S of some financial planning tools currently available as programs are presented next. Indicated in each abstract are the particular techniques used. NO. 2 1973 PLANNING TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES 139 ABSTRACTS OF FINANCIAL PLANNING PROGRAMSS OF FINANCIAL PLANNING PROGRAMS BA/BASIC Business AnalysislBASIC Availability: Program Product Description Business Analysis/BASIC is a comprehensive set of inte...

1. The Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Research & Educational Trust. 2013 Employer health benefits survey. August 20, 2013 (http://kff.org/private-insurance/report/2013 -employer-health-benefits/). 2. Swartz K. Cost-sharing: effects on spending and outcomes. Research synthesis report no. 20. The Synthesis Project. December 2010 (http://www.rwjf.org/content/dam/ farm/reports/issue_briefs/201...

We examine how key attributes of a business unit’s manufacturing strategy affected its plans to outsource manufacturing resources in the late 1990’s; a time when the outsourcing of production was at the forefront of manufacturing strategy. Drawing upon theory, we test a hierarchical regression model that includes the traditional transaction cost variables as well as operationsbased competitive ...

Concurrent Engineering introduces new concepts like focusing on the product life-cycle, simultaneously developing product and process, and others in order to improve overall business effectiveness. Information technology is one key factor for the implementation of an integrated development and production environment, based on the integration of common tools and sharing of data. The development ...

ICT (information and communication technology) has created new opportunities for doing business. E-business, which is a manifestation of this development, relies on efficient information sharing within and between companies. E-business requires interoperability of information systems and, therefore, standardization of information sharing. An e-business framework is a standard for information sh...

Big array analytics is becoming indispensable in answering important scientific and business questions. Most analysis tasks consist of multiple steps, each making one or multiple passes over the arrays to be analyzed and generating intermediate results. In the big data setting, I/O optimization is a key to efficient analytics. In this paper, we develop a framework and techniques for capturing a...

This Issue Brief focuses on changes to the health care financing and delivery system as implemented by employers. It discusses health plan costs, cost sharing, plan funding, health care delivery systems, services covered under various health plan types, coverage limitations, and retiree health coverage. National health expenditures are estimated at $1.035 trillion, representing 13.6 percent of ...