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Waste Management's Filthy Clean Energy
If you think taking out the garbage is a real drag, think again. Waste Management raked in more than $13 billion in revenues last year, making it the largest provider of waste management services on the continent. Its core business is your garbage, which it retrieves and transports to one...
Tags: Initiative, Renewable Energy, Telecom & Utilities, Landfill, Andrew Hines
Blog posts 2007-06-29
The Lean Advantage for Complex Equipment Manufacturers
Increasingly, complex equipment manufacturers are implementing lean initiatives to create competitive advantage. What specifically are these initiatives? Can they really achieve on-time delivery, improve operational excellence, shorten order-cycle times, and reduce costs, to name a few? On the road to initiating these lean processes, what obstacles and challenges are complex...
Tags: Initiative, SAP AG, Manufacturing, Strategy, Management
White papers 2007-06-01
Strategic Initiatives, Goals, Objectives, & Tasks
This is a template for strategic initiatives, goals, & tasks that will help you clarify your next steps as you begin developing your business plan.
Tags: Initiative, Goal
Tools & templates 2005-11-16
Are You Leading Your Six Sigma Initiatives... Are They Leading You?
Much of Six Sigma's power comes from its unparalleled ability to tie its rigorous metrics-driven improvement initiatives to business and financial results. This paper describes about a survey, conducted by Six Sigma Qualtec of nearly 500 practitioners worldwide, which indicates that many companies fail to directly integrate their Six Sigma...
Tags: Business Operations, It Operations, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Six Sigma, Six Sigma Qualtec Inc., Initiative, Quality, Process Improvement
White papers 2005-11-13
PAT: It's All About Value
Since the inception of the FDA's PAT initiative, discussions of its implications have focused largely on the application of on-line instrumentation. But a technology-first approach to PAT misses the real point: business value. One of the founding principles of the PAT initiative is to improve process understanding. Improved process understanding...
Tags: Initiative, Pharmaceutical Company, Manufacturing, Federal Government, Government
White papers 2005-08-30
Health Centers: Competition for Grants and Efforts to Measure Performance Have Increased
Health centers in the federal Consolidated Health Centers program provide comprehensive primary health care services at one or more delivery sites, without regard to patients' ability to pay. The initiative's goal is for the program is to provide 1,200 grants in the neediest communities--630 grants for new delivery sites and...
Tags: Enterprise Software, Healthcare, Benefits, Vertical Industries, Health Care, Performance, Initiative, Human Resources, Software
White papers 2005-07-01
A New Solution From TI, 3M and VeriSign to Secure the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain - How Does It Fit in With Current Industry Initiatives?
Texas Instruments, 3M, and VeriSign have come together to offer a solution designed to prevent the sale of counterfeit drugs to patients. Their solution utilizes radio frequency identification RFID and public-key infrastructure PKI technologies to authenticate pharmaceuticals at the item level. Pharmaceutical counterfeiting costs the industry tens of billions of...
Tags: Authentication/Encryption, PKI, Texas Instruments Inc., ABI Research, Pharmaceutical Company, VeriSign Inc., 3M Co., Industry, Initiative, Supply Chain, RFID, Digital Security, Network Security, Security, Wireless, Biometrics, Networking
White papers 2005-05-31
Electronic Government: Funding of the Office of Management and Budget's Initiatives
In accordance with the President's Management Agenda, the Office of Management and Budget OMB has sponsored initiatives to promote electronic government--the use of information technology, such as Web-based Internet applications, to enhance government services. Generally, these "e-gov" initiatives do not have direct appropriations but depend on a variety of funding...
Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Office, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Office Suites, Vertical Industries, Government, General Accounting Office, Initiative
White papers 2005-04-01
Supply-Chain Codes of Conduct and Fair Trade Initiatives: Winning New Markets While Promoting Gender Equality
The purpose of the paper is to review the experience of developing country producers of goods and services in taking advantage of various initiatives, such as fair trade, codes of conduct and social labelling schemes. The focus is upon looking at such initiatives as ways of raising awareness of process...
