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Abstract:
To provide useful financial insight on projects, financial managers need to think about business strategy more like a series
of options than a single projected cash flow. While the concepts of options are certainly familiar to most executives, the
trick to valuing strategic choices lies in the complex an (...)
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To provide useful financial insight on projects, financial managers need to think about business strategy more like a series
of options than a sin...
Published:
1999-10-01
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By providing business process management functionality, Exact hopes to bring competitive enhancements to enterprise resource
planning systems used by small and medium businesses. (...)
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By providing business process management functionality, Exact hopes to bring competitive enhancements to enterprise resource
planning systems used...
Published:
2006-01-12
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The distinction between business performance management and operational business intelligence is sometimes unclear. Many
vendor offerings overlap in terms of features and functionality, making it difficult to distinguish between the two. However,
there are some differences worth exploring. (...)
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The distinction between business performance management and operational business intelligence is sometimes unclear. Many vendor
offerings overlap ...
Published:
2009-07-31
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Abstract:
All the recent management trends from Continuous Improvement to Business Process Re-engineering have had the same issue we
see with E-Business. They have enterprise-wide implications and tend to become part of the corporate department that started
the initiative. This article recommends a more strategi (...)
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... as only an advisory, strategic planning function, then the ...
All the recent management trends from Continuous Improvement to Business Process Re ...
Published:
2003-07-05
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Physical asset management contributes greatly to the achievement of competitive advantages in capital intensive companies.
Particularly in the areas of productivity, quality, cost effectiveness, and risk management. If your company has a need to
manage physical assets it can benefit from a proven Total E (...)
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Physical asset management contributes greatly to the achievement of competitive advantages in capital intensive companies.
Particularly in the are...
Published:
2003-06-27
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A growing measure of business performance is financial performance management. Leveraging business intelligence (BI) to map
business performance goals requires integrating and consolidating information. Systems Union is embarking on a strategy to
triumph in this market. (...)
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A growing measure of business performance is financial performance management. Leveraging business intelligence (BI) to map
business performance g...
Published:
2005-07-18
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Tools under the business intelligence (BI) umbrella combine to convert data into information, and information into decisions
for action. Dashboards and scorecards are two such tools. Though often confused, they have functional difference, especially
in modern BI suites. (...)
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... a key role in the strategic planning process of ...
C-level executives and middle management have always ... need to understand their business'
performance regardless ...
Published:
2005-06-28
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Business performance management (BPM) and business intelligence (BI) solutions are at a crossroads. Vendors from each domain
compete in the same market. BPM vendors are at a disadvantage due to BI's penetration and expansion into the BPM market. (...)
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business management strategic planning:
Business performance management (BPM) and business intelligence (BI) solutions are at a crossroads. Vendors from each domain
compete in the same m...
Published:
2009-05-18
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Current pure play business intelligence (BI) leaders offer the advantage of superior analytics and planning capabilities;
however, enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors are improving their analytic capabilities and accessibility. (...)
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Current pure play business intelligence (BI) leaders offer the advantage of superior analytics and planning capabilities;
however, enterprise reso...
Published:
2005-07-14
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The quintessential business challenge is to minimize downtime on assets while minimizing the cost of spare and replacement
parts inventory. To meet these challenges, heavy investments have been made in extensive spare ad replacement parts networks. (...)
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The quintessential business challenge is to minimize downtime on assets while minimizing the cost of spare and replacement
parts inventory. To mee...
Published:
2005-07-30
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Abstract:
All the recent management trends from Continuous Improvement to Business Process Re-engineering have had the same issue we
see with E-Business. They have enterprise-wide implications and tend to become part of the corporate department that started
the initiative. This article recommends a more strategi (...)
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business management strategic planning:
... as only an advisory, strategic planning function, then the ...
All the recent management trends from Continuous Improvement to Business Process Re ...
Published:
2003-07-05
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Abstract:
Organizations today realize that although strategies focusing on outsourcing transportation, e-business and new distribution
models are important, these are all secondary in relation to what lies at the heart of any supply chain: INVENTORY. Although
firms have invested significantly in ERP and MRP syste (...)
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Organizations today realize that although strategies focusing on outsourcing transportation, e-business and new distribution
models are important,...
Published:
2003-04-05
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In contrast to traditionally investing in automation technologies for better use of tangible assets, enterprises have begun
to invest in optimizing human capital. Human capital management, or talent management, is a set of human resources practices
focusing on the acquisition, management, and optimizatio (...)
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In contrast to traditionally investing in automation technologies for better use of tangible assets, enterprises have begun
to invest in optimizin...
Published:
2009-08-28
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Lawson's continual investment in R&D delivers innovative products, often in advance of much larger competitors. Increasing
competition from larger vendors with significant resources, puts pressure on the company to go public within the next 12 months. (...)
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Lawson's continual investment in R&D delivers innovative products, often in advance of much larger competitors. Increasing
competition from larger...
Published:
1999-02-01
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Abstract:
Webplan believes its offering should benefit many departments within a manufacturing organization. When it comes to operations
and manufacturing, the benefit is in getting the right information to the right people and ensuring the results of decisions
align with goals and objectives. (...)
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Webplan believes its offering should benefit many departments within a manufacturing organization. When it comes to operations
and manufacturing, ...
Published:
2004-07-02
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Abstract:
At sites where both planning and execution modules are stand-alone implementations, neither deliver enough benefit because
there are almost always manual connections and processes between these two crucial supply chain management (SCM) areas. Yet,
planning and execution in the supply chain are slowly but (...)
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At sites where both planning and execution modules are stand-alone implementations, neither deliver enough benefit because
there are almost always...
Published:
2004-06-16
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SCM vendors are adding best of breed solutions to ERP product suites and are aggressively marketing this new functionality.
The SCM market has been growing so strongly that where SCM was once viewed as a means to gain competitive advantage, companies
now see it as a necessary extension of an ERP system, (...)
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business management strategic planning:
SCM vendors are adding best of breed solutions to ERP product suites and are aggressively marketing this new functionality.
The SCM market has be...
Published:
2003-04-04
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Abstract:
Business performance management (BPM) includes setting key performance indicators, using data mining to discover data patterns
and using software to help drive business decisions and develop corporate strategy. For an organization, there are many benefits
to implementing a BPM solution. (...)
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... how organizations are using performance management software. ... the
data is real time, strategic, or driven ... world to employees, departments, or business
units, in ...
Published:
2009-04-27
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Abstract:
Inventory Optimization software recognizes that different industries have different inventory profiles and requirements.
Research has indicated that solutions are priced in a large range from tens of thousands of Dollars to millions of Dollars.
In this niche market sector, price is definitely not an ind (...)
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Inventory Optimization software recognizes that different industries have different inventory profiles and requirements. Research
has indicated th...
Published:
2003-04-07
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Abstract:
As the contest for the lower-end of the market intensifies, SAP is further honing a twofold strategy of promulgating its
mySAP All-in-One vertical offerings for the higher-end of the mid-market, while offering the SAP Business One product to appeal
to smaller enterprises with less complex processes. Soft (...)
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business management strategic planning:
As the contest for the lower-end of the market intensifies, SAP is further honing a twofold strategy of promulgating its mySAP
All-in-One vertical...
Published:
2004-05-07