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		<title><![CDATA[Forrester Best Practices: Improve IT Service Delivery and Support]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=350639]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Most IT managers are stumped when it comes to capturing the right IT metrics and then effectively conveying their relevance to management. Decision makers tend to focus on the one metric they understand: The cost of IT and how to reduce it. This Forrester White Paper reveals the five essential...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Demand For Payment: In Default Of Agreement]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=317997]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This template is for demand for payment with default of agreement.  ]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Effective TQM Implementation: Critical Issues]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=55159]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Quality Improvement efforts in the 1980's and continuing into 1990's throughout the worldhave been fueled by a host of good ideas to make quality integral to the business decision making process .The Total Quality Management (TQM) concept has the potential to integrate all the improvement philosophies proposed thus far. However,...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Public Safety]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=57222]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA["This article is excerpted from Safety Information Currents. In addition to providing a safe environment and workplace for employees, businesses must provide for the safety of the public. A public may include customers, delivery persons, subcontractors, and even in some interpretations trespassers and robbers.  The ADA requires businesses to...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What Is Formal Project Management and Who Needs It?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1121593]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past 15 years, project management as a profession has migrated from construction and manufacturing into virtually all other business sectors, including the IT sector. The Project Management Institute (PMI) and the (British) Office of Government Commerce (OGC) have developed practice standards to encourage and guide the adoption of...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Achieving Efficient Governance Risk and Compliance through Process and Automation]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1174853]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This white paper presents a low risk, high impact approach to gaining control of regulatory compliance. The procedures, tasks, and behaviors that bear upon compliance can be overwhelming. Yet organizations that can master these activities, operate more efficiently, compete more effectively, and build their brands. Learn how Governance, Risk, and...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Total Quality Management: Is It a Fad, Fashion, or Fit?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=56113]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper examines the fad, fashion, and fit theory using the case of total quality management (TQM). The examination has been undertaken using a range of research studies, commencing in the late 1980s. Three stages have been identified in the evolution by which a fad can become a fit with...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Apr 2000 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Expert Details 10 Steps To Manage Political Risk In Export "Hot Spots"]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=64399]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[With more U.S. companies exporting to potentially volatile overseas markets every year, the need for export pros to learn the nuances of international political risk management has never been greater. This means determining three things: (1) what the exposures are; (2) what the risks are; and (3) how to access...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2002 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Factors Affecting Residential Property Development Patterns]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=65075]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This study uses a disaggregated data set, county property appraiser data, to track the number of new single-family housing units built in each section (square mile) of Alachua County, Florida by the year built over a twenty-year period. It explores the role of transportation, large-scale development, employment nodes, existing patterns...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Webinar: Securing the Cloud Dec 10th, 2pm ET / 11am PT]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1186293]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Cloud computing promises to provide vast computing power, reliable off-site data storage, wide availability, all at lower maintenance and investment costs. But recent cloud computing mishaps have underscored the need for consistent and thorough security policies implemented in the design stage.Hear security experts explain recent key learnings on designing secure...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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