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- Setting Clear Objectives
- When you set a clear objective, you or your direct reports are able to focus attention and energy on a concrete aspiration—anything from a small task to a career ambition. In fact, it’s not really important how small or large the objective is, so long as the decisions you make...
- Articles 2007-12-13
- On The General Relativity Of Fiscal Language
- A century ago, everyone thought time and distance were well defined physical concepts. But neither proved absolute. Instead, measures/reports of time and distance were found to depend on one's reference point, specifically one's direction and speed of travel, making the apparent physical reality, in Einstein's words, "Merely an illusion." Like...
- White papers 2006-06-01
- Stakeholder Analysis: The Key to Balanced Performance Measures
- Traditional business performance measures - such as return-on-assets or earnings per share - focus on the overall financial results achieved by a company in a given time period. While important, they give little insight into why particular results were achieved. By themselves, they provide little guidance for where or how...
- White papers 2006-04-01
- Introducing an Innovation Journalism Index: Benchmarking the Swedish Market
- The Innovation Journalism Index offers a weighted measure of how much a publication integrates business and technology reporting, and how much this reporting address a mixture of business and technology type readers. It is therefore a measure of the ability of the publication to cover innovation processes and innovation systems,...
- White papers 2005-05-04
- Key Measures for Successful Ergonomics Improvements
- When ergonomics principles are applied to the workplace and job tasks, many aspects of the operation can be improved. While program sustainability and success vary considerably, one key element of successful ergonomics programs is the selection and application of measures to focus and guide all improvement efforts toward a single...
- White papers 2005-01-01
- Australian Evidence Concerning the Information Content of Economic Value-Added
- This paper employs pooled time-series, cross-sectional data on 110 Australian companies over the period 1992-1998 to examine whether the trademarked variant of residual income known as economic value-added EVA is more highly associated with stock returns than other commonly-used accounting-based measures. These other measures of internal and external performance include...
- White papers 2004-12-01
- Low-Cost Spill Prevention Measures
- Part of the Westchester Gas Company's integration into Progress Fuels Corporations included addressing historical oil remediation issues. This paper examines their preventive measures to help eliminate similar costly future remedial efforts and states that through the use of the administrative and physical measures discussed in this paper, Winchester hopes to...
- White papers 2004-11-12
- International Casualty: Loaded Liability
- The cedant that gets the 'best' terms and conditions may be those that provide casualty reinsurers with the measures to evaluate their portfolio and associated underwriting strategy. Examples of measures include rate and exposure change information, valuation of original policy restrictions and evaluation of the macro economic and regulatory environment....
- White papers 2004-10-28
- From Measures To Earnings ... Connecting The Dots
- The new strategic performance measures, including balanced scorecards and other designs, can be used to create wide-ranging improvements in your enterprise, especially when it comes to driving new strategic initiatives. They focus attention on strategic goals that are often overlooked in the press of everyday business. There are many places...
- White papers 2004-05-14
- Reducing Oil Consumption in Transport: Combining Three Approaches
- This paper provides an analysis of three promising vehicle technology and fuel-related areas for saving oil and reducing CO2 emissions from transport, and how strong policy measures in these areas could turn transport around by 2030. Policy-making is not easy if the impacts of various measures are uncertain, and if...
- White papers 2004-04-01
- Trade Patterns Among Industrial Countries: Their Relationship to Technology Differences and Capital Mobility
- This paper compares two alternative measures of technology differences across industrial countries during 1970-92: one measures differences in labor productivity the Ricardian measure, and the other differences in total factor productivity the Hicksian measure. The distinction between the two measures is important to the extent that trade patterns are inconsistent...
- White papers 2004-02-01
- Regional Models for Portfolio Diversification
- This research is an extension of earlier efforts to develop geographic diversification strategies based upon economic factors, particularly employment-related measures. A much broader set of measures is used to search for broad macroeconomic cycles. Seven groups of states, labeled ''Capacity Clusters'' due to the emphasis on economic and development capacity,...
- White papers 2003-06-20
- The Balanced Scorecard and the WRDI
- This white paper outlines the application of the Workplace Relationship Development Indicator WRDI, a diagnostic survey tool, in assisting management to implement and monitor key aspects of the balanced scorecard. This application relates specifically to the provision of objective measures and a diagnosis of the learning and growth perspective. The...
- White papers 2003-05-01
- Why Most Balanced Scorecard are Subverted
- The ‘Balanced Scorecard’ has been a popular seminar attraction and hot topic in corporate boardrooms for years. It translates a company's vision and strategy into a coherent set of performance measures. The four perspectives of the scorecard--financial measures, customer knowledge, internal business processes, and learning and growth offer a balance...
- White papers 2003-02-24
- Omega as a Performance Measure
- Omega was developed to overcome the inadequacy of many traditional performance measures when applied to investments that do not have normally distributed return distributions. Unlike other measures of performance, Omega was developed with the intention to consider the entire return distribution. This paper shows that Omega is essentially the ratio...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- FS 12: Fuel Poverty: House of Commons Trade & Industry Select Committee, Sixth Report of Session 2001-02
- This paper covers all the key issues; landlord-tenant in the private rented sector, Decent Homes standard falling below the current standard of most social housing, and the issue of hard to heat homes requiring comparatively expensive measures. The paper closes with an endorsement for increased focus on improving the energy...
- White papers 2002-10-01
- Managing Organizational Change: Part 3 - Implementation of Information Technology: From the Laboratory to Practice
- Several factors may influence an IT implementation project and their relative importance varies with the state of progress. Relying on the measures described in this paper does not guarantee the successful outcome of the project, but may significantly increase its chances. To be effective, however, these few measures must be...
- White papers 2002-09-01
- Overeducation in the Flemish Youth Labour Market
- Based on three definitions, one measure over education among Flemish labour market entrants and investigate its determinants to test the validity of different theories and to shed more light on the validity of the measures themselves. Depending on the measurement method, over education varies in the first job from 26...
- White papers 2002-03-01
- Opting Out Of Health Insurance
- The article details various policy measures, which could be taken by the Human Resource Department for keeping themselves out of insuring employees against Health Hazards. The various cases studies discuss different measures that could be taken in cases where employees are not willing to take the insurance policies.
- Case studies 2002-01-06
- Chapter 3: Common Measures for Tackling Fuel Poverty
- The overall approach adopted by the Government and the Devolved Administrations has been, and continues to be, to tackle the root causes of fuel poverty by improving energy inefficient housing, reducing fuel bills and by tackling low incomes. This paper sets out the common policies that operate energy efficiency measures,...
- White papers 2001-11-14
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