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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
A Two-Tiered On-Line Server-Side Bandwidth Reservation Framework for the Real-Time Delivery of Multiple Video Streams
Jul 2008
The advent of virtualization and cloud computing technologies necessitates the development of effective mechanisms for the estimation and reservation of resources needed by content providers to...
Provided by Boston University School of Management
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Webcasts
The Intelligence Future: Simple, Seamless, Social
Mar 2012
For the first time in history, consumer-technology interfaces have been outpacing what's available to the average corporate knowledge worker. Join Timo Elliott to understand how we can combine...
Provided by SAP
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Whitepapers
American Shipper Best Practices in Intl Transportation Management
Mar 2012
This report draws on American Shipper's benchmarking series and highlights actionable best practices for professionals involved in global supply chain management. This includes suggestions for...
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
Tape Storage Future Directions and the Data Explosion
Apr 2012
It's time to bring your views of tape up to date as the future for tape technology has never been brighter. Today's tape technologies combined with disk technologies in a strategic blended...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
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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Whitepapers
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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Case Studies
Communicating and Controlling Strategy
Apr 2003
This paper reports evidence on the effectiveness of the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) as a management-control and strategy communication device. This study first reviews management control and...
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Whitepapers
Information on Demand Brochure: Unlocking the business value of information for competitive advantage
Oct 2008
This executive level brochure provides the strategy behind Information on Demand (IOD), the 5 entry points to IOD and includes a summary of the 2008, information market analyst Ovum's independent...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Committed Customers Or Captives?: Making Travel Loyalty Programs More Valuable, Relevant And Differentiating
Aug 2008
Customer loyalty programs have suffered as travel providers have been hit with multiple challenges over the past few years - bankruptcies, skyrocketing fuel prices, new imperatives from private...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Government 2020 And The Perpetual Collaboration Mandate: Six Worldwide Drivers Demand Customized Strategies
Apr 2008
The future of societies around the world is being shaped by six drivers outside the realm of government control. Powerful changes related to demographics, globalization, environmental concerns,...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
How to Deliver Superior Professional Services Cost-Effectively
Oct 2008
This new Ziff Davis White Paper examines new strategies for improving operations and exceeding client expectations, despite today's economic climate. Remote service delivery is proving to be a...
Provided by Citrix Online
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Whitepapers
Break Out Or Get Boxed In: Leading Strategies For Today's Food And Foodservice Distributors
Jun 2008
As grocers and restaurant chains handle more of their own distribution and turn to increasingly capable mega-distributors and third-party logistics providers, food distributors are under attack...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Mastering Carbon Management: Balancing Trade-offs To Optimize Supply Chain Efficiencies
Feb 2008
As the planet heats up, so do regulatory mandates to reduce greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. Much of the opportunity to address CO2 emissions rests on the supply chain, compelling companies to...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Take a holistic approach to business-driven security.
Aug 2009
Take a business-level view of security and risk management, so you can prioritize security activities and focus on those that make the most strategic sense. With this white paper, learn to direct...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Staying a step ahead of the hackers: the importance of identifying critical Web application vulnerabilities
Jan 2009
Managers work to better manage the risks associated with their business infrastructure. Web application security plays a significant role in achieveing this goal. This white paper deals with...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Infrastructure-Establishment From Scratch in Wireless Sensor Networks
Jan 2008
The paper presents a distributed, localized and integrated approach for establishing both low-level and high-level infrastructure in wireless sensor networks. More concretely, the proposed scheme...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
What Makes Your Business Tick?: A simple Strategy For Economic Success
Jan 2009
When the strategy is simple and clear, the company leaders can deliver and reinforce the message in a passing hallway conversation, dozens of times each day. A strategy distilled to this level...
Provided by Center for Simplified Strategic Planning
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White Papers
Seeing Energy In A New Light: How Management Of This Vital Resource Can Drive Strategy
Jul 2008
In many industries, energy consumption has long been regarded as a fixed cost, important to doing business but in the background. Recently several factors - the rising cost of traditional energy...
Provided by Deloitte Development
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White Papers
Strategy In A "Structural Break"
Jan 2009
During hard times, a structural break in the economy is an opportunity in disguise. To survive - and, eventually, to flourish - companies must learn to exploit it. There is nothing like a crisis...
Provided by McKinsey & Company
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Whitepapers
Measuring the Business Impact of Support
Jul 2008
Customer support has long been a business mainstay. Yet, the business impact of support is seldom measured � despite the influence of support on higher revenue; customer satisfaction and loyalty;...
Provided by Citrix Online
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Whitepapers
3 Strategies for Reducing IT Support Costs in 2009
Jan 2009
As companies brace for more bumps in the economic downturn, many organizations are indiscriminately cutting costs. To ensure a seamless transition into the post-recession market, however, slashing...
