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- Getting to the Root of a Problem
- Organizations often respond to financial and market imperatives by resolving problems with short-term solutions. Often, there are procedures in place to guide people's actions so that they spend minimal time on original thinking and then focus on the immediate requirements of the job. However, constantly relying on quick fixes requires...
- Articles 2007-10-11
- Applying Earned Value Management To Software Intensive Programmes
- Many information technology projects have been declared too costly, too late and often don't work right. Applying appropriate technical and management techniques can significantly improve the current situation. The principal causes of growth on these large-scale programmes can be traced to several causes related to overzealous advocacy, immature technology, lack...
- White papers 2009-05-17
- What Are The Root Causes Of Procrastination?
- Procrastination can have many causes. Generally these causes are broken down into 2 types. Psychological reasons are related to mental issues while Physiological problems are related to physical problems. If you suffer from procrastination on a regular basis there are several things you can do. A visit to a doctor...
- White papers 2008-03-11
- 11 Causes And Cures For Procrastination
- There's nothing wrong with taking time to read a book, watch television, or chill in your favorite chair while the sun sets outside your beautiful picture window. Just be aware that the feel-good benefits of procrastination can quickly erode into panic. You're looking for the sweet spot between procrastination and...
- White papers 2007-05-25
- Define Procrastination And Its Causes
- Procrastination, defined simply, is when an individual delays completing their tasks intentionally. Overtime, this turns into a habit as it is always easier to take the path with on resistance. It is very easy to fall into the trap of procrastinating, and the root causes of people doing so varies...
- White papers 2008-03-04
- Conflict at Work: The Root Causes of Workplace Conflict Are Often ...
- Conflict research reveals that the roots of unhealthy workplace conflict and increased organizational costs come most often from the systemic causes that are outlined in this paper. Even with email, newsletters, reports, and staff and company meetings, conflict arises from lack of information or knowledge in how to use it...
- White papers 2006-09-13
- Establishing Public Policy as a Primary Cause of Engineering Failure: Did Market Deregulation Lead to the North American 'Blackout', August 14th 2003?
- On the 14th August 2003, a complex combination of latent problems and catalytic events led to a domino-effect in which 50 million people suffered some interruption to their power supplies. Losses have been estimated between $5-10 billion. It is, therefore, one of the most wide reaching and serious 'blackouts' in...
- White papers 2006-02-03
- Why Do Only One Third Of UK Companies Realize Significant Strategic Success?
- 2GC Active Management has observed that its approach to Strategic Balanced Scorecard design successfully improves the 'strategic management' capabilities of a management team. In trying to understand the causes of these improvements, it was noticed that 2GC's six-step development process has strong similarities to two of the causes of strategic...
- White papers 2001-05-01
- Floor Squeaks: Causes, Solutions and Prevention
- With proper materials and careful installation, wood floors are comfortable and trouble-free. Several key steps in construction help prevent the most common problems - including squeaks. There are many causes for those nagging creaks which can originate between subfloor and underlayment, subfloor and joists, joists and bridging, nail and panel,...
- White papers 2002-04-01
- Factors Associated With Reporting Multiple Causes of Death
- This white paper examines relationships of multiple causes of death as a function of factors available on the death certificate (demographics of decedent, place of death, type of certifier, disposal method, whether an autopsy was performed, and year of death).It concludes that multiple cause of death data provide a potentially...
- White papers 2005-01-17
- Are You Prepared For The Changing Landscape Of Industrial Marketing?
- The playing field for industrial manufacturing is undergoing tremendous change. Unless companies understand and plan for these changes, they forfeit market share. This article reveals the four major causes of the changing marketplace. Discover what these causes are and gain the knowledge to respond with a winning strategy. ...
- White papers 2003-10-01
- Can Branding Save The World?
- Researches indicate that a company's commitment to causes that appeal to both consumers and employees can increase the number of consumers and improve the employee's performance. The strategy of ‘cause related marketing' can be applied for increasing the profitability of organizations. The paper elucidates that a company should be committed...
- White papers 2002-04-08
- Spam Law Cases: Ferguson V. Friendfinders, Inc.
- Mark Ferguson Ferguson sued respondents for violating California law by sending him unsolicited e-mail advertisements that were allegedly deceptive and misleading. The superior court sustained a demurrer without leave to amend with respect to each of Ferguson's causes of action. In reaching its decision, the lower court found that section...
- Case studies 2003-01-01
- Diagnoses: Leadership Skills
- One of the most vexing challenges a leader faces: Doing everything right, and having unacceptable, even terrible, results anyway. When one know the need to dig deeper to understand the "root causes" underlying the organization's troubles, how do he do that? Article explains taxonomy of cause that when one try...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Promoting Good Causes Can Be Good For Business
- The trend seems to be in that direction, following the terrorist attacks, dot-com demise and economic upheaval. Many companies today are reevaluating their time, money and mission. A startling increase has been seen in the number of people applying for jobs as teachers, particularly from applicants seeking to switch careers....
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Multiple Steam Processes I
- A multiple stream process MSP consists of several identical process streams. At a sample time, measurements are obtained from each stream or a subset of the streams. The measurements are in the same units and often they have the same target value and variance. With control charts for a MSP,...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Spotlight on process management
- Managing processes is a central issue in modern improvement theory. The writers of this article tries to explain why they believe that in order to manage processes effectively it is essential to create good process control and an effective information system. The 7M approach for classifying different causes for process...
- White papers 2002-03-01
- Align Your Brand With a Social Cause
- This article is about the brand management that specificy the a product should be branded with a social cause. In other words, Enhancing a brand in the name of a social cause can be tricky, but the reward goes beyond the bottom line. The main emphasise is for the...
- White papers 2003-07-14
Additional Resources
- Pairing Up Ads With a Cause Can Boost Brand Sales
- A new report out of the Cone and Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business shows that advertisers pairing up their message with a non-profit cause can effectively raise sales, at least for some products. The study followed 182 sample consumers, who were shown a new regional print mag, which contained...
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- What Cause Marketing Can Do For Your Business
- I recently bought a friend a Product Red t-shirt from the Gap as a birthday present. The price was more than what I would normally spend on a t-shirt, but I knew that the extra money was going to a good cause, so I got out my credit card. Apparently...
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
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