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		<title><![CDATA[Hackett Group, Inc. Q2 2009 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from George Sutton &#8211; Craig-Hallum Capital. George Sutton &#8211; 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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:43:22 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Owen-Illinois, Inc. Q2 2009 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer Session Operator  Operator Instructions  Your first question comes from Timothy Thein &#8211; Citigroup. Timothy Thein &#8211; 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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:55:28 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Productivity Gap | BTalk Australia]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnetau.com.au/aussierules/2009/02/03/the-productivity-gap-btalk-australia/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[(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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:20:57 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Productivity And Technical Changes In The Indian Auto Component Industry]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=315627]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Improving MDD Productivity With Software Factories]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=282576]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[R&D Outsourcing Goes Strategic]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=149198]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A Strategy for Improving Knowledge Work]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=271249]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Industry Productivity And The Victorian Economy]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=317285]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Distributed Sensing For Quality And Productivity Improvements]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=285290]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Effects Of Reducing Tariffs And Endogenous Productivity Growth]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=317470]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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