aPriori Cost Management Finalist in Technology Awards
aPriori is a finalist in the Operations Application category of the Technology Awards. This category includes:
• Innovative technology products or services that allow companies to enhance, simplify, or improve their internal operations and/or business processes within their organization.
• The product or service is designed to support an operational aspect of the company (manufacturing, marketing, human resources, finance, sales, compliance,) as well as delivery of business intelligence and reporting, knowledge management, and business process.
• The product or service is designed to support the development or deployment of technology. This includes, but is not limited to network operations, data center management and monitoring.
The 2006 What’s Next Forum & Technology Awards will recognize and celebrate innovative technologies developed in New England on Wednesday, June 7, 2006 at The Four Seasons Hotel in Boston. The keynote speaker will be Nicholas Negroponte, co-founder of the MIT Media Lab, esteemed author and founder and Chairman of the non-profit association One Laptop per Child.
This year the award presentation introduces the “What’s Next Forum.” Moderator, Jason Pontin, Editor-in-Chief of Technology Review, will take share a few steps further into the future, to discuss not only how “Web 3.0″ will develop, but also what can be expected in its next iteration.
According to Frank Azzolino, President of aPriori, “We are delighted to be recognized as a leader in the Operations Application category by this important and prestigious organization.”
Based in Concord, MA, aPriori (www.apriori.com) is the technology leader providing innovative cost management solutions to the discrete manufacturing industry. aPriori’s Cost Management Software Platform enables manufacturers to better understand product cost decisions early and throughout the product lifecycle. aPriori’s Cost Management Platform empowers manufacturers to lower cost-of-goods sold (COGS), provides real-time visibility to “cost-critical” decision information, and builds critical cost knowledge to go on the business “offensive.” aPriori’s patent-protected cost management platform allows companies to assess, control, and reduce cost of goods sold by whole percentages. The aPriori Platform truly enables “Cost Knowledge Before it Matters.”
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Help answer the question about Knowledge Management
How important is the knowledge of economics in management?
Do I need to go beyond a basic, university economics class to succeed as an executive? How applicable/ practical would my knowledge of economics be if I wanted to be a CEO of a Fortune 500 company (regardless the industry)? Would you say that knowledge of marketing, finance, accounting, supply chain, and organizational behavior be more important? I would appreciate a ranking of the subjects in terms of importance.
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John Busa
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978-371-2006
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Ask your tutor for help. I am sure they would prefer it if you went to them because you do not understand rather than not attempt it at all.
Sorry it is way above me, but good luck
Someone needs to spend time with the assigned reading homework.
Use your mind. Think. Push those gray cells to communicate and share their thoughts with each other to form new ones. Or choose to be mediocre; the latter course will put you in a very large group.
No, it is not needed. Companies survived for hundreds of years without it.
Try ibm.com for statistics.
It is an interesting speciality, sort of a cross between a business degree and a library degree. The upside is that it will prepare you very specifically for a certain niche in an organizational hierarchy. The downside is that it might not give you enough big-picture training to move up that hierarchy. But like most undergraduates degrees what you do with it depends mostly on you, not on the degree.
Good luck.
Data are mixed up.
There's some really good articles on management at http://management.hammocksurvivalguide.com/
I don't know if it will solve your issues but there's some good stuff there.
Before attempting to address the question of knowledge management, it's probably appropriate to develop some perspective regarding this stuff called knowledge, which there seems to be such a desire to manage, really is. Consider this observation made by Neil Fleming
A collection of data is not information.
A collection of information is not knowledge.
A collection of knowledge is not wisdom.
A collection of wisdom is not truth.
The idea is that information, knowledge, and wisdom are more than simply collections. Rather, the whole represents more than the sum of its parts and has a synergy of its own.
in summary the following associations can reasonably be made:
Information relates to description, definition, or perspective (what, who, when, where).
Knowledge comprises strategy, practice, method, or approach (how).
Wisdom embodies principle, insight, moral, or archetype (why).
The value of Knowledge Management relates directly to the effectiveness with which the managed knowledge enables the members of the organization to deal with today's situations and effectively envision and create their future. Without on-demand access to managed knowledge, every situation is addressed based on what the individual or group brings to the situation with them. With on-demand access to managed knowledge, every situation is addressed with the sum total of everything anyone in the organization has ever learned about a situation of a similar nature. Which approach would you perceive would make a more effective organization?