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RSS measuringMeasuring the Benefits of Reconfiguring Network Resources to Accommodate Multiple Failure Conditions
White Paper The ever-increasing dependence and volume of daily business operations on telecommunication networks has heightened the need for added resiliency to withstand equipment failure, human-error, and catastrophic outages - so much so that network... [03 Jul 2008]
Nettimer: A Tool for Measuring Bottleneck Link Bandwidth
White Paper Measuring the bottleneck link bandwidth along a path is important for understanding the performance of many Internet applications. Existing tools to measure bottleneck bandwidth are relatively slow, can only measure bandwidth in one direction, and... [03 Jul 2008]
Managing Vendor Risk: Using Effective Service Level Agreements
White Paper Therefore, bankers can use service level agreements as a tool for managing the risks associated with technology outsourcing and to agree upon practices for managing, measuring, and monitoring vendor performance. [03 Jul 2008]
Measuring ROI in E-Government
White Paper The advent of e-government has been a great benefit to constituents and agencies alike, fundamentally changing the way citizens interact with their government. Through these initiatives, the government empowers its citizens with quick and... [03 Jul 2008]
Using Metrics to Improve Security
White Paper The key to success is focusing senior management's attention on IT security by establishing accountability for performance and then measuring progress. The Federal Government has spent the past four years restructuring IT security programs to... [03 Jul 2008]
Realization of Bluetooth-Equipped Module for Wireless Sensor Network
White Paper In ubiquitous computing, many sensors and actuators are thought to be distributed in daily life for supporting humans by measuring and accumulating their behavior and environmental information. Under this situation, it is necessary to construct the... [03 Jul 2008]
CRM ROI Blueprint 2004: How Customer-Focused Strategies and Solutions Drive Productivity, Profitability and Growth
White Paper The paper goes on to explain the key elements of an effective CRM strategy and offers tips for evaluating technology partners, planning a CRM implementation, and measuring its success. Download this Peppers & Rogers Group white paper to learn how... [03 Jul 2008]
Measuring Wage Growth Among Former Welfare Recipients
White Paper This paper studies the rate of wage growth among long-term welfare recipients in the Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP) who were induced by the financial incentives of the program to enter the work force. [03 Jul 2008]
Measuring Human Capital Formation for Australia: A Lifetime Labour Income Approach
White Paper This paper presents experimental measures of human capital formation for Australia. The proposed accounting system draws on the Jorgenson and Fraumeni human capital accounting system, with a few modifications consistent with the purpose of the... [03 Jul 2008]
Measuring e-Procurement Performance in the Australian Public Sectors: A Preliminary Approach
White Paper This paper discusses the importance of measuring e-Procurement performance and the key elements in successfully developing a measurement framework for e-Procurement in Australian public sector. e-Procurement has drawn great attention and been... [03 Jul 2008]
Extraction of Perceptually Important Colors and Similarity Measurement for Image Matching, Retrieval, and Analysis
White Paper Due to its compact representation and low complexity, direct histogram comparison is a commonly used technique for measuring the color similarity. Color descriptors are among the most important features used in image analysis and retrieval. [03 Jul 2008]
Strategic Recruitment for Government: Ten Innovative Practices for Designing, Implementing, and Measuring Recruitment Initiatives in Government
White Paper This report details the federal agencies' efforts to fulfill the human capital component of the President's Management Agenda and recruit enough quality employees to stem the looming "human capital crisis. [03 Jul 2008]
Measuring the Economic Costs of Terrorist Attacks
White Paper Economic changes resulting from two hypothetical terrorist attack scenarios have been modeled. In the first, the impacts of a coordinated attack on the electricity transmission grid in California, resulting in a sizeable loss in electricity... [03 Jul 2008]
Activity-Based Cost Management in Government: Applying ABC/M to Critical Problems in the Public Sector
White Paper It describes the insights gained from validly measuring costs and how organizations apply performance management systems to actively manage changing priorities and strategies to improve performance throughout an organization. [03 Jul 2008]
The Government Performance Logic Model: Facilitated Performance Measurement Sessions for Government Programs
White Paper The Logic Model is a framework for planning, managing, measuring, and evaluating government programs. Using a goal-measure approach, it illustrates the cause-effect linkages between program activities and outcome results. [03 Jul 2008]
