citrix Online
-
Whitepapers
EMA Analyst Report: IBM Delivers Down To Earth Cloud Computing
Sep 2010
Cloud computing is now part of every day discussions among IT managers. Yet, like other emerging technologies, it is also accompanied by some confusion and hype. Read this brief from ENTERPRISE...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Leveraging the cloud to transform software delivery
Sep 2010
IT Managers: Help your development team shorten project deadlines and test provisioning cycles, all while reducing capital and licensing expenses, as well operating costs. Don't get left behind....
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
BlueLock underpins its cloud computing hosting services with best-in-class security.
Sep 2010
BlueLock, an infrastructure hosting company, needed to establish a more flexible security platform to adapt to the needs of a cloud computing environment. BlueLock's customers need flexibility,...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Defining a framework for cloud adoption
Sep 2010
Many advantages of cloud computing - including elastic scaling, faster service provisioning, greater IT efficiencies and usage-based accounting are well known. Businesses are increasingly...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
SaaS ERP: A Viable Model for Job Shops and Small Manufacturers
Sep 2010
This paper describes how the software as a service (SaaS) model delivers financial,implementation, and operational benefits to job shops and small manufacturers. It also describes how Epicor...
Provided by Epicor Software
-
White Papers
Working Together To Improve Strategic Planning
Sep 2010
With the downturn drawing to a close, companies are redirecting their focus from survival to long-term strategic planning for growth. Yet, many organizations are at risk of failing to achieve the...
Provided by Oracle
-
White Papers
IT's Role in Strategic Planning Key To Success
Sep 2010
It's no surprise that finance and IT executives' views differ on their roles in the planning process. New research from IDG Research Services, CFO Research Services and Oracle suggests that both...
Provided by Oracle
-
Webcasts
Why Good Strategies Fail: Making Certain Execution Gets Results
Oct 2007
The assumption that great strategy leads to great organizational success is a common delusion. It's the execution of the strategy that produces results. This Webcast examines proven steps for...
Provided by American Management Association
-
Podcasts
Fastest Way To Build Your Brand
Jul 2010
The fastest way for any customer service organization to build its brand is to admit a problem and then fix it, Thunderbird Professor Sundaresan Ram, Ph.D., said June 30 at Thunderbird School of...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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Podcasts
Closing The Services Gap
Jul 2010
Services companies struggling to close the gap between their customers' expectations and perceived experiences need to look at four areas where blunders occur, Thunderbird Professor Sundaresan...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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Podcasts
Behind The BP Furor: Why Some Firms Face Ire And Not Others
Aug 2010
BP, Toyota and Goldman Sachs have taken public image beatings in 2010. Many would say deservedly so. But other firms linked to irresponsible behavior have escaped close scrutiny. Thunderbird...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
-
Podcasts
Chicago GSB Podcast: Getting The Basics Right Is Key To McDonald's Turnaround
Jan 2008
Ralph Alvarez, president and COO of McDonalds, talks about strategy and why getting the basics right are important. As Alvarez discussed, "When you have a problem, you get permission to make...
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
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White Papers
Investment Incentives And Effective Tax Rates In The Philippines: A Comparison With Neighboring Countries
Jul 2008
The authors analyse optimal discretionary games between a benevolent central bank and a myopic government in a New Keynesian model. First, when lump-sum taxes are available and public debt is...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
-
White Papers
The Choice Of Monetary And Exchange Rate Arrangements For A Small, Open, Low-Income Economy
Mar 2008
In a recent paper, Bai and Perron (2006) demonstrate that their approach for testing for multiple structural breaks in time series works well in large samples, but they found substantial...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
-
White Papers
The Effects Of Early Retirement On Youth Unemployment: The Case Of Belgium
Dec 2007
This paper applies the maximum likelihood panel cointegration method of Larsson and Lyhagen (2007) to test the strong PPP hypothesis using data for the G7 countries. This method is robust in...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
-
Podcasts
Fastest Way To Build Your Brand
Jul 2010
The fastest way for any customer service organization to build its brand is to admit a problem and then fix it, Thunderbird Professor Sundaresan Ram, Ph.D., said June 30 at Thunderbird School of...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
-
Webcasts
Why Good Strategies Fail: Making Certain Execution Gets Results
Oct 2007
The assumption that great strategy leads to great organizational success is a common delusion. It's the execution of the strategy that produces results. This Webcast examines proven steps for...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
IT's Role in Strategic Planning Key To Success
Sep 2010
It's no surprise that finance and IT executives' views differ on their roles in the planning process. New research from IDG Research Services, CFO Research Services and Oracle suggests that both...
