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Six Best Practices for Procure-to-pay in a Recession
Gaining visibility into, and control over, your organization’s procure-to-pay process can help you weather the current economy and emerge stronger
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By Ari [...]
Boosting Engagement While Cutting Costs
Yes, it’s possible. Here’s how one hospital turned the budget over to its employees and reaped a windfall.
by Jeannie Ruhlman and Cheryl Siegman
Massive layoffs. Facilities closing. Profits declining. Full-blown economic recession. This is the stuff that creates angst and sleepless nights for today’s CEOs. While many leaders find themselves looking for a way out of [...]
Why You Need One of These People in Your Business
By Verne Harnish
“…keeping you great”
HEADLINES:
Private Equity Firms — do any of you have connections with Private Equity Firms? If so, let me know vharnish@gazelles.com — thanks.
Eleven-Page Must Read e-book — Matt Heinz, Heinz Marketing (http://www.heinzmarketing.com), sent along his new [...]
Faster, better, cheaper — pick one
Eye on the Carriers By Johna Till Johnson , Network World , 06/10/2009
t’s an old engineering adage that you can’t have it all. As the saying goes: “Faster, better, cheaper — pick two.” The idea is that any [...]
Quirty: test your ideas
Seasoned entrepreneurs know there’s a big difference between a great idea in the mind and a successful product in the hand. Here to bridge that gap is Quirky, a service that uses a collaborative process to actualize killer ideas that might otherwise go to waste.
Anyone can submit their business plan and sketches to Quirky for [...]
Project Management: 8 Steps to On-Time, On-Budget Delivery
From: www.cio.com
– Ron Ponce, CIO
May 20, 2009
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Businesses of all sizes embark on thousands of projects for new products and services every [...]
Venture capitalists worry: Are we stunting companies?
By Matt Marshall for Venture Beat
Chris Shipley and I hosted a breakfast last week with 16 leading Silicon Valley investors about the state of the start-up community.
It was frank and engaging.
Some participants requested their comments remain off the record. Below are summaries of some of the remarks of participants who agreed to be referenced.
Here are [...]
IMD – Georges Kohlrieser. Responsible Leadership in Times of Uncertainty (excerpt from session)
http://www.imd.ch – Georges Kohlrieser, IMD Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior
Leading academics along with political and business leaders from around the world are taking part in a Responsible Leadership Summit at IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland. We are asking the Summit’s participants and speakers how they think responsible leadership will shape the future of business and [...]
Chasing the Money: Stop Trying to Raise. Start Trying to Sell!
by Steve Barsh
I’ve spoken with 5 different early stage companies in the last week that all seemed to be making the same mistake IMHO:
Trying to raise a serious seed or Series A round from VC’s,
no customers / users,
no revenue,
and have not tried to pre-sell to target customers.
The discussion was nearly always the same:
Entrepreneur
We have a [...]
Why Circuit City Failed, and Why B&H Thrives
Many companies that have gone bust didn’t die because of the recession. They failed for one reason: They treated customers poorly
From: Inc. Magazine, May 2009 | By: Joel Spolsky
When Circuit City went kaput in January, I didn’t waste my time on the chain’s so-called going-out-of-business sale. First of all, Circuit City never had anything good [...]