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6 Fundamentals For Evaluating Buying Strategies For Industrials
Is it possible for industrial businesses to extend cost control measures to their electricity procurement activities in the midst of a highly volatile energy market? Following a conventional Request For Proposal RFP approach, an enterprise's electricity budget for a year or longer can be largely dictated by market conditions on...
Tags: Strategy, RFP, Cost Control, Procurement, Strategic Energy, Purchasing & Procurement, Financial Services, Business Operations
White papers 2006-11-14
Cost Control and Profitability Strategies in Today's Market
Many organizations fail to realize the link between good strategy and the best possible performance. To control costs and enhance profitability, building a viable business strategy is the most effective action any organization can take. Granted, this is easier said than done. Unfortunately, many financial institutions equate strategy with a...
Tags: Cost Control, RSM McGladrey, Strategy, Management
White papers 2003-01-01
Where Risk Control Meets Cost Control
In a portfolio transition, cost-minimizing trading strategies may have the unintended consequence of increasing risk along several dimensions. On the other hand, strategies designed to mitigate risk can involve unacceptable levels of cost, may be sub-optimal once transaction costs are taken into account, or may simply be infeasible. This paper...
Tags: Cost Control, Convergence, VOIP, Productivity, Strategy, Telecommunications, Networking, Management
White papers 2004-03-01

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Developing a Channel Strategy
What's the best way to sell into a new market or improve performance in existing markets? You can build your own sales force to sell directly to customers or use an indirect channel partner to reach customers. You can also use other channels such as the Internet. The decision is...
Tags: Marketing, Partnership, Product, Customer, Outlet, Service, Decision, Channel Partner, Distributor Sales Force, Sales Strategy, Business Structures, Sales Force Management, Finance, Sales Force, Branding, Marketing Information, Strategy, Channel, Sales, BNET Editorial
Articles 2007-11-16
APQC, IBM Study: Organizations Focused on Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting Significantly Outperform Those Focused on Accounting, Control and Cost Management
HOUSTON -- A recent APQC and IBM Global Business Services survey of 400 participants within the finance organization, internal controls, revenue accounting and profit and cost management areas, finds that organizations that focus on planning, budgeting and forecasting as a business strategy are higher performers in all areas than those...
Tags: accounting, APQC, budgeting, cost management, forecasting, IBM Corp.
Research articles 2006-12-08
Innovative Control Equipent Strategy for Truly Unmanned Gas Turbine-Compressor Stations
The purpose of this article is to detail the TRICONEX Corporations philosophy in implementing high integrity fault tolerant Triple Modular Redundant TMR Systems in the control of main station gas turbine-compressor stations. The article also describes how one of Australia's major transmission companies, GPU GasNet has applied TMR technology for...
Tags: Strategy, Deloitte LLP, Station
White papers 2002-05-03
DTN News: Obama And The U.S. Strategy Of Buying Time
DTN News: Obama And The U.S. Strategy Of Buying Time *Source: By George Friedman STRATFOR NSI News Source Info KOTTAKKAL, Kerala, India - November 3, 2009: Making sense of U.S. President Barack Obama's strategy at this moment is difficult. Not only is it a work in...
Tags: U.S., George W. Bush, strategy, Power
News items 2009-11-04
Health Care Reform: Stop Focusing on the Cost
Massachusetts? existing universal health care plan has become a prototype for current reform proposals now in Congress. But Jonathan Gruber, a key architect of the program, says to make federal reform work, Congress needs to give up trying to control costs for now. ...
Tags: Bill, Cost Control, Massachusetts, Health Care, Healthcare Reform, MoneyWatch, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Financial Services, Human Resources, Finance, Jonathan Gruber, Health Care Reform, Cost Controls, Health Insurance, Michelle Andrews
Articles 2009-08-06
Total Quality Control Strategies
This article is the "blue crayon" to help you identify hazardous situations where analytical quality is difficult to manage and to give you some ideas on what to do in those situations. It explains the need for TQC strategy and provides the guidelines for the same. Current QC practices tend...
Tags: Quality Control, Westgard QC, Quality, Business Operations
White papers 2003-01-01
BA cost-control at heart of recovery
As British Airways chief Willie Walsh rose to discuss the airline's eye-watering half-year losses with analysts, it was tempting to recall another BA presentation made in early in 2005 by his predecessor, Sir Rod Eddington, at the company's Waterside headquarters near Heathrow. It was the last BA investor day for...
