Sentences with phrase «than matter management»

LPM techniques dramatically increase the probability of better business outcomes than matter management and eBilling alone.

Not exact matches

This gap in effectiveness may matter more than you think because the research also found that companies reporting effective pipeline management saw revenue grow 15 percent faster than their ineffective peers.

She has more than 20 years of experience advising Fortune 500 companies on significant corporate transactions, governance matters, securities, compliance, risk management, audit, and litigation matters.

Kynikos Associates, with more than $ 2 billion in assets under management, saw its short - only fund down 12 percent last year, according to sources familiar with the matter.

«Obviously, the quarterly results matter, but I care year - to - year about what they're doing,» said Paul Lountzis, founder of Lountzis Asset Management LLC in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, who has been to more than 20 meetings and is attending this weekend.

(Reuters)- Private equity firm HGGC LLC has agreed to acquire a controlling stake in HelpSystems, valuing the U.S. information technology management software company at more than $ 1.2 billion, including debt, according to people familiar with the matter.

I certainly favor significantly increasing the ownership threshold, but I also believe that the rule needs substantive changes to prevent activists from meddling in matters that are appropriately the responsibility of the board and management rather than shareholders.

We've been talking recently about the lack of persistence in active investment management: Funds that perform well one year are no more likely than others to perform well the next year, suggesting to uncharitable observers that good performance is more a matter of chance than of replicable predictable skill.

As of the date of this statement your management knows of no business to be presented to the meeting that is not referred to in the accompanying notice other than the approval of the minutes of the last Annual Meeting of Shareholders, which action will not be construed as approval or disapproval of any of the matters referred to in such minutes.

Their decisions matter more during uncertain economic times than just about any other, says Sydney Finkelstein, a professor of management at Dartmouth's Tuck Executive Education school.

So, economy saved, those in positions have clear incentive against the same behavior, and no matter how bad government management compared to private one is, it's still cheaper than current bailout strategy.

Or maybe you are the first woman executive in a corporation where the existing idea of management is more a matter of headship than leadership.

Nothing like one underachiever blowing smoke up the ass of another... we know that Ozil has some incredible technical gifts, but to be considered the best you have to bring more than just assists to the table... for me, a top player has to possess a more well - rounded game, which doesn't mean they need to be a beast on both ends of the pitch, but they must have the ability to take their game to another level when it matters most... although he amassed some record - like stats early on, it set the bar too high, so when people expected him to duplicate those numbers each year the pressure seemed to get the best of our soft - spoken star... obviously that's not an excuse for what has happened in the meantime, but it's important to make note of a few things: (1) his best year was a transition year for many of the traditionally dominant teams in the EPL, so that clearly made the numbers appear better than they actually were and (2) Wenger's system, or lack thereof, didn't do him any favours; by playing him out of position and by not acquiring world - class striker and / or right - side forward that would best fit an Ozil - centered offensive scheme certainly hurt his chances to repeat his earlier peformances, (3) the loss of Cazorla, who took a lot of pressure off Ozil in the midfield and was highly efficient when it came to getting him the ball in space, negatively impacted his effectiveness and (4) he likewise missed a good chunk of games and frankly never looked himself when he eventually returned to the field... overall the Ozil experiment has had mixed reviews and rightfully so, but I do have some empathy for the man because he has always carried himself the same way, whether for Real or the German National team, yet he has only suffered any lengthy down periods with Arsenal... to me that goes directly to this club's inability to surround him with the necessary players to succeed, especially for someone who is a pass first type of player; as such, this simply highlights our club's ineffective and antiquated transfer policies... frankly I'm disappointed in both Ozil and our management team for not stepping up when it counted because they had a chance to do something special, but they didn't have it in them... there is no one that better exemplifies our recent history than Ozil, brief moments of greatness undercut by long periods of disappointing play, only made worse by his mopey posturing like a younger slightly less awkward Wenger... what a terribly waste

There may be no greater opportune moment to snatch an elusive Premier League title than the current season... when Chelsea completely stuttered under Jose Mourinho, when Manchester United's problems are not simply a question of management, when Manchester City struggle with motivation knowing Manuel Pellegrini will not be there in a matter of months and when the winning formula continues to escape Liverpool.

To make matters worse, he refused to even say how many concussions he has had during his 10 - year pro career (other than to tell the AP that it was «more than I'd like to admit»), which itself sends the wrong message: the most recent consensus of concussion experts is that providing a complete concussion history is critically important for proper concussion management.

It covers just about every topic that organizations should consider, from list management to message formatting to after - action reporting, and it doesn't lose sight of the fact that the content matters more than the tools used to send it.

Customer experience matters more when the economy is doing well than when it is doing poorly, according to a new study in the Articles in Advance section of Marketing Science, a journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).

According to Hattie, teacher subject - matter knowledge had an effect size of 0.19, meaning that it was far less effective than other factors like classroom management (0.52) or effective teacher feedback (0.75).

Discussion centered on «field trips, war stories about troubled students, and other management issues» rather than matters like «using student work and data to fine - tune teaching.»

All are independent of universities, and they share an emphasis on the mechanics of lesson delivery and classroom management rather than theories of education, research or subject - matter expertise.

In a 2001 interview, Burkhard Goschel, BMW board of management member, said widespread acceptance of the new 7 - series and its technologies would be only a matter of time and that «once you get the hang of it, the (iDrive) system is more rewarding than a zillion buttons.»

A lot of the subject matter is topical, the CSI bits are better than ever, and the characters have finally matured somewhat: they have gone from acting like self - indulgent and irritating juveniles to reasonably responsible adults, although Lucy could probably do with anger management classes.

As a matter of fact, the company's top management can not come a great deal closer than this.

Mr. Gordon has more than 22 years of experience as a personal coach in money matters including risk assessment, small - business development and portfolio management, and he has taught finance in Mexico, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the U.S.

«The parties to the arbitration agreement are enjoined from making any emergency applications concerning the management of the hotel in any forum other than the ICC or the courts of New York,» he wrote — jurisdictions in which the matter has already been contested, including the International Chamber of Commerce.

My take away from the NYT article this Sunday on Kulluk is that the issues were more a matter of Shell's internal risk management systems breaking down than the need for better weather forecasts.

At last, a responsible government has recognised that global average sea - level change is no more relevant to coastal management than average global temperatures are to the design of residential heating and cooling systems — local weather and local sea - level change is what matters.

They force (yes, force) the lawyers to be more interested in pleasing the compensation / management committee's desire for maximum cash intake than in the efficient handling of the client's matter.

«Matter planning and legal project management tools are more essential than ever before,» commented Mike Barry, Executive Vice President for Product and Strategy at Aderant, a sentiment shared across the industry.

In Upjohn Co. v. United States, 6 the United States Supreme Court held that a company's attorney — client privilege extends to company counsel's communications with employees in certain prescribed circumstances.7 Rather than providing a simple objective test, the Upjohn court instead established five factors to guide courts in determining whether the company's privilege should extend to counsel's communications with its employees: (1) whether the communications were made by employees at the direction of superior officers of the company for the purpose of obtaining legal advice; (2) whether the communications contained information necessary for counsel to render legal advice, which was not otherwise available from «control group» management; (3) whether the matters communicated were within the scope of the employee's corporate duties; (4) whether the employee knew that the communications were for the purpose of the company obtaining legal advice; and (5) whether the communications were ordered to be kept confidential by the employee's superiors, including that the communications were considered confidential at the time and kept confidential subsequent to the interview.8 When these elements are established, courts generally consider communications between company counsel and an employee to be within the scope of the company's attorney — client privilege.9

It may be appropriate for KM teams to explore opportunities like the implementation of organized project management of client matters, but that would be more focussed on practice improvement than KM.

Likewise, publishing skills, training for content commissioning, product management and quality issues continue to be matters for concern, where there are perceptions that these might be diminishing rather than on the rise.

Keith Mayfield, chairman of an AmLaw 100 firm, is debating with his management committee the pros and cons of introducing to his firm's partners the metric of profitability of a matter rather than realization rate, the metric currently used.

Has more than two firm partners significantly involved in the management of the client's matters.

Passport Pro is hosted software that offers legal matter and spend management features and best - practice - based workflows that come ready to install, enabling faster implementation than with the full Passport ELM platform.

«Enterprise Legal Management is much, much bigger than just legal matter and spend mManagement is much, much bigger than just legal matter and spend managementmanagement.

However, Legal Files Software is more than just matter management.

For more than 60 years, we have been representing management in the most complex labor law and employment matters.

In one firm, the uneconomical use of lawyer time devoted to management become readily apparent when, during its first quarter, five partners in a ten person firm devoted a little less than $ 90,000 of potentially billable time to managerial matters.

Case and matter management is all we do ─ and we do it better than anyone else.

Firms confront a number of client challenges: (1) dissatisfaction and failure to address it; (2) insufficient knowledge of the client's business; (3) high, unpredictable cost; (4) inefficiency and an economic model that «applies brute force» (read: lots of high - priced lawyers billing loads of hours) accompanied by a failure to assess appropriate value to task / cases from the client perspective; (5) failure to deploy technology to streamline operations and provide enterprise solutions; (6) an absence of process and project management; (7) a transactional approach to client matters rather than one that provides enterprise solutions; and (8) poor customer service.

Combining our longstanding and market - leading labor and employment team with deep crisis management experience and the investigative backgrounds of former leaders from the US Attorney General's Office, former federal prosecutors, state prosecutors, and leaders from other government agencies — including a special team of more than 30 female attorneys — we built a team over decades that can strategically and effectively manage complex internal investigations on behalf of clients and defend them in the matters that result when allegations of harassment by a top member of management becomes a crisis.

Only true practice management software that lets you organize information by matter rather than contact (Outlook's most significant limitation) will truly help you reach maximum efficiency.

A counsel management team tasked with ensuring external matters are scoped and instructed on consistently has saved more than # 1.3 m. For example, sales teams now use an automated process to make a legally - vetted offer on the spot.

As if the primary drivers of predictability and risk sharing were not enough, in - house attorneys should give more than a cursory look at the other benefits of value - based pricing: Total costs and expenses per matter are more easily tracked, allowing for more efficient reporting and accountability to senior management.

This year, Legal Files Software, Inc. will proudly celebrate our 25th anniversary of providing industry - renown legal matter management software to law firms, universities, governmental entities, insurance companies, and other organizations — and what better way to commemorate the occasion than by releasing our newest iteration, Version 9.0, of Legal Files software?

An author of more than 20 articles in publications such as the Missouri Employment Law Letter, Missouri Business, St. Louis Lawyer and TYL, Sheena also has been quoted as an authority on matters involving employment and labor law by The New York Times, Law360, the Society for Human Resource Management and the ABA Journal.

Christopher Davies has more than 15 years» experience representing clients in complex civil, criminal and administrative matters, often involving crisis management, including communications and public policy strategy and outreach.

Legal Files Case and Matter Management Software Serves a Multi-Office Law Firm A law firm with multiple locations selects Legal Files to manage its statewide practice In today's modern and interconnected world, it's common for law firms to have more than one location.

Christopher Davies has more than 15 years» experience representing clients in complex civil, criminal and administrative matters, often involving crisis management, including... Read More