Leadership Best Practices
Leadership Best Practices: Harvard Business School (HBS) Executive EducationLeadership always has been the key differentiator between successful and unsuccessful organizations. Offered by the HBS Leadership Initiative, Leadership Best Practices focuses on proven leadership strategies and applies the latest research in actionable frameworks. Participants acquire the tools to benchmark and enhance their own leadership practices, as well as those of their organizations.
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DRIVING STRATEGIC INNOVATION:
Achieving Breakthrough Performance Throughout the Value ChainA unique executive program from MIT Sloan and IMD that integrates technology and innovation strategy with the tools and frameworks needed to help business leaders and entrepreneurs manage the innovation process from concept to commercialization.
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Knowledge Managment & Sharing Information
The Craft of Connectionby Tim Laseter and Rob CrossCharlottesville, Va., January 31, 2007 --
A growing number of companies, including Chevron, Halliburton, and Whirlpool, are seeking new methods to stimulate innovation and streamline global practices. By mapping the relationships between key thought leaders within a company, executives can bolster innovation by building connections between critical employees -- those who offer specific expertise or deep knowledge about the company and industry. By creating a database of these employees and their respective specialties, leaders can draw on the experience of these individuals to help solve problems, increase productivity, and share domain knowledge with others in the firm.
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NYC Politicians Take Sarbox Stance
NYC Politicians Take Sarbox Stance A new McKinsey report says New York is poised to lose more than 60,000 jobs in the next five years, and $25 billion in cash, if securities and Sarbanes-Oxley regulations aren't revised as soon as possible. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and New York Sen. Charles Schumer were slated to "unveil" the report, which was commissioned by the city. The report recommends adopting looser, principles-based regulations. New York Governor Eliot Spitzer admits that his support of the report would doubtless "raise eyebrows" given his quest to end crime on Wall Street when he was the state's attorney general. Nonetheless, he says, parts of Sarbox that are "burdensome" should be changed. One observer notes that the study seems to be skewed; it discusses only the "banking side" of financial services and doesn't address problems that may or may not exist on the listing side.
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Differing Perceptions: What is Project Management?
Differing Perceptions: What is Project Management?We don't 'do' project management -- we practice it. It is not a universal standard, but a way in to thinking about planning and delivering work. Without the context for why and how it can provide clarity and reinforce commitments, project management is going to continue to feel like unnecessary bureaucracy to many.
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Projects: How to do a project review
Upon Further ReviewProject reviews are a reality check, an opportunity for the project manager to step back to hear how things are really going. That shouldn't panic you, and, in fact, it's wise to plan and build in independent reviews from the start of your project so you get regular health checkups.Here's how it should work.
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SOA Advances Despite Confusion
SOA Advances Despite Confusion A recent report from Saugatuck Technology asserts that SOA continues to be technology-led, rather than business-led, and this may prove to be a barrier to its broad deployment. It may take as much as a decade for SOA deployments to dominate the IT landscape, but steady progress is being made. According to Oracle, while SOA is well understood at a high level, there is considerable confusion about actual implementation. Oracle's approach: Focus on building the link between business modeling and application development and enabling bi-direction communication between the two. Respected consultant Judith Hurwitz says that Microsoft "has some good pieces" in the SOA space, and "a lot on the server side," but the company is lacking when it comes to metadata and an overall strategy.
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Team Scores with Data Handoff
Team Scores with Data HandoffThe NFL's Baltimore Ravens are scoring points on the bottom line, and improving security, by outsourcing all of their data storage and management services.
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Meeting All the World's Tech Needs
Meeting All the World's Tech NeedsQualcomm, Intel, Philips-all are among Western companies tailoring tech for a range of emerging-market uses, from computing to streetlights
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Virtualization Coming to Every Corner of the Enterprise
Virtualization Coming to Every Corner of the EnterpriseWhat is needed to make virtualization work? Greater hardware interoperability and a focus on designs that can handle complicated virtual environments, say OEMs. The basics of server consoidation via virtualization are nicely covered in this article. Sun's recent decision to use Intel chips could lead to an increase in Solaris-based enhancements to hardware-assisted virtualization tools. The newest Parallels and VMware virtualization systems are allowing some users to run Mac OS on PCs, a development that doesn't make Apple too happy. Apple itself opened the door to such a move, however, when it switched to x86 a few years ago.
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POS Inconsistency Proving Costly for Top Retailers
Retail Industry Update: POS Inconsistency Proving Costly for Top RetailersSome of the nation's top retailers—including Rite Aid, Harry & David, Ikea, KB Toys, Disney, Regal Cinemas and AMC Theaters—are named as defendants in a lawsuit stemming from inconsistent POS deployment.
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Top Trends in Monitoring Retail Operations
Top Trends in Monitoring Retail OperationsSystem and network monitoring poses a daunting challenge for organizations with IT networks distributed across multiple branch offices, stores sites and geographic locations. In today's competitive, margin-driven retail environment, companies that align business objectives and IT operations - and effectively monitor their performance - win.
With the proliferation of IP devices from Point of Sales (POS) systems, IP-enabled bar code scanners, music systems, HVAC controls and WAPs - a gut instinct for what makes retail work is important, but ongoing visibility into store IT operations makes the critical difference between success, lackluster revenue-week figures, and sliding stock prices.
In this session, Jamie Lerner, Founder & CEO of CITTIO™, will discuss the top trends in retail operations and best practices for gaining a reliable, ongoing view of all IT operations across sites, time zones and systems.
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Jobs: Financial Reporting, Controllers Analyst (NYC)
Role: Analyst - Financial Reporting Controllers/New YorkCompany: Goldman SachsIndustry: Investment BankingJob Description:The intermediate/senior analyst will be an integral part of the GS Execution and Clearing financial reporting team. This includes assisting in the preparation and submission of the balance sheet and supporting schedules on monthly basis. The analyst will interact with other divisions throughout the firm with regards to Consolidated reporting, FAS 140 disclosure, Inventory and other balance sheet and P&L transactions. Also experience with FAS 109 tax reporting would be a plus.
Principal Responsibilities:- Assist with Monthly Balance sheet preparation
- Subsidiaries financial statement preparation
- Estimate to actual reviewInventory broadening and review
- Tax accruals and associated analysis
- FAS 140 calculation
- Participate in the semi-annual and year end audits
- Special projects
Experience/Skills:
- Degree in Accounting
- 1-3 years relevant work experience (preferably with a public accounting or financial services firm)
- CPA a plus, but not requiredStrong PC skills (Excel, Word, Essbase, DBS Ledger)
- Strong analytical skills and detail orientation
- Excellent Interpersonal and communication skills
Contact via email for further information.
Careers@BizAnalyst.net and gloria.chen-li@gs.com
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