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Productivity is the relationship between production of an output and one, some, or all of the resource inputs used in accomplishing the assigned task. It is measured as a ratio of output per unit of input over time. It is a measure of efficiency and is usually considered as output per person-hour. |
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Marketing Productivity Redefined |
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While marketers usually look first to customer facing applications when making technology acquisitions, taking into account the entire marketing value chain--from strategic brief to a personalized communication--is the best way to look at achieving marketing ROI. Too often, investments in customer facing technology fail to account for operational burdens created upstream in the marketing process.
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Empowerment as a Growth Strategy |
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Companies are using technology and other tools to help employees deliver an organization’s best collective thinking during each customer interaction. Among them is Hewlett-Packard (HP), which we will feature in this white paper. We will also explain why empowering your key customer-facing employees is the new path to achieving extraordinary, sustainable results, and we’ll provide four best practices on how to do it.
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Reducing Cost, Risk, and Errors with IT Process Automation |
| By : CA WA |
Published Date: Jul 30, 2008 |
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Despite increasingly complex data center environments, IT is expected to provide business owners with faster service, higher reliability, and greater agility than ever before – all within a tight budget. It is impossible to meet these goals with manual IT processes. However, EMA research shows that IT Process Automation (ITPA) helps achieve these goals, delivering annual savings of $500,000 on staff costs alone, and 64 hours of additional uptime per year – plus improved resource utilization, security and compliance, problem response
times, and agility.
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Top 5 IT Budget killers (and how you can fight back) eBook |
| By : IBM |
Published Date: Jul 30, 2008 |
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You've heard it a million times: Do more with less. It may be good business, but as budgets shrink and IT demands grow, you may start to wonder if the people who are saying "do more with less" think that it's a magical incantation. Run the servers without electricity! You've already taken basic cost-cutting steps and saved the easy money. You know that you need to dig deeper. But where should you start? This e-book, provided by IBM, will introduce you to the five big IT budget killers - and some of the best ways to knock them out.
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The CIO Wish List: 7 Steps to Mission Critical IT Services |
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CIOs today are being called upon to interpret business strategy and priorities, then add value through information technology initiatives. At a time when "critical to the business" translates to "mission-critical IT", how do you ensure end-to-end availability and reliability of the IT resources that enable your company’s essential business processes.
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7 Steps to Controlling Social Networking. A Guide by MessageLabs |
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The rise of online social networking poses new risks for businesses and new challenges for IT Management. As sites such as Facebook, Myspace and Bebo become evermore popular with end-users, businesses must consider risks such as employee cyber-slacking, reputation damage, broken privacy, identity theft and the threat of virus and spyware infections. This guide will help you reduce the risks of uncontrolled social networking use within the workplace and prescribes seven simple steps for both you and your end-users.
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It’s 2008: Do You Know Where Your Talent Is? Part 2: Connecting People To What Matters |
| By : SAP |
Published Date: Jul 09, 2008 |
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Part 2 of Deloitte’s Series on Talent Management focuses on the landscape of the wired world, where connecting people to what matters most is the name of the game. That’s because innovation and value emerge primarily out of people’s connections. It details how connecting is important and which kinds of connections matter most when it comes to business performance. It explores this issue and offer practical ideas to build connections that drive productivity, innovation and growth.
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CIO Reports: How WDS Can Help You Remain Competitive |
| By : Riverbed |
Published Date: Jun 27, 2008 |
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Discover how WDS can help your company remain competitive in a world without boundaries. In these three whitepapers, CIO discusses how WDS can help you remain competitive in a world without boundaries, how to keep remote and mobile workers productive no matter where business happens, and so much more.
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Mobile Application Performance Brief |
| By : Riverbed |
Published Date: Jun 09, 2008 |
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Steelhead Mobile accelerates enterprise applications for remote users to improve productivity and collaboration for globally distributed teams. Organizations and workers have come to expect a dip in productivity and performance when accessing IT resources remotely. Download this Performance Brief and discover how Steelhead Mobile can help overcome these limitations and deliver LAN-like speed to remote users.
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Adopting Lean Manufacturing in Packaging and Printing: How an ERP System Can Help |
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"Lean" is defined as a process to improve manufacturing and service operations, reduce waste, improve quality and drive down cost. While many packaging companies have embraced a number of Lean Manufacturing concepts, many have yet to fully realize the benefits of a fully-integrated Lean environment. Leveraging an ERP system that embraces "Lean" principles and incorporates industry specific best practices can facilitate and support the process. In this white paper, learn how lean manufacturing can apply to printing and packaging, and how an ERP system fits into the process.