Provided by Oracle
-
White Papers
Working Together To Improve Strategic Planning
Sep 2010
With the downturn drawing to a close, companies are redirecting their focus from survival to long-term strategic planning for growth. Yet, many organizations are at risk of failing to achieve the...
Provided by Oracle
-
White Papers
SaaS ERP: A Viable Model for Job Shops and Small Manufacturers
Sep 2010
This paper describes how the software as a service (SaaS) model delivers financial,implementation, and operational benefits to job shops and small manufacturers. It also describes how Epicor...
Provided by Epicor Software
-
Whitepapers
Defining a framework for cloud adoption
Sep 2010
Many advantages of cloud computing - including elastic scaling, faster service provisioning, greater IT efficiencies and usage-based accounting are well known. Businesses are increasingly...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
BlueLock underpins its cloud computing hosting services with best-in-class security.
Sep 2010
BlueLock, an infrastructure hosting company, needed to establish a more flexible security platform to adapt to the needs of a cloud computing environment. BlueLock's customers need flexibility,...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Leveraging the cloud to transform software delivery
Sep 2010
IT Managers: Help your development team shorten project deadlines and test provisioning cycles, all while reducing capital and licensing expenses, as well operating costs. Don't get left behind....
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
EMA Analyst Report: IBM Delivers Down To Earth Cloud Computing
Sep 2010
Cloud computing is now part of every day discussions among IT managers. Yet, like other emerging technologies, it is also accompanied by some confusion and hype. Read this brief from ENTERPRISE...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Effectively Balancing Speed, Quality and Cost Metrics
Sep 2010
This TSIA white paper explores 3 fundamental metrics - operational, quality and cost - that you should include in your services dashboard, outlines specific measurements to track in each area and...
Provided by Citrix Online
-
Whitepapers
Developing eLearning Communities to Enhance Your Online Training Program
Sep 2010
This white paper explores how integrating eLearning with traditional learning methods can help training organizations increase productivity, create a larger learning base and achieve...
Provided by Citrix Online
-
Whitepapers
User Experience Management: Is it Right for You?
Sep 2010
Your business as a whole and your specific IT group count on user experience management (UEM) to deliver the best web app user experience possible. However, both groups look at the UEM...
Provided by Quest Software, now a part of Dell
-
Webcasts
IBM Advances Research Through Cloud Computing to Help Solve Real-World Problems
Sep 2010
Cloud computing is a computing model that delivers technology as a service. This computing model is an excellent way to reduce IT operational costs and shift the IT balance toward tasks that can...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Cloud computing for the enterprise: Part 1: Capturing the cloud
Sep 2010
This article discusses cloud computing in general, then dissects the layers of the cloud, presents the different cloud types, along with their benefits and drawbacks, and explains why this...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
IBM POV: Security & Cloud Computing
Sep 2010
You may be turning to cloud computing solutions to provide flexible, cost-effective and proven delivery of IT services. Cloud resources can be rapidly deployed and easily scaled and processes,...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Business Strategy for Cloud Providers. The Case for Potential Cloud Services Providers.
Jul 2010
Get no nonsense, practical guidance on how to succeed as a cloud provider in the marketplace. Focusing on reality and not hype, this whitepaper addresses how to best evaluate cloud...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
Get Closer to Your Best Customers - CMO
Sep 2010
Learn what companies can do in economic downturns to position themselves for later success. Find out what changes to make to customer strategy; how to align your organization to best support a...