Tags: Supply Chain, Initiative, U.N., Supply Chain Management (SCM), Free Trade, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance
White papers 2004-08-08
Holistic Approach To Professional Development And Support For Sessional Teaching Staff
The School of Computer Science & Information Technology, RMIT University, sessional teaching staff take part in a staff development initiative designed to enhance the quality of teaching and learning and make their experience as a member of staff more integrated and inclusive. The School employs up to 150 sessional teaching...
Tags: Initiative, Professional Development, RMIT University, Staff, School
White papers 2004-06-03
Tide Rises on Pay for Performance With Voluntary Reporting Initiative
The era of reporting hospital performance to the public and tying payment to quality is now a reality. In 2003, the American Hospital Association, the Federation of American Hospitals, and the Association of American Medical Colleges launched a national voluntary reporting initiative to make critical information about hospital performance accessible...
Tags: Initiative, Pay-for-performance, Health Care, Thomson Corp., Benefits, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Content Management, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2004-03-01
Initiative Ignites Passion for Learning
Firefighters are honing their skills and saving lives with the introduction of the UK Fire Service's new online development initiative. This paper examines the myriad advantages it offers. As vital as it can be to an organisation's people-development strategies, e-learning can seldom claim to be a matter of life or...
Tags: Initiative, Reed Elsevier Inc., E-learning, Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2004-02-01
The Big Ten Innovation Killers And How To Keep Your Innovation System Alive And Well
While it's probably impossible to compute the exact percentage of business initiatives that fail, it is widely acknowledged that most do. After years of research and observation, it is clear that the same reasons for any change initiative failure tend to be the same culprits that make innovation initiatives fail....
Tags: Initiative, Failure
White papers 2004-01-27
Customer-Centered Six Sigma Initiatives
This paper briefly outlines the significance of Customer Centered Six Sigma Initiative CCSSI. CCSSI is a term used within the existing Six Sigma framework but with a stronger emphasis on capturing 'the true voice of the customer' by clearly understanding the needs and demands of customers' for today and tomorrow....
Tags: Initiative, Customer, CCSSI, Six Sigma, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Operational Planning, Process Improvement, Telecommunications, Quality, Business Operations, It Operations
White papers 2004-01-16
Partnering For Change: Infusing Enterprise Resource Planning In The Accounting Curriculum
The practice environment of the management accountant has changed greatly in last few years. At the same time, many observers have questioned the ability of the academic community to change curricular delivery to meet the new demands of the profession. An initiative is being developed that aims to enhance the...
Tags: Accounting, Curriculum, Initiative, Partnership, ERP, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Business Structures, Finance
White papers 2003-09-29
Summary Scorecard Of Legislative And Regulatory Initiatives
Summary Scorecard Of Legislative And Regulatory Initiatives
Tags: Summary, Initiative
White papers 2003-07-23
7 tips to begin earning employees' commitment, initiative and motivation
Managers who want their employees to demonstrate more ownership and initiative need to start by looking in the mirror. Most employees start a new job filled with cheerful optimism, and over time, some learn that their ideas aren’t valued or they are better off just doing what they are told....
Tags: Employee, Initiative, Article, Motivation, Leadership, Management
White papers 2003-01-01
Strategy Blues
But usually successful KM implementations are being driven from the top down. It is also noted that, even in companies where knowledge management is an actively pursued strategic initiative, the leader of the initiative often is not a top dog in the organization.
Tags: Initiative, Knowledge Management, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
White papers 2003-01-01
Breakaway Speed: Strategies For Creating A Faster, More Empowered Workforce
Creating a faster-running, more efficient organization is not a new concept. For many of the companies, the initiatives seemed to hit their marks, but success proved fleeting. There are certain elements that, when combined, drive a successful initiative. One is establishing importance and the other one is simplicity. For those...
Tags: Initiative, A.T. Kearney, Workforce, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Leadership, Strategy, Human Resources, Management
White papers 2003-01-01
How To Justify Business Continuity Management
"For BCM to be truly effective, organizations need a central department or initiative that has both executive-level support and adequate resources. But in many cases, BCM efforts do not get what they need because they are considered discretionary projects that do not contribute directly to the organization’s profitability. Yet, at...
Tags: Insurance, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Business Continuity, Initiative
White papers 2003-01-01
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