The goal of this paper is to identify the current hot topics in financial services and specifically around Corporate Performance Management CPM. CPM is becoming a more commonly accepted term. The concept has been around for years - at least 50. In simple terms, CPM refers to the various ways...
Value investing and looking for a bargain is one of the oldest ways to pick stocks. In the 1930s, Benjamin Graham and David Dodd, finance professors at Columbia University, laid out the framework for value investing. The concept is similar to shopping for the product that is most reasonably priced...
Networking is as old as time. It is the idea that one needs not do everything on his own and re-invent the wheel over and again. One can all mutually benefit from the experiences and knowledge of others. It is not a new practice to anyone. One networks all the...
After years of experience in taxes, stocks and insurance, Rebecca found she was no longer comfortable with the sales focus of many financial service providers. So she decided to begin offering her services and expertise on an hourly, as-needed basis. When Rebecca made this decision, she knew just where to...
We seldom realize how long things are really going to take. Certainly, we have a general idea but this is usually much less time than we will actually spend. We tend to exaggerate how quickly we can finish something. We simply don't have a real concept of the time we...
Does time mean the same to everyone? There are many different concepts of time. Better management of your time is the objective of this course. In the interest of flexibility, an hour is added to this total making the maximum realistic amount of time available for productivity only twelve hours.
David Thompson, CEO of Genius.com, discusses the advantages of combining Web 2.0 technologies with new selling techniques. The concept is called "Sales 2.0."
AMFIBIA is a meta-model that formalizes the essential aspects and concepts of business process modelling. Though AMFIBIA is not the first approach to formalizing the aspects and concepts of business process modelling, it is more ambitious. This paper presents AMFIBIA and the prototype workflow engine based on this meta-model and...
The concept of a system is a crucial tool in understanding system development methods. Unfortunately, different authors use different definitions of this concept. Some view a system as an organized collection of components, others view the concept of a state space as central to the system concept and still others...
The concept of intent has only been handled by the COMMIT model. The concept of performance is not common among the sample models. Few models have presented the evolution of entities through phases and life cycle stages. GEPM Generic Construction Process Modeling Method and CONCUR (Concurrent Engineering in Building and...
While the concept of Supply Chain Responsiveness SCR has received considerable attention in the operations management literature, mostly under the auspices of concepts such as build-to-order, mass customisation, lean and agility, so far we lack a comprehensive definition of SCR, as well as a defined relationship between 'Responsiveness' and 'Flexibility'....
While productivity growth was a topic once reserved for academic debates, widespread interest in the performance of the Canadian economy has moved the topic into popular discussion. Despite this progress in terms of attitude, much confusion remains concerning the use and interpretation of the concept of productivity. This paper explains...
Experimental design is the process of planning a study to meet specified objectives. Six Sigma is a philosophy that teaches methodologies and techniques that provide the framework to define a business strategy that focuses on eliminating mistakes, waste, and rework. The purpose of this paper is to summarize the basic...
One of the most popular business concepts today, customer-centricity, has a dirty little secret. It is the concept with one of the loosest definitions out there. Most researchers, and business executives alike, are content with the widespread and broad definition of customer-centricity as the capacity to understand and respond...
Throughout the history of the personnel profession the world has witnessed several different concepts such as Personnel Management, Human Resource Management, and Strategic Human Resource Management and several researches have claimed that these concepts describes the same thing. Some researchers have argued that the different concept instead represent a continuous...
There's a world of difference, however, between buying a box of electronics and buying software. A similar concept applies to software. The top three attributes of a software package are fit, fit and fit. There really is nothing that comes close to this attribute on the scale of importance. If...
Pay for Performance (P4P) is a concept that has recently received significant attention from payers, legislators, employers, and providers. Because Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services CMS has indicated an interest in applying P4P concepts across the continuum of care, it has significant implications for the home care industry. This...
This paper describes DELI ('Development Interactive'), a method and software system that supports the product concept development phase by multi-functional product development teams using Marketing Engineering methods. After motivating our research, author presents core concepts underlying DELI: a data model encompassing customer and product attributes and preferences as well as...
Marketing researchers have attached the term value to a number of concepts. It is unclear if, in all cases, there is an underlying and unifying meta-concept of value, or If the word value is being stretched to cover disparate concepts. On the other hand, it is quite clear that, in...
