The funny thing about geeks is they like to work. The trick is to create an environment where technical professionals can let their natural motivation thrive and avoid demotivating them. This brief guide by Paul Glen, CEO of Leading Geeks, explains how to achieve these two critical goals when managing IT pros and other technical staff. (And yes, free food […]

A new generation of Industrial Distributors is defying convention. Rather than buying into the traditional rule book—scaling back investments during challenging economic times— innovative distributors see the upside. Leveraging technology and innovative approaches, a new generation of management writes new rules for the sector, extending their business models to gain market share.

As a distributor of goods in today’s challenging economy, you face increasingly global competition, growing complexity of supply chains and trade regulations, and continued volatility of oil prices impacting transportation cost. And to top it off, you most likely operate on razor thin margins. World Class Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementations have been shown to address these challenges and produce […]

The talent gap and the technology divide are both widening, while global economic uncertainty and other supply chain disruptions are still looming. Is your distribution business positioning itself to face these and other challenges in 2015? Download this new benchmark report, based on a survey of nearly 200 distribution businesses by Modern Distribution Management in partnership with NetSuite. Get deep […]

Big Data analytics, mobile technologies, and cloud computing all can help finance move beyond number-crunching. Once they master these and other innovations, finance executives expect that they will be in a good position to improve the speed and depth of fact-based decision making at their companies — which, in turn, will drive their businesses forward in an increasingly complex, competitive, […]

Finance leaders have been talking about expanding the value-added role of their teams for a long time. The debate is no longer whether the finance and accounting function needs to become a more strategic partner to the rest of the business but rather how to get there. Technology innovation has caught up to this ambition, and what was once aspiration […]

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The healthcare industry struggles along the entire paper trail from start to finish. The current process is slow, costly, inefficient, full of errors, vulnerable to security breaches and hurts the people they are chartered to care for. Download this complimentary whitepaper and discover how DocuSign’s eSignature solutions modernize healthcare and life science organizations by eliminating paper and antiquated signature processes […]