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RedPrairie Case Study: Georgia Pacific

Georgia Pacific wanted an automated warehouse management solution that would reduce operating costs, increase staff productivity and optimise use of storage space at its 350,000 sq ft distribution centre near Wigan, lancashire. Georgia Pacific needed to address inefficiencies and errors resulting from paper-based management processes that were over-reliant on operator...

Tags: RedPrairie, Georgia-Pacific Corp., Team Management, Storage, Strategy, Management, Hardware

Case studies 2007-07-25

At Georgia-Pacific, Learning Is a Strategic Tool for Success

To many people, Georgia-Pacific Corporation GP is known for its brands: Brawny paper towels, Plytanium plywood, Quilted Northern bathroom tissue and Dixie Cups, to name just a few. The goal was to provide a learning system that was effective, affordable and measurable. The timing couldn't have been better - GP's...

Tags: Georgia-Pacific Corp., Tool, SkillSoft, Strategy, Productivity, Branding, Management, Marketing

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Lenovo announces layoffs, cutbacks

Lenovo has announced a "resource redeployment plan" of layoffs, cutbacks and consolidation as part of a move to become more efficient in the wake of changing economic conditions. Basically, the company's earnings were disappointing last quarter and the cutbacks are meant to improve its fiscal standing. It's expecting a loss...

Tags: Layoff, Cutback, Lenovo Group Ltd., Asia-Pacific, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-01-08

Satyam management: We're staying; Unveils crisis plan

Updated: Satyam on Thursday said its top management team is staying despite the revelation that founder and chairman Ramalinga Raju cooked the books. In a statement, Satyam followed up on a day that included a stunning letter from Raju revealing a $1 billion cash sink hole and...

Tags: Satyam, Head, Corporate Governance, Investment, Telecom & Utilities, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-08

EMC cuts 2,400 jobs

EMC cuts 2,400 jobsmakes a profit and cuts jobsIs that the new contest?Who is cutting more jobs getting the stock price hike.Cost savings will create very poor supportThis logic of cutting "high-cost" jobs is going to backfire at EMC very soon. I have had repeating poor experience with the...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Storage, EMC Corp., job

Discussion threads 2009-01-07

Satyam crashes with $1 billion cash hole

In a shock announcement this morning, Satyam, India's fourth largest outsourcing companies reported that B Ramalinga Raju, founder and chairman has resigned following an admission that there is an estimated $1 billion cash hole in the company's balance sheet. The company's shares crashed 77% in the aftermath. According to Finextra:...

Tags: Satyam, Balance Sheets, Outsourcing, Litigation, Asset Management, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, Finance, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Operational Planning, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-01-07

CES2009: REDFLY PC software coming soon, concept demos of dock and Android driver shown

My new REDFLY C8N arrived today and I was also pleased to get some news about some of the things that Celio Corp is showing off at CES 2009 in Vegas. Celio Corp unveiled their new PC software that lets you use your Windows Mobile device with your Windows PC...

Tags: Google Android, Device, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, REDFLY Smartphone Dock Concept Device, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Advertising & Promotion, Software, Hardware, Marketing, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2009-01-06

Read 2000 American Newspapers 4.3.8.0102 (Windows)

Read 2000 American Newspapers can read 2600+ U.S. newspapers by state. It can deliver you the news you want from all over the U.S. in just seconds, with effortless actions. Whether it's the Washington Post or your local newspaper. Content includes New York Newspaper (118), National Newspaper (66), Alabama Newspaper...

Tags: Newspaper, YiFei Software, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-01-05

iMacworld app gets major update in v.1.1

In mid-December iMacworld iPhone app was released – but it was really more of a beta, limited to a simple list of exhibitors by name and by booth number. IDG and developer Zami.com released iMacworld version 1.1 (iTunes, free) today which is the real deal. It's a...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Conference, App, iMacworld App, iMacworld 1.1, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-01-04

Raise taxes? On gasoline? How about mothers' milk?

Are these guys serious? A federal commission may urge the U.S. to raise the tax on gasoline. The commission's report is due out in late January after Dick Cheney has left town. None of these commissioners will ever get a free lunch in Washington or Houston, ever again....

