A leading manufacturer and distributor of forest products, based in the US, was struggling with ineffective operations in it paper and pulp division. Read how Wipro stepped in as a strategic IT partner for a leading manufacturer and distributor of forest products based in the US, taking up the complete...
UK businesses are operating in a fiercely competitive global environment. Innovation, efficiency and agility are critical to delivering a competitive edge and standardization can play an important part in ensuring their success. Drawing on research and using case studies of best practice standardization from leading companies including BT, Arup and...
The paper focuses on standardization and harmonization in context to business process management. Standardization means creating uniform business processes across various divisions or locations. It depicts that through standardization; individual business units can share expenses, and will benefit from a company-wide Business Process Management BPM. In the context of Business...
As Gartner notes, "At most companies, the problems of fragmentation and proliferation of disparate Business Intelligence BI tools have been exacerbated during the past two years." Faced with these problems of BI fragmentation, organizations are moving quickly to implement BI standards. BI standardization involves costs and change management, but as...
Business Intelligence BI technology allows organizations to track, understand, and manage vital business information. BI is assuming an increasingly strategic role as more organizations look for ways to tap into the valuable data stored in their operational systems. A typical BI project has an average return on investment ROI of...
The reasons driving standardization in Business Intelligence BI and reporting are core to every company- cutting costs, boosting revenue, and increasing profits. What drives the increased interest in standardization is the fact many that companies are actually doing it. Other companies don't want to miss the competitive opportunity. Simplification and...
The market for business intelligence BI reporting and analysis solutions exceeded $5.5 billion in 2004, up from $5.3 billion in 2003. Reporting and analysis is essential to addressing compliance and measuring corporate performance, but standardizing on a single BI platform for all reporting needs is still a few years away....
The emerging interest in the process approach is giving rise to numerous expectations and views. Whether it is Business Process Reengineering BPR, Business Process Management BPM, Activity Based Costing ABC, or Business Activity Monitoring BAM, process modeling is at the core of each of these approaches. The arrival of modeling...
Audi Hungaria Motor AHM, a major Hungarian engine manufacturer, improved materials visibility and increased plant production efficiency by integrating and streamlining supply chain management processes with the help of expertise from IBM Business Consulting Services and a foundation of IBM technology, including pSeries servers and Tivoli and IBM Rational software.
There are many approaches using process modeling, including Business Process Reengineering BPR, Business Process Management BPM, Activity Based Costing ABC and Business Activity Monitoring BAM. At the core of each of these approaches is process modeling, which helps to create a knowledge base that can be shared by all development...
Many companies are in the process of establishing standards for master station, remote station, and field level automation. Some companies are well down the standardization path and others are just now beginning. Standardization is expected to achieve measurable economic benefits, usually in the form of reduced automation costs. However, few...
As pharmaceutical companies continue to expand both domestically and globally, Good Manufacturing practices GMP processes must be closely monitored as the FDA is pushing for standardization within these organizations. The manufacturing and QA processes that take place in one location need to be similar with those in other locations. In...
In the 1984 Steven Spielberg movie, 'Gremlins,' Billy receives a cute but mysterious pet from Chinatown as a birthday gift from his father, unaware of the magnitude of his responsibility in respecting the three rules for its care. By breaking one of the rules, the young man unwittingly unleashes a...
This paper describes about the Administrative Simplification1 subsection of HIPAA which was originally intended to reduce fraud and abuse in the healthcare system, as well as improve efficiency through standardization. The avenues to accomplish this include standardization of transactions, code sets and identifiers and securing the privacy of Protected Health...
For 150 years, Providence Health System PHS, a multistate integrated delivery network, has operated as four independent regions. To stay competitive in the healthcare marketplace, PHS needed to achieve a level of standardization that would help manage growth, reduce costs and improve the efficiency of their expanding business. The first...
Now that the Fastener Quality Act has been in the books for a few years, the latest quality measure to hit the fastener industry is ISO certification. While the quality standardization is by no means new, many distributors are pursuing certification as a result of increased customer requests for more...
Business Intelligence BI technology gives business users the ability to track, understand, and manage information within an organization. BI is taking on an increasingly strategic role as more organizations look for ways to tap into the valuable data stored in their operational systems. This white paper, a companion to the...
Standardization of performance indicators lead to transparency in information related to financial and social domain. A large number of standardization tools are used for the same. They include benchmarking, external audit, and management information systems. The paper examines the standardization issues in the micro-finance domain.
Most marketing organizations are engrossed in the debate of ‘to standardize or not to standardize.’ There are two major ways to standardize products viz. Global vs. Regional Standardization, and Localization vs. Adaptation. The paper examines the issue of standardization and elucidates the advantages and drawbacks of standardization.
This article helps in determining the standardization for six sigma, with the help of a case of Iomega. Iomega strives to universalize the system behind its success. In the computer hardware market, much like in quality management, the name of the game is standardization. When Iomega's zip product line gained...
