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Personnel Action Form: This is a template for personnel action form from human resource.; Tags: Purdue University, Human Resources; Tools & templates 2007-12-03
A Team Under the Influence: In the world of fads and fashions, there are tastemakers. In any business, there exists a similar phenomenon, opinion makers. They are a select group of people within the company who have the personality and the reputation to earn the respect and to bend the ears of a large group...; Tags: Team management, Jeff Palfini, team; Blog posts 2007-10-01
Laptop Super-Cooler a Boon for Male Fertility?: Computers get hot -- really hot. In fact, a 2004 study from State University of New York at Stony Brook found that laptops get so blazin' warm that they raise the "lap" temperature of men (id est, in SUNY's own words, "scrotal hyperthermia") by an average of 5 degrees...; Tags: Notebooks, Semiconductors, Jonathan Haeber, laptop computer; Blog posts 2007-08-27
FI Roles For Role Mapping Workshops - December 2006: This is a template FI roles for role mapping workshops.; Tags: Purdue University, workshop, financial; Tools & templates 2006-12-14
Video Teleconferencing: An Introduction And Usage Guide: This paper contains the basic information needed to understand the future of business and personal communication. Video teleconferencing, while seeming to be a concept straight from science fiction, has actually been available for quite some time, and has proven to be a beneficial technology. However, like most new technologies it...; Tags: Corporate communications, PRODUCTIVITY, Purdue University, video, computer; White papers 2006-10-30

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...; Tags: Purdue University, productivity improvement, industry, analysis, financial; White papers 2006-07-01
Natural Gas Purchase Incentive Regulation And Benchmarking: The purposes of this white paper are: To summarize the general picture of the near term gas supply-demand, potential shortage and high prices; To emphasize the importance of gas purchase risk management due to the large volatility of gas prices; and To summarize the benchmarks and incentive mechanisms some other...; Tags: Purdue University, volatility, benchmarking, natural gas, risk management, incentive; White papers 2005-07-01
How To Use Goals To Achieve Business Success: First Steps For New Entrepreneurs: Specifying and accomplishing goals and objectives are critical to the success of a business because they help identify the road map of how to proceed. Without this road map, one could get lost along the way. There are several benefits to documenting goals on paper. They become more concrete, they...; Tags: Entrepreneurship, Purdue University, benefit; White papers 2005-06-01
Best Practices in Up-Selling and Cross-Selling: The business model for the successful implementation of an up/cross-sell program must focus on the migration from cost center status to profit center status through the value of incremental sales. The paradigm shift is critical to the success of the program, and profit center status allows call centers to document...; Tags: Call centers, Sales strategy, Customer relationship management (CRM), Purdue University, call-center, best practice, sales, environment; White papers 2005-03-02
Secure Outsourcing Of Sequence Comparisons: Internet computing technologies, like grid computing, enable a weak computational device connected to such a grid to be less limited by its inadequate local computational, storage, and bandwidth resources. However, such a weak computational device (PDA, smartcard, sensor, etc.) often cannot avail itself of the abundant resources available on the...; Tags: Real estate, Purdue University, outsourcing, agent, grid computing, smart card, outsource, PDA, technique, storage, Internet, network; White papers 2005-01-31
Achieving Fairness In Private Contract Negotiation: Suppose Alice and Bob are two entities (e.g. agents, organizations, etc.) that wish to negotiate a contract. A contract consists of several clauses, and each party has certain constraints on the acceptability and desirability (i.e., a private "Utility" function) of each clause. If Bob were to reveal his constraints to...; Tags: Purdue University, agreement, agent, strategy; White papers 2005-01-13
On the Interactions Between Routing and Inventory-Management Policies in a One-Warehouse N-Retailer Distribution System: This paper examines the interactions between routing and inventory-management decisions in a two-level supply chain consisting of a cross-docking warehouse and N retailers. Travel times are fixed between pairs of system sites. Every m time periods, system inventory is replenished at the warehouse, whereupon an incapacitated vehicle departs on a...; Tags: Retail, Purdue University, warehouse, retail company, Inventory Management, allocation, supply chain; White papers 2004-09-01
Mixed Reality Technology Applications In Construction Equipment Operator Training: This paper provides information on Mixed Reality MR, and more specifically Augmented Reality AR and their potential applications in heavy construction equipment and operator training. Mixed Reality involves the use of special display and tracking technologies that are capable of seamlessly merging digital virtual content into a real environment. Conceptual...; Tags: Purdue University, heavy construction, construction equipment, environment, training; White papers 2004-06-19
How Confident Can We Be in CGE-Based Assessments of Free Trade Agreements?: Computable General Equilibrium models, widely used for the analysis of Free Trade Agreements FTAs are often criticized for having poor econometric foundations. This paper improves the linkage between econometric estimates of key parameters and their usage in CGE analysis in order to better evaluate the likely outcome of a Free...; Tags: Purdue University, free-trade agreement, free trade, analysis; White papers 2004-03-01
The State Of Practice In Supply Chain Management: In this paper, the author describes examples of state-of-the-art practice in supply-chain management; e.g., vendor-managed inventory, quick response, and other contemporary systems, such as Wal-Mart's RetailLink. The perspective will be that of what the author call the IDIB Portfolio; i.e., what Information I, Decision-Making D, Implementation I, and Buffer B...; Tags: Supply chain management (SCM), Purdue University, supply chain, SCM, decision-making; White papers 2004-02-26
Enacting Collaborative Public Relations Through Emancipatory Politics and Discursive Closure: A Structuration Analysis of an Alliance for the Mentally Ill Organization: The concept of "collaboration" is prominent in the public relations literature but it has not yet been fully explicated as a process achieved through communicative practices. Communicative practices and concomitant ideological tensions have been treated as unquestioned resources, despite the fact the effective negotiation of organization-public relationships hinges upon collaboration...; Tags: Groupware, Purdue University, public relations, collaboration, negotiation, alliance, analysis; White papers 2003-07-04
A Customer-Supplier System For Distributed Global Product Management: Globalization of many industry sectors is increasing competition in manufacturing. Various strategic partnerships and alliances with other companies are becoming very common. There are many critical issues for companies managing the complex business and product development processes. People involved in product development often work in geographically different locations and time...; Tags: Product marketing, Strategy, Purdue University, product development, product development process, product lifecycle, globalization, knowledge management, alliance, partnership, manufacturing, knowledge, team, e-mail, industry, Web; White papers 2003-04-23
Language Difference In The Telenovela Trade: Linguistic differences within and across language groups have challenged program export since the origins of television. This study examines telenovelas, which, despite an enduring basis in Spanish and Portuguese, have attracted worldwide audiences since the 1980s. The conceptual challenges of linguistic difference and the practical responses of industry participants are...; Tags: Purdue University, TV, industry; White papers 2003-04-01
Secure Implementation Experiments: Do Strategy-Proof Mechanisms Really Work?: Strategy-proofness, requiring that truth-telling is a dominant strategy, is a standard concept used in social choice theory. In particular, announcing one's true preference may not be a unique dominant strategy, and almost all strategy-proof mechanisms have a continuum of Nash equilibria. For only a subset of strategy-proof mechanisms do the...; Tags: Purdue University, strategy, theory; White papers 2003-04-01
What Tools Are Useful In Identifying Opportunities And Threats?: Strategy of an organization is the roadmap towards attainment of its long term goals and objectives. Strategy of the organization facilitates in gaining a sustainable competitive advantage. Business analysis is imperative for the organization to ascertain the mood and the conditions for starting or consolidating a business venture. It involves...; Tags: Purdue University, strategy, competitive advantage; Presentations 2003-01-01