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- The Debate over the Stimulus Plan
- Our optimist, Professor Menzie Chinn of the University of Wisconsin, sees a bold investment that came not a moment too soon. Our skeptic, Garett Jones of George Mason University, smells a boondoggle. Follow their debate and decide for yourself who's right…When the president signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act...
- Articles 2009-03-17
- The $787 Billion Question
- What are the odds that Obama's massive new spending plan will succeed?As the Obama administration tries everything to get us out of the current economic crisis, nothing has proven more contentious than its $787 billion stimulus package. Is it the essential jolt that will jump start a recovery, or is...
- Articles 2009-03-24
- Stimulus Package Report Card: Has It Worked?
- So far, at least some of the $787 billion stimulus package is showing signs of success. But what about the longer term? And will it have been worth the cost? The answer is that at least some of the spending has goosed the economy. But it’s a tricky...
- Articles 2009-09-15
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- An Effective Employee Suggestion Program Has A Multiplier Effect
- Empowered employees that actively submit improvement suggestions give an organization a competitive advantage in generating cost savings. Thus, it is important for organizations to build an employee friendly atmosphere that encourages employees to express their opinion and provide suggestions on an issue of their interest. The process also helps in...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Junk Your Headquarters
- You don't need a headquarters -- you need a federation of autonomous hub offices in different regions. So argue C.K. Prahalad and Hrishikesh Bhattacharyya in their article Twenty Hubs and No HQ in the latest issue of strategy+business registration required. Prahalad, a...
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- State Street Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you very much, sir. Operator Instructions. And our first question today will come from Mike Mayo from Deutsche Bank. Your line is open, please go ahead. Mike Mayo - Deutsche Bank Good morning. Ron Logue Good morning, Mike. Mike Mayo - Deutsche Bank New business for...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-16
- Market One-Ups Washington
- Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: While Washington has lauded the $787B spending bill as the medicine that will help bring the economy out of the recession that President Obama 'inherited,' the market is taking a different view. Consider this -- since the spending bill was passed by...
- External links 2009-03-06
- The Cult of Six Sigma |BTalk Australia
- (24min 37) Six Sigma is a business improvement pioneered by Motorola, embraced by General Electric and now used by many large corporations throughout the world. Today on BTalk Australia Phil Dobbie talks to Alan Skinner, a six sigma "black belt" from the Faculty of Business at the...
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Empty PR Exercises That Make Your Company Look Amateurish
- Does your company ever dilute its credibility with these types of very common lame-o announcements? Lame Partnership Initiatives -- When Google and IBM announce [even relatively mundane] joint initiatives (like today's announcement that they're partnering to "promote new software development methods" in research and academia), tier-1 business...
- Blog posts 2007-10-08
- Transforming Customer Contact
- Companies must realign customer treatment in accordance with customer profitability by undertaking major changes in CRM strategies. The important trends that defined business in the '90s — globalization, deregulation, and extraordinary technological change — made the decade's countless customer-facing programs both a way for corporations to show they cared about...
- White papers 2002-10-30
- Improving Customer Service Through Effective Communications
- Over the past few years, service have recognized that price and image marketing will no longer provide them with a competitive advantage. Research indicates that the effectiveness of advertising is more myth than fact. It is also suggested that advertising can be a disadvantage because people feel that it is...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Closing the Strategy-to-Performance Gap: Techniques for Turning Great Strategy Into Great Performance
- The benefit from closing the strategy-to-performance gap is huge - an increase in performance of anywhere from 60% to 100% for most companies. But this almost certainly understates the true benefits of creating a strategy-to-performance loop. Companies that achieve tight linkage between their strategies, their plans and ultimately their performance...
- White papers 2005-02-22
- Time Management: The Multiplier Effect Of Good Time Management
- Many managers have to find ways to improve their own time management skills / techniques and have refined their working habits so they function more effectively. They've sharpened their skills, techniques and disciplines and can now focus on what counts most. They've learned to cope with interruptions, changing conditions, and...
- White papers 2007-12-01
- The Six Rules of Selling for Start-ups
- The Six Rules of Selling for Start-upsre. "Don't be afraid to bail"I think that particular rule is the one that folks have the hardest time grasping. In the IT industry, in particular - start-up sales folks get so enamored with the tier-1 enterprise customers of the world that...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-07
- Ignite your Company's Innovation
- A Hot Spot is a moment when people are working together in exceptionally creative and collaborative ways. Hot spots occur when the energy within and between people flares. Ideas become contagious and new possibilities appear. Hot spots flare through the spontaneous combustion of three elements and the multiplier effect...
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- Potash One, Potash North: Winning Race to Production
- James West submits: The intense interest in potash in the last 24 months is due to the increased yield requirement from the global food production conglomerate of a increasingly crowded planet. Combined with supply tightness and higher potash prices, there is strong motivation to bring...
- External links 2008-08-27
- Whatever... Why Employees Stop Caring About Work
- Employee engagement is a comparatively new term, but the concept is old. We used to call it commitment or involvement. Even without research, common sense dictates that if you're keen, committed and involved -- and these attitudes are supported, respected, encouraged and rewarded...
- Blog posts 2008-10-16
- Morgan Stanley cuts Thai growth forecast; Indonesia, Malaysia unchanged
- SINGAPORE AFP — US investment bank Morgan Stanley has lowered Thailand's economic growth forecast this year to 5.7 percent from 6.0 percent due to the impact of the tsunami disaster on the country's tourism industry. While the affected Thai provinces account for only 2.7 percent of the country's gross...
- Research articles 2005-01-04
- Long Island, N.Y., Tourism Brought in $4.3 Billion in Year Ended June 2003.
- By Jamie Herzlich, Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 6--Long Island tourism continued to soar during the year that ended last June, contributing $4.3 billion to the local economy, according to a new economic study. The figures,...
- Research articles 2004-05-06
- Germany Is Fighting With Europe, Can China Be Far behind?
- Michael Pettis submits: Earlier this week Ambrose Evans-Pritchard had an article in the UK paper The Telegraph which starts off with “For the first time in my life, I am starting to feel twinges of anti-German sentiment.” The article goes on to lambaste the German government, and especially German...
- External links 2008-12-17
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