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Barona Valley Ranch Resort and Casino: Barona Reservation, California - Looking for the Ideal Casino Environment: The Barona Valley Ranch facility is owned and operated by the Barona Band of Mission Indians. The resort is located on the Barona Reservation, which was established in 1932, and is located about a half-hour northeast of downtown San Diego. The all-new resort facility encompasses a large casino, luxury hotel,...; Tags: American Standard Inc., casino, San Diego, environment; Case studies
Creativity and Humor...When the Heat's on: The best that human beings can do is work to create and sustain environments that are conducive to unbounded and spontaneous thought. Nobody should feel as if they're not creative. Creativity is a greater characteristic in some than in others purely because some people developed and function in environments that...; Tags: environment, team; White papers
Team Knowledge Structures: Matching Task to Information Environment: The knowledge possessed by an organization and its members can be classified as explicit or tacit. Explicit knowledge can be codified and communicated without much difficulty. Tacit knowledge - such as the manner of operating sensitive equipment, decision-making judgment in the absence of data, or interpersonal skills - is not...; Tags: Team management, Strategy, Gale Group, knowledge, absence, team, decision-making; White papers
Sustaining Competitive Advantage in a High-Technology Environment: A Strategic Marketing Perspective: The fortunes of high-technology firms depend on investments in intangible capital, which is comprised of intellectual capital as well as marketing capital. While the importance of intellectual capital - R&D capability, human capital, and the like - has been well established, the central role of complementary marketing capital - in...; Tags: Marketing research, Branding, Gale Group, intellectual capital, marketing strategy, marketing, human capital, brand name, competitive advantage, R&D, brand, environment, software; White papers
Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done: Putting an execution environment in place is hard, but losing it is easy. When a company executes well, its people are not victims of mistakes. And when a company executes well, its people are not brought to their knees by changes in the business environment. Execution is now tested on...; Tags: BetterManagement.com, market capitalization, security; White papers

SWOT Analysis: The external environment of a firm consists of the moves and the strategies adopted by its rival firms. It is imperative for the firm to conduct external analysis and ascertain opportunities and threats prevalent in its external environment. Having done this, the firm can devise suitable strategies to exploit the...; Tags: SWOT analysis, environment, analysis, strategy, tool; Presentations
Static Environment Recognition Using Omni-camera From a Moving Vehicle: This white paper research aims to develop a sensor system which will be able to recognize city area environments from a moving vehicle. Toward this goal, it employs an omni-directional camera and vehicle odometry. Also, for better recognition in the total sensing system, estimated geometrical information is fed-back to image...; Tags: Carnegie-Mellon University, image processing, environment, camera; White papers
Extending a Distributed Usage SLA Resource Broker to Support Dynamic Grid Environments: DI-GRUBER is a distributed Grid brokering service, with multiple decision points. Previously, the membership relationship among the decision points was statically defined. This limited the deployment in a dynamic environment where VOs appear and vanish frequently. This paper reports on the DI-GRUBER enhancements with support for WS-MDS Index Service that...; Tags: University of Chicago, environment; White papers
The Velocity Of Change: Technology Transforming The 21st Century Learning Environment: This presentation explains the technology transforming the 21st century learning environment.; Tags: Environment, Velocity, Century; Presentations
Commonwealth Bank of Australia: Consolidating the Bank's Scattered Offices Facilitates Cost-Effective IT Services: Commonwealth Bank, one of Australia's leading financial institutions, wanted to enable greater collaboration throughout its business units. The goal was to enable employees to work more effectively and efficiently, facilitate rapid reconfiguration in response to evolving business requirements, and reduce the cost of changes to the work environment. A long-term...; Tags: Financial services, Electronic Data Systems Corp., IT services, environment, collaboration, bank, financial, information technology; Case studies
Nissan Motor Corporation: Automotive Engineering in a Collaborative Environment: Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution has been a key factor in building the Design Change Collaborative Management (DCCM) platform for Nissan Motor Ib?rica, S.A. To manage the engineering changes in the past, Nissan used documents in paper and very basic IT tools. Nissan has implemented a project management...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., project management, cost reduction, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., information technology, environment; Case studies
