"The worst economic times - the Great Depression - was actually a rich period of management reinvention...Enterprises outperformed competitors and actually grew by excelling in understanding and satisfying customers' changing needs."    -          Harvard Business Review: Editor's Blog, June 2008   "Companies that delay investments [in current strategy] may forego significant growth opportunities ...

Cyber security is a hot topic.  It has gone from a bunch of precocious adolescents with too much time on their hands to international spies and criminals.  The stories are circulating around the news media (including the blogs) about the evil doers who are knocking at our doors to retrieve ...

These days it appears that the entire world is pushing us to do more and more on the internet.  Many small businesses feel as if they are being dragged kicking and screaming to levels of technology that is too expensive, too complicated, and too difficult to manage.  Perhaps.  In today's world, ...

B2B supply chain expert, Dr. Adam J. Fein, has authored a report, Technology In Distribution.  The report is the result of study conducted in the fall of 2008 and provides much insight into the technology spending and plans for distribution companies during 2009. Identified key findings include: clipped from ...

Every time a new disastrous report comes out about the current salmonella outbreak, I think of all of the food businesses that are in the unenviable situation that they can't trace the sales of specific items to their specific customers.  In other words, "Where's the peanut!"  Product ...