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Strategic Outsourcing – How to Make Outsourcing a Business Strength

In recent years, many businesses have decided to reduce the cost of their operations by outsourcing some or all of the manufacturing of their products …

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Business Planning – Understanding the Role of Strategic and Tactical Planning

Introduction

One of the most important roles of a business leader is to provide clear direction and measurable objectives for their organization. This direction includes …

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Leading Change – How President Obama Sets a Bad Example for Business Leaders

Leading an organization through positive change, or a country for that matter, has many common threads. In this article, I wish to cover one of …

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Business Turnaround Basics – Understanding the Real Cost of Factory Overhead

In today’s businesses, manufacturing overhead is often a major portion of product costs. There are two elements to overhead – variable and fixed costs. In …

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Business Turnaround Basics – Understanding the Real Cost of Labor

In today’s business environment, labor is much lower as a total percent of sales than it was several decades ago. I can remember in the …

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