AberdeenGroup Announces its First Quarter Research Agenda.BOSTON -- AberdeenGroup, the recognized source of business value research for global business executives, has announced its research agenda for the first quarter of 2005. AberdeenAccess Members, executives, decision-makers, supply chain partners, and members of the press can now anticipate the research that will support them throughout the remaining months of this quarter. Hundreds of companies participate in Aberdeen's research surveys, making them a vital and relevant part of a business journalist's arsenal. New titles include: 1. The CPO's Agenda -- Procurement The fancy word for "purchasing." The procurement department within an organization manages all the major purchases. is playing an increasingly strategic role in enterprise strategies and operations. This report will identify the leading pressures and challenges facing procurement executives. 2. On Demand Supply Management -- This report identifies key gaps in existing supply management infrastructures and determine which applications, content, and services where On Demand can help. 3. Field Service Optimization optimization Field of applied mathematics whose principles and methods are used to solve quantitative problems in disciplines including physics, biology, engineering, and economics. : Part 2 -- Synchronizing synchronizing, n a technique that a therapist uses to coordinate his or her breath with that of the client; builds trust and establishes relationship. Supply and Demand in Real Time -- Collecting data from the field service organization is imperative. But equally important is the ability to react to real-time changes in service demand and supply with optimized work plans. 4. SOX (1) (Schema for Object-oriented XML) An XML schema developed by Veo Systems and Muzino Communications, which was submitted to the W3C. SOX is based on DTD, but adds data typing and reuse mechanisms. Compliance & Automation Benchmark -- Understand how much firms are spending to automate To turn a set of manual steps into an operation that goes by itself. See automation. SOX compliance. Learn what is being purchased, and the results. 5. Global Trade Management: Mastering Cross-Border Supply Chains -- Learn why globalization globalization Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation of supply chains requires that companies and their trade management partners bring new levels of speed, efficiency, and security to cross-border transactions. 6. Best Practices in Category Spend Management: Telecom -- Discover specific best practice category spend management strategies, procedures for implementing for managing telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. . 7. Enterprise Talent Management: Hiring Right -- This study will help companies benchmark their progress in the move from manual to automated au·to·mate v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates v.tr. 1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory. 2. practices in employee hiring management, and define the value proposition of so doing. 8. Storage Trends 2005: New Drivers, New Challenges -- This study will examine growth drivers, new application initiatives, and the approach and relevant key performance indicators Key Performance Indicators (KPI) are financial and non-financial metrics used to quantify objectives to reflect strategic performance of an organization. KPIs are used in Business Intelligence to assess the present state of the business and to prescribe a course of action. that firms should use to gauge the impact vast storage will have on their infrastructure. 9. Purchasing and Expense Card Benchmark: Optimizing Spend Compliance -- This cross-industry study will benchmark existing corporate P-card and expense card strategies and programs to examine challenges for card-based purchasing initiatives and identify strategies for success. 10. Packaging and Artwork Management --Get to know the leading strategies and systems infrastructure required to effectively manage their packaging and artwork design management. 11. Closed-Loop Corporate Performance Management Strategies -- Understand why companies with consistently winning business performance have deployed a rigorous and structured program to enable the most effective decision making, based on taking a "closed loop" approach. 12. Process Manufacturing The manufacturing industry that uses process control systems. See process control. Excellence: Strategies for the Plant Floor and Beyond -- This study will examine the drivers, strategies and enablers for improving process manufacturing operations. 13. Top Manufacturing Strategies for Midmarket Companies -- Understand why the most successful manufacturing process and automation strategies and provide advice on how these strategies can be implemented even by resource-constrained organizations. 14. Marketing Analytics -- Aberdeen looks at the current state of Marketing Analytics, at how companies are managing their customer information, and the best practices that Global 5000 leaders will employ going forward. 15. Practical Collaboration -- Data synchronization Keeping data in two or more computers up-to-date so that each repository contains the identical information. Data in handheld devices and laptops often require synchronization with the data in a desktop machine or server. and collaboration are more important than ever to driving revenue and reducing operational costs. This benchmark study will get to the heart of what works. To find out more about PressAccess, which gives you full access to all of Aberdeen's research, please follow this link: http://aberdeen.com/press/press_access_signup.asp For more information about these reports, or to participate in the surveys that will generate the reports, please contact Jeff Buddle bud·dle n. An inclined trough in which crushed ore is washed with running water to flush away impurities. [Probably from Low German buddeln, to agitate.] , AberdeenGroup's editorial director. About AberdeenGroup Founded in 1988, AberdeenGroup Inc. is the trusted advisor to the global business executive for value chain strategies and business advice. |
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