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Improving the Energy Performance of Small Scale Foundries: The small-scale sector has over 6000 cupola-based foundry units, located mostly in clusters. A DBC divided blast cupola demonstration unit was set up, equipped with a flue gas cleaning system for controlling emissions. After optimization of control parameters, energy and environmental measurements were conducted to assess the copula's performance. Results...; Tags: performance; Case studies
Smart Businesses To Start Now: 5 Hot sectors: Over the past few years, a wealth of resources and funding has grown up to support growing ranks of wannabes. It's become easier for all kinds of people to get a business up and going. Fueled by the country's increasing diversity, an aging work force, cheap, networked technology, and growing...; Tags: Entrepreneurship, Microsoft Corp.; White papers
Welcome to Hypercompetition - Competitive Advantage at Its Fastest: Clearly, globalization in the service sector is a strong indicator that it too may be undergoing a shift similar to the manufacturing sector's shift to hypercompetition. Whatever a firm's business sector, or the intensity of its competition, some strategies continue to endure. To stay in the game profitably, firms must...; Tags: BetterManagement.com, globalization, competitive advantage, manufacturing, strategy, game; White papers
Compass Serves Up New Menu for Skills: Training the 1.5 million people working in the UK hospitality sector poses three big obstacles for employers. Most have fewer than a dozen people on each site, making many workplace courses unviable. The sector lacks a widely recognised and valued qualification structure, so there is little incentive to complete the...; Tags: Reed Elsevier Inc., Sector, Compass, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Sales Force Management, Human Resources, Sales; White papers
Who's Your City: Top 10 Megaregions: These ten megaregions generate the bulk of America's economic output and stand to be the biggest areas for job and economic growth, according to Richard Florida, author of Who's Your City? ...; Tags: Richard Florida, Chicago, Boston, biotechnology, talent, America, commercial real estate, finance, job, New York, transportation, supply chain, logistics, banking, venture capital, manufacturing, brand, performance, computer, network; Articles 2008-03-19

Using Your Marketing Database Effectively: The information in a marketing database can be used to achieve significant business benefits by supporting and improving performance across the whole spectrum of sales and marketing techniques. Collecting and using data on your customers and your markets helps you gain a better understanding of the market so you can...; Tags: Marketing research, Sales strategy, Sales force management, BNET Editorial, marketing activity, sales promotion, marketing, business opportunity, database, sales, telemarketing, sales force, mailing list, advertisement, decision-making, technique, performance, tool, softwa; Articles 2008-03-03
2008 Industry Outlook: A Look Around The Corner: While every organization is kicking off 2008 with a unique set of challenges and opportunities, we take a birds-eye view across a spectrum of industries to identify top issues facing executives. Adapting leading practices from other sectors often leads to breakthrough thinking and innovation. This paper includes outlooks, some with...; Tags: Strategy, Deloitte & Touche, aerospace, private equity, real estate, banking, insurance, industry, entertainment, health care, telecommunications; White papers 2008-01-11
Will There Be a Recession? Economists Weigh In: How wide and how severe will the fall out from this summer's sub-prime meltdown be? That's the question occupying a great many minds in the financial world. They've got a lot of numbers to crunch, from the rise in new jobs in September, to the markets' big rally on Monday,...; Tags: Real estate, Financial services, Jessica Stillman, LA Times; Blog posts 2007-10-10
Telecom Trends And Expenditures: US Education: The education sector welcomes advances in technology, and integrates them into the curriculum to enhance and improve the overall educational experience. Studies suggest that when technology is effectively integrated into the curriculum, it improves performance by providing student's access to a host of on-line digital content and interactive learning opportunities....; Tags: Telephony, Cahners In-Stat Group, curriculum, telecommunications, digital content, performance; White papers 2006-10-24
Is It Time To Address Selective Disclosure For Nonprofit Organizations?: Over the past two decades, there have been several highly publicized nonprofit scandals that have eroded the public's confidence in the sector (Aviv 2004). Significant changes in nonprofit regulation have been implemented to address these concerns that have expanded the financial information available to the public. Interestingly, the calls for...; Tags: Financial accounting, Harvard University, accountability, financial; White papers 2006-10-01
