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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...
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1999-10-01
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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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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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SSA Global seems to be doing some proper thinking while continuing to acquire new software companies. Recent unification
of its broadening collection of supply chain management (SCM) solutions under the SSA SCM brand and formation of a specialized
Strategic Solutions division--which also includes other e (...)
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SSA Global seems to be doing some proper thinking while continuing to acquire new software companies. Recent unification of
its broadening collect...
Published:
2004-09-15
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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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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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Webplan appears to be ahead of the pack in applications for concurrently optimizing demand, order promise, and inventory
management, taking constraints into consideration. Yet, in many markets, Webplan is far from a household name. (...)
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Webplan appears to be ahead of the pack in applications for concurrently optimizing demand, order promise, and inventory management,
taking constr...
Published:
2004-07-03
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Strategic human capital management (HCM) solutions can help organizations transform their people into a competitive advantage
by aligning managers and employees with corporate goals. There is now a statistical and causal relationship among key HCM
applications and operating income growth. (...)
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Strategic human capital management (HCM) solutions can help organizations transform their people into a competitive advantage
by aligning managers...
Published:
2006-09-28
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This note is intended to provoke thought regarding some of the dramatic incidents that occurred in the field of asset management
in 2003, as well as address some of their more immediate consequences and ramifications of changing societal attitudes regarding
the failure of physical assets. In particular i (...)
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... are other areas of inefficiency such as planning and scheduling ...
knowledge of the true nature of asset management, as well as the strategic importance to
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Published:
2003-12-18
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The added value of both SSA Global and Infor is that existing users of relatively small and dubious ERP products should now
gain the benefits of synergistic software developments from other ERP siblings. (...)
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The added value of both SSA Global and Infor is that existing users of relatively small and dubious ERP products should now
gain the benefits of s...
Published:
2006-05-02
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Through its recently formed Strategic Solutions team, SSA Global might be showing that it is not just an ERP collector that
is living off milking its install base, but rather an extended enterprise applications provider that can appeal to both its
current and new users. (...)
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Through its recently formed Strategic Solutions team, SSA Global might be showing that it is not just an ERP collector that
is living off milking ...
Published:
2004-09-16
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Many human capital management (HCM) vendors try to cover most of the bases through broader product suites. While there have
been noticeable consolidation moves in the market, which vendors will eventually dominate cannot be exactly stated at this
time. (...)
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Many human capital management (HCM) vendors try to cover most of the bases through broader product suites. While there have
been noticeable consol...
Published:
2006-09-29
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Properly implemented supplier relationship management solutions can help companies overcome some of today's business challenges
by allowing them to restructure their supply chains, align business processes, define and establish company-supplier relationships,
and integrate information systems to share in (...)
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Properly implemented supplier relationship management solutions can help companies overcome some of today's business challenges
by allowing them t...
Published:
2007-01-19
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Enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors do battle to win business and Epicor is leveraging Microsoft's technology to deliver
a mid-market solution to services industries. Despite Microsoft's competing ERP offering, Epicor continues to build a Microsoft-centric
solution with its partners' support. (...)
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Enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors do battle to win business and Epicor is leveraging Microsoft's technology to
deliver a mid-market solut...
Published:
2007-06-04
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Increasingly, every user company's success is contingent upon its ability to make an almost immediate finished product or
service delivery to customers. As supply chains become more dynamic and operate in near real-time, the lines between planning
and execution continue to blur, which bodes well for thei (...)
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Increasingly, every user company's success is contingent upon its ability to make an almost immediate finished product
or service delivery to cust...
Published:
2004-07-01
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The human resources (HR) department can—and should—deliver contributions to the organization's bottom line. Through technologies
and service providers, HR can move from being merely a cost center to being an essential component for achieving corporate
objectives. (...)
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The human resources (HR) department can—and should—deliver contributions to the organization's bottom line. Through technologies
and service provi...
Published:
2006-06-05
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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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With Infor Human Capital Management (HCM) 3.0, Infor has combined transactional and strategic human resources functionality
with planned integration to its flagship enterprise resource planning and extensions solutions, so that customers can better
align HCM initiatives with overall business strategy. (...)
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With Infor Human Capital Management (HCM) 3.0, Infor has combined transactional and strategic human resources functionality
with planned integrati...
Published:
2006-10-12
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Despite impressive product depth and breadth (for instance, customer relationship management [CRM], workflow, traceability,
and quality management are provided natively), Strategic Systems International (SSI) has longstanding partnerships with several
best-of-breed specialists. (...)
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Despite impressive product depth and breadth (for instance, customer relationship management [CRM], workflow, traceability,
and quality management...
Published:
2006-07-27
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... move onto the longer-term and strategic issues ... Management
should discern what marketing or business initiatives ... recognize that the process of planning
ahead is ...
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2010-05-06