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Implementing Enterprise Risk Management: Enterprise Resource Management ERM is a powerful management tool that is never completed and requires champions at the C-level for its successful implementation. In the risky world, companies can no longer rely on a silo approach to risk management but need an integrated and holistic perspective of all the risks...; Tags: Strategy, Financial Planning, Financial services, SECURITY, University of Virginia, risk management, risk, enterprise risk management, best practice; White papers 2006-10-09
The Potential For Underinvestment In Internet Security: With the continuing growth of the use of the Internet for business purposes, the consequences of a possible cyber attack that could create a large scale outage of long time duration becomes a more and more serious economic issue. In this paper, we construct a game-theoretic model that addresses the...; Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Network security, University of Virginia, Internet security, Internet Service Provider, cyberattack, Internet, motivation, Internet service, security, e-business, telecommunications; White papers 2006-02-01
Making Invisible Work Visible: Using Social Network Analysis To Support Strategic Collaboration: With efforts to de-layer organizations and reduce functional boundaries, coordination and work of importance increasingly occur through networks of informal relations rather than channels tightly prescribed by formal reporting structures or detailed work processes. This paper outlines how social network analysis can be effective in: Promoting collaboration within a strategically...; Tags: Groupware, University of Virginia, social networking, collaboration, analysis, network; White papers 2004-12-16
Developing Integrated Knowledge Management Solutions Based on the Unique Social and Knowledge Character of Organizations: This paper describes a methodology that seeks to integrate concepts from the diverse fields of organizational psychology, statistical modeling and knowledge management in order to help organizations tackle complex problems that do not lend themselves to being addressed through more traditional problem solving methods. Fundamentally, the methodology is focused on...; Tags: Strategy, Business intelligence, University of Virginia, knowledge management, quantitative analysis, knowledge, modeling; White papers 2004-10-01
Strategic Sourcing Roundtable Defines Top 5 Challenges to Public Sector Strategic Sourcing: The paper discusses in brief about the Top 5 Challenges, which were jointly compiled by Roundtable members representing government agencies across the Federal government. The Public Sector Strategic Sourcing Roundtable, a forum for senior Federal procurement executives sponsored by Censeo Consulting Group and University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of...; Tags: University of Virginia, strategic sourcing, public sector; White papers 2004-09-02

Integrating Disparate Data For Decision Support: An Interdisciplinary, Object-Oriented, Open Source Approach: This paper describes a unique system for integrating disparate data that will allow for greatly improved decision support in diverse domains. The Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture Fedora provides the foundation for this project by combining a flexible, use-neutral approach to organizing streams of content and metadata with disseminators...; Tags: Data mining, Tools & Techniques, Databases, University of Virginia, decision support, object-oriented, open source, environment, tool; White papers 2004-06-07
A Nuclear Weaponization Program: This document provides a presentation on nuclear weaponization program, which involves a set of activities and facilities aimed at manufacturing and maintaining nuclear weapons. It does not include the manufacturing complex to make separated plutonium or highly enriched uranium, or "fissile material. For the purposes of verification, such a program...; Tags: University of Virginia, manufacturing; White papers 2004-05-18
Risk-Based Classification of Incidents: As the penetration of software into safety-critical systems progresses, accidents and incidents involving software will inevitably become more frequent. Identifying lessons from these occurrences and applying them to existing and future systems is essential if recurrences are to be prevented. Unfortunately, investigative agencies do not have the resources to fully...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, University of Virginia, accident, agency, software; White papers 2003-07-31
Top End Alignment: Align Your Vision, Brand, and Marketing Communications to Attain Business Leadership: A shared vision within an organization and strong brand communication are key factors in achieving optimum business results. A strong vision helps to identify the business's direction and purpose, builds loyalty and involvement, and inspires enthusiasm and commitment. Effective brand management can influence purchase and ownership experiences create emotional attachments...; Tags: Branding, Marketing research, University of Virginia, vision, brand, brand management, marketing communication, leadership, marketing; White papers 2003-05-30
