NYCAPS and City Time: A Tale of two New York City 1. How important were the NYCAPS and CityTime projects for New York City? What were their objectives? What would have been their business benefits? * Importance of NYCAPS and CityTime projects for New York City: 1. To reduce the paperwork used handling employee benefits and job changes. 2. To save labor and IT costs for New York City. 3. To control overtime payments to the city employees and improve accountability. 4. To reduce
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Pharmaceutical Industry: New Drug Development Semester: 2012 Day of Week/Time: Office Hours: Class Website: Overview This course provides a detailed overview of the drug and biologics development process from discovery through regulatory approval. Special attention is given to the roles, functions and significance of the various disciplines involved in the R&D process, their interactions with each other, and the strategic management of these functions. Attention will also
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turnover among younger employees, are creating unprecedented knowledge-retention problems in many industries, threatening to reduce the capacity for innovation, growth, and operational efficiency. A recent study of 26 firms conducted by the Accenture Institute for Strategic Change documented the danger lost knowledge poses for organizational performance in the global chemical industry.1 But, of course, operational and institutional amnesia imperil more than just the chemical industry. This
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Most of the company’s have a performance measurement and management system which deals with enhancing the performance of individuals or operations in a company, may it be a manufacturing or a non- manufacturing company. Performance measurement (PM) is a useful tool that helps the company reach its goals, and goals are straightforwardly described by Goldratt as, “the goal of a firm is to make money’, and without the right performance of individuals and operations, it cannot reach its goals. (TXTBK
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about what they're up to. But sit them down for a performance review, and suddenly the experience becomes traumatic. Now companies are taking a page from social networking sites to make the performance evaluation process more fun and useful. Accenture (ACN) has developed a Facebook-style program called Performance Multiplier in which, among other things, employees post status updates, photos, and two or three weekly goals that can be viewed by fellow staffers. Even more immediate: new software
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End User Computing (EUC) refers to systems in which non-programmers can create working applications. EUC is a group of approaches to computing that aim at better integrating end users into the computing environment. These approaches attempt to realize the potential for high-end computing to perform in a trustworthy manner in problem solving of the highest order. Partly as a result of the development of high powered desktop computer and user friendly languages, there is a trend to assign both program
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recent business leader review with more than 400 senior executives around the world, forty-one percentages believed that new players from emerging markets will be the main development that will have impact on the business over the coming five years (Accenture, 2010). Their conclusion is understandable, as there have been a big change in the economic power ranking during the last 20 years. The BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) countries economy has
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explore some forward-thinking uses of cloud computing in the banking sector and discuss ways we believe innovative banks will be leveraging the cloud for competitive advantage in the next five years. 2 3 What exactly is Cloud Computing? Accenture defines cloud computing as the dynamic
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effectively work with suppliers to form long term partnerships can be very challenging especially since most organizations value short term cost savings to increase the bottom line. Our mentor Meghan shared some of her experiences as a consultant at Accenture. Part of her job is to determine an organization’s value through its procurement capability. She
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leader and innovator. Wegmans has been named one of the ‘100 Best Companies to Work For’ by FORTUNE magazine for nine consecutive years. In 2006, Wegmans ranked #2 on the list. ACCENTURE LLP is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Committed to delivering innovation, Accenture collaborates
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