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The Evolution of Office Work: On Demand Business both requires and drives fundamental, systemic changes in the way businesses operate. These changes span the entire spectrum of business activity, from customer communication to supplier interaction, from component manufacture to strategic management. Their impact is felt from the minute-to-minute activities of each and every worker right...; Tags: Microsoft Office, Supplier, Channel Management, Strategic Management, Marketing; White papers 2005-12-01
Business Intelligence Technical Overview: Today's managers and data analysts are inundated with information and under time constraints to make key business decisions. They need visual cues to identify the latest business trends and then make both operational and strategic management decisions. All of which must be shared with the right people throughout the enterprise....; Tags: Oracle Corp., Strategic Management, Pricing, Leadership, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Management, Software, Data Management; White papers 2005-07-01
Oracle Business Intelligence 10g Technical Overview: Oracle Business Intelligence continues to enhance the industry leading Oracle database platform with capabilities to support business intelligence systems. Today's managers and data analysts are inundated with information and under time constraints to make key business decisions. They need visual cues to identify the latest business trends and then make...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Oracle Business Intelligence, Strategic Management, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Leadership, Databases, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management; White papers 2004-12-01
Dashboards and Scorecards: Executive Information Systems for the Public Sector: Web-based technologies are ushering in a new era of public management by disseminating information to key decision makers through portals known as executive information systems EIS. This paper describes the concept of EIS, identifies the features and functions of leading products, and discusses how EIS can promote strategic management in...; Tags: Information System, Government Finance Officers Association, Dashboard, Strategic Management, Portals, Leadership, Strategy, Web Technology, Internet, Management; White papers 2001-12-01
Using the Balanced Scorecard to Improve State & Local Government Performance: Pressures on governments around the world have contributed to the rising adoption of "performance management and measurement" - a focus on program and service outputs and outcomes, and on "managing for results". Specifically, state and local governments are becoming increasingly accountable for results and the cost-effective use of taxpayer money...; Tags: Webcast, Performance, Balanced Scorecard, Government, Strategic Management, Vertical Industries, Marketing, Marketing Research, Enterprise Software, Software; Webcasts

Development of the 3rd Generation Balanced Scorecard, Part I: This paper describes the changes to the definition of the Balanced Scorecard that have occurred since it became popular as a performance measurement framework during the early 1990s. The paper builds on earlier work by the authors that characterised such definitions into three distinct generations of Balanced Scorecard. The paper...; Tags: Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Management, Marketing, Marketing Research; White papers
tesa Secures Efficient Sales Reporting With SAP Business Intelligence: Headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, and a member of the Beiersdorf Group, tesa AG ranks as one of the world's leading suppliers of self-adhesive products. With some 58 subsidiaries spanning Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Americas, tesa places a great deal of importance on customers and pays strict attention to market...; Tags: SAP BW, SAP AG, Tesa, Sales Strategy, Strategic Management, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware; Case studies
Oracle Case Study: Internal Revenue Service: Like most government agencies, the Internal Revenue Service is feeling the pain of tight budgets. Also of concern was meeting the goals set by the President's Management Agenda of 2002, which included strategic management of human capital, expanded electronic government, improved financial management, and budget and performance integration. In addition,...; Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., Oracle Corp., Internal Revenue Service, Human Capital, Strategic Management, Performance Management, Financial Management, Business Intelligence, Government, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Financial Planning, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; Case studies
Portal Solution Helps Consultant Firm Improve Knowledge Management: German strategic management consulting firm SMP AG historically supported its operations with a file server system built on Microsoft technology. As the company grew, there were only organisational rules for information management; however, they were not supported by formal processes and IT-Infrastructure for information storage. Information was stored in separate...; Tags: Knowledge, Microsoft Corp., File Server, File Servers, Strategic Management, Storage Management, Portals, Knowledge Management, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage, Hardware, Internet, Management; Case studies
