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- The Soft Side of Risk
- This article tries to focus on the soft risk, which is one of the risk categories. These are the risks related to the organization in which the project is being conducted and often reside at organizational levels. The question this article addresses is what can the project manager, do to...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Mastering Innovation Management: Collaborating For Speed And Profit
- Innovation is extremely difficult—and it is not enough. Architects and major corporations alike share the challenge of not only generating fresh ideas, but making them commercially successful as well. Companies that focus on product leadership and consistently achieve breakthrough, innovations are more successful than their peers are. For many firms,...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Reversal Of Fortunes: Democracy, Property Rights And Foreign Direct Investment Inflows To Developing Countries
- The question this article addresses is does increased democracy promote or jeopardize Foreign Direct Investment FDI inflows to Less Developed Countries LDCs. It argues that democracy affects FDI inflows through competing causal avenues. On one hand, the higher levels of political participation and representation that are part of more democratic...
- White papers 2001-10-19
- Going Modal
- Seaports are arguably the most critical links in global supply chains because they serve as the primary interface between waterborne cargo traffic and land-linked rail, road, and air distribution networks. The question this article addresses is how is a logistics airport alleviating congestion at Los Angeles ports? Facing the unenviable...
- White papers 2003-07-01
- Exploding The Myth Of Competitiveness
- If one increases employers' contributions, or tax capital and financial products, he will increase the costs of labor, which will endanger the competitiveness of companies that will then have no choice but to declare redundancies or relocate. The question this article addresses is, how can one finance pensions in the...
- White papers 2003-07-02
- Making Marketing Matter: Build Its Brand Within Your Organization- II
- Marketing is often the danger field of business. It gets no respect or at least not as much as it deserves. The question this article addresses is what can one do about it? The road to respect is through managing marketing as a brand with a promise of value to...
- White papers 2003-11-18
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- Active Asset Allocation
- The question this article address is about the last three years of poor stock market performance and what does it mean how to provide investment and financial planning advice? The article also defines that Investment management is organized around asset allocation and security selection. When it comes to asset allocation,...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The Impact Of E-Commerce Strategies On Firm Value:Lessons From Amazon.com And Its Early Competitors
- The question this article tries to address is which strategies generate value in e-commerce environments? In a step towards answering this question, this article estimates the impacts of several competitive strategies on the values of the well-known Internet retailer Amazon.com and three of its early competitors, BarnesandNoble.com, CDNOW, and N2K,...
- White papers 2002-02-20
- What Drives Capital Flows? The Case of Cross-Border M&A Activity and Financial Deepening
- The question this article tries to address is what macroeconomic and financial variables play key roles in the foreign direct investment decision FDI of firms? This question is addressed in this article using a large panel data set of cross-border Merger & Acquisition (M&A) deals for the period 1990-1999. Various...
- White papers 2002-01-01
- To Unlock or Not To Unlock Smartphones? That Is the Question for Enterprise IT Managers
- For many companies, an unlocked, unprovisioned phone makes good financial and support sense. Meanwhile, the federal government is scrutinizing deals that lock users into buying a specific phone only from a specific carrier (think iPhone and AT&T). All of this means that unprovisioned smartphones may be more widely available in...
- News items 2009-08-19
- The Case For Foreign Small-Capitalization Stocks
- This article sees a bright future for international small companies as an investment opportunity. It dispels myths that have kept investors away from small foreign firms and discusses their beneficial features as an asset class. Financial professionals are well aware of the appreciation potential of small companies. Investors who recognized...
- White papers 2000-11-01
- Value-Added Auditing: Your Best Assessment Tool
- This article highlights the importance of Value-added auditing. The question this article tries to address is why have so few companies registered to ISO 9001:2000? One major reason for the slow response might be that ISO 9001:2000's perceived value is not sufficiently compelling in these slow economic times. One solution...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Equity Portfolio Structure And Design: When The Whole Is Less Than The Sum Of Its Parts
- It has been observed that professional advisors often use large cap. Mid cap. Small cap. Growth value to select portfolio specialists with beat-their-benchmark track records. As a result, the risk is minimized. The question this article tries to address is what is wrong with that? The wrong is that a...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- A Balanced Scorecard For City & County Services
- This article discusses about Balanced Scorecard. Some of the question this article tries to address is what is the Government Balanced Scorecard BSC? What is in it for cities and counties? What are the pros & cons of the BSC? Some of the benefits of this are BSC raises visibility...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- How Accurate Are Private Sector Forecasts--Cross-Country Evidence From Consensus Forecasts Of Output Growth
- This article evaluates the performance of consensus forecasts of GDP growth for industrialized and developing countries. The question this article tries to address is how do forecasts errors differ across industrialized and developing countries? are forecasts efficient and biased? In this two key result, emerge. First, the record of failure...
- White papers 2000-04-01
- Seeking A Fit
- The question this article tries to address whether a modified CGL is right for anew 'cyber-risks,' or will more be needed? Underwriters, attorneys, and coverage analysts generally agree that the growth of electronic commerce and communications has greatly increased the possibility for individuals and organizations to commit tort liability offenses....
- White papers 2002-01-01
- Small Teams, Big Returns
- This article discusses a case of CBS IT, which worked faster, better and cheaper after it split into small teams. The key to its success was setting strong performance goals. CBS IT was already laudably efficient, running at about 50 percent of the cost of the average IT shop; it...
- White papers 2003-12-01
- Superior Diversification on a Shoestring Budget
- Any investor who loaded up on growth stocks or technology funds a few years ago should now be able to see the advantage of owning some other kinds of assets as well. On the other hand, proper diversification is not hard for investors who have enough money. The question this...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Inheriting Contaminated Property: A Blessing Or A Curse?
- Too often, even seemingly "clean" commercial properties have some environmental concerns. Moreover, because environmental laws have only been around for a few decades, the longer ago the property was being used for commercial purposes, the more likely it may be that it is contaminated. The question this article tries to...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Crafting An Investment Approach For IT Assets
- The question this article tries to address is why do so few companies attain reasonable ROI for IT expenditures? One overriding reason is that IT investments are generally not well linked to business benefits. The article provides how organizations can improve their methodology and maximize the value of IT spending....
- White papers 2000-05-01
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