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Business Management characterises the process of leading and directing all or part of an organisation (often a business) through the deployment and manipulation of resources (human, financial, material, intellectual or intangible).

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Getting Consensus on Business Requirements: Tips and Traps
By : IAG Consulting Published Date: Aug 17, 2007
Before your company launches its next package selection, implementation or upgrade, make sure you don’t cripple the project from the start by failing to identify your requirements – the number one reason that projects spin out of control. This white paper summarizes some of the key lessons we have learned through our industry-leading requirements definition practice.
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IAG Consulting
How Can Communication Service Providers More Effectively Address the Needs of Business Customers?
By : CA NVM Published Date: Jul 25, 2008
The availability of lower cost, broadband services will erode fixed-line revenues from existing enterprise customers as they migrate from legacy to Ethernet-based services. To compensate, CSPs must expand into the small- and medium-sized business market and become more effective at delivering value-added capabilities that better meet the needs of all business customers.
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CA NVM
Operational Business Intelligence (BI): Getting Real-Time About Performance
By : IBM Published Date: Dec 28, 2007
Companies are trying to improve efficiencies and performance of many real-time operational business practices, including customer experiences, inventory & purchasing, manufacturing yield, BAM and BPM. This white paper explores strategies and capabilities that best-in-class companies are employing to improve operational performance.
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IBM
SOA Governance: Necessary Protection for a Strategic Business Investment
By : IBM Published Date: Jun 18, 2007
Governance – including standardization, planning, funding, acquisition and ongoing management – is what prevents strategic SOA investments from fragmenting into dozens, hundreds or even thousands of ineffective, resource-sapping “point solutions.” This research paper will present a business guide for SOA governance based on the most recent user enterprise research and analysis from Saugatuck Technology.
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IBM
The Business of Interactive Entertainment
By : IBM Published Date: May 12, 2006
Appropriately sizing and hosting your online game project’s infrastructure can improve your bottom line. In this white paper, IBM describes the current state and direction of key technological trends and how they impact the business of games, focusing on what online game companies need to know to more rapidly and efficiently build a better game.
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IBM
The Shortcut Guide to IT Service Management and Automation
By : HP Service Management Published Date: Jul 16, 2008
In this first chapter of "The Shortcut Guide to IT Service Management and Automation," you will be led through a step by step analysis of your company's IT and business relationships, providing you with a basis for a strategic plan to turn service lifecycle management into a valuable business asset. Author and compliance expert Rebecca Herold demonstrates how technology acts as a strategic differentiator by enabling business growth, driving operational efficiencies to lower maintenance costs, optimizing outcomes, and reducing IT risks.
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HP Service Management
Using Business Intelligence to Gain an Advantage
By : Microsoft Published Date: Nov 07, 2004
The people in your organization have access to volumes of information that was once unimaginable. Success or failure can hinge on whether or not people can use this information to make wise decisions quickly. But without the ability to make sense of information, a knowledge gap exists, and the best anyone can do is guess or follow a hunch. Business intelligence helps you decipher and extract meaning from data so you can make informed decisions.
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Microsoft
B-to-B Lead Generation Insights from MarketingSherpa
By : Marketo, INC. Published Date: Jul 31, 2008
In a free audio/video Webcast with MarketingSherpa’s Anne Holland, learn valuable, tested B-to-B marketing tips, including how to stop spending too much on SEM while making your remaining SEM budget work harder... how to make prospects pay attention to your content... the key difference between case studies and success stories... when—and why—you should consider removing the registration page... and more.  Don’t miss these proven tips—watch the free 30-minute Webcast now.
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Marketo, INC.
Compete More Effectively by Acting as Your Own Supply Chain
By : IBM Published Date: Jan 27, 2004
We’ve heard it over and again: mid-sized manufacturers need to increase efficiencies while protecting their existing infrastructure and boosting profits. IBM can help, with tailored solutions. Click for the complimentary report, "Ten Insights for Success in an On Demand World".
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IBM
Discover Retail 'Megatrends' For 2010
By : IBM Published Date: Dec 17, 2004
Empower consumers. Increase productivity. Profitably compete in a saturated market. Today, mid-sized retailers need powerful tools to conquer a turbulent environment. IBM can help with tailored solutions. Click for information and a complimentary copy of National Retail Federations's report, "Deeper Customer Insight" - an in-depth look at five retail megatrends of 2010.
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IBM
Developing and Strengthening Profitable Customer Relationships with Microsoft Dynamics CRM
By : Microsoft Published Date: May 17, 2007
The business landscape is evolving; the traditional way people work together-in the office or in the field-looks very different today than it did just a couple of years ago. Download this webcast to learn how Microsoft Dynamics CRM empowers you to take advantage of your existing technology investments to extend the reach of your business and enable your mobile workforce to drive better business results.
