Here's a post for baseball nuts: Management by Baseball's A 2008 Billy Beane Lesson in Adaptation. It's lengthy though shorter than the typical baseball game, and connects why the Oakland A's have stumbled in the wake of "Moneyball" other teams figured out the same tricks, to what it means for...
We remember sitting in a sixth-grade classroom on January 28, 1986, watching the catastrophic events of the clear, crisp morning near Cape Canaveral, Florida unfold on a large television screen. What many saw and remember as the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger, barely on its way to the Earth's...
Academy Awards come and go, but one thing is a constant: bad acceptance speeches. You may never win an Academy Award, but you may be asked to give an acceptance speech for an accomplishment in your business, your career, your community, or your organization. Sometimes your acceptance speech will be...
Walk out of your average PowerPoint presentation, and an hour later you probably won't recall the main idea of the talk. It's frustrating to waste time listening to ideas that quickly slip away, but it's even more frustrating to try and fail to make an idea stick. Luckily, the McKinsey...
Product management is typically thankless. A Product Manager PM is the first one called when there is a problem. When it is time to recognize team contributions, the PM usually does the recognizing and most people assume the PM is vicariously rewarded for his or her efforts. The PM is...
While building e-newsletter community, one has to solve the mystery of qualifying leads, which are also called the "prospects," and the every recipient is known as "suspect." This article discusses how to identify which are prospective buyers, so the sales team can spend their time wisely. It also shows prospect...
Many high tech firms-software, hardware and Internet-make a consistent pattern of mistakes that reduce their ability to grow and increase their need for funding and management consulting. It is key for turnaround managers and consultants to educate management teams about their choices in this tenuous industry. The article discusses Six...
A business value study conducted by Wipro Consulting identified that Gulf Coast Seal, a leading global manufacturer and distributor of industrial seals, could realize tangible bottom-line value by deploying a Web-based collaboration environment using Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services and by using specialty Web Parts functionality from CorasWorks. Configured as a...
Your top performers can go far — if you manage them carefully. Here’s how you can help those “special” employees shine.You know the type: the account exec who stays until midnight to finish next month’s sales presentation; the product manager who gets as much done in five hours as others...
Leading Provider of Integrated Online Marketing Tools Brings On Industry Veteran to Lead Global Sales Effort EMERYVILLE, Calif. -- Lyris, Inc., the online marketing expert, today announced the addition of Brian Bailard to the company as Senior Vice President of Global Sales. Bailard joins Lyris with more than...
GENEVA, Switzerland -- ST-NXP Wireless, a new top-three player in semiconductors for wireless communications, offering leading-edge solutions for 2G, 3G, LTE, multimedia, and connectivity, today announced that Pascal Langlois will join the Company as Corporate Vice President, Sales and Marketing, effective September 1, 2008. Expanding the executive team...
MIDDLETOWN, N.Y. -- MEDIACOM COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION (Nasdaq: MCCC) announced the promotion of Tapan Dandnaik to Senior Vice President, Customer Service and Financial Operations. In his new role, Dandnaik will assume senior responsibility for all Customer Service Call Center related activities. "We are pleased to give Tapan the additional...
USR Technology Inc. (OTCBB: USRT), is pleased to announce that it has entered into a Letter of Intent, dated June 27, 2008, for the acquisition of certain assets from Hydrocarbon Resources Development Co. P Ltd. of Mumbai, India ("HRD"). The assets being acquired from HRD comprise: - a...
Alan Roth Team Added to Bank's Midtown Manhattan Private Client Banking Office NEW YORK -- Signature Bank (Nasdaq: SBNY), a New York-based full-service commercial bank, announced today that Alan Roth has joined the Bank as a private client banking Group Director and Senior Vice President....
BlueStar , the leader insolutions-based distribution of Auto ID, Point-of-Sale, RFID, and Mobilityproducts, is proud to announce that it has acquired the assets ofPSD-PrintScan -- a German-based distributor of Automatic Identificationproducts in Europe. Speaking from his corporate office in Florence, KY, BlueStar President &CEO Stephen G....
In the newly released benchmark report,"Software Development and Innovation: Speeding 'Time-to-Market,'" AberdeenGroup, a Harte-Hanks Company (NYSE: HHS), found that Best-in-Classorganizations realized an 18% decrease in time-to-market as a result oftheir R&D / Engineering Outsourcing engagement -- a rate that is over 26xgreater than Industry Average organizations. This report...
DALLAS -- GW Equity, an advisor to privately held and family-owned businesses for mergers, acquisitions, and strategic growth initiatives, announced the sale of its client Concise Data Management Inc., a Dallas-based direct marketing agency, to FaceTime Strategy, a digital marketing company based in Washington, DC. The amount...
Brings Expertise in Sales, Channel and Partner Relations to the Open Source Community SAN FRANCISCO -- GroundWork Open Source, Inc. (www.groundworkopensource.com), the leader in commercial open source systems and network management software, today announced the appointment of Alan Cooke as Vice President of Global Field...
Customized Internet Security Partner Program Offers Training, Certification, Financial Incentives, Online Demo Center, Customer Leads, Sales Collateral and Preferential 24X7 Support for Internet Security Products ISLANDIA, N.Y. -- CA (NASDAQ: CA) today announced that it has launched a customized channel partner program dedicated to its...
BOSTON -- FundQuest has added five new products to their advanced Wealth Architect[TM] platform, including their newest investment product, ActivePassive Portfolios[TM]. Forty-eight advisory firms currently use Wealth Architect to provide fee-based open architecture investment services. These clients will also gain access to Russell Managed Model Strategies and...
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