Crisis Communication Plan: Nonprofit Toolkit: To effectively manage communications through a formal, clearly defined channel in order to mitigate crisis, or serious negative repercussions for the Association or the sector, and maintain a reputation of leadership and transparency on vital issues and breaking news. In speaking with the media and public, the Colorado Nonprofit Association...; Tags: Corporate communications, crisis communication, leadership; White papers 2006-07-12
ERP: Integrating and Extending the Enterprise: The private sector has adopted Enterprise Resource Planning ERP to achieve competitive advantage and greater profitability through increased visibility and control over their supply chain. Although the public sector does not have the same incentives, its need to attain greater management control, enhance supply chain responsiveness, and lower overall costs...; Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Supply chain management (SCM), ERP, supply chain, logistics, competitive advantage, incentive, benefit, strategy, environment; White papers 2006-05-18
Knowledge Management as a Useful Tool for Implementing Projects: This paper discusses the key factors for applying knowledge management as a tool for implementing projects. The increasing economic pressure within the public sector resulted in reform based on applied new technology for an improved service. Finally however the key factors for success are based on shifting the mindset. This...; Tags: Business intelligence, Strategy, PRODUCTIVITY, knowledge management, knowledge, tool, agency; White papers 2006-04-20
The Nonprofit sector's Leadership Deficit: Whether it is helping a teenage mother learn to care for her child, training an ex-convict to get a decent job, or aiding disaster victims, nonprofits increasingly do the work required to fulfill the desire for a civil, compassionate, and well-functioning society. Like most organizations, their ability to consistently deliver...; Tags: nonprofit, leadership, training, job; White papers 2006-03-01
The Impact of Pay Delegation in the 'Heritage sector': The paper provides an analysis of pay developments in the heritage sector since the introduction of delegated pay in 1996. The research conducted was based upon the study of documentary sources pay agreements and qualitative interviews. The main theme of the research was an examination of the extent to which...; Tags: delegation, agreement, analysis; White papers 2006-02-27
Foreign Capital Divestment in Spain: An Industry Level Analysis of Its Extent and Determinants: In this paper the author estimates the presence of foreign capital among representative industrial sectors of the Spanish economy along the 1985 - 2002 period, using the information aggregated up to 57 different sectors provided by the Bank of Spain from the firm survey based data set Central de Balances,...; Tags: divestment, income, bank, survey, information technology; White papers 2006-02-08
Assessing User Satisfaction Of e-Government Services: The public sector provides a variety of services to citizens. The delivery of information for these services over electronic means such as the Internet forms an important component of e-government strategy. However, providing information is not enough; it is imperative that this delivery satisfies customers of government services. This paper...; Tags: e-government, information service, Internet; White papers 2005-12-22
Increasing Global Competition and Labor Productivity: Lessons From the US Automotive Industry: Studies of productivity by McKinsey Global Institute MGI and others have shown that when new, more productive players enter a sector previously sheltered from global competition, the sector's overall level of productivity rises. Less clear, however, is what happens at a company level to link cause and effect. Taking U.S....; Tags: McKinsey & Co., manufacturing, performance; White papers 2005-11-01
Outsourcing Risk?: The Regulation Of Occupational Health And Safety Where Subcontractors Are Employed: The subcontracting out of production tasks and services is not a new phenomenon, but from the late 1970s, and more especially over the last 15 years, the practice?now frequently referred to as outsourcing?has grown substantially across a range of industries in most industrialized countries.1 Recent surveys undertaken in the United...; Tags: University of Illinois, Subcontracting, outsourcing, agency, survey, industry; White papers 2005-10-24
Contracting For The Delivery Of Education Services: A Typology And International Examples: Education sectors the world over are facing a number of social, economic and policy challenges. Governments have responded - to varying degrees - to these challenges by introducing market-based policies that emphasize choice, managerial autonomy for schools and accountability for results. Contracting with the private sector for the delivery of...; Tags: Vertical industries, Harvard University, accountability, government; White papers 2005-09-30