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Arizona State University Relies on BitGravity HD Video Delivery for Complex, Collaborative Decision-Making and Visualization Projects
BitGravity, Inc., provider of next-generation Content Delivery Networks CDNs for interactive broadcasting, today announced that Arizona State University ASU is relying on BitGravity's high-definition video delivery capability for the complex, collaborative decision-making and visualization projects enabled by Arizona State's Decision Theater. "Decision Theater is a dynamic environment that allows...
Tags: Arizona State University, decision-making, MARKETING, sustainability, video
Research articles 2008-10-15
Symphony Metreo and Ventana Research Present Best Practices for Bridging the Operations Management Divide Between Analysis and Decision Making
Joint Webinar Identifies the Cornerstones for Achieving Better Cross-Functional Planning and Execution Using the Right Mix of People, Process and Technology PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Symphony Metreo, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise pricing and operations management solutions, today announced a joint webinar with Ventana Research titled, "Best Practices...
Tags: analysis, decision-making, Ventana Research, webinar
Research articles 2008-09-29
New ATC System Model Tracks Variables Without Human Input
University of Texas professor Constantine Caramanis and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT are working on an air traffic decision-making system that rapidly adapts its flight recommendations without human input based on thousands of changing variables. The computer model Caramanis, lead researcher Cynthia Barnhart,...
Tags: decision-making, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research articles 2008-09-22
FT
Carrefour has kicked off the hunt for a new chief executive, the Financial Times reported, with the European retail giant calling in headhunters to identify a successor to the embattled Jose-Luis Duran. Carrefour chose Duran for the role in 2005, but has seen its share price plummet by more than...
Tags: decision-making, Financial Times
Research articles 2008-08-09
Hormone serotonin, impulsivity linked in British study
WASHINGTON AFP — Serotonin plays a key role in regulating emotions such as aggression and impulsivity during decision making, according to British research appearing Thursday in the United States. Neurologists and psychiatrists have long linked serotonin, a hormone that transmits chemical messages between nerve cells, and social behavior, but...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, decision-making, University of Cambridge
Research articles 2008-06-05
Weather and the calculated risk: exploiting forecast uncertainty for operational risk management
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Air Force SMART Operations 21 (AFSO21) has prompted a fresh look at ways to improve combat capability, including enhancing the decision-making process. (1) Highly effective and efficient operations require optimal decision making in situations that involve risk of unfavorable outcomes. Such risk exists due to uncertainty in...
Tags: Air Force, decision-making, Manufacturing, SALES, SAM, U.S. Department of Defense
Research articles 2008-03-22
END-USER ORIENTED PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS IN REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY
ABSTRACT. The European Union EU is reforming its public services and suggesting Public-Private Partnerships PPPs as a solution for producing high quality and cost effective real estate service delivery. However, the use of PPP approach in real estate industries has been found to have significant constraints related to the end-users'...
Tags: decision-making, European Commission, M., NETWORKING, partnership, PPP
Research articles 2008-03-01
Key politicians switch support to Mugabe's presidential rival
BULAWAYO AFP — Two political heavyweights endorsed former minister Simba Makoni's bid for the Zimbabwean presidency Saturday -- including a serving official with the party of rival candidate President Robert Mugabe. Dumiso Dabengwa, a former home affairs minister and a member of the ruling ZANU-PF party's key decision making...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, decision-making, Zimbabwe
Research articles 2008-03-01
ENERGY-CLIMATE PACKAGE : PRESIDENCY GETS DECISION-MAKING BALL ROLLING.
On 24 January, Janez Podobnik, Slovenia's environment minister and president-in-office of the EU Council, kicked off the decision-making process on the energy-climate package presented by the European Commission the day before. He convened an informal meeting in Brussels with representatives of the next three EU Presidencies...
Tags: agreement, decision-making, delegation, environment, European Commission, European Parliament, minister, Sweden
Research articles 2008-02-07
Experts Today Reveal New Approach to Managing High Data Volumes
New IT Mindset is Required for Handling Detailed Business Information, These Experts Say PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Experts in handling business information in leading companies across America will today reveal a new IT approach to effectively managing the enormous volumes of data about their businesses. Speakers from Google, Intel,...
Tags: decision-making, International Data Corp., SOFTWARE, speaker, Strategy, Teradata
Research articles 2008-02-06
Transforming resource management to support an Army at war: the Army's chief financial officer examines three priorities for best use of the nation's money
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] All managers, in both the public and private sectors, recognize that money is an essential element for meeting institutional objectives. While it might seem a bit of a stretch, the case can be made that money is an important weapon for today's Army. General Dave Petraeus, now...
