... as well (Report of the Working Group on Offshore Financial Services, April 5, 2000) In recent times, the three OFCs other than Singapore in the Group Category, have lost some of their appeal with ... to the emergence of this location as an attractive offshore banking centre or OFC It is an OFC that has been designated by the Financial Stability Forum (FSF) of Basle, Switzerland, as worthy of ... crosscultural management This paper explores the linkage between organizational structure and cross-cultural management against the background of the Credit Suisse experience It is the contention of this...
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... ask whether the introduction of a knowledge management system improves the quality of software, only one of the studies, from the Software Engineering Laboratory gives a clear answer Asking if ... and overruns are just the tip of the proverbial iceberg The lost opportunity costs are not measurable, but could easily be in the trillions of dollars ” The view that the software systems we ... lines of code that was lacking, had severe consequences — a loss of around 500 million pounds Other problems can be that the communication between the end-users and the software developers is lacking,...
Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 16:33
Tài liệu EXPERIENCE OF THE INSTITUTE OF ENERGY IN THE PREPARATION OF THE RENEWABLE MASTER PLAN docx
... geothermal energy So far, even the high potential of RE resources, their contribution in electricity production in Vietnam is still negligible The Government of VN recognized important role of ... report has been prepared by Institute of Energy Institute of Energy Main Contents of RE Master Plan and Some Preliminary results 2.1 Organization of RE MP Present status of RE development 1.1 Existing ... 10 million tons of oil) Types of biomass can be exploited at the industrial scale: rice husks; leaves, top of sugar canes & baggage; coffee husks and wood residues Institute of Energy Biogas...
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Tài liệu A Historical Primer on the Business of Credit Ratings docx
... become the leading economy of the seventeenth century In 1688, the English emulated the Dutch in the most flattering of ways, by inviting the Dutch leader, William of Orange, to be their king William ... that the market was less stable than either the agency ratings or the legal lists, in the sense that the proportion of the total volume of outstanding issues rated high grade by the market at the ... fluctuations In view of the conservatism of the investment agencies in the 1920’s, and the excellence of their long-term forecasts of life-span default risk at offering, it is unlikely that they were affected...
Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 03:20
The importance of project management in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for the development of new products through E-collaboration docx
... to h The participants were given an explanation regarding the purpose of the feedback, the purpose of the conceptual model, some background of the research that lead to the development of the ... (Project Management Institute, 2004), listed project management areas, summarized in Table 1, which provides a sense of the breadth of the project management task The Project Management Book of Knowledge ... Project management institute project management area Project management area Integration management Scope management Time management Cost management Quality management Procurement management Risk management...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 00:20
INSTITUTE OF LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT SUPERSERIES doc
... 22 what the law says about the health and safety of people at work, and particularly the people they represent; the particular hazards of the workplace; the measures needed to eliminate these hazards, ... Group The views expressed in this work are those of the authors and not necessarily reflect those of the Institute of Leadership & Management or of the publisher Authors: Joe Johnson, Colin Everson ... take care for themselves and others who may be affected by their actions The opening sentence of the Act includes the word ‘welfare’: ‘An Act to make further provision for securing the health,...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 10:20
The Principles of Project Management pptx
... change during the course of the project (notably the details of how the project is achieved, the project’s timings, and the resources available) the fun- The Principles of Project Management (www.sitepoint.com) ... comparison of the projects you have the option of undertaking—across all your clients—and picking the ones most likely to benefit your own organization The process will be the same, but some of the ... specify the size of those benefits ■ They’re important to the future of the organization (or, in management speak, they’re “strategically important”) ■ Sufficient resources are invested in them ■ They...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 20:20
MARKETING VOCABULARY From the Glossary of Marketing Management (2002) pptx
... market All the organizations that buy goods and services to use in the production of other products and services, or for the purpose of reselling or renting them to others at a profit * Business ... choices among them * Closing The step in the selling process in which the salesperson asks the customer for an order * Co-branding The practice of using the established brand names of two different ... identify the goods or services of one seller or group of sellers and to differentiate them from those of competitors * Brand equity The value of a brand, based on the extent to which it has high...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 19:20
The role of credit in international business cycles ppt
... developed banking sector The importance of the credit variable in these regressions depends on the depth of the banking sector and institutional settings of the country of interest The Generalized ... improvement there The effectiveness of the credit variables depends on the development of the banking sector and institutional features such as the size and maturity of capital markets In Asia, the credit ... rate in the period when the shift occurs with the median of the growth rate of the two periods prior and after the level shift The level of the series is then adjusted by backdating the series...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 07:20
The Encyclopedia of Operations Management pptx
... Lindahl for their enthusiastic and generous support of the Carlson School of Management, the University of Minnesota, and the John & Nancy Lindahl Professorship The Encyclopedia of Operations Management ... graph the ABC distribution, where the x-axis is the percentage of items and the y-axis is the percentage of total annual dollar usage The graph on the right shows that the first 20% of the items ... medical therapy or other intervention, regardless of the cause or degree of severity The term “adverse event” is often used in the context of drug therapy and clinical trials In the drug therapy...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 17:20
The Politics of Crisis Management
... decision making All of these issues have fought a hard battle to make it to the top of the agenda; they have all acquired the status of urgency The list Sense making: grasping crises as they unfold ... surprisingly long period of time On the eve of the German invasion of Holland, in the spring of 1940, Dutch politicians reassured their anxious people that the Netherlands would escape the war threat Dutch ... within the organizations that are responsible for preventing the disasters they encounter.14 But the policy makers at the top of these organizations just cannot put together the pieces of the crisis...
Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 11:44
THE PERFORMANCE OF CREDIT RATING SYSTEMS IN THE ASSESSMENT OF COLLATERAL USED IN EUROSYSTEM MONETARY POLICY OPERATIONS pot
... to the quantiles of the standard normal distribution The quality of the approximation depends on the values of the parameters N Y,, the number of rated entities with the same rating grade at the ... participate in the credit assessment of collateral .The authors would like to thank the members of the ECAF Task Force and of the Working Group on Risk Assessment and an anonymous ECB referee for their ... should therefore combine the variance of the ex-ante estimated probability of default of the rating source and that of the benchmark in one measure in order to conduct the backtesting The difference...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 20:20
The Essentials of Project Management potx
... industrial and management projects Organizations representing the profession of project management The International Association of Project Management (IPMA) The profession of project management ... at the time of hand over to the user company However, there is much more to the success of a management change project than the technical excellence and performance of the IT It is only when the ... occupiers of the shops, offices and other premises also have a stake in the project There are others who will be dependent on the secondary stakeholders These are the wholesale suppliers of merchandise...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 04:21
THE ART OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT docx
... to other software systems No other part of the work so cripples the results if done wrong No other part is more difficult to rectify later Therefore, the most important function that the software ... that their own view of the world is the most useful Or worse, that it is the only view of the world worth considering and using in the project-planning process The hardest single part of building ... performs for the client is the iterative extraction and refinement of the product requirements.” —Fred Brooks It’s not surprising then that the planning-related books in the corner of my office disagree...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 05:22
THE MATHEMATICS OF MONEY MANAGEMENT: RISK ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES FOR TRADERS doc
... margin (they would be the same whatever the size of the margin) Rather, the profits and losses are the product of the exposure of unit (1 futures contract) The amount put up as margin is further ... the same with the squared Y differences 13 Take the square root to the sum of the squared X differences you just found in step Now the same with the Y's by taking the square root of the sum of ... axis being the geometric mean, the other being the value for f itself The higher the geometric mean at the optimal f, the better the system, Also, the lower the optimal f, the better the system...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 23:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "An Object-Oriented Approach to the Design of Dialogue Management Functionality" doc
... In the prototype system the instances contain, as one of their attributes, specific details of the service they offer: in the case of a Travel Expert instance this will be a schedule; in the ... the place of departure, the destination, the day of departure and the departure time, and if a final check with the instance's database indicates that the combination of data is valid, then the ... contains the rules that determine the system's spoken response to an attribute, taking into account not only the status of the individual attribute but also of the other attributes in the overall...
Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 03:20
The role of project management in achieving project success doc
... different form of management, will then establish the operation and control of the project use from this point on The focus, therefore, of project management is distinct from that of the project ... of the use of these resources, consequently the parent organisation will be interested in the success of the project management process The team will be accountable for their use of these resources, ... resources to the project There will be an interest in the success of the project as a whole as well as the project management aspects The project team will shape the implementation of the project...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 23:20
THE BASICS OF RECORDS MANAGEMENT docx
... Program is part of the Division of Library and Information Services of the Department of State The Secretary of State is the official holder of the Great Seal of the State of Florida and official recordkeeper ... unless the head of the agency that has custody of the records certifies that the records shall be retained in the agency’s custody for use in the conduct of the regular current business of the agency ... involving the records has been started before the expiration of the retention period and the disposition of the records, the records must be retained until completion of the action and resolution of...
Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 13:20
The Principles of SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT 1910 doc
... first two and who ultimately pay both the wages of the workmen and the profits of the employers The rights of the people are therefore greater than those of either employer or employé And this third ... on the level at the rate of one foot in 0.006 minutes The average distance of the piles of pig iron from the car was 36 feet It is a fact, however, that many of the pig-iron handlers ran with their ... combination of the initiative of the workmen, coupled with the new types of work done by the management, that makes scientific management so much more efficient than the old plan Perhaps the most...
Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 13:20