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New Tools Help Internal Auditors Transform Purchase-to-Payment Audits for Competitive Advantage: Internal auditors and corporate executives are always looking for ways to give their company a competitive edge. One highly examined area is the purchase-to-payment function. In the purchase-to-payment function, historically internal auditors review samples of transactions for exceptions. If they find none, they conclude there is no problem. The article...; Tags: Protiviti, data analysis, competitive advantage, audit, compliance, tool; White papers
data analysis Yields Rx for Process Improvements: A leading group purchasing organization (GPO) for hospitals and medical clinics, with more than $5 billion in annual purchases, wanted to upgrade its transactional supply chain to improve visibility and further enhance membership benefits. The organization hired UPS consulting to help it meet this challenge. Consequently, the company analyzed member...; Tags: United Parcel Service of America Inc., process improvement, data analysis, supply chain, supplier; Case studies
The Life-or-Death Importance of data analysis: The Life-or-Death Importance of Data AnalysisGreat articleThanks for taking the time to provide this great content.; Tags: Databases, Life-or-Death Importance, data analysis; Discussion threads 2007-03-08
The Life-or-Death Importance of data analysis: So you’re having a heart-attack, and you’re sitting in the waiting room instead of the operating room because the hospital failed to analyze their performance data. They had tons of data on waiting time, to be sure—they just hadn’t looked at it. An article from today’s NYT gives a frightening...; Tags: Andrew Hines, U.C.S.F., patient, data analysis; Blog posts 2007-03-07
Improving Productivity In Manufacturing Environments Using Data Mining: Current production and manufacturing environments are drowning in data and starving for information. As a result, data mining is an area of interest to many manufacturing companies. Tons of data can be collected with relative ease, but the core issue is how to obtain timely & critical information for decision-making...; Tags: University of Pittsburgh, manufacturing, data analysis, data mining, decision-making, supply chain, technique, environment; White papers 2006-09-03

WebArray: An Online Platform for Microarray data analysis: Many cutting-edge microarray analysis tools and algorithms, including commonly used limma and affy packages in Bioconductor, need sophisticated knowledge of mathematics, statistics and computer skills for implementation. Commercially available software can provide a user-friendly interface at considerable cost. To facilitate the use of these tools for microarray data analysis on...; Tags: BioMed Central, data analysis, tool, knowledge, analysis, computer, software; White papers 2005-12-21
Towards the Knowledge Economy: The Technological Innovation and Education Impact on the Value Creation Process: Emerging as one of the most important corporate assets, there is evidence that, in some developed countries, the impact of knowledge capital in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) now surpasses the fixed capital. This paper uses quantitative data to broadly qualify the impact of the two main building blocks in...; Tags: Innovation, Education, Data Analysis, Knowledge, Information And Communication Technology, Strategy, Knowledge Management, Management, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2005-12-01
microCAT +SPECT: Designed to meet the throughput, resolution and image quality requirements of academic and pharmaceutical research, the Siemens microCAT sets the standard for in vivo preclinical micro computed tomography. With a range of x-ray source and detector configurations available, the ability to adjust the scanner magnification between scans, and a suite...; Tags: Scanners, Siemens AG, scanner, data analysis; White papers 2005-10-01
Does Political Instability Lead to Higher Inflation? A Panel data analysis: Economists generally accept the proposition that high inflation rates generate inefficiencies that reduce society's welfare and economic growth. Based on a dataset covering around 100 countries for the period 1960-99 and using modern panel data econometric techniques to control for endogeneity, this paper shows that a higher degree of political...; Tags: Currency & Foreign exchange, IMF, inflation, instability, data analysis, technique; White papers 2005-03-01
Applied data analysis For Process Improvement: When the author first came up with the idea of intuitive statistics, he had no idea others had already written on the subject. However, as he was to discover, the term intuitive statistics has a variety of meanings. Gerd Gigerenzer and David J. Murray report the term was probably first...; Tags: American Society For Quality, process improvement; White papers 2005-02-15
