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Best Practices, LLC has conducted extensive research in the field of Business Operations. Browse through and sample our published Business Operations research in the topics below:

 
Effectively Manage Reseller, Vendor, and Customer Relationships to Maximize Productivity and Gains.This document contains Graphics.
Many systems and practices exist that maximize the benefits of close working relationships with suppliers. Some examples of such tactics include: Expedite reseller credit checks with integrated software solutions to reduce cycle time and fraud. AT&T has dramatically reduced the amount of time it spends on credit checks by integrating software-developer Open Market’s OM-Transact software into its server system. AT&T sends encrypted information to OM-Transact, which forges links to financial networks. The program communicates with the network to decide whether to authorize a credit card and to determine the user’s credit limit. The software has enabled AT&T to expedite its credit check cycle time while avoiding potential credit fraud through the encryption mechanism ...

Sample Balanced Scorecards for AmEx, ExxonMobil and Kaiser Permanente
This document contains a sample of Balanced Scorecards contained in Best Practices, LLC’s databases.

Resource Allocation and Budgeting -- An Integrated Model with Key Findings and Lessons Learned from Survey Participants.This document contains Graphics.
Introduction Best practice research underscores the fact that every organization faces the same essential resource allocation challenge: "How can an enterprise best allocate limited resources to optimize economic returns and to best meet business objectives?" However, resource allocation concepts, skills, tools, processes & models go by different terms in different industries. Moreover, best practices reside in different parts of different organizations. Consequently, the best practice documents in this database review multiple industries and consider all areas where skill resides. A "broad band width" of companies have developed tools, techniques and operational excellence in different aspects of resource allocation. Interestingly, few organizations have stand-alone resource allocation processes. More commonly, resource allocation systems are embedded into the core operating areas of the respective companies and industries ...

 



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