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		<title><![CDATA[Marrying Market Research and Customer Relationship Marketing]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=175718]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper builds on previous research to demonstrate the power of marrying together market research data and existing loyalty card data in improving promotional marketing. In particular, it includes the analysis of real attitudinal data (cognitive, affective and conative) collected specifically for this task from 3,000 customers. The approach is...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How to Create an Activity Management Program That Lasts]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=175708]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Since its arrival on the management accounting scene in the 1980s, Activity-Based Costing ABC has received a great deal of attention. Organizations of all types and sizes have used ABC for answers to a variety of questions. ABC has spawned other tools such as Activity-Based Management ABM and Activity-Based Budgeting...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Sarbanes-Oxley - Ten Things You Must Do In 90 Days Or Else!]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=57378]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley can be made easier with well-defined and accepted practices in IT operations. This web cast discusses a prescriptive methodology for how to begin evaluating a company's operational controls that support financial auditing; a reporting mechanism to determine where they are; and a standard of evaluation for measuring...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2003 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Why Budgeting Kills Your Company]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=53505]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The average billion-dollar company spends as many as 25,000 person-days per year putting together the budget. If this amount is all paid off in shareholder return, that would be fine, but few organizations can make that claim. In fact, many firms now question the ROI of traditional budgeting altogether and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2003 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Understanding the Procurement Roadmap]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=71660]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This webcast features Doug Smock, editor-in-chief of Purchasing Magazine. The webcast addresses the interview of Gene Richter, retired chief procurement officer of IBM, and Javier Urioste, senior vice president and chief procurement officer at JPMorgan Chase. The speakers discuss about importance of making centralized decisions in a decentralized world of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Innovation Sourcing Strategy Matters]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=55636]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been realized that the Innovation in products, services, and processes has been the key to long-term growth and competitive success. However, despite increasing investments in research and development, many firms are not achieving the benefits they seek from innovation. To ramp up their levels of innovation, companies have...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Performance Pays Off]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=50085]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This article describes how one company encourages employees to think like owners and rewards them with bonuses worth even 50% of their salaries. Forward-looking companies know the benefits of a team-based organization, but most underestimate the difficulty of transitioning to this business model. The empowered team model promotes initiative and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Kyoto Capital]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=50087]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In a new cultural and business environment where the Kyoto Protocol rules, knowledge will be a key ingredient to success. A few industry leaders in this article explain how they are already "hard at work" using it to their advantage. Making the Kyoto Protocol work to a company's economic benefit...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Thinking Differently About Dividends]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=53455]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Many senior executives view dividends as a low priority on the strategic agenda. They are wrong. The unique set of circumstances that made dividends unfashionable during the long bull market of the 1980s and 1990s is fast disappearing. In the current economic environment, dividends are an especially important lever for...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Hurt By Hard Times, Financial Services Firms Seek New Directions]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=53504]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The article says that past decade has been a tumultuous one for investors and for the financial services industry. The last half of the 1990s seemed, in many ways, the best of times. A soaring stock market created vast amounts of wealth and funded the startup of thousands of new...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A Call to Analytical Action: Risk Management]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=53507]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The article discusses that although most banks know that reducing risk can directly boost earnings, few banks other than the big money centers have developed and implemented comprehensive risk programs and platforms. Institutions will not only have to gather, organize, and analyze new types of data linked to the risk...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Hey, What’s That Opaque Financial Institution Worth?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=53508]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Consider the following: P/E, P/B, EPS, EVA, WACC, CAPM, ROE, RAROC, ROIC, NPV, DCF. And those are just the ones that trip off the tongue. What do the acronyms have in common? They are statistical tools used by companies or outsiders – such as investors or Wall Street analysts –...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Activity-Based Costing For State And Local Governments]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=53632]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[State and local governments have a common goal: to provide products and services to their taxpaying constituents at the lowest possible cost. Many governments, however, are not perceived to be particularly efficient in realizing this goal. This article explains the ABC system and advances its application to state and local...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Activity-Based Costing and Predatory Pricing]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=53661]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The article emphasises on activity based costing ABC. The assignment of indirect costs in a traditional costing system can lead to product-cost subsidization. This is where excessive costs are charged to high-volume products and insufficient costs are charged to low-volume products. The result can lead to increased consumer demand for...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Managing Your Cost-to-Serve]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=53673]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Companies must understand individual customer profitability and select the services they propose. The increased focus on asset performance makes a focused approach to the market even more important. Managers need tools to understand the cost dynamics of the various customers and channels they serve. This article presents a method that...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Understanding Variation]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=55162]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A key element in achieving Operational Excellence is to identify sources of variation that affect a process, product, or service. Once identified the key sources can then be earmarked for attention. The focus is on Six Sigma, as a methodology to achieve Operational Excellence, has at its roots a focus...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Blackbelts - Who and How?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=55163]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[An important, but not comprehensive, role of a Six Sigma Black Belt is that of technical expert in the area of Six Sigma methods. This expertise allows the Black Belt to understand the link between complex customer needs and the critical internal process elements designed to achieve them. There is...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Logistics Need Six Sigma for Quality Improvement]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=55168]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Six Sigma, usually a methodology for continuously improving manufacturing and product quality, is now being used by leading manufacturers to improve their extended supply chain and logistics capabilities; they are improving reliability and cutting hundreds of millions of dollars in supply chain costs by focusing on accountability to control their...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Six Sigma: A Deployment Strategy]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=55169]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The toughest part of deploying Six Sigma is building top management interest and commitment. A successful Six Sigma deployment requires this top management leadership. While top management may be quite accepting of the need for change, they may be uncertain how Six Sigma differs from other programs they have undertaken...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Six Sigma- Performance Improvement]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=55171]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA["Six Sigma" is a term coined by Motorola in the late 1980's to represents a stretch goal for process quality. Sigma is the Greek symbol used by statisticians to denote the standard deviation- a statistical measure of variability.     When a process reaches "six sigma" quality, the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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