2011 on a strong note‚ as demonstrated by our solid performance against our key financial metrics. I am proud of our team’s execution and our accomplishments over the past few quarters. We have a unique and differentiated portfolio that spans from the endpoint to the data center‚ supporting both virtual and physical environments. We work with individual consumers all the way to the largest organizations in the world. In addition to providing customers with traditional software solutions‚ we
Premium Corporate governance Democracy Elections
Marketing Metrics At the beginning of The Balanced Scorecard‚ a book on the new generation of performance metrics‚ authors-Dr. Robert Kaplan and Dr. David Norton present an analogy to drive home their case. They ask you to imagine entering an airline jet cockpit‚ and in front of the pilot‚ you see just one gauge. You ask the pilot‚ "What’s that gauge measure?" "Altitude"‚ you’re told. "What about the other gauges?" "We won’t be using them this flight. I’m just focusing on altitude." "How about
Premium Marketing Strategic management Marketing plan
Software Metric Software metric is a measure of some property of a piece of software or its specifications. Since quantitative measurements are essential in all sciences‚ there is a continuous effort by computer science practitioners and theoreticians to bring similar approaches to software development. The goal is obtaining objective‚ reproducible and quantifiable measurements‚ which may have numerous valuable applications in schedule and budget planning‚ cost estimation‚ quality assurance testing
Premium Project management Software development Software project management
. Performance Metrics: purpose What are the ways you can measure how successful your Six Sigma project has been in improving quality or decreasing the number of defects? Before we go into the metrics and definitions‚ let’s say what “defects” and “defective” mean. Something has a defect if the result or outcome of a process is not what is expected. Something went wrong. The product may still be usable: a car with chipped paint can still be driven. So some engineers use “defective” to mean a product
Premium Management Supply chain management Process management
Define control and discuss the control process and the importance of control in business organizations. * Define control Management process in which the (1) actual performance is compared with planned performance‚ (2) difference between the two is measured‚ (3) causes contributing to the difference are identified‚ and (4) corrective action is taken to eliminate or minimize the difference Control Process The control process is a continuous flow in Taj between measuring‚ comparing and action
Premium Management Process control Control system
The challenge of finding‚ attracting‚ developing and retaining the right talent is taking up a major part of management and once the right talent is found the next demanding job is to retain that talent Hence the following gains importance Describe the scope‚ intensity and cost of attrition. Determine the risk of attrition. Identify the level and cost of turnover and benchmarking it against competitors Attrition: Number of employees who left in the year / average employees in the year
Premium Costs Employment Productivity
July 13 2013 Every organization‚ to be effective‚ must have a structure. An organization structure is the setup that determines the hierarchy and reporting structure in an organization. It is often represented by a drawing known as an organizational chart. There are different types of organizational structures that companies follow‚ depending on a variety of factors like leadership style‚ type of organization‚ geographical regions‚ work flow and hierarchy. Organizations may choose from a number
Premium Organizational structure Organization
Name: Layal Ayoub Course: Managing The Global Corporation Prof: Akel Kayrouz Organization Structure And Control System Adopting the appropriate organization structures to effective strategy implementation is very important to the company’s development. Companies change their structures to align with new strategic directions and competition and also to respond to development in their operating environment‚like Samsung for example who has been badly hit by the global economic downturn so it has
Premium Organizational structure Globalization
Types of Organizations and leadership styles Hypothesis: different types of organizations perform better with leadership styles tailored to that industry or type of organization. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When researching the different styles of leadership‚ one question that likely comes to mind is the relationship of the leadership style to the performance of the organization. Organizations in the same industry can have vast differences
Premium Richard Branson Virgin Group Leadership
How Men and Women Differ I always thought that men and women were the same and could perform the same task; the only difference was their reproductive organs. I have found out that men and women are equal but different. Men and women alike want the same rights and opportunities. According to Google.com‚ “Scientist have come to accept that a few fundamental differences between men and women are biological. It turns out that men’s and women’s brains‚ for example‚ are not only different‚
Premium Gender role Difference Gender