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Achieving Business Objectives through Strategic IT Investment
Gone are the days when IT spending was simply another line in the budget, like telephones, maintenance, or transportation. Today, IT spending is increasingly recognized a...
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Date: March 2008 |
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We Cannot Trade Quality for Schedule or Budget!
It is not uncommon for people to say, "Fast, cheap, or good-choose two." Most people interpret this to mean that if you want a short schedule and a low budget, you must s...
Sponsored by: Global Knowledge
Date: January 2006 |
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A Combinatorial Methodology For RFID Benchmarking
Nowadays advances in wireless technologies, RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) becomes an important enabling technology for logistics and supply chain management syste...
Company: University of Hong Kong
Date: October 2006 |
University of Hong Kong |
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The Politics Of Organizational Learning From Performance Measurement
Benchmarking rests on the assumption that it supports organizational learning and innovation but the empirical knowledge that underpins this perceived means - end relatio...
Company: University of Oslo
Date: September 2006 |
University of Oslo |
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Strategic Management Accounting: Exploring Distinctive Features And Links With Strategy
Several different approaches to Strategic Management Accounting (SMA) can be found in the literature of management accounting since Simmonds coined the term. The paper ai...
Company: University of Munich
Date: September 2006 |
University of Munich |
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Improving Organizational Performance Starts With Benchmarking Best Practices
Employees with their skills and knowledge, along with the company culture and IT infrastructure are quite simply worth more than the tangible assets. Unlike financial or ...
Company: Softscape
Date: September 2006 |
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Selecting A Bond-Pricing Model For Trading: Benchmarking, Pooling, And Other Issues
Does one make money trading on the deviations between observed bond prices and values proposed by bond-pricing models? We extend Sercu and Wu's work to more models and mo...
Company: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Date: August 2006 |
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven |
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Offsetting The Incentives: Benefits Of Benchmarking In Money Management
Money managers are rewarded for increasing the value of assets under management. This gives a manager an implicit incentive to exploit the well-documented positive fund-f...
Company: London Business School
Date: July 2006 |
London Business School |
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Using Internal Benchmarking As Strategy For Cultivation
Implementing metric systems for organizational learning in a software development environment remains a challenge. Some researchers state that traditional quality managem...
Company: University of Oslo
Date: June 2006 |
University of Oslo |
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Warming Up to Performance Dashboards
Dashboards that monitor organizational performance can spark a great awakening within the businesses that use them. Instead of waiting a month or two to see how actuals c...
Company: Penton Media
Date: June 2006 |
Penton Media |
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Benchmarking Strategies For Wired Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS)
With e-Commerce and internet usage growing at exponential rates each year, data security - defending computer networks against threats and vulnerabilities - has emerged a...
Company: Tolly Group
Date: May 2006 |
Tolly Group |
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Finance and Accounting Benchmarking
APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking Collaborative (OSBC) database allows organizations that complete surveys free access to comparative reports in their functional areas. ...
Company: APQC
Date: April 2006 |
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When Benchmarks Don't Work
Benchmarking certainly has its virtues. Comparing production time or the cost of a standard process to that of peer companies can yield important insights about one's own...
Company: Harvard University
Date: January 2006 |
Harvard University |
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Making the Case for Integrated Processes
Corporate leaders have begun to realize that they can achieve significant benefits, both quantitative and qualitative, by leveraging integrated business processes. But wh...
Company: SAP
Date: January 2006 |
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The State of the Art in Finance
Benchmarking is an important tool that finance organizations use to stay competitive. It allows them to determine the value of adopting best practices and changing busine...
Company: SAP
Date: January 2006 |
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Benchmarking For Accountability And Productivity In Higher Education
This paper describes an evolution of systems of higher education benchmarking for purposes of accountability and productivity, with a focus on community colleges. It desc...
Company: University of Massachusetts
Date: November 2005 |
University of Massachusetts |
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Sustainable Technology Benchmarking Based On Public Company Information
A sector wide sustainable technology benchmark differs from existing sustainability benchmarks and is not created yet on a regular basis. Would it be useful to create wid...
Company: Delft University of Technology
Date: September 2005 |
Delft University of Technology |
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Measuring The Contribution of Skills To Business Performance
This paper has presented evidence from the huge amount of literature available and has fully explored what this evidence means for skills and business performance. The ev...
Company: Institute for Employment Studies
Date: July 2005 |
Institute for Employment Studies |
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Dynamic Asset Allocation With Benchmarking And Performance Constraints
The performance of mutual fund or pension fund managers is often evaluated by comparing the returns of managed portfolios with those of a benchmark, often defined from an...
Company: George Washington University
Date: June 2005 |
George Washington University |
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ERP Enables Growth for Biotech Instruments Maker
To streamline its customer service and other business processes, Coretech Holdings needed an ERP solution that would work with a number of legacy systems it already had i...
Company: Exact Software
Date: June 2005 |
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Accelerate revenue and profit across multiple sales channels
Retail-specific "data warehouses" can make consistent, up-to-date data available at the right level of detail to users across all levels of the enterprise and beyond. Uti...