Provided by SAP
-
White Papers
New Technology for a Compelling Web Channel Experience - CMO
Sep 2010
This is a destination-specific version of an asset. You may propose changes to this version, but your changes will not automatically apply to the original asset or other destination-specific...
Provided by SAP
-
Webcasts
Sadler's Wells Theatre Case Study
Jan 2010
Freek Vermeulen, Associate Professor of Strategic and International Management, highlights the strategic lessons to be learned from a case study of London's successful Sadler's Wells theatre.
Provided by London Business School
-
Webcasts
Paul Levy, CEO, Beth Israel Deaconess, On Transparency In The Medical Center Setting
Apr 2008
Paul Levy, CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess (BID) medical center, discusses transparency at BID and across the health sector. He describes the resistance he initially faced when BID began publishing...
Provided by Boston University School of Management
-
Webcasts
Making Strategy Happen
Jan 2010
In this Webcast, Freek Vermuelen offers advice on how leaders can develop a new strategic direction for an uncertain future.
Provided by London Business School
-
Whitepapers
IBM Service Management for the Intelligent Utility Network.
Aug 2010
One of the key challenges facing the utilities industry is how to take advantage of new technologies to better manage the delivery of service to customers today and into the future. While...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
IT service management in an uncertain economy: Resetting IT priorities in the financial services industry.
Aug 2010
Recent economic turmoil and uncertainty are driving important changes in how financial services organizations are investing in IT, according to a global survey of CIOs and other IT investment...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Addressing IT governance, risk and compliance (GRC) to meet regulatory requirements and reduce operational risk in financial services organizations
Aug 2010
Effective IT governance, risk and compliance (GRC) is essential for financial services organizations to meet increasingly stringent regulatory and audit requirements and reduce business...
Provided by IBM
-
Webcasts
Made To Stick: Creating A Simple Strategy
Nov 2009
Dan Heath, co-author of Made to Stick, speaks with Fast Company about running a successful business by keeping things simple.
Provided by American Express
-
White Papers
How To Deal With Negative Feedback
Feb 2010
We often say that social media is a conversation, and what we mean by that is unlike traditional broadcast and print mediums, which are often one-directional, social media is very much a two-way...
Provided by American Express
-
Webcasts
Cardmember Profile: BP Landscapes
Jun 2009
Pieter Rossi combined his business talents with his partner's background in landscape architecture, but waited to bring on staff until they learned every aspect of the business on their own - a...
Provided by American Express
-
White Papers
Stop Wasting Your Time On The Internet
Apr 2010
If you consider yourself a business person, and your business revolves around the internet, it might be good to consider how you spend your time building that business. Why bring this up? Because...
Provided by American Express
-
White Papers
Lessons In Business... From The Humble Firefly
May 2010
The mimicry studies suggest that, when meeting people for the first time, you can develop good relationships in a quicker time by repeating back selectively the same words that they use. In fact,...
Provided by American Express
-
White Papers
Middle Management May Hinder Diversity Initiatives
Jun 2007
Middle managers focus on long-term strategy and the status quo. Because they're generally rewarded for maintaining current results, they often become roadblocks to inclusion initiatives. There are...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
Picture This
Apr 2008
By better understanding and taking advantage of the innate visual processing capabilities, we can radically improve how we look at complex information sets. Through just a few simple steps (laying...
Provided by American Management Association
-
Whitepapers
BRMS Whitepaper: Agile Decision Services: How IBM ILOG's Business Rule Management System Helps Organizations Deliver Fast Time to Value for Business and IT
Aug 2010
This paper explores the challenges that organizations face in trying to deliver quick time-to -value for IT projects and achieve the status of 'agile enterprise'. It illustrates how IBM®...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
Crafting A Bold And Compelling Future
Jan 2010
Many companies begin formulating their strategy without addressing the hallway conversations. Others go through the motions without addressing critical context issues. In both cases, they...
