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- University Elitism: Is the US Model Fairer?
- Job fears have been credited this year with a surge in university applications. Yet the UK is making "limited progress" in making higher education accessible enough to poorer students. "A university education remains the gateway to the professions and a ticket to higher lifetime earnings on average,"...
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
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- Building a Cross-functional Team
- Most projects require a wide variety of skills to complete the work involved, so if you're managing a project of any type, it's likely that you'll have to work with a group of people from different backgrounds.
- Articles 2007-02-01
- Dealing with a Difficult Boss
- Do you have a difficult or challenging relationship with your boss? You are not alone. Of all the less-than-perfect interactions you may have at work, this will probably be the trickiest and most stressful because of the inherent political dynamic of your relationship.
- Articles 2007-02-01
- Succeeding As a First-time Manager
- You got the promotion: congratulations! You're now a manager and will probably be responsible for managing a team of up to 15 people.
- Articles 2007-02-01
- Q&A: Go the extra mile before writing off an employee
- A member has just been promoted to director of IS and finds that an employee seems unqualified to work in IS/IT.
- Articles 2007-02-01
- Best Practices: Using Spend Analysis to Help Agencies Take a More Strategic Approach to Procurement
- "Spend analysis" is a tool that provides knowledge about who are the buyers, who are the suppliers, how much is being spent for what goods and services, and where are the opportunities to leverage buying power. Private sectors companies are using spend analysis as a foundation for employing a strategic...
- White papers 2004-09-01
- Supply-Chain Complexity Masters: A Special Report
- If a person manages a global supply chain, he can't escape complexity. In fact, the term "Global supply chain" is becoming increasingly redundant. Where is the company nowadays that doesn't have suppliers, service partners, manufacturing plants, bankers or customers outside the borders of its home country? To a certain degree,...
- White papers 2005-02-01
- A Global Apparel Manufacturer Takes on Corporate Silos
- Greensboro, N.C.-based VF has been around for more than a century, starting out as a maker of gloves and mittens and growing into the world's largest apparel company. VF's business units were operating as silos, with legacy systems of varying sophistication. One of the company's first steps, therefore, was buying...
- Case studies 2005-02-01
- A Frozen-Food Expert Seeks Help in Dry Distribution
- Every company talks about being customer-driven. J.R. Simplot Co. does something about it. When Simplot, one of the world's largest processors of frozen potatoes, went looking for a Third-Party Logistics (3PL) provider to manage its new dry distribution network, it put customer needs ahead of cost. The solution lay in...
- Case studies 2005-02-01
- Scotts Cultivates a Customer-Centric Supply-Chain Strategy
- Scotts was shipping product according to unreliable forecasts. It had no idea which items were actually needed, or where. To make up for its ignorance, safety stocks were unacceptably high. And communications with retailers were minimal. Scotts was filling up warehouses with fertilizer and letting retailers take over from there....
- Case studies 2004-07-01
- A Year to Launch Date: Microsoft Plots Global Rollout of Xbox 360
- The release of any new computer gaming system carries with it a huge number of logistical challenges. But for the launch of its long-awaited Xbox 360, Microsoft Corp. seemed determined to make things even more difficult than usual. Tight coordination of all supply chain partners would be required. But first,...
- Case studies 2006-03-01
- Transportation Industry Turns a Deaf Ear to CRM Applications
- Transportation and distribution providers could benefit from the use of customer relationship management tools, experts say. But some don't seem to want to hear about the technology. If any industry needs to beef up customer service, it's transportation. Customer Relationship Management is a fast-growing segment of business software that has...
- White papers 2003-10-01
- A Quick Guide to Employee Orientation - Help for Managers & HR
- This paper presents an overview of the orientation process, and a checklist that one can use when orienting new staff. As one reads the paper, he should keep in mind that orientation is also important for existing employees if a) they have never received proper orientation or b) there have...
- White papers
- Recipe for a Newsletter
- After almost 20 years, Apple Annie's Cider Press, the newsletter produced by Apple Annie's Orchard and Apple Annie's Produce and Pumpkins is still on a roll. The newsletter is distributed once a year, usually mid-June, right before the orchard and farm open for the season. Included in the newsletter are...
- White papers 2005-09-01
- A Checklist, and Review, of the Conventional Wisdom in Newsletter Design (Newsletter Design 101)
- How important is "Design" to a successful newsletter? Most would probably answer, "Not particularly," although the author remembers design consultant Jan White's remarking, "I understand that newsletter subscribers are information sponges, but must they be made to suffer so in the process?" This paper provides some basics for effective newsletter...
- White papers 2003-01-15
- Marketing In A Make Believe World
- Reuters, IBM, and Sun are some of the big name companies that have made themselves at home in Linden Lab's virtual world, Second Life. And now Scion is launching two new models in the real world and in Second Life. Scion is targeting the young "trendsetters" in Second Life i.e. the same consumers who...
- Blog posts 2007-02-09
- A Day With the U.S. Air Force
- I'm accumulating new experiences left and right. Last week Aubrey Cattell from Cooley Godward took me to my first NHL hockey game at the Colorado Avalanche rink. It was lots of fun -- you can't beat $150 seats, cheap stadium food, and stock option conversation to the background of cross...
- Blog posts 2007-02-07
- Quote of the Day: A Single Identity a Liability?
- "A single fixed identity is a liability today. It only makes people more vulnerable to sudden changes in economic conditions. The most successful and healthy among us now develop multiple identities, managed simultaneously, to be called upon as conditions change. Recent research also suggests that developing multiple identities is one...
- Blog posts 2007-02-12
- Turn Your Blockbuster Card into a Hotel Key
- Staying in foreign countries on business—even in upmarket hotels—often means dealing with radically different ideas about customer service. One thing that Ive noticed recently is that in many places in Europe and Asia, hotels require you to put your plastic electronic key into a slot in the room in order...
- Blog posts 2007-03-21
- Whiteboard Video: What Is a Wiki?
- Many people collaborate on projects via e-mail. But e-mail threads can be cumbersome, attached documents can get lost, and who has the latest version anyway? Wikis solve all that by allowing everyone who has access to a page to read and change it. by BNET staff
- Blog posts 2007-03-27
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