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- SAP Case Study: Salford City Council
- Salford City Council, situated to the west of the Greater Manchester conurbation, provides just under a quarter of a million residents with their council services and employs 11,500 staff. Previously the council had difficulty in identifying the overall purchasing pattern, as different departments used numerous suppliers. Salford Council recognised that...
- Tags: Staffing, Council, SAP AG, Operational Accounting, Finance
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- Staffng Company Develops Successful e-Learning Program for New Hires
- Kforce is a full-service professional staffing firm providing flexible and permanent staffng solutions with more than 1,400 recruitment specialists operating from more than 80 offices in 45 markets. Kforce needed to ensure new sales associates receive basic, practical knowledge. Success at Kforce means delivering exceptional customer service and results, which...
- Tags: Staffing, SkillSoft, Kforce, E-learning, Enterprise Software, Software
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- SkillCheck Case Study: Manpower International
- Manpower International, one of the world's largest staffing organizations, has been providing temporary staffing and other services to companies worldwide since 1948. When Manpower decided to standardize its software skills testing, the company turned to SkillCheck. The result of the collaboration between Manpower and SkillCheck was Manpower SureSkill, a Manpower-branded...
- Tags: Software, Staffing, SkillCheck
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- Putting TalentScout to the Test
- Professional Staffing Group PSG, a successful, high-volume staffing firm located in the heart of Boston's financial district, specializes in office support, creative and financial placements. In 2004 SkillCheck partnered with PSG to conduct a four-month scientific study that would measure the advantages of time-adaptive skills testing over traditional skills testing...
- Tags: Staffing, Financial, Financial Accounting, Finance
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- Schedule Nursing Staff
- One needs to staff the department effectively to ensure that patients get the attention they need and that the employees are not overworked. Find the right solutions to this scheduling balancing act by using Microsoft Office Project Professional 2003 and Microsoft Office Excel 2003. This webcast shows how these tools...
- Tags: Staffing, Patient, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Webcasts
- Productivity Increases at a Leading International Mobile Telecommunications Operator
- Investcom LLC is a leading international provider of mobile telecommunications services with operations in nine countries across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa EMEA. Investcom recognises that maximising the potential of people depends largely on giving access to the right communication tools. With staffing levels growing and business increasing, executives...
- Tags: Staffing, Mobile, Microsoft Corp., Investcom LLC, Investcom, Portals, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Advertising & Promotion, Web Technology, Telecommunications, Internet, Networking, Marketing
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- BEA Systems Case Study: Adecco
- Adecco SA is the global leader in personnel services, connecting more than 700,000 temporary associates with businesses each day in 58 countries. Given the often-dynamic personnel needs of both large and small companies, the process of procuring and managing staffing services has evolved. Time is of the essence - companies...
- Tags: Staffing, BEA Systems Inc., Adecco, Adecco SA
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- Global Staffing Company Enhances Collaboration With Microsoft Office Live Meeting
- Already a heavy user of Web conferencing technology, New York, New York-based Volt Information Sciences wanted a solution that would enhance functionality and improve system performance during presentations. Microsoft Office Live Meeting fit the bill, providing features that were tailor-made for both planned and spontaneous collaboration. Volt realized immediate benefits...
- Tags: Staffing, Collaboration, Microsoft Office Live, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office Live Meeting, Microsoft Office, Groupware, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software
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- Securing a Mid-Size Business Network With Solutions From Symantec and AIS Delivers $98,000 in Annual Savings
- Based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Insurance Technologies, LLC needs to protect its intellectual property, as well as the data of the top-tier financial institutions that make up its client base. The firm turned to Symantec and Advanced Internet Security, Inc. for a comprehensive threat management and data protection solution that...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Staffing, Data Protection, Network, Disaster Recovery, Security, Data Management
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- Trends in Workforce Management You Need to Know
- This webcast will review many of the workforce management trends occurring in today's world-class contact centers. If a person has more than a few agents, and he or she needs to take the guesswork out of managing the staffing requirements, this webcast is useful. The webcast explains how to enhance...