Creating a Modern Lobby: The Sierra Club and the Rise of Environmentalism, 1892-1970: Interest group theory has neglected the ability of groups to adapt to changes in their political environment. New issues and venues can enhance a group's political opportunities. But the process of adaptation can strain the organizational capacity of a group. This paper examines what happened to the Sierra Club when...; Tags: University of Virginia, Sierra Club, environmentalism, theory, environment; White papers 2003-05-10
Incentive Contracts For Infrastructure, Litigation And Weak Institutions: In this paper the publisher revisit incentive contract design in a simple setting, after developing a model that captures the fact that in weak institutional settings (e.g. high shadow cost of public funds, highly incomplete and/or asymmetric information) the procurement of large scale public works through concession contracts with strong...; Tags: University of Virginia, litigation, incentive, procurement; White papers 2003-03-14
Diversification and Synergy: Article encodes two frameworks that help the strategist to analyze how to expand the boundaries of the firm in a way that maximizes the potential for transference of skills, or synergy, among the businesses. These are Ansoff's growth vector matrix and Thomas's direct and indirect linkages approach. These options are...; Tags: University of Virginia, matrix, diversification, linkage, business strategy, strategic management, theory; White papers 2003-01-01
Team Building: A Central Skill: A team is a collection of individuals who work together for the attainment of common goals and objectives. The four stages of team development process are forming, storming, norming, and performing. Building an effective team entails consideration of several factors. The paper examines the aforesaid stages and discusses certain characteristics...; Tags: Team management, University of Virginia, team, team-building; Presentations 2003-01-01
Corporate Culture, Values, and Strategic Change: This white paper introduces the culture and values elements of strategic implementation that is based on strategy equation, which holds that financial performance is a function of both industry attractiveness and competitive advantage or position. It illustrates few strategic capabilities those were considered at the time of implementation. The ultimate...; Tags: University of Virginia, corporate culture, adjustment, strategy, competitive advantage, health care, analysis, financial, industry; White papers 2003-01-01
Evaluating the Feasibility of Digital Watermarking to Enforce Music Copyright: As most are aware, MP3 technology began this file-sharing phenomenon by providing a means for copyrighted music to be freely available in an easily downloadable, compressed media. If one user licenses and downloads a song, companies must somehow prohibit others from copying that music. As a result, researchers have developed...; Tags: University of Virginia, music, digital media, file-sharing, digital music, MP3; White papers 2001-12-04
Knowledge Management (KM): A Revolution Waiting For IR AIR 2001 Forum Paper: This paper shares a vision of the future of Institutional Research IR for the 21st century, in which institutional researchers learn to see themselves as the critical knowledge workers in the higher education industry. To take on this role, IR needs to understand the concepts of knowledge management KM; use...; Tags: Business intelligence, Strategy, University of Virginia, knowledge management, knowledge, decision-making, vision, tool, network; White papers 2001-06-25
New Product Positioning In An Evolving Technology Environment: From the executive summary: ‘Many industries today are faced with tumultuous competition, fickle-minded consumers, and rapidly evolving technologies. In such unstable and evolving environments, products run the risk of being a failure in the market even before they are launched. Firms that operate in such environments often find themselves shifting...; Tags: University of Virginia, environment, positioning, product development, industry; White papers 2001-05-01
Casino in a Box: This document focuses on the growth of the online gambling or casino industry. This article shows that numerous estimates have the number of websites that offer online betting and gambling at well over 800 by the year 2001.The article also focuses on the issue of the regulation of the online...; Tags: Regulations, University of Virginia, industry, Web site; White papers 2001-02-02
The Digital Music Revolution and MP3.com: The future of the Majors and other record companies will be that of content providers that seek to maximize distribution. Utilizing all "safe" distribution channels enables the record companies to focus on building and strengthening their artist base, a key competitive advantage. Additionally, expanded distribution reduces direct promotional expenses by...; Tags: Digital media, University of Virginia, record company, digital music, competitive advantage, strategy; White papers 2001-02-02
Preparing Your Music Client for Web Distribution: Digital technology allows an individual to transform expression contained within any musical work into a sequence of bits (binary values of either 0 or 1), which can be stored as data in a computer. Music industry trends point toward digital transmission of recordings as an extremely important method of distribution...; Tags: University of Virginia, copyright protection, computer, Web; White papers 2001-01-17