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Advantages And Disadvantages Of Group Decisions: Decision making is tricky business, especially when it comes to large groups. This paper goes with advantages and disadvantages of group decisions... There are several instances in professional as well as personal life when decision-making requires opinions and inputs from more than one or two people. This is where group...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, decision-making; White papers 2008-04-23
The Laws of Power 1-5: The more uncertain, ambiguous and challenging the situation becomes, the more likely a high political quotient PQ manager is to display certain behaviours. They can be described as the 10 laws of power -- the first five are below. 1. ...; Tags: Manager, Tools & Techniques, Networking, Microsoft Office, Management, Office Suites, Software, Jo Owen; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Flomerics Surges After Rejects Mentor Cash Bid: LONDON (Reuters) - Shares in British engineering software firm Flomerics Group FLO surged on Friday after rejecting a buyout offer from larger U.S. rival Mentor Graphics, saying it would explore interest from several other parties. Flomerics is up 15 percent to 102 pence...; Tags: Mentor Graphics Corp., London, software company, Thomson Reuters Corp., IBM Corp., electronics, stock, industry; News items 2008-05-09
Flomerics Surges After Rejects Mentor Cash Bid: LONDON (Reuters UK) - Shares in engineering software firm Flomerics Group FLO surged on Friday after rejecting a buyout offer from larger U.S. rival Mentor Graphics, saying it would explore interest from several other parties. Flomerics is up 15 percent to 102 pence a share at...; Tags: Mentor Graphics Corp., Flomerics Group, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management, Flowers Foods Inc., IBM Corp., Oukbs; News items 2008-05-09
Preparing for Turmoil in World Markets: Food shortages, escalating energy costs, and rising consumer prices are all taking their toll on markets around the world. In such an uncertain environment traditional business forecast models become less effective navigation aids for steering your company. So what do you do to prepare should...; Tags: Blogging, Sean Silverthorne, H. Schoemaker; Blog posts 2008-05-03

Microsoft Appeals Against EU Fine: BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Microsoft MSFT said on Friday it was appealing against a record 899 million euro ($1.39 billion) fine imposed by the European Commission for using high prices to discourage software competition. "Microsoft today filed to the EU Court of First Instance...; Tags: Sales force management, Digital music, Operating systems, Digital media, sanction, commission, European Union Court, Microsoft Windows Media Player, Brussels, Windows Media, media player, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, server, streaming media, server software, Thoms; News items 2008-05-09
Microsoft Appeals Against EU Fine: BRUSSELS (Reuters UK) - Microsoft MSFT said on Friday it was appealing against a record 899 million euro (713 million pounds) fine imposed by the European Commission for using high prices to discourage software competition. "Microsoft today filed to the EU Court of First Instance ...; Tags: Commission, Euro, Microsoft Corp., European Union, Microsoft Windows, Sales Force Management, Tools & Techniques, Software; News items 2008-05-09
Psychosocial Evaluation In Decision Making Process: Decision-making is the final resultant of mental process of exploring various alternatives. Further it can be the manifestation of mind. In the process of decision-making our unconscious feelings and emotions are compressed and go through a chaotic process turning thoughts into a decision. This paper will help you in decision...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, decision-making; White papers 2008-04-10
Boosting Self-Esteem Can Backfire In Decision-making: Smart business leaders understand that confidence affects decision-making and ultimately a company's earnings. But giving employees positive feedback in the hopes of promoting better decisions sometimes can backfire. Some types of positive feedback actually can escalate perceived threats to the ego and increase the need to prove that a questionable...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, decision-making; White papers 2008-04-01
Danger, Danger: 5 Tips For Using A Public PC: With spying software, a criminal can grab your passwords and usernames. Ultimately, you could lose your money or have your identity stolen. That should tell you enough to be wary of public PC terminals. Spies usually use software because it is invisible to the untutored eye. Hardware to do virtually...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Corp., keyboard, software, password, hardware, e-mail, PC, computer; White papers
