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business productivity Assessment: In less than 10 minutes you can receive a customized report to help you find out if the software your people use boosts their productivity the way it should. When you sign in for the assessment, you'll also gain access to free white papers and demos to dive deeper into...; Tags: Strategic planning, Microsoft Corp., business productivity, job, industry, software; Resource centers 2007-06-01
Simplicity isn't Simple: In life, it is usually easier to say no than yes. But in product development the opposite is more likely true -- it's hard to turn down a major customer asking you to add more features to your product. Resist the temptation. Feature creep adds back-end...; Tags: Financial services, Sean Silverthorne, ING Direct, Taylor; Blog posts 2007-11-08
Four Reasons Why Good Time Management Technique Will Boost Your Home business productivity!: Time management exercises for home business owners are vital in getting the most out of the business. While the skills in whatever area of expertise is certainly important, the importance of time management cannot be emphasised enough in helping to produce a profitable bottom line. Many failed work-at-homers cite procrastination...; Tags: time management, income; White papers 2007-02-16
ERP End-User business productivity: A Field Study of SAP & Microsoft: In this white paper, measurements are discussed of how end users of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications describe the impact of Microsoft and SAP applications on their business productivity. This research found that Microsoft Dynamics end users on average rated their experience with Microsoft applications more favorably than SAP users...; Tags: Strategic planning, business productivity, Microsoft Dynamics, SAP AG, ERP, Microsoft Corp., tool; White papers 2007-03-01
Microsoft Dynamics RoleTailored business productivity: Microsoft believes that the key to helping businesses become more agile and productive in the global economy is to empower individual workers -- giving them tools that improve efficiency and enable them to focus on the highest-value work -- and a new generation of software is an important ingredient to...; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Dynamics, business process automation, business productivity, R&D, Microsoft Corp., business process, tool, worker, strategy, software; White papers 2007-03-01

Using Automation Software To Increase business productivity & Competitiveness: The toughest challenge facing executives and managers globally is to encourage and mobilize their teams to work smarter, faster and more competitively. Managers worldwide are always on the lookout for new methods to bring their teams up to a higher level of work efficiency. Executives focus on getting higher per...; Tags: Strategic planning, Team management, Tethys Solutions, business productivity, organizational behavior, team, training, industry, tool; Case studies 2006-04-19
How to Gain business productivity With Digital Print on Demand: In a business climate focused on improving organizational efficiencies and reducing costs, many companies are overlooking a significant cost-savings opportunity: the creation, management, production and distribution of business communications - an expense that can amount to as much as six to fifteen percent of annual revenues for most corporations. This...; Tags: business productivity, cost savings, benefit, Web; White papers 2006-03-12
A New Twist On business productivity: Professionals in niche markets such as the medical and insurance sectors have long reaped the benefits of tablet PCs. Doctors appreciate the ability to make instant digital notes while performing rounds or patient assessments. Insurance administrators profit from the easy digital form entry capabilities of a tablet and stylus as...; Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Toshiba Corp., tablet, tablet PC, stylus, insurance, business productivity, PC, patient, notebook, keyboard, industry, benefit; White papers 2005-06-29
Competitive Affairs: The Next Step in the Continuing Evolution of business productivity: There is no doubt that business leaders understand the importance of being competitive. Historically, most companies have left it to different departments or staff members to figure out on their own how to handle the challenge of understanding their competitive environment and then use that insight to create a competitive...; Tags: business productivity, competitive advantage, environment; White papers 2001-12-17

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Meeting The Productivity Challenge: Productivity is defined as output per employee. Processes, technology, functions and suppliers are major contributors to productivity, but many organizations fail to include them in their evaluations of productivity and efficiency. Metrus Group deploys a productivity diagnostic that identifies your company's productivity drivers and can identify their relationship and impact...; Tags: Metrus Group, customer satisfaction, supplier; White papers 2003-01-01
The Innovation / Productivity Quotient: By now it's commonplace to observe that information technology alone can't generate productivity benefits. Countless research projects have documented that IT investment must be combined with business innovation to yield significant productivity improvement. Instead of asking how IT improves productivity, we should ask how IT can enhance business innovation. That's...; Tags: Strategy, CMP Media, IT investment, information technology; White papers 2004-04-01
Unions And Productivity Again: New Evidence From Matched WERS And Business Census Data: This preliminary paper matches business Census productivity data from the Annual Business Inquiry (ABI) with WERS data and: Compare the WERS self-reported productivity data with that of the business survey and examine the relation between unions and productivity using the business data productivity measures. It is found: No significant relation...; Tags: Productivity Data, Marketing Research, Marketing; White papers 2005-02-01
Concept And Measurement Of Productivity: Productivity has become a household word as almost everyone talks about it. Yet, the term 'Productivity' means different things to different persons. The primary objective of this paper is to attempt to demystify productivity conceptually by examining in detail what productivity is and what it is not. Enhanced understanding of...; Tags: theory; White papers 2003-03-24
Productivity Of Software Projects By Business Sector: An Empirical Analysis Of Trends: Software organisations continuously adopt new technologies and improve their business processes to increase their productivity and hence, be abreast with or ahead of their competitors. This emphasises the importance of investigation into the results of such improvements over productivity over a period of time. This paper compare productivity of projects...; Tags: Software, Productivity, Analysis, Business Sector, Operational Planning, Business Operations; White papers 2004-07-12
Behind The Gap Between Productivity And Wage Growth: This paper discussion addresses two points concerning the gap between productivity growth and wage growth in this business cycle. First, it shows that the redistribution from labor to capital that has taken place thus far in this business cycle is in fact typical for the early part of a business...; Tags: redistribution; White papers 2007-02-01
OECD Productivity Growth: Medium-Term Trends: Productivity growth is the key mechanism by which average income and welfare are improved: over the medium term faster productivity growth is associated with more rapid growth in real wages per worker and real consumption per capita. This paper has three objectives. Firstly, it updates the data presented in Englander...; Tags: OECD, income, worker; White papers 2004-11-19
Exporting And Productivity In Business Services: Evidence From The United States: This paper considers the link between exporting and productivity for a sample of firms in US business services. More productive firms are more likely to become exporters, but that these factors do not necessarily influence the extent of exporting. This conforms to previous literature that there is a self selection...; Tags: Productivity; White papers 2007-02-01
Is it Time to Concentrate on Sales Productivity?: Sales productivity may be a new concept for many distributor executives. "Sales" is easy to understand, and "productivity" is pretty clear, but when those two words are combined the combination becomes a bit vague. What exactly is sales productivity, and why should you be concerned about it? This all is...; Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, sales productivity, sales; White papers 2000-01-01
Mobilization Accelerates Productivity: The adoption of mobile devices like PDAs and Smart Phones within the enterprise has resulted in a paradigm shift in productivity because of the way in which business professionals can remain as productive outside the office as they are within the office. Undoubtedly, the mobilizing of employees, applications and information...; Tags: Handhelds, Sybase Inc., mobility, smart phone, mobile device, PDA, mobile, phone; White papers 2005-12-01
Revisiting Recent Productivity Developments Across OECD Countries: This paper compares productivity developments across industrial countries based on official OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) data in the business sector. It discusses the uncertainties surrounding the measurement of both productivity levels and productivity growth, and then focuses on changes in productivity growth. The paper analyses labour productivity...; Tags: OECD, Bank For International Settlements, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management; White papers 2005-10-01