Provided by Citrix Online
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Whitepapers
New data protection strategies
Jun 2008
As the demands for data capacity and higher service levels grow, protecting corporate data becomes more challenging. Continuous Data Protection, as discussed in this white paper by Evaluator Group...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Cloud Computing: What's Its Business Potential for Your Company?
May 2009
Cloud computing has become one of today's most-talked-about technology trends. And with good reason. It actually lives up to much of its hype. Get a glimpse of the true business potential of cloud...
Provided by Google
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Whitepapers
SAP and Sybase: A Marriage Made in Database Heaven (IDC)
Oct 2012
Examine information about SAP and Sybase, a year after their merger, provided at analyst briefings in May, 2011. These briefings were held at the SAPPHIRE NOW conference in Orlando, FL, and the...
Provided by SAP
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Podcasts
Greenwell Demo
Mar 2013
View this video to see how Greenwell, a fictional organization based on real customer scenarios, uses the IBM Platform for Social Business to gain competitive advantage.
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances: Which One is Right for You?
Jan 2011
While your security needs may be many and complex, the key to solving these needs is to choose the right combination of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASAs) for your network. This white paper...
Provided by Global Knowledge
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Presentations
Accelerate Your Growth With Soft Format
Oct 2007
This presentation explains the accelerating growth with soft format.
Provided by SlideShare
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Tools & Templates
Presentation For Strategy Recommendation
Oct 2007
This is a template for Presentation For Strategy Recommendation.
Provided by Microsoft
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Tools & Templates
Web Site Creation Strategy
Sep 2007
This template is for web site creation strategy.
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Services Maturity Evolution
Sep 2007
Each service maturity model has certain benefits, given the business goals of the organization. This paper explains three choices: A transaction-oriented business that is more concerned with...
Provided by QuickArrow
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White Papers
Five Steps To Predictable, Profitable Services
Sep 2007
Operating through a best practice approach is critical to developing repeatable and profitable services. With predictable projects, less time will be spent solving problems and more time can be...
Provided by QuickArrow
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White Papers
The PS Charter - Beyond Financial Targets
Sep 2007
Companies of all sizes are continuing their efforts to build professional service capabilities. A majority of these efforts are not meeting management expectations. But exactly what does senior...
Provided by QuickArrow
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White Papers
The Art Of Setting Financial Objectives
Sep 2007
Setting financial targets for a human capital intensive business is a tricky exercise. Especially when the business is based on complex, technology centered services that require unique skill...
Provided by QuickArrow
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White Papers
The Positioning Pentagon
Sep 2007
Service positioning is a component of effective demand generation. Over the past four years, the author has had the opportunity to review the service positioning of many companies. Regardless of...
Provided by QuickArrow
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White Papers
The Pricing Pentagon
Sep 2007
After the challenge of effectively positioning a service, the equally challenging task of actually pricing that service still awaits the management team. Personally, the author has seen very...
Provided by QuickArrow
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White Papers
Services Engineering
Sep 2007
For a professional services organization, it's always clear why you need Delivery Consultants. If you don't have Delivery Consultants, you don't make money. For most professional service...
Provided by QuickArrow
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White Papers
The Professional Services Business Model - Fighting The 40/20 Myth
Sep 2007
Many Professional Services Organizations focus on increasing bill rates, increasing utilization, and reducing load costs to meet profitability targets. While it's important to track such metrics,...
Provided by QuickArrow
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White Papers
Two Mistakes Most Software Services Organizations Make Every Day
Sep 2007
The software services economy is comprised of a large workforce that, through the utilization of their intellectual capital and technical ability, drives the financial success of Professional...
Provided by QuickArrow
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White Papers
Professional Services Playoff: Five Critical Dimensions Of Leadership And A Playbook For Applying Them
Sep 2007
The role of Professional Services (PS) is changing and consequently the talents required to be a successful PS leader are changing as well. As PS has become a more significant differentiator and...
Provided by QuickArrow
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White Papers
Earned Value Management - Not Just For Monster Projects
Sep 2007
EVM (Earned Value Management) is a way of monitoring your project success based on actual work (time) completed, task estimated percent complete, and work scheduled to be completed. These are each...
Provided by QuickArrow
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White Papers
Five Steps To Effective Resource Management
Sep 2007
Effective Resource Management not only impacts profitability by optimizing utilization and minimizing bench time, but when done well, can generate goodwill and loyalty that translate to...
Provided by QuickArrow
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White Papers
Recruiting, Developing, And Retaining Solution Architects
Sep 2007
Solution Architects have become the critical path to a PS (Professional Services) organization's ability to successfully scale the business. This paper thoroughly defines the role of the Solution...
