VOL 4, NO. 3 - May/June 2008
Features
Managing Your Greatest Asset: Human Capital
Best practices for developing, retaining and enhancing talent within your organization.
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Jump-Start Innovation
Companies may have good science, but are customers willing to pay for it?
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Look Before You Leap
Privacy risks of offshoring increase in soft economy
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Tips For Sourcing New Outsourcing Hotspots
The basic elements of the Law of Supply and Demand have created a whole new list of outsourcing locations.
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Metro Orlando
Primed for Growth
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Enjoying the Downturn: Some Sectors Grow When the Economy Slows
There are many counter-cyclical industries that are not only recession-proof, but actually thrive during an economic slowdown.
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Connecting with Your Global Workforce
It doesn’t seem like it was that long ago that, for most of us, “work” meant working and interacting with friends and colleagues who all had much in common.
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Consumer Confidence Tumbles
The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index, which had declined in April, continued its downward trend in May.
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Expatriate Senior Executives an Endangered Species
A survey of trends in executive recruitment across emerging markets globally predicts that within 10 years, high-cost international expatriates will largely be superseded by locals
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Online Advertised Job Vacancies Showed Continued Weakness in May
In May 2008, there were 3,795,400 online advertised job vacancies, a decline of 579,000 or 13.2% from the May 2007 level
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19,000 GM Hourly Employees Participate In Attrition Program
General Motors Corp. continued to transform its North American operations by announcing approximately 19,000 of its U.S. hourly employees have decided to take advantage of the company’s attrition program.
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Large Gap in CEO Pay Increases Seen
CEO pay increased in 2007 at a much higher rate at S&P 500 companies than at smaller firms
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Work/Life Balance: Working Dads Agree, Being a Parent is the Toughest Job
The latest Adecco USA Workplace Insights survey commissioned in recognition of Father’s Day found that working fathers have a lot in common with working mothers
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Executive C-Suites Still Soft on Minorities, Women and Succession Planning
Following decades of discussion and attempted initiatives, the business world is not yet embracing women and minorities in the C-suite
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CEO Pay Chugs Higher Despite Weakened Economy
As the American economy slowed to a crawl and stockholders watched their money evaporate, CEO pay still chugged to yet more dizzying heights last year
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Asset-Based Thinking Helps Businesses Retain Employees, Improve Success
A common problem among businesses nationwide can be summed up in one phrase: Stressed-out.
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What Went Wrong: Six Sigma's 60% Failure Rate
Nearly 60% of all corporate Six Sigma Initiatives fail to yield the desired results
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CEOs Remain 'Cautiously Optimistic'
Despite weakening labor market, CEOs' investment plans and sales expectations hold steady Index dips five points amid ongoing housing declines, high energy price
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Most Americans Not Prepared for Retirement
A new study shows that more and more Americans are concerned about their retirement prospects
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Post-Review, Pitney Bowes Decides to Grow Management Services
The company will continue to grow this nearly $1 billion operation as part of Pitney Bowes.
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Deloitte: M&A Lies, and Why They’re Sometimes True
The ninth installment in Deloitte’s Straight Talk book series can help companies take the guesswork out of the deal process
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Questioning Six Sigma Effectiveness, Scale and Alternatives
Is there such a thing as Six Sigma lite?
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IndyMac To Cut 3,800 Jobs and Stop Mortgage Loans
Regulators conclude it is no longer well-capitalized.
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From Routine to Extra-Ordinary:
Executives and Employees Alike Tap Into Concierge
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Your Digital Company, Today and in 2013
How to Leverage Email and Online Trust for Success (Free Webinar)
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BLACK ENTERPRISE Announces the 40 Best Companies for Diversity
Fourth Annual Diversity Report Reveals the Top Performers
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NABE Panel: Continued Caution but Some Signs of Improvement
The July 21, 2008, report presents the responses of 101 NABE members to a survey, conducted between June 19 and July 10, on business conditions in their firm or industry, and reflects second-quarter 2008 results and the near-term outlook.
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Half of Companies Fail To Update Succession Plans
Of those North American companies that have management succesion plans barely half of themupdate them on a regular basis
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EAPs Drive Successful Population Health Management Strategies
For years, companies have applied the 80/20 rule to managing their health care costs: focus on the 20% of the workforce who generate 80% of the health care costs – the “low-hanging fruit” employees who have chronic conditions.
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SemGroup's $3.2 billion failure shocks backers
The dramatic collapse of energy trader SemGroup LP shocked the privately held firm's backers who until last week had little idea of the extent of the oil trading losses that sank it, sources said this week.
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How do you determine your brand equity?
There’s no question that your organization’s brand is out there; the only question is whether it’s working for you as hard as it can. But what is “it” and how can you know it’s effective?
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Innovation Alliances
Innovation in organizations has been elevated to the level of the Holy Grail of organizational sustainability. However, creating a culture of innovation is not a simple process.
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EXCLUSIVE Risk Management: The Other Big shared Services Benefit
In a world full of regulations and intense public scrutiny of corporate financial practices, another, less obvious shared services benefit is beginning to share the limelight: the ability to better manage risk.
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Billion-dollar Bankruptcies Highest Since 2003
Billion-dollar bankruptcies are at their highest in five years only half way through 2008, according to bankruptcy filing tracker BankruptcyData.com.
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Jobless Rate Highest in 4 Years, Payrolls Drop
The U.S. unemployment rate hit its highest in four years during July as employers cut jobs for a seventh straight month, though less severely than predicted, a Labor Department report showed last Friday.
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Higher Unemployment Rate to Come
The Conference Board's Employment Trends Index continued a now year-long decline in July, suggesting even more softening to come in the labor market.
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Executive Compensation On The Rise
CFOs and Comptrollers Among Highest Paid Corporate Leaders
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Use of “Ad Networks” Surges Six-Fold as Media Companies Step up Monetization of Unsold Online Advertising Inventory
The Interactive Advertising Bureau and Bain & Company has announced the release of a benchmark study which suggests that online publishers are increasingly turning to sales intermediaries known as ad networks to sell off excess inventories.
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New York Threatens to Sue Merrill over ARS
New York state threatened to sue Merrill Lynch & Co. over auction-rate securities as part of its industry-wide probe of banks accused of misleading investors about the debt's risks.
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CEOs Gloomier Than Public on U.S. Economy
The vast majority of chief executives are gloomier about U.S. economic prospects than a year earlier, and top company officials have become more downbeat than the public at large,
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Buffett Sees Economy Weak Until 2009
The billionaire investor also said there is a "reasonable chance" shareholders of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac may be wiped out in any government bailout of the mortgage financiers.
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Creating a Greener Company Culture
The effects of rising energy costs are changing the way many senior-level managers consider their company’s energy consumption. Escalating energy prices have given corporate leaders a wake-up call to devise ways to conserve energy.
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In Five...
Why five is the number to remember to become a media relations star.
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