How To Shield Your Network From Clever Hackers: You've got antivirus software and firewalls guarding your computers and routers. You religiously download security updates. You've done everything you can think of to stay secure. But your network is still at risk. Why? Because an employee could unwittingly give away the castle's keys. The biggest threat to a computer...; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Corp., antivirus software, firewall, router, network, computer, hardware, software, security; White papers
Representation of Musical Structure for Music Software: This case study describes problems and opportunities of leveraging musical structure in musical software applications. Musical structure is a generally acknowledged, but often neglected topic in music software and musical data formats. Yet it is important for interactive applications, especially music tuition, music retrieval, and multimedia. Some problems in the...; Tags: modeling, multimedia, software; Case studies
Basin Electric Discovers the Power of Editing in Updating Thousands of Power Plant Drawings: Basin Electric, headquartered in Bismarck, North Dakota is a consumer-owned cooperative, which supplies power to nine states in the upper Midwest. Basin Electric decided to explore a more cost effective solution for editing their drawings. A little more than two years ago, they purchased 10 copies of GTXRaster CAD raster...; Tags: software; Case studies
Modelling the Replacement of Degraded Concrete on the Terra Nitram Prill Tower: The Severnside prill tower is operated by Terra Nitrogen UK Ltd to manufacture ammonium nitrate fertilizer. Despite a history of regular maintenance and repair parts of the reinforced concrete structure have deteriorated over the years due to the severe operating environment and by 1998 significant structural repairs were required. Taylor...; Tags: LUSAS, project management, modeling, environment; Case studies
Nissan Motor Corporation: Automotive Engineering in a Collaborative Environment: Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management EPM Solution has been a key factor in building the Design Change Collaborative Management DCCM platform for Nissan Motor Ib?rica, S.A. To manage the engineering changes in the past, Nissan used documents in paper and very basic IT tools. Nissan has implemented a project management...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., project management, cost reduction, Microsoft Office, information technology, environment, Microsoft Corp.; Case studies
Portfolio Management Guides Product Development for Biomedical Technology Leader: A $300M developer of biomedical research technology was struggling to identify a long-term product road map that would raise company revenues to $1B. Building off the company's existing product development program, PRTM implemented a comprehensive portfolio management process for guiding decisions surrounding the company's five-year product road map. PRTM also...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Product marketing, HEALTHCARE, PRTM, biomedical, product development, decision-making, team; Case studies
Getting Supply Chain Software Right: Over the decade, companies have spent a huge amount of money installing supply-chain-management software. After looking at 63 high-tech companies that installed supply chain software, the paper distills four guiding principles for success. Unless the software is coupled with improvements in a company's most important supply chain processes as well...; Tags: Supply chain management (SCM), McKinsey & Co., supply chain, accountability, software, training; White papers
Project Management Network Diagram: A Tool for Understanding the PM Life Cycle: Fully understanding the Project Management Institute's (PMI®) approach to project management can be difficult. Fortunately, if you are trying to prepare for the Project Management Professional (PMP®) exam, an overview is available through Global Knowledge. The Project Management Network Diagram PM Network Diagram provides a visual illustration of the project...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Global Knowledge Network Inc., project management, tool; White papers
Software Compliance Issues in Outsourcing Code Development: The outsourcing of software development to both offshore and onshore development centers has become widely accepted as a part of the business model of many companies. And while outsourcing software development creates efficiencies both in terms of time and money, it comes with its own set of concerns. By far,...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, outsourcing, software development, software; White papers
2005 Supply & Demand Chain 100 Case Study - Michael Foods / Iasta: Michael Foods, Inc., a 75-year-old $1 billion diversified food processor and distributor, initiated a project to achieve cost reduction goals through the use of reverse auctions. The company was looking to achieve better competition for its business while increasing efficiency and obtaining better reporting/data analysis by using e-RFx and project...; Tags: Purchasing & Procurement, Cygnus Business Media, e-Sourcing, demand chain, cost reduction, sourcing, project management, on-demand, food, analysis, processor; Case studies