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IndustryWeek
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Editor's Page -- Benchmark To Stay Competitive It's never been easier to participate in - and benefit from - the largest annual study of U.S. manufacturing performances and practices. |
HBS Working Knowledge
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HR's New Mandate: Be a Strategic Player In the last decade, HR professionals have worked to become business partners and to align their work with business strategies. |
On Wall Street
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Benchmarking Differs by Firm, Leaving Advisors with No Industry Comparisons Firm-wide performance benchmarking is a powerful tool, but fails to give advisors the data they want most. |
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A Better Metric For IT Efficiency Even the most efficient IT function can't be considered excellent unless it's doing the things that really matter to the company. |
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Beyond Benchmarks The low-level, process-centric corporate treasury benchmarking typically touted in industry surveys and published by associations no longer delivers the insight that companies need. |
FAO Today
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D-Lib
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The Benchmarking Forum at IPRES 2015 The International Conference on Digital Preservation, brought practitioners to discuss opportunities and challenges in adopting software benchmarking as a systematic tool for evaluating digital preservation tools. |
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July 15, 2009
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The Metric System CFOs who want better workforce analytics should be prepared to put more "R" in "HR." |
Food Processing
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MRO Q&A: How and where can I benchmark downtime and uptime in the bagged salad industry? MRO Q&A is a Food Processing series addressing maintenance, repair and operational issues in food plants. |
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The High-Performance Coach: Preparation: The First Step in What makes a top-performing advisor? There are seven components common to the best-of-the-best. |
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HR Departments Invaded By Data Scientists Leading HR departments are turning to 'talent analytics' for a wide range of staffing issues, including screening new hires, figuring out who should get promoted, efficiently staffing new projects, uncovering the characteristics of high-performing individuals or teams, and even predicting who's likely to head out the door. |
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Get in Shape Managing your business, just as with your waistline, is easier when you have clear goals, committed behavior and the ability to monitor your progress against your goals. |
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Mar/Apr 2008
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Is HR a Contender? A word to the wise: Every duty that HR managers perform can and often should be performed by general managers. Having implemented a multimillion-dollar HR BPO deal, the author reflects on an era in which organizations increasingly rely on external workers. |
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Driver's Ed Toyota Financial Services builds an effective learning program aimed at keeping internal talent 'moving forward' in their careers. |
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Fast Company
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The Motley Fool
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Are Your Funds Really Performing? It's not enough to simply pick good mutual funds and hope that your money will grow. You need constant evaluation and comparison to keep your investment program on track. |
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CRM
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Will Outsourcing Still Fly? EDS's financial troubles have raised questions about outsourcing deals, but the answers are mostly upbeat. |
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