Management Close-Up HOW CAN LARRY BLANFORD KEEP GREEN MOUNTAIN COFFEE ROASTERS PERKING? In 1981, Bob Stiller began serving his coffee to custompiece of pie or a donut. Not until the mid-1990s did cofers in a tiny Vermont café. He was focused simply on fee brewing became an art form, as the Starbucks-led giving them the highest-quality freshly roasted coffee coffee revolution began to sweep across America. at a reasonable price. As his Green
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SIGIR 2010 Geneva, Switzerland July 19-23, 2010 DESKTOP SEARCH Workshop of the 33rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval Organised by David Elsweiler Gareth J.F. Jones Liadh Kelly Jaime Teevan Copyright ©2010 remains with the author/owner(s). Proceedings of the SIGIR 2010 Workshop on Desktop Search (Understanding, Supporting and Evaluating Personal Data Search). Held in Geneva, Switzerland. July 23, 2010. Preface These proceedings
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impacts depend on a wide range of contingency variables. The authors argue that simplistic views of PMT as being a homogeneous set of technologies with unidirectional, non-contingent social impacts is neither realistic nor useful. A number of future research directions in this area are suggested. Keywords. Social impacts of technology; Programmable ing; Sociotechnical systems; Organizational design automation; CAD/CAM; Manufactur- 1. Introduction The microelectronics revolution in manufacturing
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with difficulties. Change management costs can mount as old systems are discarded or modified, staff is trained, old processes are set aside and new procedures adopted. Subsequently, organizations seek a rapid return on their investment by designing project plans that minimize risk. In the early years, few ES implementations lived up to their expectations and today many organizations continue to struggle to achieve the results expected and desired from ESs. How can companies reach a point where their
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CHAPTER 2: MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING CONCEPTS/JOB COSTING ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS 1. The major differences between managerial and financial accounting are: |Financial Accounting |Managerial Accounting | |External users of information—usually stockholders, financial|Internal users of information—usually managers. | |analysts, and creditors. |
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Project Management Project Management Assembled by Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD | Applies to nonprofits and for-profits unless noted Leaders Circles peer-training/coaching groups (nonprofits) | Authenticity Circles peertraining/coaching (for-profits) First-timers | Library home page | Library index of topics | Contact us Project management is a carefully planned and organized effort to accomplish a specific (and usually) one-time effort, for example, construct a building or implement a new
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grid. While it is running. Full-tilt. Heading this effort is the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability. In concert with its cutting edge research and energy policy programs, the office’s newly formed, multi-agency Smart Grid Task Force is responsible for coordinating standards development, guiding research and development projects, and
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Computer-Assisted Legal Research By Melynda Hill-Teter Reviewed By Brian Bastyr, Esq. About the Author Melynda Hill-Teter is a 1991 graduate of the Legal Assistantship Program at the University of California at Santa Barbara, an American Bar Association approved school. She has more than 20 years of experience in the legal field, and specializes in legal computer applications. Ms. Hill-Teter has received a Paralegal Certificate of Mastery in LexisNexis online research. She has published articles
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LITERATURE REVIEW In the article “Credit Risk Rating at Large U.S. Banks” authors William F. Treacy and Mark S. Care say that risk ratings are the primary summary indicator of risk for banks’ individual credit exposures. They both shape and reflect the nature of credit decisions that banks make daily. The specifics of internal rating system architecture and operation differ substantially across banks. The number of grades and the risk associated with each grade vary across institutions, as do
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