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How to Use a Strategic Alliance to Get Ahead: Whether you're looking to share risk, resources, or expertise, a strategic partner might be exactly what your company needs to grow and develop in ways that it couldn't on its own. The Three Stages of Strategic Alliances Source: Harvard Knowledgebase ...; Tags: BNET Editorial, Strategic Alliances, Business Structures, Management, Finance, Strategy, Partnership, Alliance, Strategic Alliance, Collaboration, Timberland Co., Starbucks Corp., Metrics; Articles 2008-06-20
Â How to Stay Competitive in a Global Economy: Sharpen your company's competitive edge by outsourcing more intelligently, protecting your intellectual property, and winning the talent war. New Ways to Build Competitiveness Source: Harvard Business School Outsourcing may lower costs, but unless a company’s...; Tags: India, Intellectual Property, Human Resources, Research & Development, Business Operations, BNET Editorial, Competition, Outsourcing, General Electric Co., China, Harvard Business School, Workforce Management, Talent; Articles 2008-06-20
Generation Y by the Numbers: A statistical look at the millennial generation: what jobs they take, what they expect from work, and what they earn. Popular Millennial Jobs and Corresponding Salaries //...; Tags: Gen Y, Millennials, BNET Editorial, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Career, Professional Development, Recruitment & Selection, Total Cash Compensation, HotJobs, Yahoo! Inc., Generation Y, Job, compensation, salary; Articles 2008-05-13
Using Your Marketing Database Effectively: The information in a marketing database can be used to achieve significant business benefits by supporting and improving performance across the whole spectrum of sales and marketing techniques. Collecting and using data on your customers and your markets helps you gain a better understanding of the market so you can...; Tags: Marketing, Sales, Marketing Research, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Database, Customer, Information, Sector, Competitor Assessment, BNET Editorial, Competitor; Articles 2008-03-03
Introducing a Productivity Initiative: In a company where good, solid, and effective managerial processes exist already, many of the techniques for improving productivity should be easy to incorporate. Though technical capabilities are crucial, implementing new systems can be expensive and often lead to drastic reductions in productivity. Employing innovative managerial techniques is a cheaper...; Tags: BNET Editorial, Management, Productivity, Team Management, Staff, Employee, Team, Technique; Articles 2008-01-30

Overcoming Sexism in the Workplace: Sexual harassment is a very sensitive subject and bound by legal and regulatory guidelines that must be adhered to. The advice provided within this article is not intended to be a definitive guide to dealing with sexism. Managers should use their discretion when dealing with such situations and use the...; Tags: BNET Editorial, Management, Victim, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Team Management, Harassment, Sexism, Action, Organization, Workplace, Team, Situation; Articles 2008-01-30
Understanding Allowable Business Expenses: It's crucial for business owners to understand exactly what expenses can be deducted from total revenues and reported to shareholders, employees and taxing authorities. Some expenses are obvious: wages, salaries, and benefits you pay employees, for example. Allowable expenses also can vary according to activity, and thus can be a...; Tags: BNET Editorial, Internal Revenue Service, Tax, Cost, Finance, Financial Planning, Free Trade, Taxes, Insider, Expense, Business, Accountant; Articles 2008-01-30
Networking Over the Internet: The Emerging World of Peer-to-Peer Commerce: Peer-to-peer embraces the networking capabilities of the Internet. "P2P" as dubbed by advocates enables the sharing and direct publication of resources and also allows the unused processing capability of computers to be shared and used more productively. While the peer-to-peer concept has, in fact, been around for decades, it's grown...; Tags: BNET Editorial, Analysis, P2P File Sharing, Privacy, Internet, Peer To Peer (P2P), Computer, Resource, Network, Peer-to-peer Network Security, P2P; Articles 2008-01-03
Weighing the Pros and Cons of a Career Break: Career breaks have never been more popular, as overworked employees look for some time away from their same old, same old routine. Most often people have one of two motivations for taking time off: either other priorities demand attention, or there's a need to get away and gain some perspective...; Tags: BNET Editorial, Career, Professional Development, Plan, Employer, Break, Job, Organization; Articles 2008-01-03
Using Action Learning: Reg Revans (1907–2003) pioneered Action Learning as a management and organizational development tool. It's based on the premise that people learn best when they focus on a problem together. By sharing their prior knowledge and experience and by asking good questions based upon what they don't know, people can both...; Tags: BNET Editorial, Management, Action Learning Set, Action Learning Equation, Strategy, Action Learning, Team Management, Problem, Organization; Articles 2008-01-03
