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- Simplicity-Minded Management
- The Idea in Brief Big companies have always been complex. But to cope with new challenges such as globalization, they've increased their complexity--with proliferating products, tangled reporting relationships, and duplicated processes. They've become unwieldy, ungovernable, and...
- Articles 2008-01-02
- Technical Sales Vs Marketing
- It would appear that technical sales tend to target the person who is installing the product or using the service. It addresses issues like capacity, performance and compatibility. Whereas marketing targets the decision maker, demonstrating cost savings and benefits. The goal is to give the audience a reason to keep...
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Simplicity isn't Simple
- In life, it is usually easier to say no than yes. But in product development the opposite is more likely true -- it's hard to turn down a major customer asking you to add more features to your product. Resist the temptation. Feature creep adds back-end...
- Blog posts 2007-11-08
- A Skyline Air Bridge
- Simplicity requires greater imagination in the modern world of advanced technologies. The air bridge at Gatwick Airport satisfies the requirements of the airport, the aircraft and the passengers in a simple but very distinctive way. It is the combination of these requirements that determined its shape and the ambitious manner...
- White papers 2005-01-07
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- Cheese is Simple; Management is Hard
- The double-edged sword of technological innovation is that it is even more capable of complicating life than simplifying it. However, as books like cheese and simplicity affirm, people in organizations are rebelling against the notion that complexity is an inherent price one pays for innovation. On the contrary, if one...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Mediating Technology Cases : Ten Tips For Successful Lawyer Advocacy
- Achieving simplicity in what seems to be an ever-complicating world is an on-going objective for both lawyers and clients, alike. While technology offers us the promise of simplicity, it creates, at the same time, greater interdependence, and reliance upon each other. When the inevitable dispute arises, swift, certain, reliable and...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The Keys to Prosperity in 2007
- In case you missed it, the Jan/Feb issue of Business 2.0 features the thoughts of 50 bright minds on how to be successful in 2007. It offers words of wisdom from Virgin Group founder Richard Branson, Digg founder Michael Rose, and of course, The Donald. Here are the best three...
- Blog posts 2007-02-16
- Motivation Theories
- The highest state of self-actualization is characterized by integrity, responsibility, magnanimity, simplicity and naturalness. Self –actualizers focus on problems external to themselves. This paper discusses three theories namely traditional theory X and theory Y and theory Z. The theories helps the manager in making decision concerning the employee and to...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Derivative Securities - Fall 2004 - Section 1
- This document focuses on the derivative securities and discusses the most basic examples of contingent claims. The paper explains how considerations of arbitrage determine or restrict their prices. This paper specifically concentrates for simplicity on European options rather than American ones, on forwards rather than futures, and on deterministic rather...
- White papers 2004-09-13
- Cheese is Simple, Management is Hard
- The double-edged sword of technological innovation is that it is even more capable of complicating life than simplifying it. However, people in organizations generally rebel against the notion that complexity is an inherent prices you pay for innovation. On the contrary, if you are prepared to learn — and act...
- White papers 2000-04-01
- Sales and Marketing Common Sense
- This article explains that the most successful sales and marketing approaches are based on common sense. There is genius in their subtle simplicity. It also explains few basic marketing and sales principles often ignored by businesses like loving your customers, giving away your secrets, letting your market lead etc.
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Versatile and Declarative Dynamic Programming Using Pair Algebras
- Dynamic programming is a widely used programming technique in bioinformatics. In sharp contrast to the simplicity of textbook examples, implementing a dynamic programming algorithm for a novel and non-trivial application is a tedious and error prone task. The algebraic dynamic programming approach seeks to alleviate this situation by clearly separating...
- White papers 2005-09-12
- Diller Bets On Simplicity, Divides IAC
- The highest paid CEO of 2005, Barry Diller, announced today that he will break up his massive media and internet conglomerate IAC/Interactive Corp. into five separate companies. Diller explained the move in a statement: "I've always believed our complexity and many mouthfuls of sentences to explain...
- Blog posts 2007-11-05
- Rethinking Customer Acquisition Before Talking Retention
- From the executive summary: ‘Customer retention has gained popularity during the last few years. The concept’s simplicity, coupled with the promise of high financial returns, has made retention a high priority at many corporations. While marketers can positively affect customer retention in a number of different ways, improving retention is...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Marketing and Patience
- One of the biggest derailers of successful marketing is the process of continually changing the marketing strategy. The key to great marketing is simplicity, focus, and patience. Continually being in the consumer's awareness with a simply message and a strong focus will yield better long term results than a complicated,...
- White papers 2005-01-13
- Diversification in Commercial Real Estate: Realizing Continuous Spatial Correlation
- The diversification within real estate is not as costless as other financial assets such as stocks or bonds. The local nature of real estate implies that investment managers may need to specialize for simplicity or by portfolio objective. To address this trade-off between diversification and specialization this study quantifies the...
- White papers 2004-02-02
- Leadership Performance Criteria: How Well Do You Measure Up?
- Many decision makers do not have an appropriate understanding of how to recognize and measure leadership performance. Article examines on how can one measure leadership performance. It explains measuring and rewarding productivity, simplicity, teamwork, creativity, assessing, and rewarding our own performance. Read article to get the details on these issues.
- White papers 2001-01-01
- Halogen Software Delivers Impressive Performance Appraisal Process Change And Cost Savings
- The dynamic and at the same time cumbersome nature of healthcare organizations makes them ideal incubators for Performance Appraisal (PA) process change and improvement. This white paper fleshes out transformational motifs of simplicity, flexibility, centralization, collaboration, and trust emanating from one particularly successful example of this type of process change.
- White papers 2004-09-01
- The Challenges of Complex IT Projects
- This paper seeks to understand what makes complex software and IT projects different from, and potentially more difficult than, other typical engineering projects, with a view to improving success rates. This paper is concerned with large scale IT projects with a significant and complex software component. For simplicity, the term...
- White papers 2004-04-01
- Recruiting Top Performers: It's Your Job
- From the executive summary: ‘Hiring top performers is not easy. Top performers have different behaviors than the average candidate. Recruiting top performers does not require elaborate online assessments, grueling multi-part interviews, background checks, or even resume element verification. On the contrary, all it requires is simplicity'. The challenge lies in...
- White papers 2004-03-29
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