Focussing on the people qualities that drive business performance is what HR should be all about. Instead, we are finding that businesses are constantly facing a battle in finding and keeping staff.
A study released by Melbourne based HR Consulting and Recruitment company, 1st Executive, revealed that close to 75% of employees planned to leave their […]
Posted on June 2nd, 2008 by Guest
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Creating Value for Business
Not long before the onset of this century, there was this hype about Y2K. Companies both in the public sector and private sector were gearing up to face the challenges of the 21st Century.
Now there is quite a different perspective altogether. For companies to stay competitive like the stable ones have to […]
Posted on May 29th, 2008 by Guest
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Hello everyone,
Just as we start reading various books our minds go on infinite expansion syndrome….and as we explore what is on the web our ideas just blossom..
I wanted to share this interesting discovery.
I was browsing my usual websites and one of them is fool.com and they recently introduced mint.com (an online personal finance productivity enhancing […]
Posted on May 29th, 2008 by Guest
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As I come originally from the dinosaurs’ world of mainframes and their heavy COBOL programs that produced way back then colorless and graphicless reports, I can easily relate to the need people had to develop user friendly products that would build the equivalent reports in no time, and I can see why a business would […]
Posted on May 28th, 2008 by Guest
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Helping hospitals cope with their many challenges through better use of decision-making information
The cost-cutting policy led by the Belgian government over the last few years has made balancing finances one of the biggest concerns for hospital management. The growth in healthcare spending as the population continues to age puts more pressure on the Belgian national […]
Posted on May 28th, 2008 by Guest
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Predictive analytics encompasses a variety of techniques from statistics and data mining that analyze current and historical data to make predictions about future events.Such predictions rarely take the form of absolute statements, and are more likely to be expressed as values that correspond to the odds of a particular event or behavior taking place in […]
Posted on March 8th, 2008 by Guest
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Author: Mark Christensen
Let’s get right to the bottom-line:
A 5% increase in customer loyalty can boost profits by 25 to 85 percent.
This figure was first estimated in an 1990 HBR article by Reichheld and Sasser entitled “Zero Defections: Quality comes to Services” and then quoted in the watershed “Putting the Service-Profit Chain to Work” four years […]
Posted on February 29th, 2008 by Guest
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Author:- Anil Mahadev, Project Learn DB2 Now! Architect
Data Warehousing - Warehouse of Data repository being stored in an Enterprise Class Database. Data Warehousing as most of us are aware of, needs to be nurtured to its fullest.
It is a very exciting arena not explored by many, but a chosen few have dared to enter into […]
Posted on February 27th, 2008 by Guest
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Mr. Samir Chokshi, Director, Kanaga Network Solutions - MAIA consulting partner
It was our first ever experience with implementing 1KEY BI for GSPC, a Government of Gujarat conceived petrochemical company. MAIA Intelligence’s 1KEY Business Intelligence Reporting & Analytics Software was adopted by GSPC to manage its growing volume of data, enable operational analysis on a real […]
Posted on January 28th, 2008 by Guest
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Author: Jatin Shah, Datamatics Ltd.
SAP recently announced its plans to acquire Business Objects for $6.8 Billion. BI-Group has closely followed this announcement & would like to share the perspectives on the impact of this acquisition on the BI market.
This acquisition is a continuation of a shakeout process in the BI market space. Although […]
Posted on January 22nd, 2008 by Guest
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