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Retail Strategy: How to Effectively Manage IT Costs

The Retail industry is under constant pressure by low margins and ever-increasing rivalry.  Weak consumer spending; saturated markets; increased consumers demands for service and lower prices; and intense competition has put significant strain on retail bottom lines and growth avenues.  Thus, Retail Strategy must evolve to accommodate these market changes. Such low margins force the […]

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A Look at the Benefits of Outsourcing and Offshoring for US Companies

The current US administration are introducing new policies – and will continue to do so – to push (or force, to be exact) businesses towards setting up their manufacturing lines within the United States. This means hiring US labor and relying on domestic resources as much as possible. For a lot of businesses, however, manufacturing […]

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Personal Assistants: Should We Seek Virtual Help or In-house?

Personal assistants can be very useful.  In the office workplace, they have always been an essential to any boss who is overrun with the amount of tasks they have to complete every day. It used to be obvious what to do if, as a boss, you felt you had too much on your hands. You […]

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UPDATE: This article will no longer be updated.  All updates are now being made directly to our Business Toolkits section.   Due to the rapid growth of our documents library, we have developed a less manual way of organizing our documents.  We have organized documents into Business Toolkits, where each toolkit is focused on a specific business project […]

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Starting a Business? Build a Solid Foundation for Your Supply Chain

So you have started to set up your own business. You know what you want to supply. You know who you want to supply it to. Great. Now, how the heck do you do it without burning wads of (hard to come across) cash? Supply chain and efficient business go hand in hand and have […]

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