Category: Business 11471

In the current reality, I feel that the importance of creativity is largely understated or, more accurately, misplaced. The use of various creative methods for making a product is important, but many may substitute needless innovation for truly considering what a project might need. While many organizations and individuals understand the role creativity can play…

Introduction A firm’s decision to invest in a foreign country is normally motivated by the need to increase profits by exploiting specific advantages available in another country. The firm must consider the micro-economic factors such as the technology available, its marketing skills and its ownership advantages prior to investing in an alien environment. Of most…

Nowadays, it is hard to deny that companies tend to use various marketing strategies to draw customers’ attention. Greenwashing is considered to be one of these ways, which implies that a company confuses a customer by creating an image of an ecologically-oriented organization. Cause washing, in general, is a modern tendency: corporations openly stand for…

Abstract As firms are increasingly focusing on core competencies, there has been a growing interest among organizations to outsource a broader gamut of logistics services. The logistics fraternity is evolving innovative models tailored to meet end customer solutions and adhere to channel wide requirements in the supply chain network. Conceptualizing such a paradigm, 4PL operators…

Outsourcing is the practice of contracting with a third party to provide services or produce goods that would otherwise be performed in-house by the company’s employees. Considering the five fundamental reasons organizations outsource, it is possible to indicate the access to expertise and technologies, cost reduction, client company’s concentration on its operations, improved accountability, and…

Table of Contents Introduction The Addressees of Communication Communicating with the Staff When to Communicate with the Staff How to Communicate with the Staff Communication with Corporate Executives Communication with Customers Non-verbal Part of Communication Conclusion Reference Introduction Effective communication is essential, especially if one is a front-line supervisor who has to engage with many…

The Executive Excellence Awards is the annual leadership event that recognizes executives who have guided their companies to success with consistent and extraordinary leadership. In 2016, Seattle Business magazine honored 14 local business leaders with “Executive Excellence Awards” (Truzzi, 2016). I enjoyed all the brief stories describing those leaders’ efforts to enhance productivity and improve…

Despite the global economic recession, there remains at least one market where finding a job is a lot easier than elsewhere – freelancing over the Internet. Truly, freelancing has been subtly coming to dominate many industries. More and more people prefer complete independence rather than the tortures of office life and tyrannies of salary control.…

The classification of freight is necessary for the efficient transportation and handling of goods. In particular, it is important to group products that have similar characteristics such as density, value, weight, fragility, and so forth (Bowersox, Class, Cooper, & Bowersox, 2009, p. 213). One should note that logistics companies may need to handle thousands of…

While examining the statement of cash flows from Home Depot for the past two years, one can note some unique features that reflect the financial strength of the organization. As a significant criterion, net earnings should be considered, which, compared to 2019, increased by $1.5 billion. Based on such parameters as changes in inventories and…