Executive shuffle at UTStarcom
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Email etiquette is one of the most overlooked parts of education even in B Schools across the country. Writing an email is an art, but it isn't all that complicated. It takes a basic level of awareness and some guidelines to ensure your email correspondence can have the desired effectiveness, especially for an Introduction or a Business correspondence.ERP and Portal - Working Together: Getting Maximum Value From Your ERP Investment
The 1990 was the decade of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). ERP systems became the center of the business operations by providing employee access to information that was consolidated and coordinated in one application. Now, a decade later, many companies want to extend the reach of their ERP to non-ERP applications, and also to their trading partners outside the organization. Getting the right information into the right person's hands, at the right time, in the right place (factory floor, warehouse, 18 wheeler), and in the right format (portal, PDA, printed) is defining the next level of productivity. It is all about providing access and making information truly useful to everyone up and down the entire supply chain.Case Study: Using an Employee Opinion Survey to Affect Organizational Change
Many organizations that administer employee opinion surveys act on the results in the same way. They analyze the survey data to determine specific areas for action, organization-wide and at geographic, division and department levels. This analysis can result in meaningful insight and change. However, employee surveys contain wealth of data to be mined and most analyses only scratch the surface. When utilized to its full potential this valuable information can stimulate broader and more effective organization development. This case study describes an organization that used its survey to uncover specific "Pockets of greatness" within itself and to further study these discoveries for best practices to model and apply across the rest of the enterprise. The resulting information became a critical aspect of a broader organizational change process.Micromanagement and Delegation
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