Producing White Papers: White papers are an important tool for communicating with technical decision-makers. They are widely used by companies marketing business-to-business and technology products. They should be clearly written and illustrated and may need the skills of a writer and editor, as well as a technical specialist. Making high-quality technical information available...; Tags: BNET Editorial, Document, Information, Internet, Management, Marketing, Marketing Research, Paper, Product, Product Evaluation, Strategy, Technology, Title, White Paper; Articles 2008-01-03
Competing For Profits: The true test of a marketing program is to deliver products and services that are both competitive and profitable. To do this you need to understand the factors that differentiate your business from your competitors and focus on developing your strengths. In some cases that means enhancing your products or...; Tags: BNET Editorial, Profitability, Marketing, Sales, Sales Force Management, Self-service, Service, Information, Product, Marketing Research, Sales Strategy, Customer; Articles 2008-01-03
Providing Business Support for the Over 50s: Organizations and individuals have much to gain from assisting people over 50 who still want to work. Their skills, experiences, perspectives, and collective wisdom are needed—pure and simple! As demographics in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, continental Europe, and much of Asia show, birthrates are at historic lows;...; Tags: U.S., Talent, Financial, Business, Worker, Workforce Management, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Finance, Recruitment & Selection, BNET Editorial; Articles 2007-12-18
Understanding Bankruptcy: At one time, bankruptcy was regarded as shameful—something that left the doors of bankrupt businesses shuttered and forlorn, while individuals huddled penniless on the streets or in jail, unable to face their friends. Today bankruptcy doesn't carry quite that stigma. With business being covered far more broadly and intently by...; Tags: Creditor, Business, Bankruptcy, Litigation, Business Operations, Asset, Debt, Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, Chapter 13 Bankruptcy, BNET Editorial; Articles 2007-12-18
Developing an Online Strategy: An increasing number of marketing activities including advertising, direct marketing, relationship-building, customer service, and channel support are now Internet-based. It's essential to identify the activities that can move effectively to the Web and ensure that they're produced to the same rigorous standards as traditional marketing activities. An online strategy can...; Tags: Web, Product, Customer, Information, Web Site, E-mail, Service, Microsite, Self-service, Web Site Development, Marketing Research, Web Technology, Channel Management, Strategy, Marketing, Internet Marketing, Internet, Management, BNET Editorial; Articles 2007-12-18
Understanding the Characteristics of Workplace Bullying: The personal and emotional effects of workplace bullying can make it difficult for you, as an employer, to remain impartial. It's especially difficult to be objective when you've received conflicting accounts of an incident from various colleagues.It is therefore important to understand exactly what issues, actions, and incidents constitute workplace...; Tags: Workplace, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Harassment, Colleague, Bullying Incidents, Gender And Diversity, BNET Editorial; Articles 2007-12-17
Using NLP to Improve Your Management Skills: Have you ever wondered why you don't get along with particular employees, why some members of your team don't follow to your instructions, or why, when you think you're approaching something correctly, it just doesn't have the desired effect? NLP, Neuro Linguistic Programming, is fundamentally about making sense of how...; Tags: Natural Language Processing, Behavior, Person, Modeling, Technique, BNET Editorial; Articles 2007-12-17
Using Blogging to Promote Your Company: A blog or Weblog is a public online diary that features the author's comments, announcements, and recommended links. Blogs are now becoming an important form of business communication as they provide a fast, cost-effective way to share information such as project updates, research or test results, product news, or industry...; Tags: BNET Editorial, Industry Experience, Internet, Blogging, Content, Blog, Category; Articles 2007-12-17
Setting Clear Objectives: When you set a clear objective, you or your direct reports are able to focus attention and energy on a concrete aspiration—anything from a small task to a career ambition. In fact, it's not really important how small or large the objective is, so long as the decisions you make...; Tags: Team, Aspiration, Image, Measure, Team Management, Professional Development, Career, Clear, Management, BNET Editorial; Articles 2007-12-13
Getting Closer To Customers with a "Collegial Atmosphere": The lines between companies and their customers are increasingly blurred, with businesses aiming to build a "collegial environment" that allows customers to interact easily and participate in product development and other processes. Conferences, workshops, collaborative working, and joint development projects, as well as interactive online services all help to contribute...; Tags: BNET Editorial, Business Operations, Business Structures, Community, Conference, Delegate, Environment, Finance, Product Development, Research & Development, Strategy, Team Management; Articles 2007-12-13