Provided by American Management Association
-
Downloads
Collab LotusLive: Cloud Advantage Podcast Series
Aug 2010
Join us for a series of podcasts where experts weigh in on the value of cloud computing. You'll hear why cloud is such a hot topic, how secure it is to collaborate with, and if it's right for your...
Provided by IBM
-
Webcasts
Automate, integrate and connect work processes with smart work.
Jul 2010
Companies are rethinking the way people work and discovering new resources for collaboration, mobility and flexibility in the process. This short, entertaining video explores the advantages of...
Provided by IBM
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Webcasts
Top Five: Business Strategies To Avoid
May 2010
Business owners are always looking for ways to grow their companies, but what strategies should you avoid? This webcast talks about five things not to do courtesy of "The Retail Doctor" Bob Phibbs.
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Impossible Selves: Image Strategies And Identity Threat In Professional - Women~s Career Transitions
Nov 2007
This paper uses the notion of identify threat to explain gender differences in responses to the image and identity gap created by professional's transition into client advisory roles. While both...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
Development And Application Of The Leadership Archetype Questionnaire
Mar 2009
The Leadership Assessment Questionnaire (LAQ) is a 360-degree survey instrument designed to help organizational leaders identify their own style of leadership and formulate appropriate development...
Provided by INSEAD
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Webcasts
IBM Information Archive: Next Generation Information Retention Solution
Jul 2010
IBM Information Archive is the next-generation information retention solution designed as a universal archiving repository for all types of content to help midsize and enterprise clients reduce...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
Earth Provides Model For Sustainable Profits
Sep 2008
In a world where the price of oil is fluctuating, government regulation of greenhouse gases is tightening and consumers are switching to more ecofriendly products, sustainable product development...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
-
Webcasts
Making Strategy Happen
Jan 2010
In this Webcast, Freek Vermuelen offers advice on how leaders can develop a new strategic direction for an uncertain future.
Provided by London Business School
-
Webcasts
Paul Levy, CEO, Beth Israel Deaconess, On Transparency In The Medical Center Setting
Apr 2008
Paul Levy, CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess (BID) medical center, discusses transparency at BID and across the health sector. He describes the resistance he initially faced when BID began publishing...
Provided by Boston University School of Management
-
Webcasts
Sadler's Wells Theatre Case Study
Jan 2010
Freek Vermeulen, Associate Professor of Strategic and International Management, highlights the strategic lessons to be learned from a case study of London's successful Sadler's Wells theatre.
Provided by London Business School
-
White Papers
New Technology for a Compelling Web Channel Experience - CMO
Sep 2010
This is a destination-specific version of an asset. You may propose changes to this version, but your changes will not automatically apply to the original asset or other destination-specific...
Provided by SAP
-
White Papers
Get Closer to Your Best Customers - CMO
Sep 2010
Learn what companies can do in economic downturns to position themselves for later success. Find out what changes to make to customer strategy; how to align your organization to best support a...
Provided by SAP
-
Whitepapers
Business Strategy for Cloud Providers. The Case for Potential Cloud Services Providers.
Jul 2010
Get no nonsense, practical guidance on how to succeed as a cloud provider in the marketplace. Focusing on reality and not hype, this whitepaper addresses how to best evaluate cloud...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
IBM POV: Security & Cloud Computing
Sep 2010
You may be turning to cloud computing solutions to provide flexible, cost-effective and proven delivery of IT services. Cloud resources can be rapidly deployed and easily scaled and processes,...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Cloud computing for the enterprise: Part 1: Capturing the cloud
Sep 2010
This article discusses cloud computing in general, then dissects the layers of the cloud, presents the different cloud types, along with their benefits and drawbacks, and explains why this...
Provided by IBM
-
Webcasts
IBM Advances Research Through Cloud Computing to Help Solve Real-World Problems
Sep 2010
Cloud computing is a computing model that delivers technology as a service. This computing model is an excellent way to reduce IT operational costs and shift the IT balance toward tasks that can...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
User Experience Management: Is it Right for You?