Managing Strategy With the Balanced Scorecard: How to Convert Strategic Planning Into Action: Using the Balanced Scorecard, thousands of organizations around the globe have overcome the discouraging odds of strategy implementation by focusing on what is critical to success, alignment from top to bottom, and informed resource allocation decisions. As the tool has evolved over the past 15 years from measurement system to...; Tags: Strategic Planning, Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Management, Strategy, Marketing, Marketing Research, Management; Webcasts

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Texas Instruments pulls power management efforts under new division: Quick update on Texas Instruments TI, which looks at power management from the guts of the chip level. Here's the blog I wrote last week describing some of those efforts. I wasn't all that surprised to hear that the company has pulled all its power management and...; Tags: Power Management, Texas Instruments Inc., Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-07-05
JDAFTS (zip): JDAFTS, which stands for Jones Dykstra & Associates Forensic Tool Suite, includes case data management applications that extend beyond the capabilities of currently-available forensic software applications. JDAFTS is designed for computer forensics, corporate, government, and law enforcement investigators as well as universities. Easy to use, the tool suite allows forensics...; Tags: Web Browser, Jones Dykstra & Associates, JDAFTS, Data Management, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Web Browsers, Storage, Government, Databases, Management, Internet, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software; Software downloads 2008-07-04
Shark FX for Windows (exe): Punch! Shark FX is professional CAD software that provides modeling functionality beyond retail products, includes translators to enterprise CAD system such as CATIA and Pro-E and 2D dimensional constraint management methods for rapid design iterations. Includes precision 3D to 2D model to sheet tools based on our licensed CATIA V5...; Tags: Catia, 2D, Animation, Microsoft Windows, Modeling, Punch Software, Shark FX, CAD, Research & Development, Software, Business Operations; Software downloads 2008-07-04
Trick out your fleet with fuel consumption monitors from Networkcar: OK, I admit it. When I bought my car a year-and-a-half ago, comparing the fuel consumption metrics among the different models WAS part of the equation, but not the most important part. Now, with gas lines forming in my own little town and people putting summer trips...; Tags: Monitor, Performance, Technology, Performance Management, GPS, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-07-03
Amid ugly job picture, tech related employment holds up: The U.S. economy lost 62,000 jobs in June for the sixth straight month of employment losses with an unemployment rate of 5.5 percent, but underneath the technology sector is holding up well, according to Labor Department statistics. What a difference a downturn makes. Last...; Tags: Job, Technology Sector, Industry, U.S. Department Of Labor, Recruitment & Selection, Data Centers, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-03
Nvidia whacked over defective notebook chips; Offers driver to keep processors cool: Updated: Nvidia said its fiscal second quarter revenue will fall well short of targets because of weak demand, pricing pressure from AMD's ATI and a faulty graphics processors on older notebook systems. In an SEC filing, the company said it is offering a driver that keeps fans running to relieve...; Tags: Processor, Notebook, NVidia Corp., Notebook Chip, Chip, GPU, MCP, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-03
Helpdesks and productivity: Helpdesks and productivityGood start, and then...You lost it.1980 CalledThey want their mainframes back. :DWhy don't you explain your present value...calculation. Do you even know what present value means? What time period are we talking?Huh?You imply that on a Sun Ray platform the only problems are the applications or how they...; Tags: Call centers, help desk, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, PC; Discussion threads 2008-07-03
Hyperic CloudStatus: Back in May, I posted my take on Cloud computing. Since that time, I've spoken to quite a number of suppliers who are focused on supporting cloud computing, managing cloud computing, and even using cloud computing as a way to provide either a desktop or a server experience without the...; Tags: Performance, Service, Tool, CloudStatus, Hyperic HQ, Cloud Computing, Productivity, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-07-03
News to know: Searching Silverlight; IE 8; Dell; Google vs. YouTube: Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft: Silverlight content searchable, too Ryan Stewart: Brian Goldfarb talks about Silverlight 2 and Deep Zoom with Michael Cot LineRider releases a Silverlight 2 version Microsoft steps up self-policing of its OSI-approved source licenses ...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Security, Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Silverlight, Mobile, YouTube Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Linux, UNIX, Keyboards, Operating Systems, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Peripherals, Marketing, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-03
WMIExplorer and Win32_Bios Discovery MP Viewer (zip): Since 2002, the WMI Explorer has been copyrighted by R.T.Edwards and the web page format view of properties, values and descriptions is part of this package. To use this program, you select a namespace. Once this occurs, the program will connect to your machine, discover if there are any providers...; Tags: Discovery, Web Page, PlanetMPs, Scripting Languages, Channel Management, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Marketing; Software downloads 2008-07-03