After a decade of disappointments, energy and utility companies should establish sound work and asset management programs to reap workload and productivity improvements.
Building the business case for a knowledge initiative
In the current tough economic climate, knowledge management projects are under greater scrutiny to prove themselves and business managers are under increased pressure to provide justification that KM projects will provide value back to the business.
It's time to flex: Create the organisational and cultural agility to do business on demand
Those companies that have systematically replaced less flexible organisational elements with more adaptable alternatives will enjoy a distinct competitive advantage - the ability to do business on demand.
Leveraging Linux to optimise costs and performance in the EDA environment
In the electronics industry today, business forces and the frantic pace of technological development have intensified the competitive landscape. Surviving and thriving in this environment requires constant vigilance to stay abreast of market forces.
Grey matter matters: Preserving critical knowledge in the 21st century
Changes in workforce demographics, labour migration patterns and economic conditions are causing organisations to face the challenge of retaining critical knowledge that is departing the organisation.
The need to establish precise metrics for e-business initiatives may be the mantra that has risen out of the ashes of the dot-com shakeout, but many companies have floundered in their attempts to develop a single, absolute metric for assessing a project's success or failure.
Preparing for human resources business transformation outsourcing: Key questions and decisions
In a recent set of interviews with the leaders of more than 100 human resource organisations, we asked about the future role of the human resources (HR) function.
Preparing for human resources business transformation outsourcing: Risk mitigation strategies
Making the decision to outsource human resource processes is a major step for many organisations. Once a company has decided to outsource one or more human resource processes and has selected a vendor, the next major task is to implement an effective outsourcing arrangement.
The mobile working experience: A European perspective
A new generation of workers is emerging within European organisations. For these employees, the car, the home office, the hotel and the customer site have become the nexus of their working lives. This shift to a more distributed, flexible model of work has important implications.
