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Business Definition for: Best Practice

  • the most effective and efficient method of achieving any objective or task. What constitutes best practice can be determined through a process of benchmarking. An organization can move toward achieving best practice, either across the whole organization or in a specific area, through continuous improvement. In production-based organizations, world class manufacturing is a related concept. More generally, a market or sector leader may be described as best-in-class.

Wiktionary Definition for: Best Practice

  • #A well defined procedure that is known to produce near-optimum results

Additional Resources

The Practice of Leadership
Athletes, musicians and others practice and practice to get prepared for scheduled performance times, like a concert or an Olympic competition. It is at these times when they must be prepared to demonstrate their best, and when they are also judged and evaluated. The paper outlines that learning about leadership...
Tags: Practice, Leadership, Performance Management, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
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The First Choice Practice Sales Guide to Selling Your Practice
Dentists that find themselves in a distress sale situation may have to take what they can get for the practice due to time or financial pressures. They are often forced to sell at a bad time for the practice and ultimately themselves. Instead of waiting for unfavorable conditions to force...
Tags: Finance, Financial Accounting, Practice, Dentist
White papers 2004-10-28
Entrepreneurial Traits and Advanced Nurse Practice : Why Not Practice to Profit?
The purpose of this study was to determine if nurse practitioners in Texas have the entrepreneurial traits common to successful business owners which might draw them to independent practice. Why aren’t more nurse practitioners pursuing private practice as allowed under Texas law? What is hindering their movement from...
Tags: Management, Entrepreneurship, Practice, Entrepreneurial
White papers 2003-01-01
LexisNexis Total Practice Advantage Helps Attorneys Excel at the Business and Practice of Law; New Easy-to-Use Solution Combines Research, Practice Management, Client Development
DAYTON, Ohio -- LexisNexisR U.S., a leading provider of information and services solutions today launched LexisNexis Total Practice Advantage, a new solution that brings together the software and Web tools small firm attorneys and their staffs need to more effectively manage their business and grow their practice. Total Practice Advantage...
Tags: LexisNexis, Microsoft Excel
Research articles 2006-06-26
Extending the Theory to Meet the Practice of Insurance
This paper argues that there is a systematic tendency for practice to diverge from theory in insurance markets. The paper explores several reasons for the discrepancy between theory and practice. The paper discusses about themes about the operation of insurance markets in theory and practice. It also introduces areas where...
Tags: Theory, Financial Planning, Insurance, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance
White papers 2003-12-01
Don't Pee Your Pants Out Of Fear When Public Speaking
The more speeches you learn to write and present, the less nervous you will appear. As your confidence grows through practice, the less inclined you'll be to manifest the symptoms of fear. Yes, practice, practice and more practice is an important step for lessening the effects of fear. When a...
Tags: Public Speaking, Practice, Hubpages
White papers 2008-01-01
LexisNexis Launches New Estate Practice Product to Select Markets
Newest Total Practice Advantage Offering Brings Client Development, Legal Research, Practice Management and Litigation Services to Estate Practitioners
Tags: LexisNexis
Research articles 2007-01-19
Innodata Isogen Expands Professional Publishing Practice, Commercial & Advanced Programs Practice and Aerospace & Defense Practice with New Hires
NEW YORK -- INNODATA ISOGEN, INC. (NASDAQ: INOD) announced today that Bob Kidd has joined the company as Vice President and head of its Professional Publishing Practice; Lorin Powell has joined as a Senior Sales Executive in the Aerospace and Defense Practice; Veto Hunter and Kathy Bailie have joined as...
Tags: aerospace, Innodata Isogen Inc.
Research articles 2007-05-02
Dual Practice in the Health Sector: Review of the Evidence
This paper reports on income generation practices among civil servants in the health sector, with a particular emphasis on dual practice. It first approaches the subject of public-private overlap. Thereafter it focuses on coping strategies in general and then on dual practice in particular. In this paper dual practice is...
