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- R&D Outsourcing Goes Strategic
- Where outsourcing was once focused on controlling costs, it is now being used by companies looking to gain operational flexibility, productivity improvements and improved effectiveness through improved business focus and access to worldwide capabilities. Whereas a number of other industries have taken bold steps to use outsourcing to achieve high...
- White papers 2005-06-24
- Hackett Group, Inc. Q2 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from George Sutton – Craig-Hallum Capital. George Sutton – Craig-Hallum Capital So last quarter, Ted, and I think in a couple of the previous quarterly calls, you have suggested a negative free to a positive free GDP is the ideal...
- Earnings calls 2009-08-11
- Owen-Illinois, Inc. Q2 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Timothy Thein – Citigroup. Timothy Thein – Citigroup First question is a bit more of a longer term question, in terms of if you look at your kind of operating footprint if you take out the...
- Earnings calls 2009-07-30
- Effects Of Reducing Tariffs And Endogenous Productivity Growth
- In this paper, the effects of China's WTO commitments of reducing tariff and non-tariff barriers are analysed using a Computable General Equilibrium CGE model of China. In particular, this study draws the attention of policy makers to a different regional employment outcome when trade-liberalisation induced productivity improvements are taken into...
- White papers 2003-12-01
- Industry Productivity And The Victorian Economy
- This paper examines the economy-wide impacts of industry specific productivity improvements. The various factors and channels are attempted to identify that enhance or reduce the economy wide impacts from a given productivity shock. To examine industry specific productivity improvements Computable General Equilibrium CGE modelling is used in the form of...
- White papers 2004-09-16
- Productivity And Technical Changes In The Indian Auto Component Industry
- This paper studies links between firm levels externally validated changes in quality such as certificates, awards, etc. and their impact on productivity. Data Envelopment Analysis approach is used to estimate productivity change for each year during the eleven year period 1993-2003 for a sample of 50 firms in the Indian...
- White papers 2006-07-01
- Distributed Sensing For Quality And Productivity Improvements
- Distributed sensing, a system-wide deployment of sensing devices, has resulted in both temporally and spatially dense data-rich environments. This new technology provides unprecedented opportunities for quality and productivity improvement. This paper discusses the state-of-the-art practice, research challenges, and future directions related to distributed sensing. The discussion includes optimal design of...
- White papers 2004-07-26
- Improving MDD Productivity With Software Factories
- Productivity improvement is a main issue in the context of large-scale developments, where produced software needs to meet quality criteria, both on budget and schedule. This paper explains the introduction of the software factories technique to automate and improve production of complex software systems in the context of Model-Driven Development...
- White papers 2005-10-10
- A Strategy for Improving Knowledge Work
- The essence of industrial productivity improvement is to reduce or eliminate variation in the output of a job by reducing or eliminating variation in process. As Peter Drucker observes, the defining characteristic of knowledge work is that knowledge workers define their own jobs; moreover, they are expected to define what...
- White papers 2005-04-12
- The Productivity Gap | BTalk Australia
- (14min 40) Telstra has just released "The Telstra Productivity Indicator: A report on business attitudes toward improving productivity in Australia", highlighting what is termed the productivity gap. An accompanying economic white paper shows the link between productivity gains and investment in information and communication technology ICT. In...
- Blog posts 2009-02-03
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- Trade facilitation improvement.(Honduras's loans for Trade Facilitation and Productivity Improvement Project )(Brief article)
- Honduras has receivede a loan from The World Bank for a Trade Facilitation and Productivity Improvement Project (Credito 3826-HO; Proyecto P070038). Part of the funds will be used for consultants to develop a tourism development plan for the Municipality of Comayagua. Deadline to prequalify: July 12,...
- Research articles 2006-07-01
- WEK Industries® Receives Productivity Improvement Award from Honda®
- AKRON, Ohio -- WEK Industries, a Myers Industries, Inc. company, was presented with Honda's Productivity Improvement Award at this year's North American Executive Honda Supplier Conference in March.
- Research articles 2008-06-02
- Consultants for water, sewage project.(Honduras)(Trade Facilitation and Productivity Improvement Project)(Brief Article)
- Honduras has received a loan from the World Bank for the Trade Facilitation and Productivity Improvement Project (Loan No. 3826-HO, Profect PO70038). Part of the funds will be used to hire consultants for a feasibility and design study for expanding the water and sewage systems at...
- Research articles 2005-02-01
- Kepner-Tregoe Forms Global Partnership with OptimumFX To Provide Production Line Improvement Services
- Companies Combine Services to Offer Complete Productivity Improvement Package PRINCETON, N.J. -- Kepner-Tregoe KT, a global provider of consulting and training operational improvement solutions and service, today announced their global partnership with OptimumFX, a European provider of manufacturing productivity analysis systems and improvement services. They are partnering to offer...
- Research articles 2008-09-09
- Productivity improvement: Catholic Health East reaps rewards: productivity improvement can help healthcare organizations achieve significant efficiencies and cost savings. What CFO wouldn't like those results?
- Improving workforce performance management in some of its hospitals saved Catholic Health East CHE $34 million in one year alone. In today's challenging economy, many healthcare organizations would benefit from adopting a similar approach. Comparing productivity among facilities was a daunting task for CHE, a health system headquartered in...
- Research articles 2008-07-01
- Affordances Of Ubiquitous Computing And Productivity In Knowledge Work
- To explore the effects of ubiquitous computing on productivity in knowledge work, the paper first reviews the nature of knowledge work and summarizes how productivity is achieved. Ubiquitous computing appears on the surface to offer very important productivity opportunities in knowledge work processes The concept of affordances is interesting in...
- White papers 2003-09-30
- How Can American Government Meet Its Productivity Challenge?
- American government faces a productivity imperative. Growth in program size, new national priorities, and citizens' demand for increased choice, convenience and customer service, will require government to do more and do it better - and all this in an era of, at best, constant levels of spending. There is therefore...
- White papers 2006-07-01
- Achieving Substantial Productivity Gains and Rapid Time to Value
- While a variety of operational strategies and distribution technologies can play a role in driving out costs and improving performance, a relatively new category of application, typically referred to as a Labor Management System LMS, offers powerful tools that enable companies to achieve substantial operating cost reduction and improved service...
- White papers 2004-10-06
- Aon Announces Launch of Aon Management Consulting, Assisting Clients with Process Improvement, Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness
- Business Editors CHICAGO--BUSINESS WIRE--Dec. 11, 2001 Aon Management Consulting to Operate as Part of Aon Consulting Worldwide Aon Corporation (NYSE: AOC) announced today the launch of Aon Management Consulting, an organization that has been established to help companies achieve dramatic improvements in productivity, efficiency, bottom-line growth...
- Research articles 2001-12-11
- U.S. Productivity Growth, 1995-2000
- U.S. Productivity Growth, 1995-2000; McKinsey Global Institute; Available at www.McKinsey.com. This report of year-long McKinsey research shows that many of the product, service and process innovations underlying the U.S. productivity improvement that began in 1995 will continue to generate growth above the long-term, 1972-95 trend. However, the growth rate will...
- Research articles 2002-01-01
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