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Building a business case is a necessary prerequisite in supporting any major investment decision. Building the business model, calculating costs and quantifying benefits, analyzing cash flow over time, and calculating financial indicators, such as net present value, internal rate of return, return on investment (ROI), or whatever else is required for getting the management approval, are essential parts of "investment engineering." This is the kind of discipline that creates informed and responsible spending decisions, right?
Vendors today are introducing new products that apply advanced algorithms designed specifically for e-mail analysis. The result is an emerging market: e-mail intelligence.
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Early outsourcing deals typically reflected the fixed-price model, but today there are many more options. Choosing the right pricing model for your outsourcing contract can be a very difficult task. It must fit not only the predictability of your organization's demand for contracted services but the predictability of the underlying costs borne by the service provider as well.
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With this issue of CBR, we set out to investigate an area of managerial practice that could be considered mature. It has been over a decade now that knowledge management has been defined, that its practice has been adopted by organizations, and that it has become an offering of consulting companies. Yet for as much attention that has been devoted to the topic, satisfactory results still elude a good portion of the organizations that attempt to use it.