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How To Make A Decision

When you ask a question about how to make a decision, there are two things you need to consider, you and your decision-making process. If you need to do a particular job, typically, you would use a particular tool that forms a certain function. If the tool is not in...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, decision-making, tool, job

White papers 2007-12-01

Taking Different Approaches to a Problem

We are under such time pressures at work that we tend to solve problems based on what has worked in the past. This approach precludes us from finding new and effective solutions. Instead, we look for “quick fixes.” Considering a problem from different perspectives helps us solve...

Tags: BNET Editorial, appraisal

Articles 2007-12-03

"Planning" To Make A Decision?

It is a fact that most businesses fail not because they did not make decisions but because they did not make good decisions. With so much riding on your ability to make the right decisions it is prudent to brush up on the technique of decision making and the process...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, decision-making, technique

White papers 2003-01-01

Is Your Company Ready for ERP?

Today's managers are finding it increasingly difficult to make strategic and tactical decisions because the information needed to make those decisions is not readily available. The data needed for analysis is often stored on different computers and in different programs. These computer systems are usually not integrated and therefore it...

Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), PRODUCTIVITY, Gale Group, ERP, business process, analysis, computer

White papers 2004-07-01

Field Development Engine: The Flexible and Powerful Solution for Reservoir Decisions

Contemporary E&P professionals are required to make complex technical and economic field development decisions in ever-shorter timeframes. With the right combination of innovative technology solutions, companies can easily become equipped with the tools to dramatically accelerate field development workflows, increase productivity, and ultimately make better and faster decisions. The ability...

Tags: Landmark Graphics Corp., tool

White papers 2004-05-24

A Hybrid Approach to Manufacturing Enterprise Simulation

Manufacturing enterprise decisions can be classified into four groups: business decisions, design decisions, engineering decisions, and production decisions. Numerous physical and software simulation techniques have been used to evaluate specific decisions by predicting their impact on the system as measured by one or more performance measures. This paper focuses on...

Tags: Semiconductors, semiconductor, manufacturing, technique, benefit, performance

White papers 2003-10-31

Basic Techniques For Analyzing And Presentation Of Cost Risk Analysis

Capital costs are quantified estimated, analyzed and presented as part of the strategic decision making process in today's business environment. Strategic decisions are usually centered on new product introductions, increased capacity for existing products, vertical business integration, or other decisions that generally affect the balance sheet of a corporation. Strategic...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, risk analysis, technique, decision-making, analysis

White papers 2003-01-01

Additional Resources

Authentic personal branding: most buying decisions are based on trust, confidence, and emotions people have related to a product, service, or person. Branding is more important than marketing and sales. Branding is influencing, by creating a brand identity that associates certain perceptions and feelings with that identity. To be successful in life, you need a personal brand to sell yourself

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A BRAND is the expectations, image, and perceptions it creates in the minds of others, when they see or hear a name, product or logo. Microsoft, Nike, Toyota, Volvo, and Coke tell us how they want us to perceive their products. These brands don't communicate about...

Articles 2008-12-01

Pinnacle Capital Mortgage Taps Loan-Score to Help Launch New Mortgage Lending Operation

Loan-Score Decisioning Systems, an enterprise-class pricing and automated underwriting solutions provider,announced that Pinnacle Capital Mortgage Corp. PCM, a newly formedwholesale mortgage lender, has signed with the company to utilize itsbest-of-breed decisioning solution and seamless integration with itsrecently purchased back-end loan processing system, Del Mar DataTrac® .Loan-Score's solution...

Articles 2008-07-17

Five New Clients Deploy Peanut Labs' Optimus Digital Fingerprinting Technology

News Facts Peanut Labs today announced that five market research firms, includingDecipher, ReRez and Sample Czar, have deployed Peanut Labs' Optimustechnology to combat fraudulent online responses. Since unveiling Optimus this spring, Peanut Labs has drawn significantattention to how technology can effectively improve online data quality,culminating with the announcement of...

