Digital Library > Human Resources Management > Employee retention “Keep the Loyalty of Your IT Staff” In this tight employment market, information-technology staff are entertaining daily job offers. You can improve the retention of your technical and IT staff by: Integrating brief job rotations into the orientation program, or rotating employees for longer assignments. This not only makes employees more…
Return on e-procurement investments will average 300% over the first two to three years, according to a survey of 200 businesses by Deloitte Consulting.
It’s not always ‘resume’ qualities that make the best employees.
Digital Library > Acquiring and Managing Finances > Business expenses “Steer Clear of Trouble” The Internal Revenue Service authorizes two methods for figuring deductions: actual expenses or a standard mileage rate. Businesses that select the "actual expenses" method can deduct gasoline, oil, tires, repairs, license tags, registration fees, insurance, garage rent, leasing charges and depreciation. However, not all operating costs…
Much has happened in the commercial credit markets as a result of the Great Recession, but it comes as no surprise given the conditions that existed before the credit crunch.
Digital Library > Building and Inspiring an Organization > Planning, general “Goal Setters Go Farther” Jotting down some goals can help you face the millennium more confidently. Studies show that only 2% of the population has written goals. Interestingly, those are the ones who achieve success. Check out "What Are Your Goals: Powerful Questions to Discover What You Want Out…
Digital Library > Building and Inspiring an Organization > Planning, general “No. 1 CFO Concern: Understand Customer Needs” "Spending more time understanding customer needs" was ranked as the No. 1 issue by CFOs for 2000, according to 37% of the respondents to a KPMG survey. Other important themes for the year are to: Determine how the Internet will affect profits…
Palo Alto Software, based in Eugene, Ore., opened in 1983 as a business-planning consultancy that was slowly nurturing a software product. A year later Tim Berry, president and founder of Palo Alto, launched Business Plan Pro, now the best-selling business-planning software.
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Digital Library > Defining and Serving a Market > Market strategy “Balancing Cash Flow and Bigger Clients” Paul Baker and Todd Reifenrath started Chicago-based Webitects.com in February 1999 to lasso the burgeoning demand for Web-site design and Internet content management. However, Webitects may be giving away a lucrative component of its services: a software interface that allows clients to manage…