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Seventeen "Must Ask" Questions For Planning Successful Projects: Why do some projects proceed without a hitch, yet others flounder? One reason may be the type and quality of the questions people ask at the very start. This paper explains 17 insightful queries that can expose the uncertain aspects of your project, and thereby help you avoid expensive surprises...; Tags: Project, Business Performance; White papers 2008-01-01
How To Get Out Of "Project Overwhelm": This paper explains how to get out of "Project overwhelm" and restore sanity to your endeavor. It may be time to regroup and swiftly chart a new course. Project delivered with major gaps will seem seriously flawed if everyone compares it to the original plan. This paper also explains a...; Tags: strategy; White papers 2008-01-01
Managing Small Projects: Applying the best practices to even a small project can be done without creating too much paperwork or overhead. The best practices are the things which countless project managers have done on thousands of projects and are deemed to be the 'Best practice' because they tend to help you to...; Tags: best practice; White papers 2008-01-01
Looking To Increase Employee Performance?: Motivation Is Critical: What's an organization to do when all of its honest and genuine efforts to motivate Sally and Sam to come to work on time, work safely, deliver efficient services, and act as if they were happy to be a part of the team, fail? There is no shortage of pop-psych...; Tags: Leadership, motivation, team; White papers 2007-12-01
Seven Tips To Bring You And Your Staff To Their Full Potential: Possibly, the greatest untapped resource in any organization lies in its employees. These days, "Giving 100 percent" is not enough to get ahead; you need to become more effective in unlocking your staff's potential strengths, creativity, and resourcefulness. The best companies have the best people, and the top people are...; Tags: Staff, Business Performance; White papers 2007-12-01

Should You Measure Individual People's Performance?: Performance Appraisal, Individual Performance Review, Personal Performance Development Plan. There are numerous names for this artifact of the organisation, but they are names for basically the same concept: the measurement, review, evaluation and management of the performance of an employee. And it is one of the most contentious management processes...; Tags: Performance management, Performance Appraisal, performance review, performance; White papers 2007-12-01
Problem Solving/Corrective Action: This paper introduces the problem-solving model as a technique for managing performance issues that are more controversial, or that are not effectively addressed through coaching or feedback. Issues such as tardiness, being out of uniform, continual poor performance, and others are best handled by a direct, objective approach. By following...; Tags: Performance management, Team management, performance, team, supervisor, job, technique; White papers 2007-12-01
Ten Tips For Creating A Terrific Employee Appraisal System: Face the facts: Creating a new performance appraisal system is a difficult undertaking. It's even more difficult if the organization doesn't have a logical, well-tested, step-by-step process to follow in developing their new procedure. Based on experience in helping dozens of companies create performance appraisal systems that actually work, this...; Tags: Performance management, Team management, Performance Appraisal, performance evaluation, appraisal, performance; White papers 2007-12-01
Entrepreneurship And The Process Of Firms' Entry, Survival And Growth: This paper aims at critically discussing the recent literature on firm formation and survival and the growth of new-born firms. The basic purpose is to single out the microeconomic entrepreneurial foundations of industrial dynamics entry and exit and to characterise the founder's ex-ante features in terms of likely ex-post business...; Tags: Business Performance, Entrepreneurial, Purpose, Entrepreneur, Conclusion, Founder, Entry, Entrepreneurship, Management; White papers 2006-12-01
Compliance, Technology, and Performance Management - Finance Combines Opportunity With Necessity: After marching through the first phases of compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, senior finance executives are turning their attention to making their regulatory compliance both more sustainable and also a driver of better business performance. This paper depicts about a survey which indicates that while spending on compliance will shift...; Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., business performance, compliance, finance, regulatory compliance, performance management, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, survey, performance; White papers 2005-08-01
Performance Measurement Systems: Benefits: Organizational researchers and managers alike have long held the view that performance measurement and management systems have a positive impact on business performance. Nevertheless, there is relatively little research to support this hypothesis. This study tested the effect of performance measurement and management systems PMMS on a energy supplier using...; Tags: Performance management, Cranfield University, performance measurement, business performance, theory, performance, benefit; White papers 2005-03-30