- Tags: Staffing, Webcast, Contact Center, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Call Centers, Digital Media, Human Resources, It Operations, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
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- ParkLane Homes Constructs a Single Customer View With Microsoft CRM
- ParkLane Homes is one of Western Canada's largest and most recognized residential developers. ParkLane Homes was changing to a decentralized business model where project teams micro-managed their business, rather than everything being handled by head office. As part of this process, the company needed to consolidate customer information in one...
- Tags: Staffing, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft CRM, CRM, ParkLane Homes, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Advertising & Promotion, Software, Marketing
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- Industrial-Style Technology Streamlines Library Operations
- Farmington Community Library offers much more than well-lit facilities, including videos and CDs along with reference books and paperbacks. Located in a growing Detroit suburb where the population is expected to reach 95,000 in the 2000 census, Farmington Hills faces both a physically expanding library situation and an increasing circulation,...
- Tags: Staffing, AOL Instant Messenger, Technology, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
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- Up-Selling and Cross-Selling: Transforming Your Cost Center to a Profit Center
- In order to build a successful up-sell and/or cross-sell call center, three topics must be addressed - business model issues, training and staffing issues, and technology issues. From the database of thousands of call centers, the authors recruited a group of ten "Best-In-Class" companies that represented major industries to participate...
- Tags: Staffing, Call-center, Call Centers, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software
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- RFID Technology Streamlines Library Operations
- Farmington Hills Library is situated in Detroit. It had to find a way to speed up the book checkout system without increasing her staffing costs. To resolve the issue, Farmington Community Library instituted an integrated Radio Frequency IDentification RFID tag and barcode system using a dozen SATO printers. The new...
- Tags: Staffing, Farmington Hills Library, RFID, Scanners, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Hardware, Peripherals
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- InHouse vs Hosted: Location Scout
- Is it better to have your CRM system hosted or on premises? Correspondent James Hilliard looks at how to tackle the software, hardware and staffing questions.
- Tags: Staffing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Software
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- Kent County Council's IT Investment Projected to Save £10.9 Million Over 5 Years
- Faced with a growing mandate to improve public services, Kent County Council, the largest county council in the U.K., began evaluating ways it could "harvest" information technology to improve public service delivery while controlling costs. A study by INSEAD established that by implementing Oracle applications for financial and human resources...
- Tags: Staffing, Oracle Corp., Information Technology, IT Investment, E-government, Human Resource Management (HRM), Hardware Upgrade, Government, Hardware
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- Modernized Staffing and Planning: Public Service Commission Analyzes Personnel Data With SAS
- Effective human resources management is fundamental to the success of any enterprise and especially vital for large, multifaceted organizations. As Canada's largest and most diverse employer, the federal Public Service Commission of Canada PSC has a major interest in any tool that can support human resources planning and improve efficiencies...
- Tags: Staffing, Commission, HRM, SAS Institute
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- Staffing Service Improves Productivity and Service With Genuine Software
- Jawood Management Associates is a professional staffing agency that places hundreds of contract workers with its clientele each year. The company needed increased reliability from its IT environment and an improved means of information access. With these requirements identified, Jawood turned to the Center for Computer Resources, a Microsoft Gold...
- Tags: Software, Staffing, Microsoft Corp., Staffing Service, Jawood Management Associates, Tools & Techniques, Management
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- WHSmith Predicts and Plans for Demand With ALG Software
- WHSmith High Street is one of the UK's leading retailers selling a wide range of newspapers, magazines, stationery, books and entertainment products. One of WHSmith's benchmark studies comparing the staff costs and trading patterns of comparable stores, discovered a large variation in the amount of operational resources between stores. WHSmith...
- Tags: Staffing, Store, Entertainment, WHSmith, WHSmith High Street, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
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- Topaz Takes Credit for New Stress Free Working Environment
- With a nationwide network of 40 branches, Aptus services more than 5,000 clients each year and is one of the leading suppliers of staffing services to the Retail, Driving, Industrial, Catering and Public Services Sector. Aptus prides itself on setting the highest of standards in order to remain successful in...
- Tags: Staffing, Hyperion Solutions Corp., Environment, Topaz, Financial Accounting, Finance
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