Company: IBM
Date: June 2005 |
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Data Centers And Energy Use - Let's Look At The Data
Data centers are prevalent in a wide range of industries, universities, and government facilities. Energy demand in these facilities is thought to be growing as computing...
Company: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Date: April 2005 |
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
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Stand Tall: A Benchmarking Analysis Can Help You Increase Your Company's Value
Comparing your company's key performance indicators against those of industry peers, known as benchmarking, produces valuable information to help you improve your company...
Company: AllBusiness.com
Date: December 2004 |
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Towards Benchmarking Conversational Intelligence
This paper presents the motivation and impetus to construct an alternative benchmark to the Turing Test to evaluate the performance of intelligent conversational agents. ...
Company: University of Technology Sydney
Date: December 2004 |
University of Technology Sydney |
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Boosting Business Performance Through Benchmarking
Financial performance ultimately defines how well a company is performing but not necessarily why it's performing that way. Benchmarking can answer that question as organ...
Company: AllBusiness.com
Date: November 2004 |
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A Gateway To Best Practices: Interest Is Growing In This Organizational Improvement Tool
This paper explains benchmarking that is a management tool that can serve as a gateway to best practices. Gift and Mosel define benchmarking as "The continual and collabo...
Company: AllBusiness.com
Date: November 2004 |
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Sustainability Benchmarking Of European Banks And Financial Service Organizations
A benchmark study of European banks and financial service organizations is presented, inquiring into the extent to which they have integrated sustainability into their po...
Company: John Wiley & Sons
Date: September 2004 |
John Wiley & Sons |
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Regulation Of Electricity Distribution Business
This paper focuses on the regulation of electricity distribution business. First, regulation principles of natural monopolies are discussed in general level. Second, diff...
Company: Lappeenranta University of Technology
Date: September 2004 |
Lappeenranta University of Technology |
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Effects Of Benchmarking Of Electricity Distribution Companies In Nordic Countries
This paper describes the different benchmarking methods used in benchmarking of electricity distribution companies in Finland, Sweden and Norway. Data Envelopment Analysi...
Company: Lappeenranta University of Technology
Date: September 2004 |
Lappeenranta University of Technology |
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Benchmarking: An Executive Primer To Locating And Leveraging Manufacturing Best Practices
Envy may be one of the seven deadly sins, but its presence is vital when it comes to operations performance. Every executive wants his or her company or plant to be at le...
Company: MPI Group
Date: April 2004 |
MPI Group |
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What Can 'Benchmarking' Offer The Open Method Of Co-ordination?
Benchmarking offers actors a means of resolving the horizontal and vertical collective action problems that often bedevil the development and implementation of decision-m...
Company: Taylor & Francis Group
Date: April 2004 |
Taylor & Francis Group |
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Benchmarking & Business Intelligence: Harnessing The Power Of Information
On its most basic level, benchmarking puts performance in perspective. In a management context, businesses use benchmarking to identify those areas where they are either ...
Company: Outcome Concept Systems
Date: February 2004 |
Outcome Concept Systems |
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Benchmarking Diagnosis Algorithms With A Diverse Set Of IC Deformations
Diagnosis algorithms for Integrated Circuits (ICs) are typically developed and evaluated using a limited number of logic-level models of defect behaviors. However, it is ...
Company: Carnegie Mellon University
Date: February 2004 |
Carnegie Mellon University |
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Broadband Telecommunications: Benchmarking Study
This paper explains Ireland's competitiveness relative to 21 countries with a particular focus on the broadband telecommunications requirements of the enterprise sector. ...
Company: Forfas
Date: January 2004 |
Forfas |
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Learning Impact Benchmarks And Standards White Paper
In October 2002, several leading organizations in the IT industry agreed to jointly develop benchmarks and standards for measuring learning impact. By establishing these ...
Company: CompTIA
Date: November 2003 |
CompTIA |
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Chances And Limitations Of " Benchmarking" In The Reform Of Welfare State Structures
The concept of benchmarking, originally developed as a tool to improve the performance of business enterprises by learning from other's 'Best practice', is now increasing...
Company: University of Amsterdam
Date: September 2003 |
University of Amsterdam |
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Benchmarking Success Hinges On Internal Data
The mania to collect comparative data has eclipsed the rationale behind benchmarking in many cases. There are too many companies chasing data from external sources that h...
Company: AllBusiness.com
Date: July 2003 |
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Performance Issues In E-Business Systems
Performance and scalability issues in e-business systems are gaining in importance as we move from hype and prototypes to real operational systems. Typical for this devel...
Company: Darmstadt University of Technology
Date: January 2003 |
Darmstadt University of Technology |
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How to Leverage Today's On-Demand Business Intelligence Solutions to Achieve Your Corporate Objectives This THINKstrategies white paper examines the trends that make it imperative for companies of all sizes to adopt business intelligence - and how they use on-demand busine... Company: Business Objects | 
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Business Process Management II: Best Practices of Boeing and UPS 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 ... Company: APQC |
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Measuring the Performance of the Information Technology Function Many executives look at IT as a commodity, so it's important that IT teams differentiate themselves through cost-cutting measures and improved value to the organization. ... Company: APQC |
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