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Sink or Swim Business: To boost your organization, fire all the managers. That's one aspect of Ralph Sink's views on management. He's interviewed by strategy+business titled Business Success from the Bottom Up (registration required). Sink is a proponent of high-performance systems, which the magazine describes thusly: ...; Tags: Leadership, Financial accounting, Michael Fitzgerald, Ralph Sink; Blog posts 2008-04-22
Intelsat and Triaton Bring High Performance to Auto Parts Manufacturing: Dräxlmaier - a manufacturer of automobile components - includes among its customer base such renowned automobile manufacturers as Daimler Chrysler, BMW and VW/Audi. With more than 18,000 employees in 40 locations in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Dräxlmaier places very high value on preventing interruptions in...; Tags: Manufacturing, Intelsat Ltd., manufacturer, high-performance, satellite; Case studies
Unlocking the High Performance Organisation: Managers of modern organisations are in a bind. As competitive pressures rise, and as new technologies emerge, accountability for the performance of increasingly complex organisations is in the hands of a smaller band of or decreasing number of managers. Existing management approaches are struggling to provide both the clarity and...; Tags: Performance, High-performance, Manager, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management; White papers
Marketing Mastery: How High Performance Businesses Drive Profitable Growth: Accenture research suggests that market leaders climb to the top of their segments by building incredibly strong bonds with their customers. They've done so by mastering the skills and capabilities that form the core of marketing - especially those identified as having a significant impact on loyalty - and by...; Tags: Marketing research, BetterManagement.com, marketing, bond, high-performance, sales; White papers
Achieving High Performance Through Collaborative Warranty Management: That warranty revenues are continuing to plunge is nothing new to the industry. How companies are beginning to address the problem is. In the past, warranty issues were viewed "between the four walls" of a given Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), supplier or dealer. When problems arose, the workings of the...; Tags: Channel management, Leadership, Manufacturing, Accenture Ltd., OEM, high-performance, supplier, value chain, manufacturer, wall, partnership, industry; White papers

Workforce Performance Services for the Life Sciences Industry: Accenture delivers tangible advantage to its clients looking to achieve high performance through Workforce Performance improvements. Accenture has played a key role in empirically establishing the connection between human capital investments and high performance. Research conducted by the Accenture Institute for High Performance Business and Science Magazine within pharmaceutical companies...; Tags: Leadership, human capital, high-performance, Accenture Ltd., workforce; White papers
Customer Relationship Management Services for the Payers & Health Plans Industry: Accenture's aim is to support high-performance revenue growth through effective management and development of the customer relationship. High-performance health plans understand their internal and external customers and enabled by technology, make decisions on how to meet their unique needs and desires. Customer Insight is achieved through the collection and analysis...; Tags: Leadership, high-performance, Accenture Ltd., CRM, analysis, health care, marketing; White papers
Services for Defense Agencies: In today's high-stakes environment, defense organizations around the world must be increasingly flexible and efficient, and make faster, more informed decisions. Accenture helps defense organizations meet rising performance demands by helping identify and deliver cost-effective solutions that produce immediate, consistent, high-performance results. In just a few short years, the world's...; Tags: Accenture Ltd., terrorism, high-performance, performance, environment; White papers
The Impact of High Performance Work on Industry-Level Outcomes: Organizations today face an increasingly competitive and rapidly changing environment. A variety of factors including globalization, technological breakthroughs, rapid innovation, and deregulation have eliminated competitive barriers and forced many organizations to fundamentally reformulate how they attain competitive advantage on a level playing field. In an era of "Leaner and meaner"...; Tags: Performance management, Leadership, Strategy, Gale Group, globalization, barrier, competitive advantage, high-performance, performance, environment; White papers
High Performance Leadership for the Coming Turnaround: The longer a slow market is in place the more likely bad habits have been developed in both team members and managers. This can cause a slower than necessary re-entry into an improving economic climate. These habits, which can take many forms, need to be identified and rooted out quickly...; Tags: Team management, Leadership, high-performance, team, leader; White papers
