Category Archives: Management

Pricing For Profit

To improve your profitability you must either make a larger gross margin on each dollar of sales or sell more without increasing your fixed costs. It goes without saying that the greatest improvement will be realised when you achieve both simultaneously. Remember your gross margin is the difference between the price of your product and […]

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PRESENTEEISM: Another Dimension

In the past few years the terms “employee engagement” and “employee disengagement” have emerged to more fully describe the employee’s level of motivation and commitment to their job. An engaged employee is considered to be passionate about their work and emotional connected to their work and to their company. Disengaged employees are those employees that […]

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Prepping For Business Partnerships: A Bird’s Eye View

Successful business development executives increasingly are doing battle in the arena of strategic alliances and marketing partnerships. Nowadays getting the jump on your competition is not half as important as mapping out and deploying a targeted and unique value proposition with particular appeal to potentially compatible allies. Successful business development executives increasingly are doing battle […]

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Preparation for Lean Manufacturing

It seems that every manufacturing company is now trying to adapt the Lean Philosophy, invented and mastered by Toyota Corporation. Lean manufacturing has also spilled over into non manufacturing industries. Unfortunately, many companies don’t completely understand the true meaning of Lean Manufacturing. Lean Manufacturing, simply put, is “continuously improving your processes to eliminate waste”. This […]

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Portfolio Management – Let The Professionals Take The Load

Do you have a lot of shares in different companies? Do you have a large sum that you are looking to invest in the stock market? Are you finding that doing the essential research too time consuming? You might want to consider a portfolio management company. Share Portfolio management is an option for those with […]

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Poor Performance Reward And Recognition

The most effective tool in a manager’s toolkit for dealing with poor performance is coaching. Not screaming at them from the stands and withholding rewards but working with them down on the pitch to find out what’s causing the problem and building their fitness and stamina like the corporate athletes they should be. The study […]

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