Construction Business Management: What Every Construction Contractor, Builder & Subcontractor Needs to Know
May 5, 2008
Only 43% of construction firms are still in business after four years. Make sure your company thrives with essential and very readable guidance from a pro... Read more...
Construction Management JumpStart
May 5, 2008
Launch Your Construction Management Career—Quickly and Effectively Written by an experienced construction management specialist, Construction... Read more...
STAFF MANAGEMENT ENTERS MULTI-YEAR MANAGED SERVICE PROVIDER AGREEMENT
February 28, 2008
-8859-1 From: rcilia@seatoncorp.com Reply-To: bounce@hrmarketer.com CHICAGO, February 28, 2008 Staff Management, a pioneer of high-volume, vendor-on-premise (VOP) and Managed Service Provider (MSP) staffing solutions, announced today that it has... Read more...
Leading Affirmative Action Training Is Going Regional
February 22, 2008
-8859-1 From: laurenp@berkshireassociates.com Reply-To: bounce@hrmarketer.com COLUMBIA, MD-Berkshire Associates Inc., the leading provider of human resources solutions, brings their signature Fundamentals of Affirmative Action Planning class closer... Read more...
TCO vs. ROI
February 9, 2008
Here’s some blasphemy for you: in my opinion TCO is not a critical evaluation parameter when considering the benefits of contract management. Instead, I favor ROI. What drove me to this conclusion is an experience I had about a year ago competing... Read more...
Contract Management in a New Political Environment
January 28, 2008
Call me sappy, but I’ve got this old fashioned notion that just as adults have responsibility for children, businesses should care for and protect their customers–and political leaders should do the same for the people they lead. Unfortunately, through,... Read more...
What Can We Learn from Boeing’s Lean Supply Chain Stumbles?
January 24, 2008
Not much more than a decade ago, Boeing went through a hiring binge to ramp up production, fell flat on deliveries and shed many jobs as a result. Gemba's office is quite near Boeing's Everett, Washington factory and the full-then-empty highways around... Read more...
The GC as a Business Strategist
January 23, 2008
In the last post I mentioned that there are good reasons why GCs are increasingly getting involved with contract management. But the really interesting thing about this involvement is that it is actually resulting in a change in the GC role—and the... Read more...
Will the Real CLM Customer Please Stand Up
January 21, 2008
Here’s a bit of irony that I think will soon become a bit of history: Despite the fact that the General Counsel’s office (GC) in most companies carries responsibility for legal documents, the GC is not always deeply involved with contract management... Read more...
The Pros and Cons of Model Lines for Lean Implementation
January 17, 2008
In continuous improvement terminology a "model line" is a closely connected series of processes that are the target of focused implementation of lean principles. It derives from the selecting a production line and converting it as the "model" for other... Read more...