Articles 2008-07-17

Utah Business Week is not your ordinary summer camp

LOGAN -- "Whooo, look at your profits!" Jim Pehkonen tells a group of high school students. "As far as profits go, you guys are doing great." Pehkonen, a Salt Lake City entrepreneur, is an adviser to these 11 students attending the 28th annual Utah Business Week at...

Articles 2008-07-17

nuBridges Partners With Government Sales Force to Penetrate Federal, State and Local Government Markets

nuBridges, Inc., the secure eBusinessauthority, announced today that it has partnered with Government SalesForce GSF to sell its security software and data exchange solutions tothe U.S. Federal Government as well as to state and local governments. "GSF is one of the foremost government sales outsourcing firms representingtechnology solutions today," said...

Articles 2008-07-16

Ektron and MResult Team Up to Offer Customizable Starter Sites for the Manufacturing Industry

Leading business intelligence and Web service provider leverages Ektron CMS400.NET to develop a custom Web site for the Manufacturing Industry NEW LONDON, Conn. & NASHUA, N.H. -- MResult[R] Corp. and Ektron Inc., a technology and market leader in Web content management software, today announced the availability of a...

Articles 2008-07-16

Enable Your Sales, Marketing And Product Teams To Address Your IT Audience

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/489af0/technology_priorit) has announced the addition of the "Technology Priorities in Media H2 2007 Databook" report to their offering. This databook from the Technology Trends service helps vendors to understand technology investment priorities in media. The data has been drawn from interviews with...

Articles 2008-07-16

Pitney Bowes MapInfo Unveils GroundView™ Demographics to Support More Confident Business Decisions

Pitney Bowes MapInfo Integrates Household Geodemographics with The Gadberry Group's MicroBuild([R]) Data, Providing Timely, Reliable Market Analytics TROY, N.Y. -- Pitney Bowes MapInfo, the leading global provider of location intelligence, today introduced GroundView[TM] data, a joint demographic data offering with The Gadberry Group, a provider of location-based services...

Articles 2008-07-16

Ahura Scientific's TruDefender FT Named Frost & Sullivan 2008 Chemical Identification Product of the Year

Ahura Scientific, Inc. , a leaderin rugged, ultra-compact handheld instruments for chemical identification,today announced that its TruDefenderTM FT has received the distinguishedFrost & Sullivan 2008 Chemical Identification Product of the Year Award.This award recognizes Ahura Scientific's significant accomplishment in thedevelopment of its technologically-advanced Fourier-Transform InfraredFTIR-based chemical identification solution. Ahura Scientific's...

Articles 2008-07-16

Honeywell & API Sign a Long-Term Material Management Agreement

Aerospace Products International, Inc. ("API"),a wholly-owned subsidiary of First Aviation Services Inc. (PINKSHEETS: FAVS), a leading supplier of innovative distribution and supply chainservices for the aviation industry, announces a long-term agreement withHoneywell International, Inc. (NYSE: HON) providing consignment inventorymanaged by API's Electronic Supply Program ("ESP") at Honeywell's Tucson,AZ manufacturing, repair...

Articles 2008-07-16

OSRAM Sheds Light on Supply Chain With ToolsGroup Solution

ToolsGroup , a global provider ofdemand-driven inventoryoptimization solutions, announced that OSRAM S.p.A. has contracted toimplement the company's Service Optimizer 99+ (SO 99+) solution. With sales of 4.7 billion Euros in 2007, OSRAM is one of the largestlighting manufacturers in the world. Part of the Siemens AG Group, it...

Articles 2008-07-16

Toyota to Acquire Land for New Plant in Brazil

Tokyo, July 16, 2008 - JCN Newswire - Toyota Motor Corporation TMC announces its decision to acquire land in the city of Sorocaba, in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo, as the site for a new plant for Toyota do Brasil Ltda. TDB, TMC's Brazil-based sales and manufacturing company. ...

Articles 2008-07-16

American Suzuki Automotive Names Siltanen as New Advertising Agency

BREA, Calif. -- In a move designed to build upon the company's recent success and rapidly improving brand image, American Suzuki Motor Corporation ASMC today announced Siltanen & Partners (S&P), an independent agency based in Marina del Rey, Calif., as the company's new U.S. advertising agency of record for its...

Articles 2008-07-15