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Microsoft
Executive Guide to Understanding Business Requirements
By : IAG Consulting Published Date: Nov 01, 2006
This white paper is structured so that each page is its own "mini-white-paper" but each is also part of a total look at better structuring requirements documents, processes and content completeness. At the end of this paper is a one page "tear-out" summary which is both a shortened distillation of the content, and a diagnostic tool to start a peer discussion on your organization's performance.

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IAG Consulting
Financial Management and Business Intelligence Solutions for a High-Performance Workplace
By : Microsoft Published Date: Apr 16, 2007
Sound, responsible financial management is at the heart of business success. Download this webcast to learn more about the Microsoft solutions for financial management and business intelligence (BI) that can help you transform your business into a high-performance workplace. We describe how Microsoft business solutions are designed to help you work more efficiently by focusing on the tasks that add the most value to your business and enable you to make more informed decisions based on timely, accurate information.
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Microsoft
How Fast-Growing Companies Obtain CRM Success
By : Netsuite Published Date: Apr 11, 2006
This white paper reveals the most vital elements needed to develop a seamless value chain; one that realistically enables an SMB to develop valuable 2-way relationships with their most valuable customer segments.
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Netsuite
How to Outsell the Competition
By : Netsuite Published Date: May 30, 2007
Sales Benchmark Index presents information in this NetSuite White Paper that helps sales management succeed in implementing a data-driven decision making process for sales success. Five steps for developing a sales benchmark are defined, with a list of key metrics you can use.
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Netsuite
Lower Costs with On-Demand CRM & Accounting/ERP Solutions
By : Netsuite Published Date: Feb 03, 2006
This Yankee Group White Paper, compliments of NetSuite, shows how on-demand applications can significantly reduce cost vs. on-premise applications. See how to reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) of deploying & integrating CRM & accounting/ERP applications.
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Netsuite
Presenting a Real-Time Enterprise for Your Company
By : Netsuite Published Date: Jul 18, 2003
This exclusive Yankee Group White Paper reveals and examines how mid-size businesses can now build a real-time enterprises and leverage real-time information. Learn how to reduce scattered information and silo databases that prevent your enterprise from achieving operational excellence.
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Netsuite
SMB Business Management Software
By : Netsuite Published Date: Nov 09, 2007
Overcoming the barriers of stand-alone business applications is a major challenge to growth for companies. Learn how a growing organization can better gain control of its business operations and increase productivity through integrating its core business management processes in one seamless solution.
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Netsuite
Transforming IT With Strategic Measurement
By : HP BladeSystem Published Date: Apr 30, 2007
Learn Forrester's 4 steps to transformation. There are occasions when an IT organization must change from one archetype to another as a result of internal or external events that change what business management is expecting from IT. The origin of change typically determines how & when IT responds.
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HP BladeSystem
The Emerging IT Shift Toward Business Service Configuration Management
By : HP BladeSystem Published Date: Jun 05, 2007
IT organizations continue to struggle with manual tasks and processes, subjective change decision making, and a lack of insight into inventories and service dependencies. Learn three product capabilities IT organizations should have, as well as the critical pieces of business service configuration management.
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HP BladeSystem
How to Sell Skeptics on the Value of Master Data Management
By : Siperian Published Date: Jan 01, 2007
This comprehensive report addresses industry-specific issues for the Financial Services sector, Insurance, Pharmaceutical companies, Retailers, Manufacturing, and High-Tech.
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Siperian
How ERP Outsourcing Helps Skanska's IT Group Maintain Its Focus
By : OneNeck IT Services Published Date: Feb 21, 2007
In November 2002, Skanska embarked on the construction industry’s largest consolidation effort. Having acquired numerous companies in the previous 12 years — ranging in size from $100 million to $1 billion and comprising the $3.9 billion Skanska of today — CIO Chris Stockley was charged with migrating all the companies onto the J.D. Edwards application platform already in use by a few of the organizations.
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OneNeck IT Services
How Implementing a Project Gateway Process Will Improve Your Organization
By : Epsilica Consulting Published Date: Nov 16, 2007
Time is money, resources are scarce and only projects that add value and meet the organization's strategic aim and objectives should be flying. Why is it, therefore, that so many projects are running that have not been formally approved, burn limited and finite resource and, most importantly, do not improve or deliver new services or increase market share?
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Epsilica Consulting
Harnessing the Power of an IT Dashboard
By : uptime software Published Date: Nov 16, 2007
Discover the three key reasons how enterprise IT dashboards can deliver highly valuable information to your organization in an easy to use format and provide simple processes that will turn dashboard data into actionable IT decisions.
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uptime software
How Do You Know Your Change Program Benefits Have Been Achieved?
By : Epsilica Consulting Published Date: Nov 16, 2007
Every change program has to have deliver something – a new service, a new process, increased market share, and so on. But how do you know what the benefits are? How do you identify them, develop them and measure them to ensure your program has achieved its 'end-state'?
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