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Good Decisions, Bad Decisions
Why is it possible for two identical businesses in the same market selling the same products and services to the same prospects have radically different outcomes? There are two key reason; First, staff and how the employees of the organizaton do their jobs, second, the quality of the decisions being made on a daily basis. I'm not foolish enough to believe anyone is capable of making the right decision every time, but there are times when the right choice is just not that hard to identify. When those decisions face us, it is imperative we do the proper due diligence and make the RIGHT decision. This article talks about some of the core reasons bad decisions get made, and talks about how to avoid getting caught in that trap. Enjoy!

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Influence of EI on Job Function
The Technical Manual for the Emotional Intelligence Appraisal™ reveals interesting findings from a study of more than 13,000 individuals worldwide. Employees from various job functions, in different organizations and countries, were asked to evaluate their emotional intelligence by answering 28 questions. Job functions included sales, marketing, finance, operations, customer service, human resources, information technology (IT), engineering, business development, manufacturing, and R&D.
You get to choose
That's the cool thing about marketing. Unlike most other functions in the organization, you get to choose where and how you do what you do.
Technology Can Play a Vital Role in Keeping an In-house HR Department While Achieving Modernization Economies in the Process
Today’s business culture continues to look at ways to automate functions of virtually any department in an organizational entity that can affect significant economies. A frequently addressed question regarding the HR function is what part of the HR function can be effectively outsourced. The usual thought is the most labor-intensive parts of the HR function. In order to pursue this potential initiative, it is first necessary to dissect various of functions of the HR initiative in the organization to determine which of those functions the organization is willing to outsource and which it is not.
The Integration of Innovation and Marketing Best Practices for Business Excellence II
During an economic down turn, marketing and particularly funds for innovation and growth are amongst those hardest hit. As new, profitable innovations are owned by marketing, whilst their financing comes from the ability for the current business to generate profits, there is an intimate link between marketing and innovation. Considering current business and innovation as distinct silos, managed in different ways by separate functions, may mean that the organization is missing a significant opportunity to maximize the skills, knowledge, resources and networks of the organization. Innovation Expert, Kevin Weir and Marketing Excellence Practitioner, Phil Allen explore how companies can keep their marketing and innovation machines turning even in tough times by taking a more integrated approach.
The Integration of Innovation and Marketing Best Practices for Business Excellence III
During an economic down turn marketing and particularly funds for innovation and growth are amongst those hardest hit. As new, profitable innovations are owned by marketing, whilst their financing comes from the ability for the current business to generate profits, there is an intimate link between marketing and innovation. Considering current business and innovation as distinct silos, managed in different ways by separate functions, may mean that the organization is missing a significant opportunity to maximize the skills, knowledge, resources and networks of the organization. Innovation Expert, Kevin Weir and Marketing Excellence Practitioner, Phil Allen explore how companies can keep their marketing and innovation machines turning even in tough times by taking a more integrated approach.
Five Ways to Improve Your Team Building Success
The key to minimizing conflict and maximizing team building success is to pay attention to the following five important team functions. These functions are critical for every stage of the team building process and for every step the team takes to complete its mission.

Merger Downsizing
The following example shows how downsizing after a merger can become a huge morale problem for the surviving organization as well as the organization being taken over. Most mergers are done to improve economies of scale and reduce costs by combining similar functions in the two previously independent organizations. This is a tempting ploy when looking at how an organization can survive the increasingly competitive world market. Beware!
Symptoms of Corporate Strategy Misalignment
Strategy misalignment is subtle and sometimes difficult to spot. Yet without a properly aligned corporate strategy, you are likely to introduce a serious dose of chaos into the organizational environment. Corporate strategy is the blend of strategic goals that support the mission and vision of an organization. When a corporate strategy is aligned, the key outcomes (strategic goals) of the organization are united with operations and execution tactics. In other words, all parts of the organization’s eco-system (the sum of internal and external functions of an organization’s environment) are moving in the same well-defined direction. When strategy is misaligned operational initiatives are out of sync with the strategic goals of the organization, mission drift occurs within the operations of the business,
The Role of HR in Mergers
One of the benefits of any merger is the ability to reduce headcount in redundant staff functions. I believe it is a mistake to reduce HR staff during the process. In addition to their traditional functions in the steady state organization, there are numerous critical functions that must be handled well for the merged organization to survive.

iPhone Application Development
An iPhone has functions of a mobile phone and with that other functions like video camera, media player, still camera and email with web browsing capabilities, having both Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity.
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