2005 Talent Management Strategies Survey: Today's workforce issues have the potential to impact business performance in the coming years, according to Deloitte Consulting LLP's survey on talent management strategies. Almost three quarters (72 percent) of companies surveyed said they are concerned that the inadequate skills of incoming workers will negatively affect their bottom line. When...; Tags: Workforce management, Deloitte & Touche, talent management, business performance, talent, workforce, survey, worker; White papers 2005-02-11
Driving Performance Improvements From Sarbanes Oxley Principles for Non SEC Listed Companies: This paper takes a look at how Sarbanes Oxley has put internal controls in the spotlight and non SEC listed organizations are increasingly looking to implement a Sarbanes Oxley type programme. Application of the principles of Sarbanes Oxley can be a springboard for improvements in controls, processes and business performance,...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, KPMG Consulting Inc., Sarbanes-Oxley Act, business performance, internal control, performance; White papers 2005-01-04
A Framework for Business Performance: This document describes one of many conceptual perspectives on business performance. This model is not intended to provide a method for quantifying performance or even identifying all specific success factors; but it should provide a framework that is useful in comparing business performance methodologies. It depicts how one maps the...; Tags: Performance management, business performance, performance; White papers 2004-06-01
Managing Corporate Performnance, Today and Tomorrow: Strategy is critical for long-term goals but tracking, measuring and managing one's day-to-day performance is key to survive. Only those organizations effectively positioned to execute strategy and maximize business performance will succeed. EBM-Solutions helps customers to drive business performance at strategic, management and operational levels by analyzing, measuring, and communicating...; Tags: business performance, strategy, business management, performance; White papers 2004-02-13
Maximize Business Performance: Project Kickoff: Look Internally First: The goal of Business Process Management BPM is to enable the identification of revenue opportunities and cost savings in an organization. The BPM tool helps in boosting ownership of results and moves the company to real-time footing. The focus should be to maximize business performance by endorsing the strategic goals...; Tags: Operational planning, Business process automation, Strategy, Thomson Corp., business performance, BPM, business process, revenue opportunity, cost savings, performance, tool; White papers 2004-02-01
Gaining Control Through Business Process Outsourcing: Executive Discussion Forum: Senior executives from leading companies agreed that business process outsourcing clearly enhances control over business performance. The paper provides highlights from the Accenture BPO Forum in Philadelphia. The companies approach outsourcing with a bewildering array of needs and goals was very much in evidence throughout the day's discussions. It reveals...; Tags: Business process outsourcing (BPO), Operational planning, IT Services, Accenture Ltd., business performance, BPO, business process, outsource, outsourcing; White papers 2003-11-01
Nonfinancial Indicators: Backup For GAAP: From the executive summary: ‘Experts suggest that organizations need to do a much better job of communicating with shareholders. To improve corporate behavior and to reward corporate performance, companies must improve the quality and utility of the information that all corporations disclose to investors. Companies believe that the existing disclosure...; Tags: Financial accounting, CFO Publishing Corp., GAAP, business performance, investor, incentive, shareholder, backup, financial, job, performance; White papers 2003-09-05
HR Practices and Business Performance: What Makes a Difference?: There is a clear need for research that employs methods which are more appropriate for understanding the detailed and intricate relationships between HR practices and business performance. This paper draws on research which seeks to examine how and why HR practices influence business performance. In particular it examines the importance...; Tags: business performance, Human Resources, performance; White papers 2003-07-03
The Decision Maker’s Dilemma: Investment ideas can come from various sources: the exploration department proposes prospects, business development is on the lookout for acquisition candidates, and engineering evaluates development and acceleration projects. Ultimately, some process must be used to choose among available projects to construct a portfolio designed to meet the suite of business...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, Portfolio Decisions Inc., business performance, acquisition, business development; White papers 2003-01-01