Provided by QuickArrow
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White Papers
Exclusivity And Control
Aug 2007
We analyze platform competition for content in the presence of strategic interactions between content distributors and content providers. We provide a model of bargaining and price competition...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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White Papers
Why We Aren't As Ethical As We Think We Are: A Temporal Explanation
Aug 2007
This paper explores the biased perceptions that people hold of their own ethicality. We argue that the temporal trichotomy of prediction, action and evaluation is central to these misperceptions:...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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White Papers
High-Throughput Multicast Routing Metrics in Wireless Mesh Networks
Aug 2007
The stationary nature of nodes in a mesh network has shifted the main design goal of routing protocols from maintaining connectivity between source and destination nodes to finding high-throughput...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
The Fundamental Capacity-Delay Tradeoff in Large Mobile Wireless Networks
Aug 2007
The paper establishes the fundamental tradeoff between the achievable capacity and delay in large mobile wireless networks. Under an i.i.d. mobility model, the paper first obtains the following...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
Towards Achieving the Maximum Capacity in Large Mobile Wireless Networks Under Delay Constraints
Jul 2007
This paper explains how to achieve the maximum capacity under delay constraints for large mobile wireless networks. It develops a systematic methodology for studying this problem in the asymptotic...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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Whitepapers
CIO insights from IBM: IT optimization to meet business goals
Sep 2006
The need for IT optimization is nothing new. But as CIOs are increasingly called upon to drive business strategy, they need to take a new look at their IT optimization goals. They still need to...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
What Is Planning and Why You Need to Plan
Oct 2006
Planning is one of the most important project management and time management techniques. Planning is preparing a sequence of action steps to achieve some specific goal. If a person does it...
Provided by Time-Management-Guide.com
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White Papers
Business Process Management II: Best Practices of Boeing and UPS
Oct 2006
This executive summary is a follow up report to APQC's 2005 "Business Process Management" Best- practice Report. It digs deeper into how organizations are navigating the transition from...
Provided by APQC
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White Papers
Strategy Execution in Government Organizations
May 2006
Similar to the private sector in the post-Enron era, today's government organizations face accountability and stewardship challenges like never before. In addition, government organizations...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Strategy Maps for Government Organizations
May 2006
As today's government organizations continue to look for effective tools to improve performance management, leading organizations are leveraging the power of strategy maps to help execute...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Strategy and the Balanced Scorecard
May 2006
A key attribute of strategy formation is performing a different set of activities than the rivals. By choosing a distinct set of related activities one has the opportunity to create unique value...
Provided by Better Management.com
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Whitepapers
BPM and SOA: Better Together
Oct 2009
SOA standards, such as Web Services, make information resources and task automation applications available yet loosely integrated for process designers to use and reuse at will. Thus processes...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Communicating and Controlling Strategy
Apr 2003
This paper reports evidence on the effectiveness of the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) as a management-control and strategy communication device. This study first reviews management control and...
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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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White Papers
New IT Change Management Cloud Service Significantly Reduces MTTR
Apr 2012
As much as 80 percent of the time related to MTTR (mean time to repair) is spent on identifying the key components, relationships, and people involved to determine the cause of a problem and fix...
Provided by ITinvolve, Inc.
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Whitepapers
Tape Storage Future Directions and the Data Explosion
Apr 2012
It's time to bring your views of tape up to date as the future for tape technology has never been brighter. Today's tape technologies combined with disk technologies in a strategic blended...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
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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Whitepapers
Change How Business Intelligence is Managed
Jul 2012
With the revolution of in-memory computing already under way, the question isn't if this revolution will impact businesses but when and, more importantly, how. Similar to the advance of enterprise...
Provided by SAP
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Whitepapers
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
-
Case Studies
Communicating and Controlling Strategy
Apr 2003
This paper reports evidence on the effectiveness of the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) as a management-control and strategy communication device. This study first reviews management control and...
-
Whitepapers
Information on Demand Brochure: Unlocking the business value of information for competitive advantage
Oct 2008
This executive level brochure provides the strategy behind Information on Demand (IOD), the 5 entry points to IOD and includes a summary of the 2008, information market analyst Ovum's independent...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Committed Customers Or Captives?: Making Travel Loyalty Programs More Valuable, Relevant And Differentiating
Aug 2008
Customer loyalty programs have suffered as travel providers have been hit with multiple challenges over the past few years - bankruptcies, skyrocketing fuel prices, new imperatives from private...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Government 2020 And The Perpetual Collaboration Mandate: Six Worldwide Drivers Demand Customized Strategies
Apr 2008
The future of societies around the world is being shaped by six drivers outside the realm of government control. Powerful changes related to demographics, globalization, environmental concerns,...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
How to Deliver Superior Professional Services Cost-Effectively
Oct 2008
This new Ziff Davis White Paper examines new strategies for improving operations and exceeding client expectations, despite today's economic climate. Remote service delivery is proving to be a...