Tags: Airbus S.A.S., British Airways Plc., Airline
News items 2009-11-06
Vodafone Group Plc, Year Ended 31 March 2006, Earnings Results and Strategy Update Conference Call Transcript (VOD)
Question-and-Answer SessionQ - Simon Weedon, Goldman Sachs Thanks very much, Arun. Can I go straight into the detail on the strategy, with one question about your IT outsourcing plans. You've set out what seems to be, in aggregate, a very aggressive target for saving money from...
Tags: Vodafone Group Plc.
Earnings calls 2006-05-30
The Senate Bill: Medicare And Much Else
Editor's Note: In the post below, Tim Jost looks at provisions of the Senate Democratic health reform bill dealing with Medicare, Medicaid and CHIP, and many other significant topics. In earlier posts, Jost took a first look at the Senate bill, provided a detailed look at several issues that arise under the bill's insurance reforms, and discussed...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Medicare, Health Care
News items 2009-11-21
When One and One Make One | BTalk Australia
(17min 52) The last year has set a new record for the number of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in Australia. Putting two companies together can be a long and complex process, with the potential for lots to go wrong. Today on BTalk Australia Phil Dobbie talks...
Tags: Team, Acquisition, Merger, M&A, Customer, Organization, Diligence, Max Coulthard, Management Departure Rate, Human Being, Mergers & Acquisitions, Team Management, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Management, Business Operations, Phil Dobbie
Blog posts 2008-07-22
Neil Winton: Worst may be ahead for Europe's carmakers
Europe's car manufacturers performed pitifully in the second quarter with the exception of Germany's Volkswagen and to a lesser degree Italy's Fiat, but all are banking on the underlying markets rallying and riding to their rescue. Most are likely to be disappointed. Europe's car markets have been propped up in...
Tags: Fiat, car, BMW AG, Volvo, Renault, VW, Lawson Software Inc., Peugeot
News items 2009-08-11
Bendiqo the king of cost control
ONE OF THE MOST STRIKING features of Bendigo Bank's growth strategy in recent years is that it has been able to increase income at a "significantly faster" rate than expenses. Managing director Rob Hunt says that white the bank, rated No 1 in terms of customer satisfaction in Australia,...
Tags: bank, Banking, Bendigo Bank, FINANCE, income, performance
Research articles 2004-02-29
Need to know: Greggs profits rise ... Citigroup to be sued ... Thorntons credit facility ...
View video and Need to Know interactive heatmap Economics Trade gap: The trade in goods deficit widened in June to £6.45 billion, after a surge in imports of oil. The gap was bigger than the £6.174 billion reported in May. Imports rose by 2.2 per cent, the biggest increase since...
Tags: loss, Bank, report, mortgage, lender
News items 2009-08-11
A Strategy for Widespread Photovoltaic Deployment in California
The following document is submitted as a subset of an overall plan for conservation, energy efficiency and renewables. The proposed guidelines, strategies and actions should become part of a concerted effort by the State to help alleviate the current energy crisis by establishing a long term, comprehensive strategy to improve...
Tags: Renewable Energy, Photovoltaics, PowerLight Corp., Conservation, State, Strategy, Telecom & Utilities, Management
White papers 2001-02-16
HNI Corporation Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Ladies and gentleman, we will now begin the question and answer session of our conference. [Operator Instructions]. Our first question comes from the line of Budd Bugatch at Raymond James. Please go ahead. Budd Bugatch - Raymond James & Associates, Inc. Good...
Tags: HNI Corp.
Earnings calls 2007-10-18
Coordinating Inventory Control And Pricing Strategies
We analyze a finite horizon, single product, periodic review model in which pricing and production/inventory decisions are made simultaneously. Demands in different periods are random variables that are independent of each other and their distributions depend on the product price. Pricing and ordering decisions are made at the beginning of...
Tags: Inventory Control, Pricing Strategy, Pricing, Marketing Research, Marketing
White papers 2004-11-01
A CIO's Defense Against Security Risks
Information has become the lifeline for business sustainability and competitive advantage. In order to capitalize on this information, it is critical that CIOs address how to cost-effectively store, archive and retrieve what has become a virtual explosion of information within their organizations. CIOs must also consider how to protect and...
Tags: security
News items 2009-11-18
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