21 Feb 2012

Budget Management Warning Flag 1 – Across the Board Cuts

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Turbulent economic times typically require budgetary constraint and even cutbacks. As business slows and revenues decline, executives demand managers reduce spending and increase production efficiency. Waste cannot be tolerated and must be rooted out.



 
 


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19 Feb 2012

Complimentary Resource – Top 5 Tips for Choosing Mobile Computers

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Top 5 Tips for Choosing Mobile Computers
by Intermec Technologies Corporation

This white paper from Intermec explains the top 5 tips for how to choose the best mobile computer for your organization.

Dozens of manufacturers offer hundreds of devices in thousands of configurations, but only one may be best suited for your particular environment and workforce. Rather than trying to stay on top of all the products that are being introduced and discontinued, the technologies and features being added, plus available peripherals and software, enterprises can quickly cut down to a few viable options by following five basic tips:

  1. Consider the environment and the user
  2. Stick to industry standards & certifications
  3. Simplify support
  4. Require flexibility
  5. Pay attention to power

This white paper explains these tips and how they can be applied to assist the enterprise mobile computer selection process.


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14 Feb 2012

Corporate Cultures – Leader Initiated, Rules and Standards Controlled Environment

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The Leader Initiated, Rules and Standards Controlled Environment represents a moderate leader led work environment that gives lower level mangers and supervisors somewhat more autonomy to direct day-to-day activities without relinquishing centralized control. This culture set realizes the benefits of centalized direction setting and improved, if not rigid, consistency. The reliance on rules and standards provides some degree of local flexibility that heightens situational responsiveness but diminishes consistency in actions and results between workgroups and locations.

The following characteristics, benefits, risks, and risk mitigators are representative of the Leader Initiated, Rules and Standards Controlled Environment.



 
 


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12 Feb 2012

Complimentary Resource – Key Performance Indicators to Align the Contract Management Process With Your Sales Process

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Key Performance Indicators to Align the Contract Management Process With Your Sales Process
by Adobe/EchoSign, Inc.

Learn 3 steps that will help your organization sell faster, sell more and recognize revenue quicker.

The merger of contract management processes with sales processes has become a top priority for CEOs and CFOs as the ability to get contracts signed, tracked and filed becomes a critical component in driving revenues. From renewals to projections and compliance, the ability to close the contract in the shortest timeframe possible and readily access the executed contracts across the enterprise will become the leading performance indicator of a company’s long term success.

By aligning the sales and contract management process, companies can identify when and where to automate, and determine what services and solutions will work best to optimizing efficiencies from contract creation to contract close.


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11 Feb 2012

Leadership Inspirations – Live for Today

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“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”

Albert Einstein
Awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics,
Named Time’s Man of the Century in 1999,

and
Best known for his conception of the theories of special and general relativity

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