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- the most effective and efficient method of achieving any objective or task. What constitutes best practice can be determined through a process of benchmarking. An organization can move toward achieving...
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- Superior Customer Relationships: Best Practices of Eastman Kodak Co., Medrad Inc, and Fidelity Investment Services
- Most organizations in a given marketplace want close customer relationships and pursue these relationships using advanced technologies, refined and aligned processes, and well-trained people. Unfortunately, competitors often wanting the same customers seek them with similar intensity and tactics. Competition affects industry profitability, and competitive advantage is the...
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- Facilitated Transfer of Best Practices: BHP Billiton, Ford Motor Co., and Tata Iron & Steel Co. Ltd.
- The transfer of best practices is one of the more neglected approaches within the knowledge management KM arena, yet one of the most rewarding. According to APQC's benchmarking report Measuring the Impact of Knowledge Management (2003), the transfer of best practices is a primary driver of the financial results from...
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- Business Process Management: Best Practices of Coors Brewing Co., Deere & Co., and Northrop Grumman Space Technology
- Modern organizations must manage an ecosystem with no boundaries, one that is consistently buffeted by globalization, faster cycle time requirements, unknown competitors, and complexity at every turn. Business process management becomes the art of the disciplined, where decisions are made at the front line, closer to the customer. To focus...
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- Driving High-Performance Outsourcing: Best Practices From the Masters in the Automotive Industry
- Outsourcing as a business phenomenon is already fairly widespread in the automotive industry, although regional differences do exist, as do variations in the business process being outsourced. Business-critical processes closest to the strategic competencies of the company tend to be retained. Whichever process is involved, the dominant driver of outsourcing...
- White papers 2004-05-11
- Childhood Obesity: Most Experts Identified Physical Activity and the Use of Best Practices as Key to Successful Programs
- This paper depicts about a report which describes the key strategies identified by experts as most important to include in programs to prevent or reduce childhood obesity; provides examples of how selected programs implemented the key strategies identified and challenges these programs faced; describes the program elements identified by experts...
- White papers 2005-10-07
- Government Progress Through Corporate Best Practices: The First Three Years of the IT Corporate Roundtable
- A network of public officials and state government organizations concerned with information management, policy, and technology knew that new partnerships and approaches would be needed to meet new challenges in cyber security, business continuity, and other critical information technology-related functions. In response, the organization decided to create a new kind...
- White papers 2004-09-13
- The New Imperatives for High Technology Support: A Survey of Best Practices in Problem Resolution
- This report discusses a research program in order to understand emerging trends in high-technology support. The objective is, fundamentally, to understand the issues that keep support executives up at night and to learn the best practices that leaders are applying to those problems. Support leaders are replacing ad-hoc collaboration with...
- White papers 2004-02-01
- Best Practices in ICT Procurement: Banking, Insurance Companies Lead the Way
- Alignment of business strategy and Information and Communications Technology ICT spending has been a perennial subject of discussion and concern among senior executives. To further understand the current relationship between alignment and ICT expenditures, a research project was launched that focused on alignment in banking and insurance companies and its...
- White papers 2003-04-01
- BPM Templates: Implementing Best Practices in Record Time
- By reducing total cost of ownership and accelerating time to market, business process management BPM templates can assist companies wanting to refocus resources on their core competencies while optimizing more basic industry processes through automation. In addition, a company can use BPM templates to maintain its competitive edge while retaining...
- White papers 2005-01-01
- Emerging Best Practice in Business Process
- With due recognition to the success each of the three most common customer approaches to implementing BPM have created, the emerging practice that is seeing the fastest growth in adoption rate represents far more value than any of the preceding practices. What is this emerging approach and why is it...
- White papers 2005-09-08
- The Best Best Practices
- As a CIO one has more than enough responsibilities as chief technology strategist, vendor manager, Web overlord and security officer. Now, with the mandate to run the IT function like a business, one also have to be a CEO - planning and executing IT financial controls, marketing campaigns, HR strategies,...
- White papers 2004-05-01
- Innovation - Putting Ideas into Action: Best Practices of Bausch & Lomb, IBM, Kennametal Inc., and the Mayo Clinic
- Innovation has risen to the top of just about every corporate agenda. In today's world, a company cannot maintain a competitive advantage simply via technological superiority. Companies need to develop ways to continually create innovative products and services, yet it has been a frustrating journey. APQC's study...
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- Benchmarking Your Core Competencies?
- With an advance in the strategy theory the emphasis has shifted from the ever increasing need to improve efficiency - driven by the need to respond to market demands, to a richer understanding of an organisation's core competencies and key value drivers. In today's transparent and truly global business context,...
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- Log Management Defined: Best Practices for Meeting Sarbanes-Oxley Regulatory Compliance
- Independently, log data can mitigate downtime risks. IT managers can mine log data for root-cause analysis to speed up problem resolution and damage cleanup after a security or performance incident. Considering all of its uses, log management not only assists in achieving SOX compliance, it reduces the risks of legal...
- White papers 2005-01-17
- Benchmarking Report: 288 Organizations Share Best Practices In Change Management
- The new 2003 Best Practices in Change Management report presents comprehensive findings from 288 companies on their experiences and lessons learned in change management. This report makes it easy to learn change management best practices and uncovers the mistakes to avoid when creating executive sponsorship. The key report findings include...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Macro-Benchmarking: An Industry Perspective
- Benchmarking has been a popular management practice for almost two decades. The process was less formal than the process described in the benchmarking books and articles during the 1980s and early 1990s. However, the intent of both the formal and informal benchmarking activity was to identify and migrate best practice...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Chronology Best Practices
- A fact chronology can be a tremendous asset as one prepares a case for trial. Yet, the majority of chronologies fail to live up to their full potential. The article offers some simple steps that will help one make the most. Chronologies help win cases. From the starting gate to...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Best Practices of Empowering Leaders
- The article asserts that working with some of the best leaders in many different industries over the years has shown that leaders who successfully empower their team members have some things in common. These common activities that are visible by their team members and others are clearly the best...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Best Practices: Leadership
- According to our best practices experts the basic competencies are considered vital for effective leadership are Develop a vision, Know yourself, Connect with others, Take responsibility, Communicate. This document signifies that strong leadership skills can go a long way in improving sales force management in the organisation. Read on to...
- White papers 2002-01-01
- Best Practices in Interviewing
- "Conducting a job analysis audit to objectively identify the core competencies required for a given job, and then customizing a list of behavioral-based interview questions like the ones mentioned above to identify those competencies, can significantly reduce your exposure to employment practices claims and increase your potential...
- White papers 2002-07-11
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