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The pressure in the business world is intense. Global competition and uncertainty, combined with high Wall Street expectations, can drive managers to a single-minded focus on streamlining their teams to improve the bottom line. Yesterday, Gill Corkindale, in his "Letter from London" column for the Harvard Business...
Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Team management, Jessica Stillman, Gill Corkindale, workplace, team
Blog posts 2007-07-27
Managing a Competitive Imperative: Achieving High Performance With Effective Offset Deals
Challenged by relentless pressure on their resources and the continuing need to focus on core operations, most contractors see offset as a distraction. They fail to see it as a vehicle to accelerate the development of overseas markets and their own operating capabilities. As a result, they fail to leverage...
Tags: Leadership, Accenture Ltd., imperative, high-performance, aerospace, developing country, cost savings
White papers 2006-06-20
Loyalty and Competitive Advantage: Breakthrough Work in the Area of Customer Loyalty
Customer loyalty has become an even more strategic imperative for firms. As the economy shifts and revenues begin to decline, customer retention is an absolute imperative for companies. Customer acquisition is expensive. Declining revenues almost always translate into shrinking budgets and companies are not in the position to mount sizeable...
Tags: Operational accounting, imperative, revenue, competitive advantage, acquisition
White papers 2005-05-18
Top Five Imperatives for Banks in 2005
The paper outlines that banks are realigning their businesses and strategies to adapt to developments in the external environment and it is important that they strike a balance between continuity and change. This involves five main imperatives in 2005: Basel II Compliance, Resource Optimization, Information Security, Shareholder Value and Customer...
Tags: Financial services, Infosys Technologies Ltd., imperative, Basel II, bank, information security, strategy, environment
White papers 2005-03-07
Energy Trading & Risk Management - Top 5 IT Imperatives
The pre-Enron era saw trading assume centre-stage. Industry deregulation, the birth of Enrononline in November 1999, and the subsequent birth of ICE in March 2000 (and ICE's takeover of the International Petroleum Exchange in 2001), were all important milestones in the trading-centric era. Derivative trading rose astronomically and industry players...
Tags: Information Technology, Industry, Imperative, Risk Management, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Strategy, Change Management, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Management, Tools & Techniques, Finance
White papers 2005-03-01
Employee Life Cycle: A Roadmap For Aligning HR Strategy To Organizational Imperatives
Organizations seeking to align their people strategies to organizational imperatives must remain committed to a sound strategy for achieving this end. This article presents a framework based on the 'employer life cycle' that can give HR professionals a means by which to better align their program and practices to the...
Tags: Aon Consulting, imperative, workforce, strategy, Human Resources, mobile
White papers 2004-02-01
Enhancing Your Check 21 Business Case: The Compelling ROI With Straight Through Check Processing and the Imperative for Re-Engineering in Response to Check 21
Today's business landscape is constantly changing. Change can mean opportunity-but only if one has the information required to make critical decisions. The press has recently trumpeted the prodigious cost savings associated with image-based interbank clearing and settlement of checks. With the certain and proximate passing of Check 21, identifying these...
Tags: Organizational structure, BearingPoint Inc., Check 21, imperative, re-engineering, business case, cost savings, ROI, bank
White papers 2004-01-29
Insurance Outlook and Strategic Agenda: 2004 and Beyond
This report provides an overview of the general environment that insurers face, and the strategic, technological, and organizational imperatives that they will have to address in order to thrive in this environment. It depicts that the insurers need to focus on three key strategic areas in order to be successful:...
Tags: imperative, insurance company, sustainability, environment, insurance, information technology
White papers 2003-12-01
The Value Imperative: A Three-Stage Approach to Building Successful Value-Based Relationships
The global transportation business environment is becoming increasingly more complex and is using information to provide significant competitive advantage and market differentiation. As enterprises continually re-evaluate and prioritize core competencies, they are looking for strategic technology partners that can deliver true business value—that is, value aligned to the specific business...
Tags: Strategy, Electronic Data Systems Corp., core competency, competitive advantage, transportation, environment, information technology
White papers 2003-01-01
Retaining Employees: New Imperatives, New Models
Over the years, it has been observed that many people are planning to switch jobs at high pace. Most companies are worried about the aforesaid trend prevalent in corporate world. Researches indicate that not only are workers changing jobs frequently, but the economy is also creating new jobs. Hence, companies...