Tags: analysis, asset, decision-making, FINANCE, financial, leader, Leadership, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2007-12-22
To bomb or not to bomb? Counterinsurgency, airpower, and dynamic targeting
Editorial Abstract: Air strikes, independent from ground operations, are known as "dynamic targeting." These types of strikes have typically been counterproductive in counterinsurgency campaigns due to subsequent collateral damage, whether real or perceived. However, Major Brown asserts that commanders and planners who integrate dynamic targeting into the counterinsurgency campaign using...
Tags: Air Force, decision-making, Leadership, staff, strike
Research articles 2007-12-22
News: Risk-sharing must involve trustees in decision making.
Byline: Hannah Williams Benefit adjustment decisions needed for implementing risk-sharing schemes should be made by trustees, not employers, consultants have warned. The Association of Consulting Actuaries ACA recently proposed a blueprint for conditionally-indexed schemes, where annual pension earnings...
Tags: adjustment, Australian Communications Authority, Benefits, decision-making
Research articles 2007-11-26
Minimizing risk of transfer pricing audit and awakening the giant of corporate stewardship: an ethical decision making model for multinational enterprise transfer pricing
ABSTRACT This manuscript presents an ethical decision making model EDMM for transfer pricing TP. The EDMM has been theoretically and empirically supported in the strategic management, marketing, and ethics literatures, but never applied in a TP context. The model is embedded into the realities and risks presented in TP...
Tags: audit, decision-making, FINANCE, marketing, OECD, ProQuest, Taxes
Research articles 2007-07-01
Paradoxes of legislatures
Capitalism and democracy have coexisted in so many countries in the last two centuries that they appear to stand in a cause-and-effect relationship. However, it has become ever clearer that capitalism does not inevitably lead to democracy. That they frequently coexist only demonstrates that they are compatible. Yet, despite this...
Tags: decision-making, democracy, Government, legislator, paradox, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2007-07-01
THE CEO: THE CHIEF ENGAGEMENT OFFICER
THE CEO: THE CHIEF ENGAGEMENT OFFICERby John Smythe, Gower, 2007Not since Communicating for Productivity by Roger D'Aprix (1982) has there been a book more likely to impact what communicators do on the job than this one.Drawing on research conducted by Smythe and consulting firm McKinsey & Co., the book argues...
Tags: CEO, communicator, decision-making, McKinsey & Co., Outsourcing
Research articles 2007-06-01
Local Banking Veterans to Lead Pinnacle in Knoxville
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Pinnacle Financial Partners Inc.(Nasdaq/NGS: PNFP): Webcast to begin at 10:00 a.m. CDT April 9, 2007 Presentation and streaming audio: www.pnfp.com/knoxville Audio only: 1-800-322-9079 (passcode - 8622608) Long-term Knoxville financial professionals Nathan Hunter and Mike DiStefano have joined forces to lead Nashville-based Pinnacle Financial...
Tags: banking, decision-making, FINANCE, financial, Pinnacle Financial Partners Inc.
Research articles 2007-04-09
Scientists Urge Execs to Be Choosy about Choices
The Find: The ability to make good decisions is key to management and rests on a brain function called "executive function," but psychologists warn that this decision making function is far more easily depleted than once thought. The Source: A fascinating article in Scientific American....
Tags: Workforce Management, Human Resources, Management, Recruitment & Selection, Tools & Techniques, Executive Function, Cookie, Decision, Decision-making, Job, Jessica Stillman
Blog posts 2008-07-25
Information Overload Can Threaten Sound Decision-Making
Along-running debate about whether to develop a unique set of financial reporting standards for small and medium-sized entities SME or, alternatively, to extract from existing standards [e.g., U.S. GAAP or International Financial Reporting Standards IFRS] a slimmed-down set of requirements to serve as these enterprises' primary source of guidance, has...
Tags: accounting, decision-making, FINANCE, financial, Financial Accounting Standards Board, GAAP, Quality, standards
Research articles 2007-03-01
Modeling the root zone for improved decision making.(Root Zone Water Quality Model)(Brief article)
The area immediately surrounding a plant's roots is the site of physical, chemical, and biological activities that govern the plant's growth and its influence on the environment. In the early 1990s, the USDA Agricultural Research Service ARS Agricultural Systems Research Unit in Fort Collins,...
Tags: decision-making, modeling, PRODUCTIVITY, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Research articles 2007-03-01
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