Non-Linear Mapping for Exploratory data analysis in Functional Genomics: This study indicates such a system that may represent a user-friendly and robust approach to exploratory data analysis. It may allow users to gain better insights into the underlying data structure, detect potential outliers and assess assumptions about the cluster composition of the data. This research assesses a relaxation method...; Tags: BioMed Central, data analysis; White papers 2005-01-20
STATISTICA for Six Sigma Applications: data analysis Solutions for the Variety of Applications and Requirements Throughout the Enterprise - A StatSoft White Paper: At the highest level, the Six Sigma methodology and tools are about data driven-driven decision-making throughout the enterprise, by knowledge workers at all levels, for continual process improvement. Data and data analysis play a huge role in this endeavor, as do many other critical success factors such as teambuilding and...; Tags: TQM/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Tools & Techniques, StatSoft, Six Sigma, data analysis, process improvement, project management, decision-making, tool; White papers 2005-01-14
Current Practices in Cancer Spatial data analysis: A Call for Guidance: There has long been a recognition that place matters in health, from recognition of clusters of yellow fever and cholera in the 1800s to modern day analyses of regional and neighborhood effects on cancer patterns. The paper here provides a summary of discussions about current practices in the spatial analysis...; Tags: BioMed Central, data analysis, health care, analysis; White papers 2005-01-13
Enhancing Government Decision Making Through Knowledge Discovery From Data: A major challenge facing management in developed countries is improving the performance of knowledge and service workers, i.e. the decision makers. This paper discusses the development of a knowledge-base to aid government decision makers in interpreting the results of the National Research and Technology (NRT) Audit that was undertaken by...; Tags: Strategy, knowledge, data analysis, decision-making, audit, performance; White papers 2004-11-27
The SAP Netweaver Platform Provides Chemical Processor With Timely, Multiplatform Reporting in Slovenia: As a company poised for growth, Belinka Group (Belinka), a holding company and four subsidiaries based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, was looking for better, faster access to company data for company executives. They also wanted to give the IT group better tools to create that reporting environment and to support data...; Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Enterprise software, Slovenia, ERP, SAP AG, data analysis, Strategic Planning, Unix, processor, environment, tool; Case studies 2004-11-01
The Determinants of Venture Capital: A Panel data analysis of 16 OECD Countries: The objective of this paper is to identify the main determinants of venture capital (VC). It develops a theoretical model where three main types of factors affect the demand and supply of VC: macroeconomic conditions, technological opportunity, and the entrepreneurial environment. The model is evaluated with a panel dataset of...; Tags: Investment, venture capital, OECD, entrepreneurial, data analysis; White papers 2004-04-01
Mn/ROAD TDR Evaluation and data analysis: Water content measurement using time domain reflectometry (TDR) is an important integral component of Minnesota Road Research Project (Mn/ROAD) program. However, erroneous and inaccurate water content values are frequently generated using existing data collection and interpretation procedures. The report focuses on the development a new composition-based calibration between water content...; Tags: University of Minnesota, calibration, data analysis; White papers 2003-12-01
The Allometry of Non-Employment: What Can Compositional data analysis Tell Us About Labour Market Performance Across the UK's Regions?: The low levels of unemployment recorded in the UK in recent years are widely cited as evidence of the country's improved economic performance, and the apparent convergence of unemployment rates across the country's regions used to suggest that the longstanding divide in living standards between the relatively prosperous 'south' and...; Tags: U.K., data analysis, performance; White papers 2003-10-01
Delta Air Logistics - Baseline data analysis: After preliminary analysis to decide which factors are potentially critical to the delivery process (what to focus on), the center of the study switches to confirming which factors are actually critical. The CIT, through use of the C&E Matrix and FMEA, decided on the multiple factors that could deliver the...; Tags: baseline, analysis, data analysis, logistics; White papers 2003-01-01
Human Error in Maritime Operations: Analyses of Accident Reports Using the Leximancer Tool: This paper focuses on the problem of lack of Situation Awareness (SA) by mariners. An analysis of a large number of accident reports was conducted in order to determine the extent to which SA is a relevant issue in merchant shipping operations. For the first time use was made of...; Tags: Data Analysis, Accident, Analysis, Policies And Procedures, Human Resources; White papers 2002-06-04