Smart Planning Yields "High Performance": Energy Efficient Bank Building for Thrivent Financial Bank: This study gives information on energy efficiency at the Thrivent Financial Bank. Thrivent Financial Bank, created by the recent merger between the Aid Association for Lutherans and the Lutheran Brotherhood, took this guidance to heart when it constructed its new facility. They set goals for energy efficiency up front and...; Tags: Team management, team, high-performance, merger, benefit; Case studies
EcoVillage Cleveland: The case study describes about residential construction in EcoVillage who employs every advanced framing technique available. A premise of the Building America program is that high performance homes must be sustainable both environmentally and economically. EcoVillage Cleveland takes this premise to a new level. From location to lumber to lighting...; Tags: Leadership, residential construction, high-performance, technique; Case studies
JohnsonDiversey Sturtevant, Wisconsin: Teamwork, Planning and Vision Deliver a High Performance Sustainable Facility: JohnsonDiversey, formerly a division of the SC Johnson & Sons, Inc., is committed to being the world's most trusted source of cleaning and hygiene products and solutions. Although the building's overall design was environmentally sensitive and provided a healthy, productive workplace, it brought with it some additional challenges. The building...; Tags: Team management, Johnson Controls Inc., teamwork, workplace, high-performance, vision, team; Case studies
Top 10 Reasons for Using Ultracapacitors in Your System Design: Historically, the use of a single energy device to satisfy the entire power specification of an application required designers to either design for power (at times providing excess energy), or design for energy (at times providing inadequate power). Ultracapacitors, also known as electrochemical double layer capacitors, have unique characteristics when...; Tags: capacitor, high-performance; White papers
high-performance Residential Cabling: An Overview for Installation Professionals: In discussing high-performance residential cabling, it is helpful to understand the recent historical actions that have resulted in today's standards. The best place to start is with the FCC's (Federal Communications Commission) Telecommunications Act of 1996. This Act was the first major overhaul of telecommunications law in almost 62 years....; Tags: Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Federal government, telecommunications, FCC, high-performance, standards, environment, wall, cable, information technology; White papers
High Performance HVAC Plant at Sam Nunn Atlanta Federal Center: The facility, named for the former U.S. Senator from Georgia, is one the largest federal office buildings on the East Coast. In a unique combination of traditional and contemporary architectural elements, the Sam Nunn Atlanta Federal Center houses 5,000 employees for dozens of federal agencies. The system was designed for...; Tags: Advertising & Promotion, American Standard Inc., agency, high-performance, computer; Case studies
Microbehaviours: Their Importance in Motivating People and High Performance: Microbehaviours are the tiny behaviours that comprise any one big behaviour. Thus making a telephone call is a big behaviour whilst the tiny behaviours are for example the style of greeting, the tone of voice, the choice of words, the time devoted to listening as opposed to speaking and the...; Tags: Performance, High-performance, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management; White papers
The High Performance Solarwall Air Heating System: Ford of Canada in Oakville, Ontario has installed in the summer of 1990, a high performance Solarwall on the south-facing wall of their car assembly plant. The Solarwall is an aesthetically pleasing solar collector that could be retrofitted to an existing wall without the use of the expensive glazing, to...; Tags: Construction, wall, high-performance, solar energy; Case studies
Pygmalion Motivation: Motivating High Performance With High Expectations: The Pygmalion Effect explains how your expectations of other people can influence or motivate their performance. By setting and communicating high performance expectations, you can motivate better performance from the people that you lead and manage. The effect was originally studied in context of teachers' expectations of their students: Students...; Tags: Leadership, Performance management, teacher, high-performance, performance; White papers
Beatnik Production Music (BPM) Web Site for Creative Music Professionals: In 1999, Beatnik recognized that its technologies and basic infrastructure could be used to meet a critical market need - that of the professional seeking to sample, test, license and integrate audio pieces into multi-media presentations for the Web. This led to a business and technology plan that became Beatnik...; Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., high-performance computing, high-performance, e-business, Web; Case studies