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- Formalizing Your Outsourcing Decision Process
- In business, sometimes the simplest parts of the process can be the most challenging. The issue that can slow down the outsourcing process and cause the most problems: Lack of alignment of the decision process. The solution, simple as it sounds, is to try to formalize the company's decision process....
- White papers
- Organisation - Decision-Making In Business
- Decision-making increasingly happens at all levels of a business. The Board of Directors may make the grand strategic decisions about investment and direction of future growth, and managers may make the more tactical decisions about how their own department may contribute most effectively to the overall business objectives. But quite...
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Decision Yield: Does Your Decision-Making Measure Up?
- As more and more customer-facing decisions are automated-from approving loans to pricing insurance to determine cross-sell offers-the determination of what constitutes a good decision becomes more complex. In fact, the more decisions are automated, the more potential they have for both positive and negative effects on your organization. To determine...
- White papers 2007-12-01
- A Markov Decision Model To Evaluate Outsourcing In Reverse Logistics
- One of the most important decisions regarding Reverse Logistics RL is whether to outsource such functions or not, due to the fact that RL does not represent a production or distribution firm's core activity. To explore the hypothesis that outsourcing RL functions is more suitable when returns are more variable,...
- White papers 2006-06-30
- Second Sourcing Vs. Sole Sourcing: The Impact Of Demand Uncertainty
- We study the decision of a manufacturer buyer, expecting new sourcing opportunities in the future, to select between a sole and a second sourcing mechanism for a non-commodity component. In a sole sourcing mechanism, the buyer commits to source from the current supplier. In a second sourcing mechanism, the buyer...
- White papers 2006-06-25
- Expediting Processes For Effective Case Management
- Every day across the country, a district attorney, police dispatcher, social worker, or civil engineer is called on to make a decision that could mean the difference been life and death. The situation might call for assessing hurricane damage to a bridge or protecting the chain of custody of evidence...
- White papers 2005-06-01
- Field Development Engine: The Flexible and Powerful Solution for Reservoir Decisions
- Contemporary E&P professionals are required to make complex technical and economic field development decisions in ever-shorter timeframes. With the right combination of innovative technology solutions, companies can easily become equipped with the tools to dramatically accelerate field development workflows, increase productivity, and ultimately make better and faster decisions. The ability...
- White papers 2004-05-24
- Structured Approach To R & D Valuation Using Investment Science To Analyze New Ideas
- From the executive summary: ‘The Research & Development case study illustrates how to model initial decisions vs. down-stream decisions and the uncertainty that characterizes long-term projects of this type. The model recognizes the value of postponing key decisions until their due time along a project’s life. It also incorporates the...
- Case studies 2003-01-28
- Model for selecting Warehouse
- "This article basically suggests a Model For Selecting Warehouse Automation Technology Based on Return On Investment. The model which is very conjusive for this is Design for Payback. DFP is the concept of requiring payback analysis on every element of an improvement plan, not just measuring the return on investment...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Integrating Mergers And Acquisitions
- This article is about economy which is an in constant change, either growing or slowing. The world around us is evolving with new innovations that make our lives easier but different. Make decisions fast. There is nothing more paralyzing than lingering decisions about structures, reporting relationships, key roles, and possible...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- A Balanced Real Estate and Human Resource Model for Assessing the Financial Implications of Large Scale Real Estate Decisions
- As large organizations grow and evolve over time, they face the challenge of accommodating change in a manner that contains costs while strengthening the firm's competitive position in the marketplace. Compounding an already complex decision is that the factors influencing such decisions are often highly uncertain, and that there is...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- SEC Approves Acquisition of Powergen plc by E.ON AG to Form Largest U.S. Registered Holding Company
- The SEC has approved the creation of the largest public utility holding company to be registered under the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 PUHCA. The new entity has combined annual revenues in excess of $76 billion. The acquisition represents E.ON’s first acquisition in the U.S. utility...
- White papers 2002-07-01
- Recent Developments in Bankruptcy and Restructuring Vol. 1, 1
- An injunction preventing creditors from suing an insurer or other non-debtor source of funding for the payment of claims under a plan of reorganization has become the cornerstone of nearly every chapter 11 case involving a company seeking to deal with mass tort liabilities. Whether such an injunction is enforceable...
- White papers 2002-04-01
- California Supreme Court Issues Ruling With Broad Implications For Property Insurers
- This article discusses issues ruling with broad implications for property insurers. An insurer that denies a claim on the ground that it does not exceed the deductible may be stopped from asserting the statute of limitations as a defense. The decision is potentially significant in a number of respects. The...
- White papers 2001-12-01
- Choosing a Company’s Building Design: Models for Strategic Design Decisions
- The article asserts that improving the linkage between real estate strategies and building design can help competitive business strategy. Differentiating building design from product design is important. Problems in making design choices derive from received paradigmatic knowledge that misrepresents the design decision processes. Architectural selection problems are explained with reference...
- White papers 2001-01-01
- Choosing a Company’s Building Design : Models for Strategic Design Decisions
- Improving the linkage between real estate strategy and building design can help competitive business strategy. Differentiating building design from product design is important. Problems in making design choices derive from received paradigmatic knowledge that misrepresents the design decision processes. Architectural selection problems are explained with reference to design decision processes...
- White papers 2001-01-01
- Quality Management Decision Making
- This paper describes some typical situation quality managers’ face and how thierdecisions can influnce the quality culture. It also provides some guidelines for making decisions that promote a quality culture. Because of the importance of these decisions, it is critical for quality managers to understand the consequences of their decisions....
- White papers 1996-01-01
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- VFA's Green Building Assessment Services Named to Buildings Magazine's Top 100 Products
- The Buildings magazine editorial staff has named VFA's Green Building Assessment Services to its Top 100Products of 2008 , a list of innovative products and services that helpdecision-makers in commercial, institutional and governmental real estatewith their development, construction, modernization, management andoperational responsibilities. VFA's Green Building Assessment Services help...
- Articles 2008-06-25
- Amec in running for Gulf's Pounds 40bn nuclear project
- British company one of nine candidates to manage construction and operation of the United Arab Emirates' power stations Amec, the British engineering giant run by Samir Brikho, has emerged as a leading contender to manage the 40bn United Arab Emirates nuclear programme. The FTSE-100...
- Articles 2008-06-22
- West Coast Bank President & CEO Robert D. Sznewajs Will Speak at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods 8th Annual Community Bank Investor Conference
- LAKE OSWEGO, Ore., June 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- West Coast Bank President & CEO Robert D. Sznewajs will speak at the Keefe, Bruyette & Woods 8th Annual Community Bank Investor Conference on Tuesday, July 29, 2008, at 11:00 a.m. ET. The conference will be held in New York City. ...
- Articles 2008-06-19
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