I talked to a woman on a plane a few weeks ago; not unusual. She talked about how ineffective many of the HR training programs are in improving performance; again nothing unusual. Her post-doctorate work in this area revealed that people operate with self-imposed constraints limiting their performance and potential; very unusual. These constraints can […]
The Internet, enabled by cool applications, has brought the process of competitive bidding to an entirely new level. Reverse auctions, for example, have squeezed savings out of suppliers in every situation I am aware of. But it’s getting worse for suppliers. Some companies are using bidding to gauge a supplier’s competitiveness. That may be clever
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We should be grateful that accountants invented the concept of gross margin. The simple formula — revenue minus cost divided by revenue — really becomes valuable once we get past the arithmetic and view it as the extra value seen by a customer over a product’s manufacturing cost. This extra value can be a result
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