Aberdeen Group

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Research Confirms Best-in-Class Companies are Able to Obtain Significant Competitive Differentiation (PRWeb Jul 24, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/supply_chain/planning/prweb1138424.htm ...

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New research provides framework for telecom expense management best practices and controlling corporate costs. (PRWeb Jul 9, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/07/prweb1074014.htm ...

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BOSTON, MA (MARKET WIRE) What does MLB player recruitment have to do with data-driven marketing improvement? A lot, according to Paul DePodesta, the former GM of the L.A. Dodgers and now Special Assistant for Baseball Operations for the San Diego Padres. Profiled in the book "Moneyball" and celebrated as a baseball operations wunderkind, DePodesta will keynote Aberdeen's (NYSE: HHS) upcoming CMO Summit, a one-of-a-kind event that will bring together senior marketing executives from some of the world's most preeminent brands to share ideas, gain insights and build relationships. ...

Source: www.marketwire.com --- 52 days ago
BOSTON, MA (MARKET WIRE) Recent research of over 160 manufacturing executives reveals that Best-in-Class manufacturers realize 97% Plant Throughput, 93% Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) and 3% Asset Downtime. Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company (NYSE: HHS), launched the research findings recently in a report entitled "Enterprise Asset Management: Maximizing Return on Assets & Emerging Trends." Putting these findings in context, Mehul Shah, Research Analyst with Aberdeen's Global Manufacturing Practice, states, "Manufacturers have invested heavily on assets and are continually faced with the pressure to ...

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BOSTON, MA (MARKET WIRE) With the rise of social media, the speed and reach of word of mouth with respect to consumer products and services is increasing by orders of magnitude. At the same time, a growing number of companies are deploying technology solutions to harness the power of word of mouth to raise brand awareness, drive marketing improvement and, ultimately, increase shareholder value. ...

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BOSTON, MA (MARKET WIRE) A new research study released by Aberdeen, a Harte-Hanks Company (NYSE: HHS), reveals that there are still a lot of gaps in the supply chain risk management practices and strategies adopted by study participants for their global operations. ...

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BOSTON, MA (MARKET WIRE) With more than 2.5 million readers in over 40 countries, including 90% of the Fortune 1000, and 78% of the Global 500, Aberdeen has reset the bar with its introduction of research.Aberdeen.com. The new research portal will allow businesses to quickly identify and retrieve relevant research. The primary research reports are made available without cost to line of business executives looking to take their organization to the next level. ...

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BOSTON, MA (MARKET WIRE) If job seekers sometimes feel that hiring managers wouldn't know a good candidate if they saw one, they might be right. At least that is among the key findings of the latest research on talent acquisition strategies from Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company (NYSE: HHS). ...

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BOSTON, MA (MARKET WIRE) Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company (NYSE: HHS), released new research today, reporting that the drive for increased service efficiency is leading service executives to consider solutions that create seamless linkage between service parts planning and forecasting initiatives and "last-mile" parts execution and logistics activities. ...

Source: www.marketwire.com --- 16 days ago
BOSTON, MA (MARKET WIRE) With the cost of maintaining employee benefit programs going through the roof, organizations are taking a cue from Ben Franklin that "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." Employers are placing new emphasis on keeping employees healthier to prevent medical problems. These and other key findings are revealed in the new benchmark report, "Taming the Benefits Management Beast: Driving Costs Down and Satisfaction Up," from Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company (NYSE: HHS). ...

Source: www.marketwire.com --- 15 days ago
BOSTON, MA (MARKET WIRE) After surveying over 100 retailers focused on leveraging sustainability initiatives to increase customer loyalty, Aberdeen, a Harte-Hanks Company (NYSE: HHS), published the report, "Getting From Green to Gold: Retail Success Factors and Outcomes," which outlined information revealed from retail executives about their green and sustainability agendas, priorities, and strategies across all areas of the retail enterprise from the supply chain and headquarters -- to stores and facilities. ...

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BOSTON, MA (MARKET WIRE) Aberdeen, a Harte-Hanks Company (NYSE: HHS), surveyed more than 100 enterprises in July 2008 to determine the extent of coordination required between manufacturers and retailers towards building cogent and coherent trade promotion management (TPM) processes. The research revealed 65% of manufacturers currently use a combination of legacy trade promotion systems and home-grown trade marketing processes that lack collaborative tools or customer analytics related feature/functionality for using shopper insights to develop optimized trade promotions. These collaborative data sharing, planning and ...