Distributed Residential Ground Source Heat Pump System: Fort Irwin has to be the most challenging installation to date; 220 houses and 3 miles of parallel pipe, (supply and return) located in one of the most extreme environments in the United States, Mojave Desert. The task was to save energy on a harsh desert environment while providing the...; Tags: geothermal energy, environment, storage; Case studies
Delivering Greater Availability, Reliability and Scalability: Dynamic Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Insures Success: When a leading Northeastern health insurance provider decided it needed disaster recovery and business continuity operations, EDS and alliance partner EMC designed an innovative dual-purpose strategy: leverage its existing data operations to serve its business continuity needs and enhance functionality. This involved optimizing the insurance company's customer relationship management application...; Tags: Data centers, IT Services, Storage, business continuity, Electronic Data Systems Corp., insurance company, EMC Corp., disaster recovery, data center, IT environment, mirroring, Web hosting, scalability, environment, alliance, insurance, backup, information technology, stra; Case studies
Industry Insight: New Environment: Protecting intellectual property is paramount in the pharmaceutical industry. The new rules require that companies disclose their reasons for doing a deal and paying a premium over book value. Because this is sensitive data in a consolidating industry, companies and their advisers must develop best practices for complying with these...; Tags: Strategy, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, pharmaceutical company, industry, advisor, best practice, accounting, environment; White papers
Sarbanes-Oxley and Private Companies: Operating in a New Environment: Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOA) calls for extensive changes in financial reporting and disclosure systems, and restricts how public companies and their auditors work together. Many private organizations already have implemented some of these requirements in their financial reporting and in their dealings with their lenders, stakeholders and auditors. This article provides...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Financial Planning, Regulations, Protiviti, financial reporting, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, financial, SOA, environment; White papers
BlueScope Steel Teams With Capgemini to Address a Changing Environment: As part of its de-merger from BHP Billiton, BlueScope Steel was required to identify a cost-effective alternative for delivering the back office processing services that were previously provided by BHP Billiton Shared Services. Capgemini created a Business Process Outsourcing entity (BPO), which allowed these services to be transparently and successfully...; Tags: Business process outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, IT Services, Capgemini, BPO, back-office, business process, environment; Case studies
New Dialogue on Establishing Quality Sound for Retail Environments: For the first time in decades of commercial music programming and sound systems design and installation, this white paper reviews the industry's tools, techniques, and insights on how to establish and maintain quality sound via sound system performance and installation standards. This paper outlines key findings emphasizing the need for...; Tags: Quality, PRODUCTIVITY, PR Web, standards, technique, environment, performance, industry, tool; White papers
Automating the Testing of Internal Controls for Compliance and Performance: A Case Study: The heightened regulatory environment has put a greater emphasis on internal controls effectiveness than ever before The heightened regulatory environment has put a greater emphasis on internal controls effectiveness than ever before - leading to increased pressure on financial executives and business process owners to ensure that key business controls...; Tags: SOX compliance, compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, environment, business process, financial, performance; White papers
Demonstrating Personal Competitive Advantage in a "Rightsizing" Environment: Company associates may be wondering what assistance is available to compensate for the additional workload as a result of rightsizing. This article asserts through a discussion that it is in the best interest of all for management to anticipate associates' questions and for the surviving associates to begin developing a...; Tags: Strategy, University of Florida, competitive advantage, SWOT analysis, environment; White papers
Creating a New Data Environment With Disaster Recovery Capabilities: The client is a leading global financial services firm that has operations in more than 50 countries including the United States. The client put forth the challenge of increasing the total number of hardware assets required for the project launched by financial services organization from approximately 6,000 to 25,000 and...; Tags: Asset management, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Enterprise software, BearingPoint Inc., asset, ERP system, financial, disaster recovery, ERP, customer service, analysis, environment, hardware; Case studies