Tags: Recruitment & Selection, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, job, worker
White papers 2003-01-01
Outsourcing's New Imperative: Companies Must 'Collaborate Or Die!'
Business process outsourcing isn't just a passing trend. It's the new imperative. No company can be an expert at everything, and today's competitive landscape doesn't allow for second-rate customer service or inefficient processes. By collaborating with a global outsourcing provider, companies can get access to streamlined processes and best practices....
Tags: Business process outsourcing (BPO), IT Services, Computer Sciences Corp., BPO, outsourcing, best practice, customer service, business process, information technology
White papers 2002-05-23
Ten Imperatives to Help You Succeed in a Post-Enron World
In the midst of the period of self-examination, organizations should take a critical look at their internal audit functions. Article provides ten imperatives for internal audit to provide a strong foundation for success in a radically altered business landscape. It describes the Enron’s collapse, and the implications of serious control...
Tags: PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, imperative, audit, corporate governance, environment
White papers 2002-01-01

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Community outreach through corporate social responsibility: corporate social responsibility is the continuing commitment by business to behave ethically and contribute to economic development while improving the quality of life of their stakeholders and society at large. The Young Expedition Project may be one way for companies to achieve this
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] CORPORATE social responsibility CSR is a concept that frequently overlaps with similar approaches such as corporate sustainability, corporate sustainable development, corporate responsibility, and corporate citizenship. While CSR does not have a universal definition, many see it as the private sector's way of integrating the economic, social,...
Articles 2008-12-01
Levil uniform, #8
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I gotta be honest; I have no idea what Levil Uniform means. I thought it was some kind of Frenchified term missing an apostrophe (ie, L'Evil Uniform). Then I thought it might be a misspelling of "level" but that if it is, someone would have told...
Articles 2008-07-01
Kenexa's Assessment Tools Increase Cultural and Job Fit Through Selection
Kenexa® (NASDAQ: KNXA), a leading provider ofrecruitment and retention solutions, today announced the general release ofKenexa Cultural FitTM and Kenexa Job CompatibilityTM, web-basedassessment tools designed to increase retention, decrease turnover, andincrease organizational and job commitment. "Determining the best person-organization fit and best person-job fit isimperative in achieving a productive workforce....
Articles 2008-06-26
SES AMERICOM Provides Proactive Disaster Preparedness Capabilities during Natural Disasters
Satellite Communications Reestablish Critical Data and Voice Services Minutes After an Emergency Occurs: Customers in the Gulf Area Already Benefiting from Deployment PRINCETON, N.J. -- Dedicated to keeping businesses running in the face of network outages and natural disasters, SES AMERICOM, an SES company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg...
Articles 2008-06-24
iCentera 5.0 Expands the Reach of Sales Enablement Portals to Communicate One Marketing Voice Across the Entire Enterprise
Companies Gain Greater Control Over the Delivery of Their Marketing Message, Helping Organizations of all Sizes Manage Marketing Communications Across Staff, Sales Channels, and Customers MINNEAPOLIS, June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- iCentera, the leading provider of on-demand private website portals for marketing, sales, and customer communications, announced today...
Articles 2008-06-24
An Open Letter from Dr. Ngai Nguyen, Vice General Secretary of the Democratic Party of Vietnam, to Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, Urging Him to Improve Human Rights and Include Independent Parties as Part of the Political Process
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Below is an open letter from Dr. Ngai Nguyen, Vice General Secretary of the Democratic Party of Vietnam, to Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung: Dear Mr. Prime Minister, With your visit to the United States this week, and in your meetings...
Articles 2008-06-23
Stockamp & Associates White Paper Reveals Links Between Patient Flow and Patient Satisfaction Improvements
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Patients' satisfaction with their overall care experience is enhanced when a hospital establishes a solid foundation of effective patient flow processes and supporting tools, according to a new white paper, "Increasing Patient Satisfaction: A Key Benefit of Improving Patient Flow Performance," released by Stockamp & Associates today....
Articles 2008-06-23
AdEx Media Launches Display Network
AdEx Media, Inc. (OTCBB: ADXM), a leadingperformance-driven online advertising company, today announced the launchof its display network, giving the Company an immediate entry into anotherrapidly growing distribution channel. Consistent with the Company's objective to diversify its media buyingefforts, display-based media represents the next leg in the company's mediastrategy. "This...
Articles 2008-06-23
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