Source: www.marketwire.com --- 17 days ago
BOSTON, MA (MARKET WIRE) Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company (NYSE: HHS), announced the release of a new research study entitled "The Best Kept Secret of Top SMB Product Developers? Finding the Shortest Path to PLM," which finds that while the adoption of product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions is still in the minority among small to midsize enterprises (SMEs), those that are using it are seeing significant product development performance benefits. The report reveals that SMEs who deploy PLM see an average 18.5% improvement in product profit margins. However, Aberdeen also found a widespread misunderstanding ...

Source: www.marketwire.com --- 9 days ago
BOSTON, MA (MARKET WIRE) Service professionals from across the globe will once again take part in the annual Chief Service Officer's (CSO) Summit hosted by Aberdeen, a Harte-Hanks Company (NYSE: HHS), taking place October 2-3, 2008 in San Francisco, CA. Aberdeen has successfully built an active community of Chief Service Officers through its research on the importance of post-sale service. These CSOs will aggregate for a third time along with leading solution providers to elevate the discussion of service transformation within today's organizations. While the first two service conferences focused on 'why' companies ...

Source: www.marketwire.com --- 9 days ago
BOSTON, MA (MARKET WIRE) Aberdeen, a Harte-Hanks Company (NYSE: HHS), will host worldwide CEOs, COOs, CIOs, VPs of Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, Quality, and Plant Managers seeking actionable recommendations for more effectively managing manufacturing operations at the annual Manufacturing Executive Summit. ...

Source: www.marketwire.com --- 9 days ago
BOSTON, MA (MARKET WIRE) In an extremely competitive service landscape, Best-in-Class service firms are turning to schedule, dispatch and mobile solutions to: increase the efficiency of their service organizations, deliver better, faster and more accurate service, and to efficiently contain service-related costs. As such these firms are actively taking steps to map processes related to the lifecycle of incoming service work orders and implement optimization tools to boost performance, as indicated in "A Guide to Service Delivery Excellence: Service Scheduling and Routing," published by Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks ...

Source: www.marketwire.com --- 8 days ago
BOSTON, MA (MARKET WIRE) Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company (NYSE: HHS), today unveiled the agenda and overall theme for its 4th annual CPO Summit to be held this November 13 and 14 in San Francisco, CA. The Chief Procurement Officer's (CPO) Summit has become the definitive conference for global procurement executives to learn, network, and discuss the strategies needed to extend the broad transformation of their organizations. This year's theme, "CPO Rising," will focus on the strategies that leading CPOs have employed to turn supply management into a competitive weapon. ...

Source: www.marketwire.com --- 8 days ago
BOSTON, MA (MARKET WIRE) In the newly released benchmark report, "Application Security: Protect Sensitive Data while Improving Compliance," Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company (NYSE: HHS), found that on average, Best-in-Class organizations were able to realize a 12x greater decrease in the number of successful application security attacks than Industry Average companies as a direct result of incorporating the right blend of technologies and services as a part of their comprehensive application security strategies. ...

Source: www.marketwire.com --- 51 days ago
BOSTON, MA (MARKET WIRE) Aberdeen, a Harte-Hanks Company (NYSE: HHS), announced the release of its benchmark report entitled, "Sales and Operations Planning: Aligning Business Goals with Supply Chain Tactics." Aberdeen is continuing its research on the S&OP process, with over 300 respondents taking part in the May 2008 survey dedicated to S&OP. The goal of this year's report was to identify how the S&OP process is helping corporate executives accomplish their overall business strategy. The four broad strategies being considered were: product differentiation, customer service differentiation, cost ...

Source: www.marketwire.com --- 51 days ago
BOSTON, MA (MARKET WIRE) In an extremely competitive service landscape, Best-in-Class service firms are turning to schedule, dispatch and mobile solutions to: increase the efficiency of their service organizations, deliver better, faster and more accurate service, and to efficiently contain service-related costs. As such these firms are actively taking steps to map processes related to the lifecycle of incoming service work orders and implement optimization tools to boost performance, as indicated in "A Guide to Service Delivery Excellence: Service Scheduling and Routing," published by Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks ...