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Clinical Audits: A Critical Component in Effective Health Care Management
For employers crafting mid-to-long term cost management solutions in their medical benefit plans it is critical they understand the demographics of their employee population and the clinical conditions driving medical costs. Conducting a clinical audit of their health plan or care management service provider is useful in identifying the operational...
Tags: Aon Consulting, Audit, Cost Management, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
White papers 2002-11-01
Watson Wyatt Worldwide F3Q09 (Qtr End 3/31/09) Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions. Your first question comes from the line of Josh Vogel from Sidoti & Co. Please proceed. Josh Vogel - Sidoti & Co. Hey good morning, thank you. You guys obviously did a good job, getting margins back up and keeping them up in the Insurance...
Tags: Watson Wyatt Worldwide, Cost Management, Margin, Call Transcript, Earnings, Managerial Accounting, Insurance, Financial Planning, Human Capital, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2009-05-08
Watson Wyatt Worldwide Inc. F2Q09 (Qtr End 12/31/08) Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Ashwin Shirvaikar - City Group. Ashwin Shirvaikar - City Group So I heavily appreciate the clarity of the press release separating out the impact of currency from the factor that you can actually control. My first question is,...
Tags: Cost Management, Call Transcript, Earnings, Managerial Accounting, Human Capital, Operational Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Seeking Alpha, Watson Wyatt Worldwide
Earnings calls 2009-02-05

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Business Process Outsourcing: Moving Up The Knowledge Continuum – Outsourcing Risk Management And Claim Processing
The article tries to convey that in outsourcing risk management and claims processing, insurance carriers and self-insurers are learning many of the same lessons that others have learned from outsourcing efforts in IT and human resources. Companies considering any business process outsourcing must develop a sourcing strategy. The strategy should...
Tags: Business Process, BPO, Knowledge, Outsourcing, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
White papers 2003-01-01
Human Resources Executives Invited to Participate in No-Cost Benchmarking Research: APQC Metric Research Modules Designed to Help Organizations Increase Productivity and Efficiency
HOUSTON -- Now that human resources has assumed a more strategic role within the enterprise, HR departments across the globe are being asked to help businesses enhance their overall performance through better management of employees. To that end, HR executives must ensure that their own human capital management HCM processes...
Tags: APQC, Human Resources
Research articles 2007-10-09
The Department of the Treasury's HR Connect Human Resources System Was Not Effectively Implemented
This report presents the results of our review of the implementation of the Department of the Treasury's HR Connect human resources system in the Internal Revenue Service IRS. This audit was conducted in response to a request from the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Management/Chief Financial Officer CFO. In...
Tags: Human Resources, Treasury
White papers 2005-02-14
Business Transformation Outsourcing: Human Resources
In an uncertain economy, companies are seeking innovative, cost-effective ways to enhance shareholder value and satisfy strategic and management needs. This paper describes one way of reaching those objectives is to streamline Human Resources HR processes through a global resource strategy. Business Transformation Outsourcing for human resources can help transform...
Tags: Human Resources, Payroll, Outsourcing
White papers 2003-09-01
Kronos® Forms Relationship with Learn.com to Bring Learning Management Functionality to Human Resources Customers
Enables joint customers to more proactively improve organizational performance CHELMSFORD, Mass. -- In response to demand from its human resources customers for affordable and easy-to-implement enterprise learning management functionality, Kronos([R]) Incorporated today announced that it has formed a strategic relationship with Learn.com. As a result of this agreement, Kronos...
Tags: Learn.Com Inc.
Research articles 2008-09-17
The Center for Management & Executive Education in the Sam M. Walton College of Business and the Office of Human Resources at the University of Arkansas are sponsoring "The Disney Institute Keys to Excellence."
The Center for Management & Executive Education in the Sam M. Walton College of Business and the Office of Human Resources at the University of Arkansas are sponsoring "The Disney Institute Keys to Excellence." The full-day program will be held from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sept. 18 in the...
Tags: Disney Institute
Research articles 2008-09-08
The New Human-Capital Metrics: A Sophisticated Crop of Measurement Tools Could Take the Guesswork Out of Human-Resources Management
The human-resources department is in survival mode. As outsourcing the function becomes a more-prevalent option for companies, HR managers know that if they are going to endure, they have to deliver strategic value, and that value has to be measurable. With that in mind, many companies are forging ahead on...
