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• WSJ Closes Boston Bureau; Memo From Thomson

  PaidContent - 2009-10-29

  The Wall Street Journal is closing its Boston bureau, leaving in place an “investigative function.” In a memo to the staff embedded below, Editor-in-Chief Robert Thomson said the core reporting team would be disbanded and that the nine reporters can apply for openings in the company. More to...

  Tags: Team, Wall Street Journal, Bureau, Thomson Corp., Boston, Team Management, Mutual Funds, Retirement Plans, Management, Human Resources, Benefits, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Companies, News Corp., Dow Jones, Staci D. Kramer

• Get Engaged!: Using Streaming Media To Reach Employees In A Web 2.0 World

  BNET - 2007-05-04

  Globalization has changed not only how businesses interact with each other, but how companies communicate internally with employees. With the increase in global sourcing, remote working and virtual teams, important messages are increasingly being delivered electronically - competing for attention in already congested inboxes. As the adoption of broadband Internet...

  Tags: Web, Employee, Thomson Corp., Streaming Media, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Globalization, Web 2.0, Digital Media, Internet, Strategy, Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

• The Supervision of Innovation

  BNET - 2006-07-01

  Competition necessitates continuous innovation. Since every department, division or business is in constant competition if only with itself, producing new products, new ideas or new ways of doing things is the currency of success today. Working smarter, better or faster requires innovative thinking. It's the only way to gain an...

  Tags: Innovation, Thomson Corp., Leadership, Strategy, Management

• Enterprising Ways to Create Competitive Advantage

  BNET - 2006-02-01

  Today's leading companies deploy enterprise systems in all areas of operations, and a spectrum of these systems are at work at companies every day. Although each enterprise system has a unique purpose, all enterprise systems share similar capabilities of data capture, secure data storage, data organization, data access, and data...

  Tags: Competitive Advantage, Thomson Corp., Enterprise System, Data Management, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management

• Utah Health Sciences Center Uses Knowledge Management Software to Improve Customer Service as Demand Increases

  BNET - 2006-01-01

  University Health Care is part of the University of Utah Health Sciences Center, which includes colleges of medicine, nursing, health and pharmacy, and supports administration, business and research for these colleges. The number of applications and our customers' expectations were increasing, yet the help desk's ability to meet demand remained...

  Tags: Customer Service, Knowledge, Thomson Corp., University Of Utah, Help Desk, Call Centers, Knowledge Management, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Strategy, It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Management

• Paradigm of Integrative Analytics in Modern Catalyst Design

  BNET - 2005-12-01

  The pharmaceuticals and chemical industries face an increasingly stringent and complex environment and are often searching for growth through mergers and acquisitions. The pressure on these industries for improved operational efficiency is a forceful driver for innovation and technology within the IT sector. Where it was once focused primarily on...

  Tags: Analytics, Business Operations, Cisco Catalyst, Management, Product Development, Research & Development, Strategy, Thomson Corp.

• A Service Approach to the Customer Experience

  BNET - 2005-11-01

  A service layer that oversees and bridges separate but related knowledge management systems is a cost-effective way to maximize the benefit of each component system. It also can vastly improve the experience of customers accessing information from either systems or agents. This paper outlines a business process management model that...

  Tags: Customer Experience, Thomson Corp., Knowledge Management, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Real Estate, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Management

• Knowledge Management: Key to Georgia's Succession Planning Efforts

  BNET - 2005-09-01

  People of all ages leave the workplace daily through voluntary or involuntary means. Moreover, the younger generation is voluntarily leaving one organization for another at a similar rate. Therefore, could the dilemma be that it is not so much about the people exiting as it is about the knowledge deficit...

  Tags: Succession Planning, Workplace, Knowledge, Thomson Corp., Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, Knowledge Management, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software

• Motivation in a Tough Economy

  BNET - 2005-08-01

  In a tough economy, there is a tendency among some entrepreneurs to respond to pressures by bearing down on their sales force, making their associates know they better produce or else. This is just about the worst way to motivate talented and self-starting associates. In order to succeed in an...

  Tags: Entrepreneur, Motivation, Thomson Corp., Entrepreneurship, Management

• Business Process Management: New Leadership in Process Execution

  BNET - 2005-06-21

  Differentiation and the ability to execute better than competitors are keys to building and maintaining a competitive advantage in the marketplace. Many firms are focusing their budgets on technology, giving their employees best-of-breed systems for managing and analyzing data to improve service or product offerings to their clients. This paper...

  Tags: Business Process, Leadership, BPM, Thomson Corp., Automation, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Strategy, Business Operations, It Operations, Management