Tags: Vertical Industries, Health Care, Human Resources, Software, Enterprise Software, Healthcare, Benefits
White papers 2004-10-27
Preparation Techniques For Public Speaking
Preparation for public speaking is more than fact-finding or effective writing and then repeating the words by rote to your audience. Learning the more subtle skills like voice control and modulation, paper and equipment handling, posture and presentation, humor and timing, ease and confidence all require preparation. Preparation techniques for...
Tags: Technique, Productivity, Articlesisland.com, Public Speaking, Preparation
White papers 2007-07-10
KPMG appoints Joseph Lagioia national practice leader of its oracle enterprise package solutions practice; New appointment strengthens the Firm's Oracle Consulting Practice
NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 6, 1996-- KPMG Peat Marwick LLP today announced the appointment of Joseph Lagioia as partner-in-charge of the Firm's Oracle Enterprise Package Solutions Practice. As head of the practice, Lagioia will focus on leveraging KPMG's Oracle consulting capabilities.
Tags: KPMG Consulting Inc., leader
Research articles 1996-08-06
LexisNexis Extends Total Practice Advantage Offering with New Consumer Bankruptcy Version; New Easy-to-use Solution Combines Collier Bankruptcy Suite, Practice Management, Client Development
DAYTON, Ohio -- LexisNexisR U.S. today launched LexisNexis Total Practice Advantage for Bankruptcy, a new version of the company's successful Total Practice Advantage solutions offering.
Tags: bankruptcy, LexisNexis
Research articles 2006-08-15
Best Safety Practices: John Wiley & Sons Inc. (Resources).(Brief Article)
On The Practice Of Safety, third edition, provides a solid foundation for the study of the practice of safety in degree ... On The Practice Of Safety, third edition, provides a solid foundation for the study of the practice of safety in degree programs. ...
Tags: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Research articles 2003-06-01
When the IRS Travels in Pairs, It's Double Trouble
There is tax practice and standard day-to-day tax practice. Then there is the other kind--when the IRS thinks it may be on the trail of tax fraud. Experience in handling the first type of practice does not necessarily qualify you to do the other and may, in fact, make you...
Tags: Internal Revenue Service, tax
Research articles 2000-10-01
Aon Entertainment Practice Group Expert on the Practice of `Insuring Integrity'
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Tags: Aon Corp., entertainment
Research articles 2003-04-02
Red River Solutions Announces John Stouffer as Practice Manager for Its Oracle Practice
DALLAS -- Red River Solutions announced today that John Stouffer has joined the company as the Practice Manager for our Oracle Practice.
Tags: Oracle Corp.
Research articles 2007-11-06
A Quick Tip For Delivering A Great Speech
Does speaking in public leave you tongue-tied? Do you stumble over your words? Do you want to learn how to speak more eloquently in front of a crowed? This paper explains simple tip for getting started: Talk about something that you're passionate about. As with most skills, the secret is...
Tags: Practice
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Do I Distract My Audience When I Am Speaking?
If you know you have a problem that is distracting to your audience, then the best way you can fix it is to practice and watch yourself as you present your speech! Practice at home in front of a mirror or record yourself with a video camera. Practice as though...
Tags: Audience, Successful Speaking, Corporate Communications, Marketing
White papers 2008-01-01
Electronics Product Development Practice - East Versus West
This paper reports on industrial best practice in the area of electronics design. It discusses major issues affecting engineering design, based upon evidence obtained during a nowadays international review of product design and manufacture practice. The case study visits highlighted a considerable number of shortcomings in both the management of...
Tags: Product Design, Electronics, Best Practice, Product Marketing, Marketing
White papers 2004-05-07
Sage Software Introduces the Next Generation in Practice Management Software
Sage Software today announced the next generation of Sage Practice Solutions: Sage Practice Management, a new product built on .Net technology that offers improved security, better connectivity and increased performance to provide complete office and client management. This new product, available in mid-December, combines the rich reporting capabilities to...
Tags: Sage Software
Research articles 2005-11-02
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