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EIU Report: Operational Excellence: Enabling Sustained Growth - Spotlight on the Americas

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Overview In a survey completed in January 2008, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) surveyed operational, financial, IT, and sales and marketing executives around the world on the role of operational excellence in their business strategies. The survey yielded 946 responses from mid-sized companies with annual revenues of $20m-$500m. This paper is based on their responses as well as follow-up interviews with senior executives in the region.

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Publisher	SAP	File Format	PDF
Date Published	May 2008
Format	White Papers
Topics	Back-Office, Infrastructure Management, Business Management, Strategic Planning

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DOC1 Suite from Pitney Bowes Business Insight- a Butler Group Technology audit report

In the Butler Group's opinion, there is a growing market for personalised customer communications as competition in all market sectors intensifies.DOC1 Suite from Pitney Bowes is an electronic document composition...

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Pitney Bowes

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back-office

Download a Free Trial of SmartDraw: Learn why SmartDraw is the ideal alternative to Visio

SmartDraw's fundamentally different approach makes it the superior choice for the vast majority of users. SmartDraw is: Automatic—drawing for you, ensuring a professional result every time. Comprehensive—includes hundreds of templates and examples for...

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smartdraw.com

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back-office

Performance Monitor: ERP at the Speed of Light

A successful accelerated implementation will provide a client the power of ERP in the fastest way possible while causing the least disruption of existing business operations

Publisher:
Oracle

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back-office

Enterprise Performance Management - Financial Excellence and Beyond

This paper explores how enterprise performance management software can help you maximize profitability, immunize your company against noncompliance, and optimize operational efficiency by ensuring delivery of information when it's needed,...

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SAP

The Financial Close: Optimizing Performance and Driving Financial Excellence

In this white paper, we discuss how corporate finance centers can overcome the barriers to a fast, high-quality close. By converging previously disparate disciplines of business intelligence; governance, risk, and compliance;...

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SAP

Airport IT budgets take off as cost savings take back seat

The survey was conducted by NSM research in the last quarter of 2003 and the first quarter of 2004 and 48 responses were received from the top 200 airport groups, representing 50 per cent of industry revenues.

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IT Director

IT job hiring picking up in US - but slowly

The poll garnered responses from more than 1,400 CIOs at US companies with 100 or more employees. Also for the second consecutive quarter, the region of the country anticipating the most active IT hiring is the "West North Central" area - which...

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Skills & Careers
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it jobs

Red Hat: 'Half of sales to be in Europe, Asia'

Within 12 months, we should be at 50 per cent of company revenues," Salazar said, adding that non-US business was fairly evenly split between Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. One of Red Hat's senior Asian executives said last year that the...

How small IT vendors can win big accounts

When you're a large customer to a small company, you get quick responses - and access to the MD, not just a project manager. If a big business is going to buy from a small company, it's going to want to make sure the financials - including revenues...

US ill-prepared for "cyber Katrina"

The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team, or US-Cert, which bears primary responsibility for co-ordinating responses to cyber attacks, receives on average $70m per year, or about 0.2 per cent of the entire US Department of Homeland Security budget...

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WebWatch

Satyam feeling 'bullish' with new governance

The Asia-Pacific region, he added, is targeted to contribute 10 per cent to 15 per cent to Mahindra Satyam's overall revenues. Nayyar acknowledged that Satyam lost out on a large Telstra request-for-proposal issued earlier this year, but said the...

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