Tags: Human Resources, CFO Publishing Corp., Tool
White papers 2006-02-15
Managing Demographic Risk
The Idea in Brief Around the globe, workforces are steadily aging, thanks to declining birth rates and the graying of the baby boom generation. Soon, boomers will be retiring in droves, taking critical knowledge and skills with...
Tags: Anders Fahlander, Jens Baier, Rainer Strack, In Brief, Harvard Business Review, Workforce Management, Job, Worker, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources
Articles 2008-03-03
Reducing and Managing Workplace Absenteeism
Productivity loss due to absenteeism is a serious and growing challenge. In the United States, the annual cost to employers for time lost due to accidents is almost $100 billion, and other unscheduled worker absences costs even more. Absence management is a growing body of knowledge and experience that managers...
Tags: absenteeism, management, workplace, team
Articles 2007-03-27
Moon Landing: A Giant Leap for Man-Management
The Apollo 11 moon landing 40 years ago yesterday was a huge waste of money, but so what? Landing three men on the moon on 20 July 1969 is a triumph of endeavour that arguably hasn't been topped since. The Apollo programme employed 390,000 people (around the same...
Tags: NASA, Moon, Roger D. Launius, Team Management, Leadership, Management, Julian Goldsmith
Blog posts 2009-07-21
The Irrational Side of Change Management
Most change programs fail, but the odds of success can be greatly improved by taking into account these counterintuitive insights about how employees interpret their environment and choose to act. In 1996, John Kotter published Leading Change. Considered by many to be the seminal work...
Tags: Employee, Leader, Story, Change Management, Leadership, Tools & Techniques, Management, Functions, Organization, Carolyn Aiken and Scott Keller
Articles 2009-05-15
mySAP ERP Human Capital Management at Dow Corning
Dow Corning initiated a cost-reduction strategy to maintain its market position in the increasingly cost-competitive silicone industry. To remain competitive amidst these new market dynamics, silicone manufacturers have needed to streamline processes, reduce costs, and rationalize global operations. Dow Corning responded to market pressures by first implementing a global single...
Tags: mySAP ERP, mySAP, Capital Management, Corning Inc., Human Capital Management, The Dow Chemical Co., Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Software
Case studies 2004-09-01
How Siemens? Computerized Physician Order Entry Helps Prevent the Human Error
Healthcare systems in most countries are struggling with the increasing demand for healthcare services, increasing cost, limited financial resources and an increasing public demand for substantial quality improvements. Efficiency gains can help overcome these challenges. Increased automation in healthcare, utilizing electronic solutions designed for process improvements and active workflow management,...
Tags: Quality Improvement, Financial, Physician, Siemens AG, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
White papers 2003-08-26
Professional Employer Outsourcing Primer: A Cost Comparison to Traditional Human Resource Departments
The nerve center of employee management, a company's Human Resources department keeps the company running smoothly through the administration of benefits, maintenance of the workforce, and resolution of internal conflicts. The impact of HR activity, therefore, pervades the company, providing an overall boost to business effectiveness and employee productivity....
Tags: Human Resources, Outsourcing, Odyssey OneSource
White papers 2006-12-01
Virtualisation and Automation | BTalk Australia
(16min 16) BMC Software is one of a number of businesses offering Business Service Management software. The company has been beating the recession in the US, with strong growth in 2008 and an optimistic outlook for 2009. What’s the secret? The answer might be how the company...
Tags: BMC Software Inc., CIO, Virtualization, Information Technology, Australia, Investment, Customer, Business, Automation, Steve O'Connor, Strategy, It Management, Management, It service Management, Phil Dobbie
Blog posts 2009-02-12
Cost-cutting consultants thrive as others founder; Clients call for help managing benefits administration, health plans, pay.(Brief Article)
Nuts-and-bolts human resources consulting is hot. But fancy flow charts and technology consulting are not. While the economic downturn has whacked classic, big-name management consultant firms, niche firms that specialize in the humdrum realm of h Nuts-and-bolts human resources consulting is hot. But...
Tags: health care, Human Resources, PBM, Towers Perrin
Research articles 2002-04-22
Turning Human Resources Into Profit Centers: A Comprehensive Look at How Tax and HR Departments Are Merging Due to the Proliferation of Integrated Hiring Management Systems
Traditionally, the tax credit process has been managed by a company's tax department. With the adoption of Hiring Management Systems HMS, which allow companies to automate their hiring process and Workforce or Talent Management Systems WS that manage the entire employment lifecycle, the overall management of the tax credit process...
Tags: Hiring, Tax Credit, First Advantage, Taxes, Recruitment & Selection, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers 2004-08-01
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