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Our global study of small and medium-sized discrete manufacturers worldwide revealed the industry is struggling with increasing
complexity, global competition, rapidly changing business environments, and volatile raw materials prices. While manufacturers
worldwide face similar challenges, this study clar (...)
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2011-01-11
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Operations executives are closest to the processes along the value chain, and as a result are best positioned to drive operational
excellence initiatives. Collaboration with other functions is essential, but ultimately, it is the operations function that
needs to be responsible for implementation. Find o (...)
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2010-12-23
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Hitting the Moving Target of Operational Excellence: Identifying and Obtaining the Information Needed for Continued Success.
Find Free Plan and Other Solutions to Define Your Systems Implementation In Relation To Operational Excellence. Accessing
the right information is a crucial step in achieving operat (...)
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2010-03-11
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Sustained Growth through Operational Excellence: Spotlight on Operations. Find IT Solutions and Other Applications for Your
Decision Associated with Operational Excellence. Embarking on an operational excellence strategy should not be undertaken
lightly. As with most company-wide initiatives, success requ (...)
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2010-03-11
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Find out in operational excellence in the process industries. (...)
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2010-03-11
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Deliverng Operational Excellence with Innovation. Read White Papers and Other Software for Your Assessment and for Deliverng
Operational Excellence. Changing business practices, especially those that consolidate business and IT functions, requires
careful research and decision making. For companies needin (...)
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2010-03-11
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Operational Excellence: The New Lever for Profitability and Competitive Advantage. Find Out Solutions and Other Applications
for Your Decision Related to Operational Excellence. Better. Faster. Cheaper. Every company is grappling with these concepts
today as economic uncertainty spreads. Though many are f (...)
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Operational Excellence: The New Lever for Profitability and Competitive Advantage. Find Out Solutions and Other Applications
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Published:
2010-03-11
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How can you leverage your current IT infrastructure without increasing complexity—and cost? Creating the next generation
of enterprise resource planning (ERP) via enterprise services architecture (ESA) outsourcing can make your IT system leaner,
less expensive, and more adaptive. Read more for a clear (...)
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2010-03-11
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To achieve operational excellence, process manufacturers must be able to control costs while meeting customer expectations.
Best-in-class process companies provide visibility into manufacturing operations while using real-time interoperability between
manufacturing systems and business systems. Discover (...)
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2010-03-11
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Operational excellence : Enabling Sustained Growth Spotlight on the Americas. Download Free IT Study Reports on Operational
excellence. Companies in the Americas should lead the world in growth through operational excellence—but they don’t.
A 2008 survey shows that less than half promote insight i (...)
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2010-03-11
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Human resources (HR) organizations have not fully embraced automation technologies. Up to 92 percent of HR “key controls”—fundamental
to compliance with the US Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX)—are executed manually. This paper explores how technology-savvy HR organizations,
especially those with the righ (...)
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2010-03-11
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Many discrete manufacturers have adopted lean manufacturing approaches, but haven’t pursued lean improvement methods. Even
those that have report only small, local benefits. A holistic approach is needed to see the long-term benefits of lean. To
find out if your company is ready to make lean improvemen (...)
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Lean Operational Improvements That Last—From Islands of Improvement to Enterprise-wide Excellence.
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2010-03-11
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Today, in addition to their usual reporting and operational duties, human resources (HR) professionals are expected to bring
value to the company in a number of significant respects, ranging from launching operational efficiency initiatives to providing
strategic leadership. And now, compliance with the (...)
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2010-03-11
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Enterprise Performance Management: Financial Excellence and Beyond. Find Software and Other Solutions for Your Decision Linked
to Enterprise Performance Management. Financial performance management—often categorized as one aspect of enterprise
performance management—can help chief financial of (...)
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2010-03-11
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To maximize the return on investment of a customer relationship management system, a new CRM best practices model should
be used. A point-based system, self-assessment model that emphasizes senior management leadership and the need to create a
culture consistent with CRM can lead to a deployment strategy (...)
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To maximize the return on investment of a customer relationship management system, a new CRM best practices model should be
used. A point-based sy...
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2004-10-22
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Building a Best-run Finance Organization: a New Role to Address Today's Business Realities. Documents and Other Software Program
to Use In Your Best-run Finance Complex Organization. One company executive has a growing influence in today’s boardroom—the
chief financial officer (CFO). And the role (...)
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2010-03-11
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Improvement is not simply an idea: it is a process. And processes without frameworks are recipes for underachievement, or
worse, chaos. For this reason, value leakages in procurement functions must be resolved in a systematic, progressive, incremental,
and formalized manner. (...)
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Improvement is not simply an idea: it is a process. And processes without frameworks are recipes for underachievement, or
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2006-07-17
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Optimizing Financial Performance for a Competitive Edge. Find Free Strategy and Other Solutions to Define Your Financial Performance.
In addition to traditional duties like financial planning, reporting, and governance, chief financial officers (CFOs) and
financial managers are being tasked with more stra (...)
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Optimizing Financial Performance for a Competitive Edge. Find Free Strategy and Other Solutions to Define Your Financial Performance.
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Published:
2010-03-11
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Compliant Manufacturing Operations in Life Sciences Companies: Compliant Operations to Lead the Competition. Find Free Guidelines
and Other Solutions to Define Your Systems Implementation In Relation To the Compliant Manufacturing Operations. For many
life sciences organizations, a key impediment to compl (...)
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2010-03-11
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Enabling Growth for Midsize Companies: Three Strategies for Growing Your Business. Documents and Other Software to Use In
Your Midsize Complex System. Growth—whether organic or acquisitive—is challenging executives today from a strategic
as well as an operational perspective. Studies estimate (...)
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2010-03-11