Let’s talk about wallets, because it’s Friday I have a touch of OCD and am constantly looking for ways to reduce my wallet to the bare essentials. Sound crazy? Yeah, let’s refer back to that OCD thing. Anyway, I’ve spent the last few years trying wallets of all varieties, and I think I’ve settled on
Read More...Our own Shannon Roche and Jim Henderson, writing for Health Management Technology about what it means to implement and optimize an enterprise asset management (EAM) system: The value of a successful maintenance-management program supported by an integrated software solution is profound. This combination can be the foundation for healthcare organizations to achieve full visibility to the
Read More...Lisa Jansen, writing for CNBC.com: Companies with at least one woman on the board over the past six years show better average growth, with an average of 14 percent over the past six years compared to 10 percent for those with no female board representation. They also have a 4 percent higher return on equity,
Read More...Dalton Caldwell: Mark, I don’t believe that the humans working at Facebook or Twitter want to do the wrong thing. The problem is, employees at Facebook and Twitter are watching your stock price fall, and that is causing them to freak out. Your company, and Twitter, have demonstrably proven that they are willing to screw with
Read More...From Oracle’s PeopleSoft Apps Strategy blog: Almost a year after their decision to re-expose proposals for a common leasing standard, the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) have reached a key decision regarding the recognition of lease expenses. At their June 13, 2012 meeting, the IASB and FASB agreed
Read More...A quick bit of self-indulgence, if you don’t mind. As a (hopefully) regular reader of this blog, I thought I’d take this opportunity to share an good HR-related article that was recently featured in HRO Today. But first, I’ll provide some background on our Human Capital Management (HCM) practice, in case you’re not familiar. I
Read More...For years — insert dramatic music here! — I’ve been trying to find the right task management solution. I’ve tried quite a few: Google Tasks, Omnifocus, Things, Taskpaper, Clear, Wunderlist and even this new analog thing called pen and paper. Nothing stuck. I find a lot of these systems – some of which are modeled
Read More...“If you need a machine and don’t buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don’t have it.” — Henry Ford This is from a book by Clayton Christensen called How Will You Measure Your Life, in a section discussing full costs vs. marginal costs. In our experience, this
Read More...A few weeks ago, we were written up by The Oakland Press. The gist of the article was how our company was born following PeopleSoft layoffs in Southfield, Michigan, and how it grew from there. But part I want to highlight is this bit, found on page two of the story: [MIPRO Managing Partner] Micallef
Read More...“It was a lot more than I could afford, but a lot less than he deserved.” ### More links: MIPRO Consulting main website. MIPRO on Twitter and LinkedIn. About this blog.
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