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- Product Safety Role Model Mattel Not So Safe: 1M Toys Recalled
- Product Safety Role Model Mattel Not So Safe: 1M Toys RecalledProduct safety role model Mattel not so safeI personally believed that product safety is highly important to the end-user, especially to the kids. Any chance that induces to bodily harms or injury is not acceptable. In the incidence...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-11
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- Crankypants In the Workplace
- Well, the cliché turns out to be true. Bad apples do spoil the barrel. Researchers at the University of Washington’s Business School have released a new study on bad apples in the workplace and found that negative attitudes, chronic unhappiness, and combative co-workers ruin the work environment for everyone. So...
- Blog posts 2007-02-12
- Profitability, Customer Relationship Management and Convergence in the Financial Investment Arena - Where Are We Really?
- Convergence and Customer Relationship Management CRM are terms for the millennium. More significant than the rampant Y2K issues heard so much about prior to 2000, these two concepts will have dramatic affects on a financial institution's ability to increase profits in the next decade. The drivers behind these concepts are...
- White papers
- 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
- Church & Dwight Tackles Forecasting to Aid in Global Marketing Push
- It's one of the world's most recognizable trademarks, the arm and hammer, and just about everyone associates it with the number-one maker of baking soda. But Church & Dwight Co. Inc. makes many other well-known consumer products. Typically, Church & Dwight's products carry lower margins than premium-priced items like Procter...
- Case studies 2006-03-01
- 'True' Collaboration: It's in the Eye of the Beholder
- Nearly everyone agrees that a synchronized supply chain requires effective collaboration between trading partners, but when it comes to defining what collaboration actually is and how to accomplish it, opinions are all over the map. Some describe automated communications between partners as collaboration, even if the information being exchanged is...
- White papers 2006-09-01
- Logistics Plays Key Role in Success of New Product Introductions
- New product introductions are dramatically increasing, but the important role of logistics in the success of product launches still is often overlooked. While corporate resources are understandably weighted toward R&D, engineering and sourcing on the front end of new product development, the back end of the supply chain can be...
- White papers 2005-08-01
- In Pursuit of Supply-Chain Excellence
- For at least a decade, industry gurus have told the people supply-chain excellence is the key to gaining competitive advantage. Unfortunately, these same experts have neglected to tell them what constitutes an excellent supply chain; let alone how to achieve such excellence. As a result, companies have simultaneously been trying...
- White papers 2005-01-01
- On the Rebound: New Interest in Where Supply-Chain Technology Can Take Companies
- With economic activity heating up, businesses are again eager to compete in the global arena. To do so, they need to raise the performance of their supply chains to world-class levels. After several tough quarters, the economy is springing back. Operational managers have very high hopes that new investments in...
- White papers 2004-03-01
- Crisis Management in Public Affairs Operations
- Public Affairs Officers PAO often receive their sternest test as staff officers in the wake of a crisis. A crisis will bring to light planning processes, the PAO's grasp of regulations and procedures, and the commander's interest level in public affairs operations. The soldiers of the great Army and the...
- White papers 2003-11-14
- Reel Negotiation: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Reflections of Negotiation and Mediation in Film
- Almost ten years ago, the authors did a workshop showing film clips from popular films they thought were relevant to negotiation and conflict management practice. Since then, each of them have expanded and refined the authors repertoire of films and regularly include them in presentations and trainings. The visual experience...
- White papers 2006-10-01
- 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
- Charles Henderson Quietly Built One of the Largest and Most Successful Operations in Newsletter History, Title by Title, Week by Week
- If the reader is like the author, he may not know too much about Charles Henderson, who quietly launched a single newsletter 20 years ago - quietly enough that for some years the author did not believe the publishing company even had a corporate name. But these days Henderson's NewsRx...
- White papers 2005-05-23
- Growing opt-in lists--turning web browsers into buyers: Best Practices to Succeed
- "Pay-per-click" banners, search marketing, website SEO optimization...business owners are investing more money than ever driving traffic to their Web sites in the hope of generating sales. According to Jupiter Research the number of people shopping online is well over 64 million and increasing at a rate of 10 per cent...
- White papers 2006-10-01
- Going for the Jugular in Ping Pong
- After my post last week on my Epic Ping Pong Match I received several emails from local Boulderites who wanted to challenge me on my home court.This morning, David Cohen, a local angel investor, entrepreneur, and executive director of TechStars, walked into my condominium. I've been working with David on...
- Blog posts 2007-02-06
- 101 Dumbest Moments in Business
- Business 2.0 lists the 101 Dumbest Moments in Business for 2006.I loved this YouTube video of a BBC interview with an "IT expert" on an Apple industry move. They accidentally brought on the wrong guy, and a taxi driver off the street ended up in the analyst hot seat trying...
- Blog posts 2007-02-01
- Can You Imagine if You Needed an MBA to Be in Business?
- Can you imagine if there was a law requiring all wannabe businesspeople to have MBAs or some other degree? It would be pure madness.Why, then, is there a law requiring someone who wants to be a lawyer to have a JD? Why is there a law requiring someone who...
- Blog posts 2007-02-21
- Stop AutoFormatting in MS Word
- Microsoft Word, the medium in which almost all of my work is done, is not a particularly user-friendly beast. It crashes on occasion, and it doesnt interact well with documents written on other software. In its standard settings, it tries—often incorrectly—to anticipate my needs, and it messes with my concentration...
- Blog posts 2007-03-27
- Benioff Cashes In On Presidential Campaign
- Here's an interesting post from The Browser on Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff's involvement in the presidential campaign. Apparently Salesforce.com designed an online system for Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's campaign. Volunteer fund-raisers are using the system to send info and solicitations by e-mail to Republican supporters, and the system helped...
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- Useful Commute: The Fundamental Skills You Need In Business
- Renowned management consultant Ram Charan shares his insight on what it takes to be successful in today's rapidly changing market. We also talk to John Hoover, author of "How to Work for an Idiot," about how to survive and even thrive under a clueless boss. If...
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
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