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- Why Marketing Wastes Money.
- Whenever I take Marketing to task for wasting money, marketing folk try to explain how fundamentally wrongheaded I am. For example, the blogger Jacqueline Barnett, in a comment to my post "Market Requirements = Garbage," complains: "[Marketing] is a strategic, complex function which defines performance and tactics for...
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
- Let's Make a Deal: Talk to My Computer
- High level deal-making can be an arduous task, so negotiators often bring in a mediator. But there are problems with human mediators: you never know for sure whether they're unbiased, whether they might reveal confidential information by accident, or whether they're fully competent to mediate the negotiation. But there's hope:...
- Blog posts 2007-03-16
- Functions And Properties In Access 2007 Blocked By Sandbox Mode
- This paper provides reference information about the functions and properties that sandbox mode allows and blocks in Microsoft Office Access 2007. Note that Office Access 2007 allows several new functions to run in sandbox mode, including MonthName and StrReverse, and it now blocks several more functions, including Assistance, ExportNavigationPane, and...
- White papers
- MSN Moneycentral Stock Quotes Help
- You can get refreshable stock quote data in Microsoft Excel 2002 by using the MSN Money Central Stock Quotes add-in to insert the MSNStockQuote function in one or more worksheet cells. The function gives you the flexibility to calculate formulas based on the functions return values so you can easily...
- White papers
- Using String Manipulation Functions
- You can use functions in your expressions to count characters, return characters, and determine the location of one string within another. By using the functions together, you can manipulate text strings in countless ways. As an example of the flexibility you gain by using functions in expressions, this article shows...
- White papers
- Metafrontier Functions For The Study Of Inter-Regional Productivity Differences
- This paper uses the concept of the metafrontier function to study regional differences in production technologies. The paper has three components. The first deals with the analytical framework necessary for the definition of a metafrontier function. The second component studies the properties of a metafrontier function estimated using non-parametric Data...
- White papers 2004-08-01
- Better, Cheaper, Faster. Now Repeat: The Transformational Offshore Imperative In The Age Of Payment Electronification
- Offshoring as a game-changer is still in its infancy - still proving over and over, function by function, the value of accessing global resources for their lower labor costs. But building a business case purely on first-wave costs is an almost certain road to disappointment in future years. Transformational offshorers...
- White papers 2005-11-14
- Creating Product Management At A Startup
- A startup faces many daunting challenges as it moves along the path from an idea on paper to a full-fledged company that can stand on its own. It has to be built out piece by piece, function by function, and there is probably no function where the author have seen...
- White papers 2005-01-01
- Product Management As A Counterbalance
- The ideal company grows in such a way that it contains a balance of all the various strengths it needs: marketing, sales, technical knowledge, customer service, and management. Each function, such as Marketing, has its inherent strengths and weaknesses. One function's weaknesses are balanced out by strengths from other functions....
- White papers 2004-01-01
- How To Make A Decision
- When you ask a question about how to make a decision, there are two things you need to consider, you and your decision-making process. If you need to do a particular job, typically, you would use a particular tool that forms a certain function. If the tool is not in...
- White papers 2007-12-01
- On The Edge: The World Is Flat(Tening)
- If you provide multiple connected functions to customers nowadays, you should continue to market the current benefits of one-stop shopping. At the same time, you should begin to separate them into individually marketable functions, each of which can aspire to be best of breed, to pursue its own investment strategy...
- White papers 2003-09-03
- Outsource Your Accounting And Boost Your Business
- In a business organization there are certain repetitive functions devoid of initiative and thrust that become monotonous and eventually become a drag on the enthusiasm and morale of some individuals. One such function is the maintenance of records of transactions, which nevertheless is an essential and crucial function for any...
- White papers 2008-11-15
- Sum Data By Using A Query
- This paper explains how to use a type of function called an aggregate function to sum the data in a query result set. This paper also briefly explains how to use other aggregate functions, such as COUNT and AVG to count or average the values in a result set. In...
- White papers
- Counting In Reports
- Sometimes you need to not only sum a value, but count the number of items. For instance, you might want to show the number of orders for a particular product in addition to a sum of the individual sales amounts. To count the orders, you can use the Count aggregate...
- White papers
- The Strategic Benefits of Learning Outsourcing
- Outsourcing key business functions is a common strategy for information technology and human resources departments. Having other companies do the administrative work or host the technology allows these departments to free up their resources to devote more time to mission-critical functions and special projects. The best functions to outsource are...
- White papers 2004-07-14
- You Can't Be Good At Everything
- This article indicates that companies cannot be good at everything. They need to invest their time, money and people in the functions that distinguish them in the marketplace. Outsourcing allows companies to hand over the responsibility for a support function to an expert who is investing its time, money and...
- White papers 2001-03-01
- Purchasing
- Purchasing is not a service function, but a profit making activity. Materials are a large part of total cost; procurement is best handled as a separate distinct function reporting directly to the top level operating executives. Real purchasing job starts long before the specifications or requisitions are written. The...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- What Is Process Excellence?
- Organizations are typically designed along functional lines. Functions, such as engineering, marketing, accounting, manufacturing, and so on are assigned responsibility for certain tasks. The functions tend to correspond closely to university degree programs. Persons with higher education in a functional area specialize in the work assigned to the function. Process...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- How To Turn Buying Into A Money-Making Function Of Your Business
- "The most important step to success is to establish the policy that will convert and treat the purchasing function as a profit asset center. The profit profile analysis is a proven calculation process that hundreds of companies have used to predict and then verify profit contributions. To simplify the explanations...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The Future Of Purchasing And Supply: Process Uncoupling
- The objective of process uncoupling is to always have processes and functions performed by those who can do them best. Organizations are recognizing that to gain or retain the most competitive advantage, all functions of an operation must be executed to bring maximum value and, in some cases, someone outside...
- White papers 2000-03-01
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