Sep 2010
Your business as a whole and your specific IT group count on user experience management (UEM) to deliver the best web app user experience possible. However, both groups look at the UEM...
Provided by Quest Software, now a part of Dell
-
Whitepapers
Developing eLearning Communities to Enhance Your Online Training Program
Sep 2010
This white paper explores how integrating eLearning with traditional learning methods can help training organizations increase productivity, create a larger learning base and achieve...
Provided by Citrix Online
-
Whitepapers
Effectively Balancing Speed, Quality and Cost Metrics
Sep 2010
This TSIA white paper explores 3 fundamental metrics - operational, quality and cost - that you should include in your services dashboard, outlines specific measurements to track in each area and...
Provided by Citrix Online
-
Whitepapers
EMA Analyst Report: IBM Delivers Down To Earth Cloud Computing
Sep 2010
Cloud computing is now part of every day discussions among IT managers. Yet, like other emerging technologies, it is also accompanied by some confusion and hype. Read this brief from ENTERPRISE...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Leveraging the cloud to transform software delivery
Sep 2010
IT Managers: Help your development team shorten project deadlines and test provisioning cycles, all while reducing capital and licensing expenses, as well operating costs. Don't get left behind....
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
BlueLock underpins its cloud computing hosting services with best-in-class security.
Sep 2010
BlueLock, an infrastructure hosting company, needed to establish a more flexible security platform to adapt to the needs of a cloud computing environment. BlueLock's customers need flexibility,...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Defining a framework for cloud adoption
Sep 2010
Many advantages of cloud computing - including elastic scaling, faster service provisioning, greater IT efficiencies and usage-based accounting are well known. Businesses are increasingly...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
SaaS ERP: A Viable Model for Job Shops and Small Manufacturers
Sep 2010
This paper describes how the software as a service (SaaS) model delivers financial,implementation, and operational benefits to job shops and small manufacturers. It also describes how Epicor...
Provided by Epicor Software
-
White Papers
Working Together To Improve Strategic Planning
Sep 2010
With the downturn drawing to a close, companies are redirecting their focus from survival to long-term strategic planning for growth. Yet, many organizations are at risk of failing to achieve the...
Provided by Oracle
-
White Papers
IT's Role in Strategic Planning Key To Success
Sep 2010
It's no surprise that finance and IT executives' views differ on their roles in the planning process. New research from IDG Research Services, CFO Research Services and Oracle suggests that both...
Provided by Oracle
-
Webcasts
Why Good Strategies Fail: Making Certain Execution Gets Results
Oct 2007
The assumption that great strategy leads to great organizational success is a common delusion. It's the execution of the strategy that produces results. This Webcast examines proven steps for...
Provided by American Management Association
-
Podcasts
Fastest Way To Build Your Brand
Jul 2010
The fastest way for any customer service organization to build its brand is to admit a problem and then fix it, Thunderbird Professor Sundaresan Ram, Ph.D., said June 30 at Thunderbird School of...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
-
Podcasts
Closing The Services Gap
Jul 2010
Services companies struggling to close the gap between their customers' expectations and perceived experiences need to look at four areas where blunders occur, Thunderbird Professor Sundaresan...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
-
Podcasts
Behind The BP Furor: Why Some Firms Face Ire And Not Others
Aug 2010
BP, Toyota and Goldman Sachs have taken public image beatings in 2010. Many would say deservedly so. But other firms linked to irresponsible behavior have escaped close scrutiny. Thunderbird...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
-
Podcasts
Chicago GSB Podcast: Getting The Basics Right Is Key To McDonald's Turnaround
Jan 2008
Ralph Alvarez, president and COO of McDonalds, talks about strategy and why getting the basics right are important. As Alvarez discussed, "When you have a problem, you get permission to make...
