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RSS marginsSustainable Cost Reduction: How Insurance Companies Can Embed Efficiencies for Long-Term Operating Improvement
White Paper As balance sheets weaken, revenue growth slows and margins come under pressure, the urgency for companies to reduce costs, strengthen risk management and stabilize their capital position is increasing. [13 Nov 2009]
Automotive Supply Chain Risk Assessment
White Paper In today's world, supplier margins have been stretched as thin as they've ever been as piece prices and volumes continue to fall. Off late automotive executives have searched for ways to cut costs. One of the more... [13 Nov 2009]
Technology Advances in Retail: Improving Margins Using Wireless Networks
White Paper The retail industry is one that lives and dies on margins, with managers on a never-ending quest to increase revenue and decrease costs. Technology has been an area of intense focus in retail industries as a way to... [12 Nov 2009]
Safran (MorphoTrak, Inc.) Improves Performance 200% to 300% With Scalable and Efficient Database
White Paper The challenge was to maintain profit margins in competitive mobile technology market with an easily configured, cost-effective solution and leverage new functionality without increasing costs to customers to maintain... [02 Oct 2009]
Retailer Boosts Sales 14%, Cuts Inventory Management Costs 35% With RFID Solution
White Paper As a result, store sales are up 14 percent, margins are up to 65.9 percent, and the labor time and costs spent on handling inventory are down by 35 percent, resulting in better-organized backroom management. [02 Oct 2009]
Team Augmentation Business Model Promotes Low-Risk Growth and Improves Profitability
White Paper With help from The Start Team, Microsoft Dynamics partners such as Ideaca and InterDyn AKA have created new business practices, won and retained additional accounts, strengthened customer responsiveness, and expanded their... [01 Oct 2009]
Leveraging Customer Intelligence in One of Asia's Largest Banks
White Paper The challenge was to narrow margins and harsh competition. DBS Hong Kong Limited is one of the top five banking groups in Hong Kong, as measured by assets. Also, it needed to enhance customer profitability. [19 Sep 2009]
Service Optimization: How Mainframe Systems Management Can Deliver More Business Value at Less Cost
White Paper In their quest to deliver higher margins and more shareholder value, senior management teams are scrutinizing all areas of operating expense, including the operations portion of the IT department. Every area of IT... [16 Sep 2009]
SAS Service Operations Optimization: Optimize Service Operations to Drive Critical Corporate Performance
White Paper Facing stiff competition and waning product-based profit margins, companies have turned to their post-sales service operation to drive critical corporate performance levers like revenue, profitability and competitive... [16 Sep 2009]
Minority Report: Why Apple was smart to OK 'iTunes killer'
Comment It's hardly a label that would endear it to Apple, which has shown it is prepared to be ruthless in its rejection of any app threatening to impinge on its user experience, its core functionality or its margins. [03 Sep 2009]
Apple's iPhone wins rights to sell readymade ringtones in iTunes
News For that reason, ringtones have offered music labels and retailers better profit margins than full song downloads, which typically sell for between 79 cents and $1.29. Apple has obtained the rights to offer readymade... [03 Sep 2009]
The Need for Profitability and Cost Management
White Paper In short, to preserve margins and ensure profitability, organizations need to keep their eye on the ball and monitor their business processes continuously. Profitability and Cost Management (PCM) is at the core of... [02 Sep 2009]
Ukrop's Super Markets Case Study
White Paper Today's highly competitive retail environment means grocers operate on razor-thin margins. Ukrop's Super Markets are refreshingly down to earth in an age of mega superstore chains.With more than 29 stores in central... [01 Sep 2009]
Business Intelligence for Operational Effectiveness:Improving Insight and Visibility Into Chemical Companies' "Product-Intensive" Functions
White Paper By improving Business Intelligence (BI) and business performance management practices to these critical control areas, chemical companies can be more responsive with their business decisions, improve margins throughout... [01 Sep 2009]
Business Intelligence for Industry Operational Effectiveness: Improving Insight and Visibility Into Chemical Companies' "Product-Intensive" Functions
White Paper By improving Business Intelligence (BI) and business performance management practices to these critical control areas, chemical companies can be more responsive with their business decisions, improve margins throughout... [01 Sep 2009]
