Archive for April, 2010

Workforce Scheduling: Managerial Strategies for Driving Down Costs While Escalating Customer Satisfaction

An efficient workforce scheduling process enables a company to allocate the right people, with the right skills, in the right place, at the right time. As a result, it has direct impact on a company’s ability to decrease costs, increase workforce capacity utilization and productivity, as well as escalate overall customer satisfaction.

This latest Aberdeen Research Report provides an in-depth and comprehensive look into process, procedure, methodologies, and technologies with best practice identification and actionable recommendations.

Written by: Aberdeen Group

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Enterprise Time and Attendance – Build vs. Buy

Many businesses face the issue of deciding whether to buy or build the time and attendance solutions that they need to run their businesses. Therefore, when considering which course of action to take, organizations should carefully consider the costs, risks and benefits of both options and choose the one that provides the most value and least risk over the long term.

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The ROI of Your Labor Force: Optimize Your Most Important Asset

The workforce is more than the aggregate of all employees—the workforce is the engine of operations. As your largest single controllable expense and largest driver for value creation, your workforce as a whole must be managed optimally. This workforce optimization provides the two key ingredients of strategic HR. It provides the real-time labor input for core HR efforts, while also producing the measurable business impact that HR needs to deliver.

Leading HR organizations have driven real returns by extending their reach to the front lines of people processes. As investors increasingly scrutinize measures like profit per employee and labor cost as a percentage of revenue, the need for HR to measure its business impact in dollars has never been more intense.

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Next Generation Workforces: Engaged Employees, Workforce Management and Improved Performance

Learn how manufacturers use workforce management solutions to gather accurate labor and production data, streamline payroll and HR-related operational processes and make better decisions with labor analytics. The result: decreased business costs, improved operational efficiencies and increased employee satisfaction – across the entire enterprise. This executive summary illustrates how enterprise-wide workforce management solutions can introduce greater efficiency and effectiveness throughout a manufacturing organization – from shop floor to top floor.

Written by: The MPI Group, Inc.; Sponsored by: Infor

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Quiksilver Inc. (ZQK) goes negative by breaking below intraday moving average

The intraday price for Quiksilver Inc. has moved below its 200 period 30 minute moving average of 5.51. ZQK is around 5 bucks now.
Slope: 0.17988479711992217 Intercept: 5.335905626865678 close: 5.33

Young Innovations Inc. (YDNT) goes negative by breaking below intraday moving average

The intraday price for Young Innovations Inc. has moved below its 200 period 30 minute moving average of 25.33. YDNT is around 25 bucks now.
Slope: -0.0320576839421155 Intercept: 25.36283789552242 close: 25.17

Wsfs Financial Corporation (WSFS) goes negative by breaking below intraday moving average

The intraday price for Wsfs Financial Corporation has moved below its 200 period 30 minute moving average of 42.34. WSFS is around 42 bucks now.
Slope: 1.8435467261681364 Intercept: 40.50876050746268 close: 42.11

Proshares Trust (UXI) goes negative by breaking below intraday moving average

The intraday price for Proshares Trust has moved below its 200 period 30 minute moving average of 41.1. UXI is around 40 bucks now.
Slope: 1.4749154128853157 Intercept: 39.63594816417912 close: 40.96

Proshares Trust (UVT) goes negative by breaking below intraday moving average

The intraday price for Proshares Trust has moved below its 200 period 30 minute moving average of 30.61. UVT is around 30 bucks now.
Slope: 1.3916201230031773 Intercept: 29.222681477611808 close: 30.25

Uil Holdings Corporation (UIL) goes negative by breaking below intraday moving average

The intraday price for Uil Holdings Corporation has moved below its 200 period 30 minute moving average of 29.19. UIL is around 29 bucks now.
Slope: 0.3074931598290348 Intercept: 28.88040880597011 close: 29.03