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
-
White Papers
Investment Incentives And Effective Tax Rates In The Philippines: A Comparison With Neighboring Countries
Jul 2008
The authors analyse optimal discretionary games between a benevolent central bank and a myopic government in a New Keynesian model. First, when lump-sum taxes are available and public debt is...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
-
White Papers
The Choice Of Monetary And Exchange Rate Arrangements For A Small, Open, Low-Income Economy
Mar 2008
In a recent paper, Bai and Perron (2006) demonstrate that their approach for testing for multiple structural breaks in time series works well in large samples, but they found substantial...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
-
White Papers
The Effects Of Early Retirement On Youth Unemployment: The Case Of Belgium
Dec 2007
This paper applies the maximum likelihood panel cointegration method of Larsson and Lyhagen (2007) to test the strong PPP hypothesis using data for the G7 countries. This method is robust in...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
-
Whitepapers
Improve business resiliency with cloud computing solutions and services from IBM
Oct 2010
As the world gets more complex and smarter, organizations are facing tremendous data-growth challenges, increased demand for continuous uptime and the need to significantly lower costs. Cloud...
Provided by IBM
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Training
Microsoft Virtual Labs Hyper V-Edition
Oct 2010
After completing this lab, you will be better able to use the Home tab, Users and Groups tab, Network tab, Shared Folders and Web sites tab, backup and Server Storage tab, reports tab, security...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Leadership And Successful Financial Performance In Healthcare
Nov 2008
This white paper aims to advance this process by identifying five leadership activities that consistently occur in financially successful not-for-profit healthcare organizations. The authors...
Provided by National Center for Healthcare Leadership
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Whitepapers
Powering Your Global Professional Service Workforce with Web-Based Meeting and Collaboration Tools
Sep 2010
Today, the global marketplace isn't just for giants in the professional services industry. Organizations of all sizes are globalizing operations with a little help from web-based meeting and...
Provided by Citrix Online
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Webcasts
The History Of Strategy In Commercial Banking
Mar 2008
Tech companies deposit about seven times the amount that they borrow. And at Silicon Valley Bank, recalls CEO Ken Wilcox, the methodology his venture has used to invest these excess deposits is a...
Provided by Stanford University
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Podcasts
Building An Organization, Building A Team
Apr 2009
After two decades in start-up entrepreneurship, Mari Baker, current CEO of PlayFirst, shares some of her lifelong strategies for long-lasting success. She stresses defining the relentless purpose...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
Decoding Terror
Mar 2009
What message are terrorists trying to send, and how should national leaders respond? That is a question Kellogg School Associate Professor Sandeep Baliga explored at a recent Kellogg School...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
Staking A Claim In China
Feb 2009
When St. Louis-based Emerson began developing a presence in China in the late 1970s, there was no clear-cut formula for success. It was catch-as-catch-can in a new frontier, said Sara Yang Bosco,...
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Designing The Future
May 2008
Leadership is the constant that makes businesses successful, regardless of the products and services they offer, said Jim McNerney, chairman, president and chief executive officer of The Boeing...
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'Power Of Collaboration' On Display At Kellogg Black Management Conference
Mar 2008
Johnson said he found cracks in that glass ceiling in his early days partly by strategically partnering with white-owned companies to gain what he termed a "Good Housekeeping seal of approval."...
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Judge Not Lest Ye Be Judged?
Dec 2009
According to the research, power and influence can cause a severe disconnect between public judgment and private behavior, and as a result, the powerful are stricter in their judgment of others...
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Executive MBA Luncheon Speaker Series: Maersk Line President And CEO John Reinhart
Dec 2009
John Reinhart's company made headlines in April when its ship, the Maersk Alabama, was hijacked by Somali pirates. Within two hours of learning of the attack, all of Maersk Line Ltd.'s...
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Executive MBA Luncheon Speaker Series: Lou Schorsch
May 2010
It's a tight market for commodities, but Lou Schorsch is glad to be in the business of steel. During the economic crisis, steel continued to be an important resource for developing countries -...
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