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- What Were They Thinking? by Jeffrey Pfeffer |Book Brief
- The book "What Were They Thinking?" argues that most managers fail because they diligently follow common management practices that are sometimes flawed to the core. Author Jeffrey Pfeffer challenges managers to throw out conventional wisdom and to think harder and more strategically about what's right for their companies.
- Videos 2007-12-06
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- Operational Risk Management Practices
- The FSA's Principles for Businesses include a requirement for adequate risk management systems. These include systems for managing Operational Risk OR. This paper sets out the findings from the authors' review of OR management practices in eight firms. The purpose of this paper is to enhance industry awareness. The aim...
- White papers 2005-02-01
- Measuring And Explaining Management Practices Across Firms And Countries
- The authors have used an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from 732 medium sized manufacturing firms in the US, France, Germany and the UK. These measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm-level productivity, profitability, Tobin's Q, sales growth and survival rates. Management practices also display...
- White papers 2006-03-01
- Qwest Shows Customers Best-in-Class Disaster Recovery and Risk-Management Practices
- DENVER -- Qwest Communications International Inc. (NYSE: Q) today announced a series of seminars that offer business customers best-in-class disaster recovery and risk-management practices. The Risk Management and Disaster Recovery seminar will focus on information technology themes for 2006 related to data management techniques, risk assessment, recovery challenges and best...
- Research articles 2006-08-10
- Stormwater Best Management Practices Database to Be Upgraded
- ALEXANDRIA, Virginia ENS — --> An award-winning comprehensive database of best management practices BMPs for dealing with stormwater has attracted a new coalition of partners to help in the funding and management of the project - the International Stormwater Best Management Practices Database. The database will be useful as...
- Research articles 2004-12-13
- Web tool for farmers to evaluate farm management practices.(Conservation news you can use)(Brief article)
- With support from the USDA Risk Management Agency, the nonprofit certification organization Food Alliance has developed a free Web tool that allows farmers to compare their current management practices with best practices for sustainable agriculture. The online assessment considers soil and water conservation, integrated pest management,...
- Research articles 2007-05-01
- TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: Best management practices help boboost wheat forage productivity.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-4 October 1999-TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: Best management practices help boost wheat forage productivity C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:011099 LUBBOCK -- Producers can achieve good results from a wheat forage program if they follow a few basic best management practices for...
- Research articles 1999-10-04
- USDA: USDA to publish a pest management practices re report.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-13 August 1999-USDA: USDA to publish a pest management practices report C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:120899 WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service NASS will publish the results of a special pest management practices study on...
- Research articles 1999-08-13
- What are America's Stupidest Management Practices?
- Management guru Bob Sutton is off to conference in Singapore this week and on his consistently thought-provoking blog Work Matters he's preparing for the event with a little thought experiment. Namely, he's attempting to brainstorm the stupidest management practices of U.S. companies that remain inexplicably popular despite plenty of evidence...
- Blog posts 2009-09-24
- Bringing Control to Global Supply Management: Business Process Management (BPM) and Advanced Project Management Practices
- One of the largest sources of aid to more than 100 developing countries, the World Bank has improved global sourcing and supplier management utilizing Business Process Management BPM and proven project management practices. This document focuses on how the World Bank was able to more quickly and effectively manage project...
- White papers 2005-05-01
- Benchmarking Management Practices in the Construction Industry
- This paper presents the results of the first application of a management evaluation system for benchmarking management practices in the construction industry. The system supports a National Benchmarking System recently established in the Chilean Construction Industry by incorporating qualitative management aspects in addition to quantative performance indicators. Different analysis were...
- White papers 2003-06-29
- Consistent Performance: Reducing The Impacts Of Price Uncertainty Through Portfolio Management Practices
- Most companies recognize the importance of delivering consistent performance results, yet the ability to fulfill this objective is sometimes undermined by product price uncertainties. Many companies effectively manage the impacts of price uncertainty through the use of financial hedging instruments, while others have avoided hedging due to lack of knowledge,...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Are Your Organization's Conflict Management Practices An Integrated Conflict Management System?
- An Integrated Conflict Management System ICMS is a conflict resolution framework that encompasses the day-to-day conflict management approaches. The ICMS provides a holistic conflict prevention and control mechanism for the entire organization. The paper provides a checklist that assesses the gaps between an organization's conflict management practices and an ICMS....
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Evaluation of Near-Transportation Private Sector Asset Management Practices
- Asset management principles and techniques are used by a variety of transportation-like organizations such as railroads, utility companies, transportation and logistics companies, airlines, and manufacturing organizations. Experiences and management practices in these industries can provide considerable insight as to how government transportation agencies can implement asset management strategies. The case...
- White papers 2002-11-01
- Human Resource Management Practices
- This report, which is based on survey replies from 669 respondents, first considers the level of strategic activity in Australia organizations. It then turns the attention to the extent that managers formalize their strategic processes, the degree of alignment between how people are managed and the organization's strategic fundamentals, the...
- White papers 2003-10-10
- Five Best Management Practices in the Hotels Sector of Sri Lanka
- Six leading hotels were selected in the study of the hotel sector in an attempt to isolate the best management practices common to the sector. Two of the best practices are related to the customer in terms of creating value, while the other three are located within the people and...
- Research articles 1999-06-01
- An Investigation of Canadian and Russian Human Resource Management Practices
- This paper presents findings from an investigation to discern the similarities and differences between Canadian and Russian human resource management practices. A literature review was conducted to determine the "state of the art" of human resource management HRM in Russia and Canada. This was followed by a survey to determine...
- White papers 2003-12-08
- Chiron Corporation: Biotechnology Firm Strengthens Project Management Practices, Increases R&D Projects
- Chiron Corporation is a biotechnology and pharmaceutical company based in Emeryville, California. Chiron needed to improve its time-to-market performance. It wanted better insight into project scheduling and resource allocation, along with uniform project management to help reduce project delays. Pcubed delivered the Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management Solution to help...
- Case studies
- The use of best management practices in urban watersheds
- The use of best management practices BMP in urban watersheds. Ed. by Richard Field et al. DEStech Publications, Inc. 2006 268 pages $89.50 Paperback TD657 Joined by others in engineering and environmental sciences who are associated with the EPA, Field presents this...
- Research articles 2006-12-01
- Top Five Best Time Management Practices
- The concept of time management is much more important nowadays than it was in the past. We live in a fast paced world where information moves at the speed of light, and people are working harder and longer. How you manage your time will determine how successful you become in...
- White papers 2007-05-16
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