Items tagged 'management'
The Technical Support Project: How to Create a Winning Team, Part 2
This is part two of a three-part article series. You can see part one here. Staffing is the most critical part of creating a winning technical support team. If you make mistakes with the steps... More »
What's a TMS? And Why Isn't It a CMS?
TMS stands for translation management system. Essentially, these products help organizations manage and monitor their translation processes. When the first software products in the category appeared in the late 1990s, it was not obvious at... More »
How To Get Payroll To Max Profitability Throughout The Company
When payroll executives implement time and attendance systems to automate payroll, they often miss the chance to facilitate greater profitability throughout the entire company. These executives are, of course, payroll experts. They are usually not,... More »
Multitasking: It's Assaulting Your Team's Productivity
It’s seemingly impossible to avoid multitasking in today’s busy world. The constant bombardment of emails, phone calls, and appointments quickly begin to pile up, so to combat this we attempt to juggle more activities at... More »
Last Post: April 3, 2012 9:36 AM by Susan Tatum
Insight Into the IT Project Manager's Work and How To Help Them
According to a Gartner analyst firm report, 15% of all IT projects failed that year because of high cost variance, while 18% were unsuccessful because they were substantially late. [i] This means that in 2008,... More »
What a CEO Needs To Know About the DCAA
The Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA), under the authority, direction, and control of the United States under the Secretary of Defense, performs all contract audits for the United States Department of Defense (DoD). DCAA also... More »
You're Never Too Small to Need This Management Tool
Recently I met with the founder of a 30-employee company that is struggling with dropping profits, missed deadlines and an increasing number of unhappy customers. He had spent a lot of time blaming unscrupulous competitors,... More »
Three Major Ways SaaS Can Benefit Your Payroll
It’s not easy being a payroll professional today. You are responsible for making sure that your company’s financial processes run smoothly, which includes gathering all of the time data throughout the organization, ensuring that everyone... More »
The Low Tech, Low Cost Way to Increase Employee Productivity
By multiple accounts, increasing knowledge worker productivity is a priority for CEOs in 2012 --just as it was in 2011, and 2010 and so on. Why not make 2012 the year you actually do it?... More »
Using Time Data for Business Improvement
Time and attendance tracking is necessary for obvious reasons, yet many business owners do not realize that this data can deliver enormous benefits to the organization, aside from payroll. In fact, having employees track their... More »
Last Post: January 9, 2012 9:19 AM by Maureen Thorne
Making Management More Manageable
Secure management strategies are nearly always summed up in terms reflecting a creative mindset. Thinking “outside the box” and coming up with “new, innovative techniques” is often the expectation and praise lauded on elite executives... More »
Cutting Costs With a Scalpel, Not a Chainsaw
From 1945 to 1965, the financial market in the U.S. moved upward. It then moved sideways until 1982, and up again until 2000. Right now, we are engaged in another great sideways movement. It could... More »
Nine Common - and Costly - Symptoms of Management Strain
Success – as you already know – brings its own challenges. In the case of a growing software company, those challenges include a whole bunch of “mores”: more clients; more employees; more products; more distribution... More »
What Good Management Can Do For You
Want to build your revenue and/or profits? Improve efficiencies and effectiveness? Increase customer retention? Get more add-on business from existing customers? Cut non-value expenses? Of course you do. We all do. There’s a “secret” weapon... More »
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