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- Revenue
- Apr 30 2008
- $1.6B
- Profit
- Apr 30 2008
- $147.5M
- Market Cap
- Jul 17 2008
- $2.2B
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Examining The Big Picture Of Project Management
Software project management is a type of project management that focuses specifically on creating or updating software. Just as there are billions of ice cream flavors, there are billions of types of software. Project managers, effective ones, can lick them both. Here's a tough decision for you: Manage a project...
Environmental Management Systems and Green Supply Chain Management: Complements for Sustainability?
Some researchers question the legitimacy of Environmental Management Systems EMSs since organizations can claim to have one when in fact they make no attempt to reduce their environmental harm. In instances where EMSs enhance an organization's environmental performance, critics argue that improvements are likely to occur within the organization's operational...
What It Takes to Be a High-Performance Business
The global business environment is marked by unprecedented complexity, uncertainty, and competition. Why are some companies able to increase shareholder value despite these challenges? How do they continue to thrive and innovate, year after year, regardless of disruptive industry shifts and unpredictable circumstances? What sets these companies apart? This paper...
Corporate Environmentalism: In Search of Vision, Leadership, and Strategy
Environmental managers are in transition between a regulatory-driven past and new environmental dynamics. The future will be driven by stakeholder demands for the responsible use of natural and human capital. Understanding this transition and its business implications requires an examination of how they got to the current state, a brutally...
Emerging Technologies and Corporate Culture at Microsoft: A Methodological Note
This paper explores factors important in the study and examination of corporate culture and change. The particular focus is on the technological methods used to conduct a study of accessible technology and corporate culture at Microsoft Corporation. Reasons for particular approaches are explained. Advantages and challenges of emerging technologies that...
Trust-Based Secure Information Sharing Between Federal Government Agencies
The September 11 attack and the following investigations show that there is a serious information sharing problem among the relevant federal government agencies, and the problem can cause substantial deficiencies in terrorism attack detection. In this paper we provide a systematic analysis of the causes of this problem; and conclude...
Three-Dimensional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Technique for Myocardial-Delayed Hyperenhancement: A Comparison With the Two-Dimensional Technique
The purpose of this paper is to compare two-dimensional and three-dimensional techniques in the detection of myocardial infarction MI and in the grading transmural extent TE. It concludes that Mean CNR, SNR, and SIR are significantly increased in the three-dimensional technique compared to the conventional two-dimensional technique.
Marketing Strategy: Start at the Start
Many architects make the mistake of thinking that marketing has only a peripheral relationship to what their firm does. In fact, marketing works best when it is totally integrated into the operations of a firm, when it's part of everything one does. A person can't create a plan for how...
Evaluating Requirements for Spatial Resolution of fMRI for Neurosurgical Planning
The unambiguous localization of eloquent functional areas is necessary to decrease the neurological morbidity of neurosurgical procedures. This paper explores the minimum spatial resolution requirements for functional magnetic resonance imaging fMRI data acquisition when brain mapping is used in neurosurgical planning and navigation. Using a 1.5 Tesla clinical MRI scanner,...
Leading A Virtuous-Spiral Organization
From the executive summary: ‘It is impossible to separate the performance and well-being of organizations from the performance and well-being of their members. To provide people with meaningful work and rewards, organizations need to be successful. To be successful, organizations need high-performing individuals. The challenge is to design organizations that...
Three Validation Metrics for Automated Probabilistic Image Segmentation of Brain Tumors
The validity of brain tumor segmentation is an important issue in image processing because it has a direct impact on surgical planning. This paper examines the segmentation accuracy based on three two sample validation metrics against the estimated composite latent gold standard, which was derived from several experts' manual segmentations...
A Template for Assessing Corporate Performance: Benchmarking EHS Organizations
The performance of corporate environmental, health, and safety EHS organizations has been the subject of intense scrutiny during the last few years. Specifically, business executives have challenged EHS departments to demonstrate that they are both performing optimally and adding value. There are, however, no standardized methods and procedures for assessing...
Finance and Corporate Strategy
This paper provides the general manager a financial framework that helps in strategic decision making for shareholder value creation. It explains the underlying financial concepts and provides tool kits for assessing corporate strategy. It demonstrates through case studies how to analyze strategic decisions from the point of view of shareholder...
Dining and Restaurants
In this paper the author shows how in an effort to attract customers in an increasingly competitive market, casino owners have literally scoured the country for famous, big-name restaurants, convincing the proprietors to open a branch in Las Vegas. This paper also gives out the ratings of some of the...
Five Pillars For Leading The Client-Focused Organization
The contemporary business era is marked by intense competition between rival firms. These firms compete with each other to gain the customer’s attention. One of the keys to succeed in such scenario is to develop effective client relationships. Such relationships enhance company’s reputation in the eyes of customers and shareholders....
Making It Up And Making It Happen
From the executive summary: ‘Leaders make things up, and they make them happen. They are defining the game-but they are also making sure the game is on. In addition, those two behaviors sit at very distinctly opposite ends of the continuum of how things are done. Leaders must frame a...
Mission Attachment And Satisfaction As Factors In Employee Retention
From the executive summary: ‘Non-profit organizations rely on the mission to attract resources and guide decision-making. Increasingly, mission statements are recognized as a strong management tool that can motivate employees and keep them focused on organization’s purpose.’ However, it has been observed that mission statements might be salient in attracting...
Modeling Transcriptional Regulatory Networks
To model gene regulatory networks GRNs requires knowledge of both their overall structure, which depends upon linkage amongst regulatory genes, and the modular building blocks of which GRNs are hierarchically constructed. This paper shows how the functions of several such building blocks can be considered in mathematical terms, and discusses...
Introduction To The Balanced Scorecard
Measurement of organizational performance provides the managers with a clear picture of where the organization is heading and whether or not its progress is in line with its overall corporate strategy. Balanced Scorecard BS is a framework that enables measurement of the performance of the organization. It helps to translate...
Introduction to Business Ethics
The paper outlines that executive leadership, norms, role models, reward systems, and many other components of the management context and organizational culture combine to let people know what's expected. Although much more subtle, this is as much an educational process as explicit ethics training. It also depicts that the management...
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