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All Managers Are Customers Too
Whatever business you are in, you will find that there is one key cause of your success. How your customers experience your business and service.

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Government Support for Entrepreneurship in Nigeria : Exploring entrepreneurship in a declining economy
Recognizing the indispensability of the small-scale, private sector enterprise as the dynamic impetus for general economic development, many countries have instituted enterprise support networks and structures to fuel the development of these enterprises. Nigeria is not an exception in this regard. At various times since the 1970s, the government has designed and introduced a variety of measures to promote small and medium enterprise development. These measures included fiscal, monetary and export incentives.

“People”…The Secret Ingredient to Success
In simple terms, you can measure your business success by how well you get customers, keep customers, and the efficiency of your operations. Many companies measure their success by revenues, income and other traditional accounting yardsticks. The problem is that the accounting approach measures how you did but not how you should have done. For example, take a company that grew 20% last year, and had $10 million in revenue. Its management team was weak, so it lost an additional 20% growth, missed out on another 5% in net margin, and had unnecessary turnover of 10% in client base. So this same company (assuming a 10% net margin) could have seen another $800K added to their bottom line. The one secret ingredient was “people.”
Tough Times Demand Tighter Retail Security
Every retailer has a unique set of security challenges and, in the retail world, your security challenges never end. More retailers are realizing that using perimeter and anti-virus technologies alone are not enough. As someone once said, it's like locking your doors but leaving your windows open. Now retailers must take a lot more security measures. Here are some vital strategies retailers need to take for preventative measures against retail loss...
The Power of Good Measures
Most organizations have a TQM (Total Quality Management) Program. It is the quality of the measures in this effort that will determine the success or failure of it. Here is a short paper I wrote on some interesting aspects of measures.
Leadership Development is Key to Organizational Success
Financial measures are not effective measures you can put on a leadership course. What you can do is measure changes in behavior and attitude in the company over a period of time. The effectiveness of leadership training can be measured through a rolling employee survey. Ask employees how their managers are behaving.
Healthcare Reform: beyond Quality and Cost Cuts: The Brand
Many organizations are focusing, appropriately so, on cost containment and cost/quality performance measures. These will be the ticket to play in healthcare reform. Others are building Accountable Care Organizaions. All appropriate activities. The Winners in Healthcare Reform are also in the process of establishing meaningful, valuable, recognized Healthcare Brands to appeal to those growing numbers of insured under the reform measures. The time to begin is NOW!
So do we really have control over customer service?
Gary discusses standards set by management and staff within a company. How they might currently be set, how they could be set, what types of measures, control or standards are important or might be important in a company.
Handling PQQ’s in the Correct Manner
The business world is highly competitive and one area where this is very easily seen is the awarding of contracts on the basis of tenders. As a result, there are many measures in place to weed out companies that do not make the grade. One of these measures is called a Pre Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ). Companies and Government agencies that use the tendering process to award contracts use PQQs to find out whether the companies that are desirous of doing their work are actually capable of doing it.
Social Media Analytics - A Crucial Online Marketing Process; Too Powerful to Ignore
Online social conversations are capable of altering the perception and popularity of your brand. It is imperative that your marketing department comprehends cogently what people are discussing about your company’s products and brands. Social media analytics measures and analysis social media content pervasive throughout the internet.
Strategic Measurements Guide Change and Improvement
"Crude measures of the right things are better than precise measures of the wrong things." Here are five core measurement areas that provide broad and balanced feedback loops for assessing and improving organization performance.
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