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Preparing America's Future: The High School Initiative and Career and Technical Education
This webcast gives an overview of the department's high school initiative called Preparing America's future. The Preparing America's Future initiative was launched in October 2003 at the first national high school leadership summit. The purpose of the initiative is to encourage leaders at both state and local levels and at...
Tags: Education, Initiative, High School, Preparing America, Professional Development, Leadership, Career, Management
Webcasts
Master/Reference Data Management as an Enterprise Data Quality Initiative: Challenges and Best Practices
Enterprises have realized that if they want to leverage information as a key asset, they have to understand and take a serious look at master data. Whether master data is necessary for a data quality or data integration effort, or a data initiative to meet regulatory requirements or CRM initiatives,...
Tags: Data Quality, Initiative, SAS Institute, Data Integration, Best Practice, Data Management, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software
Webcasts
Customer Relationship Management to Sustain Competitive Advantage
The diagnostics market was becoming increasingly competitive. With the high speed of technological changes as well as the characteristics of Roche Diabetes Care's (RDC's) customer base, there were few, if any, barriers of entry for RDC's market. It became increasingly clear that in addition to excellent products and services resulting...
Tags: Initiative, Competitive Advantage, CRM, RDC, Research & Development, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Strategy, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Marketing, Software, Management
Case studies
High Schools Adopt Adobe Software as Part of the Web Tech Curriculum, a High-Caliber Curriculum That Meets Federal IT Career Cluster Standards
The Web Tech Curriculum is a year-long course that shows high school students how to complete a Web site design project using five Adobe software applications. The initiative's goal is to create a national model and career cluster curricula framework for IT careers that involve the design, development, support, and...
Tags: Software, Adobe Systems Inc., Web, Initiative, Information Technology, Standards, Web Tech Curriculum, Channel Management, Strategy, Marketing, Management
Case studies
Sentteri-Finland's Web-Based Solution Links All the Steps in e-Procurement
Sentteri is an e-procurement solution developed by Trading House Hansel, the government-owned company responsible for government procurement and purchasing in Finland. Sentteri covers the entire e-procurement process, starting with notification, through tendering, evaluation, ordering, logistics management and electronic payment procedures. Its electronic systems for ordering and for tendering are regularly...
Tags: Web, Initiative, E-procurement, Logistics, Sentteri-Finland, Sentteri, Supply Chain, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations
Case studies
"Green" is the flavor of the season... will the taste last?
Green is the flavor in the air as major tech firms ascertain their support for environment-friendly initiatives. It's good to see the organizations that will benefit from increased hardware and software usage take steps to also care for dear Earth. On one side, you strive to cram those extra transistors...
Tags: Initiative, Linux Foundation, Linux, Data Centers, UNIX, Leadership, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Arun Radhakrishnan
Blog posts 2007-06-22
Swedish Local-Authority Association Improves Healthcare With Unique Telephone System
In a bid to reduce the strain on medical resources, the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions required a unique telephone-based service patients could use anytime of the day or night. A service employing Microsoft technology was created that gives citizens immediate access to a wide range of medical...
Tags: Phone, Initiative, Mobile, Health Care, Telephone System, Association, Microsoft Corp., Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing
Case studies 2007-01-10
The Lean Advantage for Complex Equipment Manufacturers
Increasingly, complex equipment manufacturers are implementing lean initiatives to create competitive advantage. What specifically are these initiatives? Can they really achieve on-time delivery, improve operational excellence, shorten order-cycle times, and reduce costs, to name a few? On the road to initiating these lean processes, what obstacles and challenges are complex...
Tags: manufacturer, competitive advantage, SAP AG, Initiative
White papers 2007-06-01
Ask these questions to help secure funding for IT Initiatives
Winning executive support for technology spending has traditionally been a challenge for IT departments, often leading to frustration and failure despite the clear need to fund a particular initiative. The key is to effectively communicate the business justification for the spending--not an easy task for many IT pros. IT management...
Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Initiative, Information Technology, Strategy, Management
Download resources 2005-05-24
E-Authentication Handbook for Federal Government Agencies
The E-Authentication Initiative Initiative will simplify secure interaction with Government Agencies through a trust network that links Agency Applications AAs and Credential Services CSs. The Initiative assists those who are E-Authentication-enabling AAs by providing a variety of resources, such as guidance, tools and technical information. This paper offers guidance to...
