Strategic HR is essential to the long-term health of your organization. Focusing on talent identification and retention, workforce planning and succession management, rather than tactical HR duties such as payroll processing, can yield significant results. This paper outlines the business benefits of investing in strategic HR capabilities. 

This whitepaper, aimed strategic decision makers, will discuss how you can reduce telephony costs, maximize your ROI and improve your business collaboration and communication activities. 

This paper presents a low risk, high impact approach to gaining control of regulatory compliance. The procedures, tasks, and behaviors that bear upon compliance can be overwhelming. Yet organizations that can master these activities, operate more efficiently, compete more effectively, and build their brands. Learn how GRC technologies can help. 

Trust, or the placing of it, is one of the key activities at the core of our human endeavours. The process of placing trust is simpler when the process is physical and proximal - that is when you can see, feel and touch that which you are about to trust. 

Accounting for corporate actions accurately is one of the biggest challenges for investment managers, with significant portfolio valuation, performance and tax implications for investors. And its only going to get more challenging due to reporting requirements and mounting activity. Learn how to get a handle on the 5 most common corporate actions. 

This white paper will help you better understand the Project Management Life Cycle by introducing the Project Management Network Diagram (PM Network Diagram) from Global Knowledge. This diagram provides a visual illustration of the life cycle and can help you prepare for the PMP exam. 

<p>Read this expert e-guide to learn about both open source and commercially available application lifecycle management (ALM) automation tools for requirements traceability, for design and for test. Then, learn a three-step process that will improve the flow of the software delivery process.</p> 

Read this case study to learn how automotive and industrial manufacturer Fluid Routing Systems was able to reduce its enterprise resource planning (ERP)-related operating costs by 30 percent while improving quality and supply chain management. 

This paper examines how an integrated information technology solution can help you take advantage of economies of scale to boost manufacturing utilization, enhance service levels, and improve the efficiency of your sales and administrative activities. 

The way we work is now open to wide-ranging review. The concept of the office as the ‘dumb’ container for work, housing the corporation and its infrastructure assets, will be challenged by a number of factors explored in this paper. Work, in the future, will only be a verb. It is becoming a process, not a place. 

Optimized technology can lead to improved business processe which can lead to elevated profitability. Sounds good, right? This paper from BPM Parnters illustrates how your organization can capitalize on new trends and tools to increase your profitability. 

This edition of BI Trends & Strategies features a lead article by SearchCIO.com's Linda Tucci, who offers a helping hand in the quest to dismantle the dreaded data silo. The second piece outlines mobile BI, including a reference to Apple's iPad, and the final article delves into the world of performance management. 

The most effective sales are face-to-face sales, yet sales representative only spend 26% of their time selling face-to-face. The rest of their time is taken up with administrative tasks, prep and travel. Learn how Sybase Mobile Solutions for SAP can increase sales productivity and bring the advantages of business mobility to your organization.