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White Paper: Are You Pushing Too Much Paper? |
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Whether you are an electrical supplies wholesaler or a manufacturer of oilfield equipment, the challenge is the same: Are you maximizing your margins by keeping your administrative processes as streamlined as possible? Or, are you wasting time and money by supporting paper-intensive processes to handle quotes, orders, ship notices, receipt documents and invoices?
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Go Green with an Energy Efficient Data Center and You'll Never Go Back |
| By : IBM |
Published Date: Apr 23, 2008 |
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This Q&A-style article from CIO Green Edge Zone covers some of the many ways businesses can benefit through green technologies. Becoming more energy efficient not only dramatically reduces power costs, but can actually help companies improve operational efficiencies, increase productivity, enhance customer service and heighten brand awareness.
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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Evaluation Guide |
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The ultimate goal of this guide is to aid the reader in performing a thorough and effective evaluation of Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007. This guide is intended for anyone who is interested in learning more about Office SharePoint Server 2007 and wants hands-on experience.
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How To Use Citrix GoToMeeting Corporate To Successfully Meet Your Sales Goals |
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To reach their business goals, sales professionals must leverage new technologies. Web conferencing and collaboration tools can facilitate sales initiatives, letting salespeople meet with prospects and clients anywhere, anytime, in an Internet-based, real-time environment. Best of all,Web conferencing is a perfect way to cost-effectively deliver presentations, product demonstrations, meetings, seminars and training in today's increasingly virtual workplace.
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Automating Job Scheduling for Windows |
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Datacenters experience constant change under pressure from technology and business drivers. IT systems are becoming more, not less complex as new technologies are introduced, and IT staffs are not growing to keep pace with the growth in size and complexity of the typical datacenter. Windows administrators need to radically simplify both complex and routine tasks if they are going to effectively respond to the constant pressure to deliver increasing value with limited resources. The most effective thing Windows administrators can do to address this issue is to minimize duties associated with maintaining the existing infrastructure.
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5 Keys to Getting Started with Interactive Online Training |
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In today's global business environment, organizations have no choice but to seek new ways to optimize their budgets, respond nimbly to change and improve productivity. Download the 1080 Group research brief, Five Keys to Getting Started with Interactive Online Training, to learn how leading trainers are leveraging online tools to extend their reach, deliver more training and lower their costs.
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Beyond Converged Networks: Driving User Productivity Through Unified Communication and Collaboration |
| By : IBM |
Published Date: Feb 29, 2008 |
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Unified communications and collaboration strategies can help organizations deliver a user experience that brings together communications and collaboration silos across and beyond traditional business boundaries. This paper reviews how by providing users with a single, integrated experience across both business applications and communications and collaboration tools, organizations can cultivate more dynamic and flexible business systems.
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How Better Management of Printing Can Create Business Value |
| By : Quocirca |
Published Date: Feb 13, 2008 |
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Whilst many organizations have invested resources in managing their IT infrastructure, few apply the same strategic focus to the document output environment. This can represent a huge cost drain, estimated to represent between 1% and 3% of total revenue. A managed and optimized print environment will lead to significant cost reductions whilst improving productivity and boosting any organization’s green credentials.
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Releasing Resources to Support Growth: The Long-Term Benefits of Finance Transformation |
| By : Concur |
Published Date: Jan 26, 2008 |
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CFO Research Services and Concur developed the hypotheses for this research jointly. This study discovers how companies have deployed the savings they’ve realized so far through their transaction-processing improvement efforts. Our survey of senior finance executives in North America reveals that the finance function has freed time and resources to pursue high-value activities like decision support and financial planning and analysis as a result of transaction-processing automation.
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How General Cable Reduces Over 50% of Time and Costs Associated with Purchasing |
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General Cable operates 28 manufacturing locations in 8 countries and is a leader in the development, design, manufacture, marketing and distribution of copper, aluminum and fiber optic wire and cable products. Their products are widely used in communications, energy, industrial and speciality markets. General Cable has nearly 300 suppliers of raw material for their US operations.
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How an Integrated Software Solution Can Grow Your Business |
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This white paper examines how small and medium sized business can grow their businesses by streamlining their processes, creating employee empowerment, reducing IT costs, increasing productivity and improving their customers experience by implementing an integrated, real-time software solution.
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