Tags: U.S. General Services Administration, Agency, Government, Initiative, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
White papers 2005-05-04
One-to-One Laptop Initiatives: Providing Tools for 21st Century Learners
K-12 schools are rapidly deploying one-to-one student laptop initiatives across the nation. The definition of one-to-one computing is essentially providing every staff member, teacher and student with a portable laptop, notebook or tablet PC for continuous use both in the classroom and at home. This paper will explore the goals...
Tags: Initiative, e.Republic, Tool, Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
White papers 2005-03-16
The practical results of competitive stress
I recently stumbled across a discussion of “competitive stress”; the growing tendency to show off by talking about how much stress we have in our lives. Its a no-holds barred competition where the person with the worst demonstrated psychological trauma wins. Since its an intangible competition, it ends...
Tags: stress
Blog posts 2006-11-28
Using Portal Technology for Collaborative E-Commerce
This paper presents one approach to increasing the successful adoption of e-commerce by SMEs. This paper discusses adoption constraints for SME's and focuses on the requirements gathering process relating to the development and implementation of a Web Portal initiative in the local region (Illawarra NSW, Australia). The initiative is a...
Tags: Small And Medium Enterprise, Initiative, E-business, Portals, Smb/Sme, Web Technology, Internet
White papers 2004-09-06
Phillips: Oracle may support rival databases
I appreciate Oracle's Initiative.Hi all,I appreciate Oracle's Initiative. But the question that comes to our mind is that How can they achieve it? If they achieve it means what about the security issues? Unless they have a collaboration, in my point of view they cannot do it securely.yes they can.all...
Tags: Storage, Oracle Corp., database, Initiative
Discussion threads 2005-09-23

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Semiautomatic Improvements of System-Initiative Spoken Dialog Applications Using Interactive Clustering
While many successful spoken dialog systems have been deployed over telephone networks, the high cost of developing such applications has led to limited adoption. Despite large research efforts in user-initiative and mixed-initiative systems, most commercial applications follow a system initiative approach because they are simpler to design and are found...
Tags: Application, Clustering, IEEE, Telecom & Utilities, Productivity, Telecommunications
White papers 2005-09-01
A Practical Approach to CMDB - Eating the Elephant
The majority of Enterprise Management Associates' customers understand the potential benefits to CMDB. However, the overwhelming majority of those organizations struggle with the same question, "How does one start a CMDB Initiative?" CMDB initiatives can vary widely in scope and reach, and starting a new CMDB initiative can truly seem...
Tags: Enterprise Management Associates Inc., CMDB
Webcasts
Network Access Protection (NAP)
The latest initiative from Microsoft called Network Access Protection or NAP is intended to keep the networks healthy. This paper attempts to look into the recent NAP initiative from Microsoft from a technical point of view as well as from an industry perspective. The merits and demerits of the proposed...
Tags: California Software, Network, Microsoft Corp., Networking
White papers 2005-10-01
IMAGE-X Enterprises Case Study: Santa Barbara Health Initiative
Santa Barbara Health Initiative is part of a statewide health care provider supplying services to the residents of Santa Barbara, California. Using a manual data entry system, Health Initiative was drowning in a sea of paperwork which prompted the need for an automated document management system. Health Initiative realized that...
Tags: Santa Barbara Health Initiative, Document Management, Content Management, Managerial Accounting, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance
Case studies
Beyond ROI - Justifying a Business Intelligence Initiative
This paper addresses the challenges and provides guidelines for developing a solid analysis of costs and benefits to support one in identifying, communicating and monitoring the value of a Business Intelligence initiative. The ROI study is not an isolated calculation that is performed by a financial analyst or by a...
Tags: ROI, Thomson Corp., Roi/Tco, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management
White papers 2003-10-21
The "Diplomatic Readiness Initiative" - A Human Capital Success Story
At the State Department, what they call their "Diplomatic Readiness Initiative" is at the heart of their efforts on the strategic use of human capital. The State Department's goal in this initiative is to expand and strengthen the workforce, and make it more diverse in the process. For several years...
Tags: U.S. Department Of State, White House, Human Capital, Human Resources, Workforce Management
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