Tags: Commission, Gasoline, Taxes, Transportation, Free Trade, Sales Force Management, Financial Planning, Finance, Sales, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-01-02

Journalism vs. blogging: the present and the future

Journalism vs. blogging: the present and the futureI agree, but...I totally agree, as I write a couple of blogs.When I am writing, I am careful to make sure I get facts, when I am quoting facts, and basing my opinions on those facts. To combat the slants either way, I...

Tags: journalism, blogging

Discussion threads 2009-01-02

Netbook security risks?

I'm typing this post on the Acer Aspire One that I've been using nonstop since Acer sent me a review unit and just read an interesting article in PC World Canada about the potential security risks associated with netbooks. The author calls netbooks a "potential security nightmare," citing a...

Tags: Ultraportables, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-01-02

Dell shuffles management deck; Focuses on global units

Dell ended 2008 with a management shakeup. The company said Wednesday that it has realigned its business to focus on four global groups: Large enterprise, public, small and medium sized business and consumer, which is already set up as a global unit. Here's a...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Mark Jarvis, Smb/Sme, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Manufacturing, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-31

Top US advertisers in traditional media in 2008

Rank Parent Company Ad Dollars Spent 1 Procter & Gamble Co $2,342,319,397 2 General Motors Corp $1,441,747,399 3 AT&T Inc $1,317,893,377 4 Verizon $1,125,700,512 5 Johnson & Johnson $1,059,109,138 6 Time Warner Inc $878,355,332 7 Toyota...

Tags: Media, Advertiser, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, NB

Blog posts 2008-12-29

NORAD tracks Santa's all-night red-nose flight

As I'm writing this, Santa is allegedly over Baghdad, although I suppose he is not bringing gifts to little Sunni and Sh'ia boys and girls. At 12:55 p.m., Pacific time, Christmas Eve, Santa was making his way across the Middle East, according to the NORAD Tracks Santa site. by Richard...

Tags: North American Aerospace Defense Command, Santa, Telecom & Utilities, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-12-24

Top Web companies in November 2008

Parent Audience, 000 Time Per Person 1. Google 135,267 2:02:03 2. Microsoft 126,027 2:25:02 3. Yahoo! 119,142 3:16:44 4. AOL LLC 86,308 3:43:45 5. News Corp. Online 82,388 1:36:50 6. InterActiveCorp 66,767 0:16:26 7. Amazon 65,550...

Tags: NB

Blog posts 2008-12-23

Does "more bars in more places" refer to drinking establishments?

Towards the end of last week, my wife and I drove to Atlanta so that I could present the findings of a research project to the executive team of a KG client. The presentation appears to have been well accepted because no one threw fruit The client was even kind...

Tags: Network, 3G, Wireless, Cellular Phones, Channel Management, Wi-Fi, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-12-23

Transition Time: The Digital TV That Cable TV Has Overlooked

Let's say you're the owner of one of the 20 million or so television households still taking in over-the-air signals on at least one set to get NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox and independent TV stations, for local broadcasts. Conventional wisdom has it that...

Tags: Cable Television, Digital Television, Cable, Computer, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-12-22

Garmin Android phone due in '09; Asus to produce?

We may still be waiting for Garmin's Nuvifone, but news has surfaced that Garmin's also got a Google Android-based phone in the pipeline for 2009. According to today's DigiTimes, Garmin plans the phone to arrive in Q2 2009 and will outsource production of the device. Since Garmin...

Tags: ASUS, Phone, Garmin Ltd., Sales Strategy, GPS, Telecom & Utilities, Sales, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-12-22

Internet ad spending by top companies for Q1-Q3 2008

Parent Company Q1-Q3 2007 Q1-Q3 2008 Growth Procter & Gamble Co. 2,526.0 2,342.3 -7% General Motors Corp. 1,730.4 1,659.6 -4% AT&T Inc. 1,351.1 1,317.6 -2% Verizon Communications Inc. 1,018.8 1,125.6 10% Toyota Motor Corp. 1,246.8 1,194.1 -4% Ford...

Tags: Internet Advertising, Internet, NB

Blog posts 2008-12-21