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Federal Court Approves MBF, BUPA Merger: Health insurer MBF Australia Ltd and BUPA Australia Health Pty Ltd have received the green light from the Federal Court of Australia to combine their businesses.On Monday, MBF policyholders voted in favour of the $2.4 billion friendly takeover by BUPA Australia, the domestic arm of the British owned BUPA...; Tags: AAP, Australian Associated Press Pty Ltd., Merger, Policyholder, Mergers & Acquisitions, Insurance, Benefits, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software; News items 2008-05-14
Grant Kenny Buys Private Aviation Firm: Olympian and former ironman Grant Kenny has acquired Western Australia's largest privately owned aviation company, Slingair Heliwork WA, in a multi-million transaction.The Kununurra-headquartered company comprises two divisions, Slingair fixed-wing aircraft and Heliwork WA helicopters.It provides scenic air tours and safaris, and operates charter services, such as mining exploration and...; Tags: AAP, East Coast, Acquisition, Australian Associated Press Pty Ltd., Aircraft, Business, Aerospace & Defense, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Manufacturing, Investment, Finance, Business Operations; News items 2008-05-06
The Logistics Pipeline: The freight transportation industry has undergone a revolutionary change during the last decade. As deregulation spread to all modes of transport, the number of surviving companies declined. Carriers unprotected by regulation discovered they could not differentiate themselves from the competition on price alone. Successful transportation companies must provide prompt pickup,...; Tags: Regulations, Symbol Technologies Inc., transportation, logistics, customer service; White papers
Determining the "Appropriateness" of Web Site Visits 2: "Applying consistent standards of ""appropriate"" vs. ""inappropriate"" Internet use across the enterprise can be difficult without Web activity reports that directly support your organization's policy. Some Web-use management software products support this customized reporting — others do not. This white paper offers guidelines for selecting and implementing Web-use management software...; Tags: Channel management, Web, Web site; White papers
E-Business: This article explains that e-strategy is key to your growth -- it's how your global enterprise leverages the Internet, how your business model is thus created or recreated, and how your internal and external relationships are enabled. It also explains business process integration, implementation etc. Read on to know more....; Tags: PRTM, business process, e-business, Internet; White papers

People are our greatest Liabilities: "“Our most valuable assets walk out the door every day.” How many CEOs and Annual Statements proclaim this? We know that, especially now, employees are our greatest source of competitive advantage. The most difficult thing for competitors to duplicate is a talented and dedicated workforce. Products, technology,...; Tags: Asset, Accounting, Sales Strategy, Asset Management, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Sales Force Management, Sales, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Finance; White papers
Foster Success for People: Two Musts for Motivation: Tired of hearing that people are your most important resource? That's fair. These buzz words have been overused and abused in the board room, in speeches to employees and in business books. People have heard these words so often, in situations where actions degrade their meaning, they have grown cynical....; Tags: Leadership, motivation, board; White papers
A Zero-Injury Workplace: A mid-sized insurance firm had a major fire in one of its prime real estate properties. The construction firm hired to rebuild the building advised the company that according to their actuality forecasts, one person would die during the reconstruction. First defined an injury as any job-related health threat that...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Benefits, health care, job, health insurance, absence, real estate, insurance, team, performance, tool; Case studies
Breaking Through Current Success: A small Northeast insurance brokerage firm specializing in life, retirement and disability underwriting hired High Performance Consulting HPC. The company was highly successful within its expertise and well regarded within the insurance community. The President of the firm was committed to producing an increase in production and an alteration in...; Tags: disability, insurance; Case studies
The Sharper Image Case Study: This case study focused on the case of the Sharper Image had suffered serious sales declines and was forced to reduce its internal telemarketing center staff and hours of operations. Its budget for advertising was cut drastically resulting in missed sales and customer acquisition opportunities. Sharper Image was able...; Tags: Sales strategy, Branding, Sales force management, Sharper Image Corp., telemarketing, brand name, outsource, sales, brand, marketing, advertisement; Case studies
Investment Basics: Balancing Your Portfolio 2: The process of balancing asset classes in a portfolio - determining what percentage should be placed in cash, what percentage in bonds and what percentage in stocks - is called asset allocation. The article tells that balanced portfolios contain assets allocated across a range of investments. Read on that how...; Tags: Asset management, Prudential Insurance Company of America, asset allocation, asset, investment, bond, stock; White papers
Dismissal Case Study: A major national charity appointed a new chief executive. Warned that she might be a bit of a loose canon, one of the trustees was nominated to supervise her work on behalf of the trustee board who were very keen to be kept informed in detail of all new initiatives...; Tags: termination, CEO; Case studies
E-Commerce And Web Marketing In Furniture Industry: Data and information are provided on: spread of the Internet and online purchasing trends, use of the Internet by furniture consumers analysis of the online furniture purchasing process, furniture distribution on the Internet between furniture manufacturers and distributors, e-procurement between furniture manufacturers and suppliers to the furniture industry. It also...; Tags: Manufacturing, furniture, e-procurement, manufacturer, Internet, supplier, e-business, analysis, industry, Web; White papers
The DMA Statistics and Modeling for Direct Marketers: This article explains that The DMA Statistics and Modeling for Direct Marketers has been designed to meet your needs. Learn how to better understand and evaluate direct marketing statistics to make truly informed decisions about your critical marketing practices. Read on to know more.; Tags: Research & Development, Marketing research, modeling, direct marketing, marketing; White papers
Teleservices Technologies: Unicall has developed an integrated platform of technologies that combine both inbound and outbound applications, allowing our team of specialists to design custom teleservices solutions for our clients. It includes e-care, e-mail management, e-chat, Web call back, skills based routing, expert agent selection, Web based predictive dialing, automatic call distribution...; Tags: e-mail management, team, benefit, performance, e-mail, Web; White papers
"The DMA Statistics and Modeling for Direct Marketers: This article explains that The DMA Statistics and Modeling for Direct Marketers has been designed to meet your needs. Learn how to better understand and evaluate direct marketing statistics to make truly informed decisions about your critical marketing practices. Read on to know more.; Tags: Research & Development, Marketing research, modeling, direct marketing, marketing; White papers
Insurance: Insurance is rarely a pleasant subject and it can be quite confusing trying to find the best policy for you and your family. However, it is a very important risk management tool. You need to identify the types of insurance cover that will provide the risk protection you need and...; Tags: Financial Planning, insurance, risk management; White papers
Estate Planning: Estate planning is essentially concerned with the movement of your possessions and wealth on death to those people whom you wish to benefit, in the most efficient and effective manner possible. Estate planning is very complex and few family situations can get by with an ‘off-the-shelf’ or ‘do-it-yourself’ plan. In...; Tags: estate, asset, benefit; White papers
Debt Cancellation Product Poised for Takeoff: Credit insurance may be soon replaced by debt cancellation agreements on a variety of consumer loans. A debt cancellation agreement is a loan product instead of an insurance product, and eliminates the need for the insurance company. Banks are also letting customers suspend their loans upon disability, involuntary unemployment or...; Tags: Financial Planning, insurance, consumer loan, credit insurance, bank, agreement; White papers
New Initiatives Must Pass ROI Test: "In this kind of climate where economic turbulence is present, credit risk takes on a premium impact. That point has been further accentuated by recent corporate scandals. Institutions need to think beyond a departmental mode and look at opportunities for business process integration across the enterprise. Comprehend for complete insight....; Tags: Operational planning, Bank of America Corp., business process; White papers