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The Next Revolution in Productivity
Despite decades of reengineering, large companies still have problems with their business operations. They duplicate processes. They perform hundreds of noncore tasks that should be outsourced. And they spend vast sums on proprietary process-management software that's...
Tags: Jack Calhoun, Ric Merrifield, In Brief, Software, Harvard Business Review, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Activity, SOA, Dennis Stevens
Articles 2008-07-18
Managing Your Time as a Freelancer
In theory, when you work in an organization, systems and processes are in place to help you manage your work. However, often it is these very systems and processes that drive people out of organizational contexts and into freelance work.The freelance world, on the other hand, is defined by its...
Tags: E-mail, Time Management, Activity, Work, BNET Editorial, Online Communications, Productivity
Articles 2007-10-18
Understanding Research and Development Accounting
There's more than one way to account for Research and Development (R&D). A business using the accrual method of accounting will treat R&D costs as expenses. A business contracted to undertake R&D for another company might treat it as an operational cost. If that business retains an element of financial...
Tags: Accounting, accrual, Activity, asset, BNET Editorial, Business Operations, Cost, financial, GAAP, income, knowledge, market research, Operational accounting, operational cost, Partnership, R&D, Research & Development, software, software development
Articles 2007-10-02
References and Referrals are Different
Referral selling (see yesterday's post) is the art of getting your existing customers to do some of the heavy lifting when it comes to developing a new opportunity. That's a really good thing because, in B2B sales situations, the hardest part is breaking the barriers of indifference and...
Tags: Customer Referral, Geoffrey James, Referral, Activity, Reference, Prospect, reference account, Sales force management
Blog posts 2007-09-06
Recent Trends In M&A Activity: An Increasingly Hostile Environment
The economic landscape and continued stock market turbulence of 2001, the outlook for 2002 indicates that hostile activity will continue to increase and suggests that this activity could be concentrated in industries currently undergoing consolidation, including banking, financial services, energy and utilities. This article briefly reviews the background and use...
Tags: M&A, Environment, Activity, Mergers & Acquisitions, Banking, Investment, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Finance
White papers 2002-04-01
Activity-Based Systems
Activity based systems work towards improvement of systems and processes in an organization. Activity Based Management ABM approach lays emphasis on a process oriented environment in order to create value for the customers. It consists of four different stages of planning, executing, reviewing and reporting. The ABM approach is most...
Tags: Activity-based Management, Activity, Pricing, Managerial Accounting, Marketing, Finance
Presentations 2003-01-01
Activity Cost Analysis And Planning
Different activities and processes take place in an organization. Each activity or process entails a cost factor. Activity Cost Analysis ACA examines the cost and its implications at the activity level. The cost-behavior pattern varies according to the activity involved therein. Two basic approaches are followed in ACA. The paper...
Tags: Activity, Analysis, Activity Cost Analysis
Presentations 2003-01-01
Activity-Based Costing And Activity-Based Management
Activity Based Costing ABC system traces cost incurred to the activities involved therein. It explores the relationship between activities and costs. ABC refines costing systems by focusing on individual activities as the fundamental cost object. It assigns costs to cost objects based on the activities undertaken to produce each product...
Tags: Activity-based Management, Activity, Activity Based Costing, Managerial Accounting, Pricing, Finance, Marketing
Presentations 2003-01-01
Activity-Based Cost Systems For Management
Activity Based Costing ABC system traces cost incurred to the activities involved therein. It explores the relationship between activities and costs. ABC refines costing systems by focusing on individual activities as the fundamental cost object. It assigns costs to cost objects based on the activities undertaken to produce each product...
Tags: Activity, Activity Based Costing, Managerial Accounting, Finance
Presentations 2003-01-01
Recent Trends in M&A Activity -- An Increasingly Hostile Environment
After a significant decline in hostile activity in 2000, attempted hostile acquisitions in 2001 increased 135% over 2000. While M&A activity dropped nearly 60% in 2001 from the previous year's levels, announced hostile acquisition activity increased from $39 billion to over $94 billion during the same period.
