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- Mark Friedman: Software For Real Estate Management
- Mark Friedman is founder and CEO of Accruent, the leader in real estate management software for major companies. Friedman talks about how he discovered a need for this service, and the future of his company.
- Videos 2008-05-02
- Jim Jonassen: Executive Matchmaker
- Jim Jonassen is the founder and Managing Partner of Jim Jonassen and Associates, a business that provides key revenue solutions to Venture backed and growing companies. Jonassen talks about what kinds of clients he looks for and the types of challenges he solves in his unique field.
- Videos 2008-04-24
- Why Don't More companies Use Prediction Markets?
- Why Don't More Companies Use Prediction Markets?Prediction Markets can be effectiveOur company, BitInsight, utilizes prediction markets as a component of a consulting services offering. Our experience supports your 3 obstacles to enterprise adoption: lack of familiarity with the concept, internal friction, and implementation issues. The first and...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-28
- Why Bill Gates Is Wrong on H-1B Visas
- Why Bill Gates Is Wrong on H-1B VisasDisagreeEconomics will always win at the end of the day!RE: Why Bill Gates Is Wrong on H-1B VisasMy experience in recruiting visa canaidates whas pure supply and demand. We did not have a different pay scale, and tended hire a range of experienced...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-14
- Yes, companies Should Participate In The Social World
- Yes, Companies Should Participate In The Social WorldRE: Yes, Companies Should Participate In The Social WorldI don't want to steal Bernoff's thunder; if you click through to his post he has some concrete examples and also addresses the authenticity question you raise.SeanWhat kind of business objectives?I'm curious as to how...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-12
- An Easy Way to Go Green Most companies Miss
- An Easy Way to Go Green Most Companies MissHow green is ITIt's true and it is shocking. As a matter of fact the so called perpetual 'development' in processing power gives birth to new hardware and well...new operating systems read new Windows, phasing out many computers whose utilizations are not...
- Discussion threads 2007-12-06
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- PRODUCERS EXPECT TO SPEND 3.5% MORE IN 2008 ON CAPEX
- U.S. producers will increase their domestic spending from $78 billion in 2007 to $81 billion in 2008 (up 3.5%), according New York-based Lehman Brothers' annual spending survey. Most of the increased spending will target oil, given the continued uncertainty surrounding gas prices. "We believe that spending in the U.S. may...
- Articles 2008-12-17
- Never allow problem to fester
- Electrode Inc was right in dismissing Christopher because if they had dithered, then there was the danger of more staff falling victims to his borrowings. Worse still, Christopher may have undermined the company by moonlighting with rival organisations, or tapping into Electrode's revenues. Manager KK Ong was right...
- Articles 2008-12-01
- Debts must be settled first
- Besides his bad habits, Christopher could have been a good worker. Since he was an employee of the company, the company has an obligation to help Christopher to pay his debts. Instead of immediate dismissal, which would mean all his colleagues' loans would be unrecoverable, he should be given a...
- Articles 2008-12-01
- The case of the pregnant employee: Ember's services with a consultancy was terminated after she became pregnant. She felt that the firm was unsympathetic towards its employees and fired them to avoid paying for their maternity leave
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WHEN EMBER Seet, 27, joined Big Four Consultancy as an auditor, she was very happy in her work as the management was pro-family and the staff members worked as one happy family. During the employment interview with the managing partner, Lim Ooi Keat, 48,...
- Articles 2008-12-01
- The functional office: making an office as comfortable as the home: clients are often impressed when they enter a luxurious office. Well-designed offices create an image that the company is doing well. Good office design must not merely be pleasant to look at, it must be comfortable for the employees who spend most of their waking hours at their desks
- [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] THE OFFICE environment affects people enough to increase their productivity. Because we spend more than 10 hours a day in the office, it needs to be comfortable. If possible, the majority of workers should have a window view. When visiting clients who are fortunate...
- Articles 2008-12-01
- Creating awareness among the staff
- Christopher's 24-hour dismissal as a consequence of his one-way borrowing habits was not rightly handled by Electrode Inc. Such short dismissal notice is only seen in severe cases such as embezzling company's funds. Appropriate action before resolving the matter could have been taken. This would show that the HR department...
- Articles 2008-12-01
- Ideal bosses are scarce: in moments of frustration at work, we wish we had a better boss. We admire our friends who are fortunate to have cordial and understanding bosses. What are the characteristics of an ideal boss? Ideal bosses are normally found in ideal companies—firms that you are proud to work for
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WHEN ASKED what our expectation of an ideal spouse is, we are full of ideas and expectations. We are more guarded when asked about our expectation of an ideal boss. This is perhaps because an ideal boss resides in Neverland. If, on the other...
- Articles 2008-12-01
- Learning good habits
- Electrode Inc may not have the right to dismiss a staff with such a short notice since the act carried out by Christopher is a personal issue. On the other hand, the company may have the right to dismiss him if there is a clause in the employment terms that...
- Articles 2008-12-01
- Conduct anti-gambling seminars
- Electrode Inc shouldn't involve itself into this situation of staff borrowing money from others within the organisation. It's a personal issue. The company has no right to dismiss Christopher Marcus within 24 hours. It was being too impulsive and harsh to Christopher. This has greatly affected the employees' morale. ...
- Articles 2008-12-01
- Loans to be recovered
- Christopher has created undue distress on his colleagues by his act. From the management's point of view, the distress experienced by staff might have affected their morale and productivity. The company could issue a warning letter to Christopher, prohibiting further borrowing. The company could also attempt to recover some of...
- Articles 2008-12-01
- Authentic personal branding: most buying decisions are based on trust, confidence, and emotions people have related to a product, service, or person. Branding is more important than marketing and sales. Branding is influencing, by creating a brand identity that associates certain perceptions and feelings with that identity. To be successful in life, you need a personal brand to sell yourself
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A BRAND is the expectations, image, and perceptions it creates in the minds of others, when they see or hear a name, product or logo. Microsoft, Nike, Toyota, Volvo, and Coke tell us how they want us to perceive their products. These brands don't communicate about...
- Articles 2008-12-01
- Delight customers with the magic experience: MAGIC stands for Make a Great Impression on Customer. To truly differentiate themselves, companies must focus on staging experiences that produce the moments of magic
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IT IS becoming increasingly evident that organisations today are staging positive memorable experience as a new competitive edge to attract and retain customers. B Joseph Pine II and James H Gilmore, the authors of the book The Experience Economy reiterate that in the emerging experience economy,...
- Articles 2008-12-01
- Community outreach through corporate social responsibility: corporate social responsibility is the continuing commitment by business to behave ethically and contribute to economic development while improving the quality of life of their stakeholders and society at large. The Young Expedition Project may be one way for companies to achieve this
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] CORPORATE social responsibility CSR is a concept that frequently overlaps with similar approaches such as corporate sustainability, corporate sustainable development, corporate responsibility, and corporate citizenship. While CSR does not have a universal definition, many see it as the private sector's way of integrating the economic, social,...
- Articles 2008-12-01
- Analysing company training and development needs: the usefulness of HRD activities to the organisation can be justified only by the effectiveness with which they meet the real needs of the organisation. The needs analysis approach to the design of specific contents of HRD activities is recommended as a means to achieving this effectiveness in meeting organisational needs
- DESPITE an upsurge in human resource development HRD activities in organisations, training departments are still hard put to justify their usefulness and importance to their employers. Part of the reason is that the proliferation of HRD activities has blurred the distinction between what is truly needed by the organisation to...
- Articles 2008-12-01
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