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Kelsey Group Predicts Massive Growth in Online Verticals: The Kelsey Group forecasts that by 2012, spending on online classifieds in the U.S. are set to rise from $3.9 billion to $9.1 billion, while online verticals, including home services, home and garden, health care, legal and auto repair, will grow from $100 million to $5.6 billion in the...; Tags: Advertisement, Online Advertising, Accountability, Financial Accounting, Finance, Jake Swearingen; Blog posts 2008-04-22
The New accountability: Part 2: This paper continues the discussion around accountability in organizations and how managers can shed the command and control aspects of the old style of accountability in favor of a more humane way of managing, which the author calls 'The new accountability'. In Part 2, the author brings The Balanced Scorecard...; Tags: Financial accounting, Affinity Consulting, accountability, Balanced Scorecard; White papers
The New accountability: Part 1: This paper discusses accountability in organizations and how managers can shed the command and control aspects of the old style of accountability in favor of a more humane way of managing, which the author calls 'The new accountability'. Changing to the new accountability requires a change in culture. It is...; Tags: Financial accounting, Affinity Consulting, accountability, organizational culture; White papers
accountability: A Little Clarity, Please: Most leaders understand that accountability is consequences for one's actions, and that it is critical to effective unit/organizational functioning. Notwithstanding this awareness, many leaders have great difficulty exercising proper accountability. The most significant reasons for this appear to be a culture of conflict avoidance; managers getting little if any training...; Tags: Financial accounting, accountability, leader, training; White papers
Strategy Execution in Government Organizations: Similar to the private sector in the post-Enron era, today's government organizations face accountability and stewardship challenges like never before. In addition, government organizations confront these challenges from multiple stakeholders (service recipients, employees, funding authorities, communities, and taxpayers) who also demand increased service and at the same time increased efficiency....; Tags: Performance management, BetterManagement.com, government organization, accountability, Balanced Scorecard, performance, strategy, tool; White papers

Toward a New Understanding of Leader accountability: Defining a Critical Construct: This paper defines leader accountability as the leader's willing acceptance of the responsibilities inherent in the leadership position to serve the well-being of the organization; the implicit or explicit expectation that the he/she will be publicly linked to his/her actions, words, or reactions; and the expectation that the leader may...; Tags: AllBusiness.com, accountability, leader, leadership; White papers
Building a Culture of accountability: A Successful Approach to Creating Performance Management System: Maximizing business performance is a top priority for every organization. Those that can clearly identify and articulate their strategic goals will be well positioned to compete and succeed. But while developing and communicating a strategy is important, the ability to execute is what's truly critical to achieving organizational success. In...; Tags: performance management, accountability, performance, strategy; White papers
How Leaders Go Bad (i.e. Spitzer): How Leaders Go Bad (i.e. Spitzer)POWER AND CORRUPTIONI think this is a very interesting and important subject to discuss in today's world, and to think in a wide range of ways to regulate and have accountability of powerful people. Not only politicians but also CEO or huge corporations presidents...; Tags: accountability, Leaders Go Bad, leader; Discussion threads 2008-03-21
Stop the Meeting Madness! Tools for Simplifying Your Company: Is more than half your time soaked up in company meetings? How many layers of management sit between your CEO and front-line workers? Do you understand how to get a capital expense approved? The answer to these questions and 7 others in a new Harvard Business diagnostic...; Tags: Regulations, Sean Silverthorne, Rube Goldberg; Blog posts 2007-12-11
Promise-Based Management: The Idea in Brief ...; Tags: Donald N. Sull, Charles Spinosa, organizational structure, strategy; Articles 2007-11-07
Automation And accountability In Decision Support System Interface Design: When the human element is introduced into decision support system design, entirely new layers of social and ethical issues emerge but are not always recognized as such. This paper discusses those ethical and social impact issues specific to decision support systems and highlights areas that interface designers should consider during...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Databases, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, decision support system, accountability, decision support, agency, computer; White papers 2006-10-04
Business Process Management - Who Is Accountable?: Accountability in business and in government is the cornerstone of good governance and ultimately, good performance. Without single point accountability for processes, organisations have no means of ensuring that what have been determined as the goals for the organisation are likely to be met. A useful tool for identifying who...; Tags: Process, Business Process, BPM, C, EzineArticles.com, Accountability, R, Operational Planning, Financial Accounting, Government, Business Process Automation, Business Operations, Finance, It Operations; White papers 2006-08-20
How Perforce Can Help With Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires accountability in the management of systems that affect financial reporting. Perforce delivers key features necessary to comply with the law, such as access control, strong accountability, and policy enforcement tools. Better still, Perforce provides an efficient infrastructure for an automation-based approach to compliance that yields enhanced...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Financial accounting, Regulations, accountability, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, financial reporting, access control, compliance, financial, benefit, tool; White papers 2006-05-30
Making IT Work: The Hammer of Consensus: Steering committees aren't about leadership or management; they're about accountability. Strategic direction and the ongoing pursuit of operational excellence mean nothing without accountability. When the author looks at steering committees in many organizations, he sees mechanisms for strategic direction, risk-sharing and alignment more than he sees a bid for accountability....; Tags: Financial accounting, International Data Group, accountability, procurement, leadership, leader; White papers 2006-05-15
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 describes the limitations of the dominant form of metric benchmarking due to issues of causal, measurement, and face validity. Several diagnostic benchmarking initiatives are presented as...; Tags: University of Massachusetts, benchmarking, accountability, analysis, knowledge; White papers 2005-11-17
Communication of Bed Allocation Decisions in a Critical Care Unit and accountability for Reasonableness: This paper deals with a qualitative case study to describe participant perceptions of the communication of bed allocation decisions in an 18-bed university affiliated, medical-surgical critical care unit at Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre. The result indicates that communication between key decision-makers was indirect and could exclude those...; Tags: BioMed Central, allocation, accountability, women; White papers 2005-10-31
Brand And Deliver!: Branding has a dirty little secret. It doesn't know how to count. Awareness, visibility, impact and image are the common branding goals. These cannot be measured well, and no two measurements of the same goal will generate the same number. Without accurate measurement, there is no accountability. Without accountability, profitability...; Tags: Financial accounting, accountability, branding, sustainability, brand; White papers 2004-01-01
Who's Accountable for IT Investments? Senior Executives Need to Take Charge: Successful companies use the portfolio method to manage their enterprise IT projects and services. Although the complex problems facing IT management today have been some 40 years in the making, they can be fixed by any organization willing to look hard at its existing portfolio practices, understand what is not...; Tags: Strategy, PRTM, information technology, IT investment, IT administration, accountability; White papers 2005-09-01
Government Performance and accountability: Tax Expenditures Represent a Substantial Federal Commitment and Need to Be Reexamined: Numerous federal programs, policies, and activities are supported through the tax code. As described in statute, tax expenditures are reductions in tax liabilities that result from preferential provisions, such as tax exclusions, credits, and deductions. They result in revenue forgone. This report describes how tax expenditures have changed over the...; Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Government Accountability Office, tax, accountability, revenue; White papers 2005-09-01
GAAP, Independent Audits and Enabling Greater accountability for Corporate Financial Statements: This paper extends the work of Weiss and Berney, Clarke, et al., (2003), and Chambers by developing the argument further that the current GAAP is a fundamental obstacle to producing reliable corporate information. Specifically, it is argued that the accounting profession may continue to evade accountability for corporate financial statements...; Tags: Operational accounting, Financial accounting, Financial services, GAAP, accounting, auditing, accountability, audit, financial statement, financial; White papers 2005-08-30