Business Operations Best Practices
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:
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This document contains a matrix with the top three lessons learned for managing staffing, roles and budgets for facilities services. The matrix includes responses from executives at seven world-class companies.
Corporate Libraries Research Bundle 
Even though corporate libraries can be an invaluable resource for information, they are frequently targeted by company budget cuts. In order to remain in operation, it is imperative that corporate libraries learn cost-saving strategies and communication techniques to ensure they continue to receive company funding.
The Corporate Libraries Research Bundle represents a cross-section of research of interest to corporate librarians, information professionals and managers. This Bundle includes survey and interview research from several studies.
Topics covered include best practices for staffing and managing corporate libraries, reducing corporate library expenses and tips on how to best communicate library value to the organization. This Bundle also contains metrics and features such as:
· Percent offering particular services
· Percent outsourcing and charging back for each service
· Common charge-back methods
· Overall library usage such as user penetration rates, digitalization status and budget levels
· Matrix showing the profile of companies with the most IT staff to support the library
The benchmark class for the research initiatives within this bundle includes leading companies such as Bank of America, Fidelity Investments, Hewlett-Packard, Pfizer, and IBM. These companies cover a wide range of industries including pharmaceuticals, financial services, manufacturing, and computer software
The information in this Bundle will provide helpful techniques for cutting library costs and demonstrating value to management. This Bundle is a must-read for any company concerned about the future of their own corporate library.
Resource Allocation and Budgeting -- An Integrated Model with Key Findings and Lessons Learned from Survey Participants.
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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