Cost Reduction

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• How To Obtain Low Business Call Rates

  
  The Apple iPhone Blog — Authority: 145
  It has to be said that things are rather tough out their in the business world due to the current credit crisis. The recession is staring to take its toll and business profits are starting to become affected. The majority of small businesses are looking at ways of making cost reductions; some are laying off members of ...
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• How to Develop Safety and Loss Control Policies and Procedures

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 138
  Safety Program Documentation/Injury & Illness Record Keeping: Develop Written Policies, Procedures and Programs To establish  consistency and creditability, and to comply with applicable federal (OSHA) and state regulations (Cal/OSHA, for example), it is important to document what you are doing.  The ...
  2 days ago

• Preserve the gift of home healthcare

  
  Action For Better Healthcare — Authority: 120
  By Keith Myers - Guest bloggerPresident and CEO of LHC Group, a provider of home care, rehabilitation and hospice servicesEffective healthcare improves a patient’s quality of life and offers the maximum amount of independence possible. Every healthcare provider has a role to play here: the doctor, the surgeon, the ...
  4 days ago

• National healthcare debacle

  
  Action For Better Healthcare — Authority: 120
  By Don AmmonFormer CEO, Adventist Health System WestDo you ever get the feeling that members of Congress are so determined to pass healthcare reform that they don’t care what it looks like or if it will work, they just want to get it signed and move on? Well, to me, that is definitely the case [...]
  5 days ago

• Info-Tech: Saving Money Through Virtualization (Video)

  
  Think Green Alliance — Authority: 106
  To view the video, click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ua8bUFh5VA
  6 days ago

• The essentials for true healthcare reform

  
  Action For Better Healthcare — Authority: 120
  It’s important not to lose sight of a few crucial details that must be included in any final healthcare reform bill if change is really going to become a reality. This is the focus of a post on Arianna Huffington’s blog today and a few key points are worth mentioning. She writes:Amidst the tea leaf [...]
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• Event Report: 2009 SAP Influencer Summit - SAP Must Put Strategy To Execution In Order To Prove Clarity Of Vision

  
  A Software Insider's Point of View — Authority: 511
  Re-innovation Now At The Heart Of SAP’s Focus And Strategy SAP has faced a rough two years.  From the continuing market pressure on new license revenue, false-start launch of Business By Design (ByD), management restructuring, and issues with user groups and Enterprise Support, one could kindly say its been a ...
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• Capital Budgeting Decision with 3 Methods

  
  Accounting-financial-tax.com offers bookkeeping journal entry basic accounting financial accounting management accounting tax accounting cash management accounting cost accounting financial ratio budget forecasting — Authority: 130
  Capital budgeting relates to planning for the best selection and financing of long-term investment proposals. Capital budgeting decisions are not equally essential to all companies. The relative importance of this function varies with company size, the nature of the industry, and the growth rate of the firm. As a ...
  1 week ago

• The Role of Optimization in Strategic Sourcing - Optimization Results, Spend Applicability and Business Cases

  
  Sourcing Innovation — Authority: 136
  This series discusses the recent report from CAPS Research on the role of optimization in strategic sourcing. The primary goal is to highlight, clarify, and, in some cases, correct parts of the report that are important, confusing, or incorrect to insure that you have the best introduction to strategic sourcing ...
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• Top 3 reasons not to expand Medicare coverage

  
  Action For Better Healthcare — Authority: 120
  By Ed HoweRetired president and CEO, Aurora Health Care While Washington is still hammering out the details to potentially expand Medicare coverage to individuals as young as 55, I feel it is important to explain why I feel this is not a good idea. So here is my “Top 3 reasons not to expand Medicare coverage” ...
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• Doctor’s view on paying for health reform

  
  Action For Better Healthcare — Authority: 120
  Well-known and well-respected surgeon Dr. Atul Gawande is discussing healthcare reform and his opinion is worth reading. Dr. Gawande is a staff member of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. He helps put health reform costs in perspective in his latest article for The New Yorker ...
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• The Right Way to Cost Cut

  
  Sourcing Innovation — Authority: 136
  I enjoyed this recent McKinsey Article that noted that companies should start any cost-cutting initiative by thinking through whether they could restructure the business to take advantage of current and projected marketplace trends (for instance, by exiting relatively low-profit or low-growth businesses) or to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Achieving universal healthcare

  
  Action For Better Healthcare — Authority: 120
  By Mike StephensRetired CEO, Hoag Memorial Hospital PresbyterianAnyone who has read my posts knows I believe there is a great deal this country can learn from the experience of other countries and our own states when it comes to  confronting the conundrum of expanding health insurance coverage. We may not agree with ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Role of Optimization in Strategic Sourcing - The Benefits of Optimization

  
  Sourcing Innovation — Authority: 136
  This series discusses the recent report from CAPS Research on the role of optimization in strategic sourcing. The primary goal is to highlight, clarify, and, in some cases, correct parts of the report that are important, confusing, or incorrect to insure that you have the best introduction to strategic sourcing ...
  2 weeks ago

• 8 Things to Think About When Developing a Great Training Exercise

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 138
  Introduction We’ve talked  about the benefits and concepts of training or mastery exercises.  Now let’s talk about the nuts and bolts of designing a training exercise to empower your trainees to return home to apply and synthesize what you’ve taught them. When you  offer training exercises you ...
  2 weeks ago

• The hospital that could cure healthcare

  
  Action For Better Healthcare — Authority: 120
  By Mike StephensRetired CEO, Hoag Memorial Hospital PresbyterianIf you want a better understanding of the business practices going on at the Cleveland Clinic, you should take a look at a recent Newsweek article. It is titled “The hospital that could cure healthcare.” The article discusses many strategies the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Intel Reduces Atom Supply Chain Costs By 70%, But Is It Enough?

  
  Sourcing Innovation — Authority: 136
  A recent article in Supply Chain Digest noted that Intel needed to reduce supply chain costs for its Atom chips by 80% to stay competitive and that, so far, its managed to shave costs by 70%. For most companies, this type of cost reduction would be unthinkable. But is it really?Lets think about supply chain costs ...
  3 weeks ago

• Mather to meet Board of Mid Argyll Swimming Pool as Council pulls the plug

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 444
  Argyll’s MSP, Jim Mather, has arranged to meet members of the Board of the Mid Argyll Swimming Pool (formally the Mid Argyll Community Enterprise Ltd - or MACEL) at the Pool at Lochgilphead on Friday. On the agenda are discussions on the present threat to the Pool’s future and on ways of taking matters forward.At ...
  3 weeks ago

• Your organization’s freight spend isn’t large enough perhaps the answer is leverage with other business units?

  
  E-Sourcing Forum — Authority: 114
  What’s a buying/leveraging group?A buying group is a collection of buyers that aggregate their demand into a single ‘account’ and negotiate with a commercial carrier/s for better prices and/or improved services and more importantly a “Known name” in the industry. The group of buyers should be organized ...
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• A Lesson from the Leaders: Sustainability is the Key to Savings

  
  Sourcing Innovation — Authority: 136
  Todays post is from Tim Albinson, CEO of Aravo and blogmaster of 2Sustain. Still wondering if sustainability can translate into savings for your company?If so, then you need to spend a few minutes with "Designed to Matter", the Procter & Gamble Companys 2009 Sustainability Overview.Sustainability is at the core ...
  3 weeks ago

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