Provided by Citrix Online
-
Whitepapers
Break Out Or Get Boxed In: Leading Strategies For Today's Food And Foodservice Distributors
Jun 2008
As grocers and restaurant chains handle more of their own distribution and turn to increasingly capable mega-distributors and third-party logistics providers, food distributors are under attack...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Mastering Carbon Management: Balancing Trade-offs To Optimize Supply Chain Efficiencies
Feb 2008
As the planet heats up, so do regulatory mandates to reduce greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. Much of the opportunity to address CO2 emissions rests on the supply chain, compelling companies to...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Take a holistic approach to business-driven security.
Aug 2009
Take a business-level view of security and risk management, so you can prioritize security activities and focus on those that make the most strategic sense. With this white paper, learn to direct...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Staying a step ahead of the hackers: the importance of identifying critical Web application vulnerabilities
Jan 2009
Managers work to better manage the risks associated with their business infrastructure. Web application security plays a significant role in achieveing this goal. This white paper deals with...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
Infrastructure-Establishment From Scratch in Wireless Sensor Networks
Jan 2008
The paper presents a distributed, localized and integrated approach for establishing both low-level and high-level infrastructure in wireless sensor networks. More concretely, the proposed scheme...
Provided by Stanford University
-
White Papers
What Makes Your Business Tick?: A simple Strategy For Economic Success
Jan 2009
When the strategy is simple and clear, the company leaders can deliver and reinforce the message in a passing hallway conversation, dozens of times each day. A strategy distilled to this level...
Provided by Center for Simplified Strategic Planning
-
White Papers
Seeing Energy In A New Light: How Management Of This Vital Resource Can Drive Strategy
Jul 2008
In many industries, energy consumption has long been regarded as a fixed cost, important to doing business but in the background. Recently several factors - the rising cost of traditional energy...
Provided by Deloitte Development
-
White Papers
Strategy In A "Structural Break"
Jan 2009
During hard times, a structural break in the economy is an opportunity in disguise. To survive - and, eventually, to flourish - companies must learn to exploit it. There is nothing like a crisis...
Provided by McKinsey & Company
-
Whitepapers
Measuring the Business Impact of Support
Jul 2008
Customer support has long been a business mainstay. Yet, the business impact of support is seldom measured � despite the influence of support on higher revenue; customer satisfaction and loyalty;...
Provided by Citrix Online
-
Whitepapers
3 Strategies for Reducing IT Support Costs in 2009
Jan 2009
As companies brace for more bumps in the economic downturn, many organizations are indiscriminately cutting costs. To ensure a seamless transition into the post-recession market, however, slashing...
Provided by Citrix Online
-
Whitepapers
New data protection strategies
Jun 2008
As the demands for data capacity and higher service levels grow, protecting corporate data becomes more challenging. Continuous Data Protection, as discussed in this white paper by Evaluator Group...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
Cloud Computing: What's Its Business Potential for Your Company?
May 2009
Cloud computing has become one of today's most-talked-about technology trends. And with good reason. It actually lives up to much of its hype. Get a glimpse of the true business potential of cloud...
Provided by Google
-
Whitepapers
SAP and Sybase: A Marriage Made in Database Heaven (IDC)
Oct 2012
Examine information about SAP and Sybase, a year after their merger, provided at analyst briefings in May, 2011. These briefings were held at the SAPPHIRE NOW conference in Orlando, FL, and the...
Provided by SAP
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Whitepapers
Digital Transformation: Creating new business models where digital meets physical
Mar 2013
Companies with a cohesive strategy for integrating digital and physical elements can successfully transform their business models – and set new directions for entire industries. To find out how...
Provided by IBM
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Podcasts
Greenwell Demo
Mar 2013
View this video to see how Greenwell, a fictional organization based on real customer scenarios, uses the IBM Platform for Social Business to gain competitive advantage.
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances: Which One is Right for You?
Jan 2011
While your security needs may be many and complex, the key to solving these needs is to choose the right combination of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASAs) for your network. This white paper...
Provided by Global Knowledge
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Whitepapers
Microsoft and the Cloud: Five Essential Things To Know
Jan 2011
Many of the world's leading companies are making significant investments in cloud computing, and cloud computing continues to evolve. Essentially, cloud computing is a "pay for use" model similar...
Provided by Global Knowledge
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Whitepapers
Use of Resource Pools in VMware vSphere DRS Clusters
Feb 2013
Resource Pools are often misunderstood, disliked, and untrusted by vSphere Administrators who have been burned due to unexpected results of improperly configured resource pools. This white paper...
Provided by Global Knowledge