Tags: Acquisition, M&A, Environment, Activity, CEG Worldwide, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations
White papers 2003-05-01
The Value Chain
To better understand the activities, through which a firm develops a competitive advantage and creates shareholder value, it is useful to separate the business system into a series of value-generating activities referred to as value chain. Michael Porter introduced a generic value chain model that comprises a sequence of activities...
Tags: Value Chain, Activity, Channel Management, Marketing
White papers 2003-01-01
Environmental, Health & Safety Developments Proposed Rule: Routine Maintenance, Repair, and Replacement
On December 31, 2002, EPA issued a proposed rule to provide much-needed clarification as to which activities constitute exempt "routine maintenance, repair and replacement" under prevention of significant deterioration and non attainment new source review rules. Current NSR rules do not define RMRR, which resulted in widespread confusion within...
Tags: Jones Day, Health Care, Activity, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Litigation, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
White papers 2003-01-01
Volunteerism is the Best Form of Teambuilding
Untold millions are spent by businesses worldwide on teambuilding activities. These activities run the gamut from passive to active, comfortable to scary, and low-cost to astronomically expensive. Traditional teambuilding generally involves an organized discussion of problems and issues facing a workgroup, possibly also taking time to focus and align the...
Tags: HR.com, Activity, Team Management, Management
White papers 2003-01-01
How To Find An Hour A Day
The article gives some time saving tips and best practices. Great time managers have gain activities as a consistent part of everyday. Gain activities include things that move towards the goals and values. Prevent pain activities include all responsibilities that would eventually be taken care of. Activities that move...
Tags: Activity, ALLEER Training & Consulting, Benefits, Human Resources
White papers 2003-01-01
The Contribution of Market Intelligence to Tactical & Strategic Business Decisions
One of the drivers of both strategy and success in the marketplace is the role of market intelligence. Samples a broad cross section of firms regarding their level of MI activity; MI data sources and MI accountability. Regarding MI activity and its value to consumer/ competitive intelligence, two thirds of...
Tags: Data Source, Decision-making, Activity, Emerald, MI, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management
White papers 2000-01-18
Activities Don't Count . . . So Don't Count Them : A Little Story about Counting
"The article defines about a story of counting. This story is about the activity of writing code, while certainly necessary, did not really count. What counted was improving customer service. The PM should have counted and rewarded the programmer's measured contribution to the larger customer service...
Tags: Customer Service, Activity, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2003-01-01
Activity-Based Cost Management Systems
Activity based cost management systems rely on activities to calculate costs. An ABC system traces cost incurred to the activities involved therein. The prime focus of the traditional cost system is on the outputs. In ABC system, the prime focus is on the processing of resources i.e. on the intermediary...
Tags: Cost Management, Activity, Managerial Accounting, Finance
Presentations 2003-01-01
Activity Based Costing (ABC)
Activity Based Costing ABC is a costing methodology that views the entire organization as a collection of distinct activities. These activities form the basis of computing the costs. ABC refines costing systems by focusing on individual activities as the fundamental cost object. It assigns costs to cost objects based on...
Tags: Activity, Activity Based Costing, Managerial Accounting, Finance
Presentations 2004-02-16
Renewables for Sustainable Village Power
The key elements of NREL?s Renewables for Sustainable Village Power RSVP program were a multidisciplinary team, an application- and village-need-driven focus, a technology-neutral approach, a broad set of in-country activities, the development of complimentary partnerships, and the evolution of an integrated approach. The essential activities of the RSVP team included...
Tags: U.S. Department Of Energy, Activity, RSVP, Team Management, Management
White papers 2000-11-01
Power Deals
Following a depressed start to the year within the global power sector, merger and acquisition activity is making a strong comeback. Globally there has been a rise in the number of power deals, and the total value of deals also rose; this increase in activity is in stark contrast to...
Tags: Merger, M&A, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Comeback, Activity, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Finance
White papers 2002-07-21
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