Mapping Bears Fruit
To keep track of fertilization schedules for his cranberry bogs, farmer Peter Beaton turned to MapInfo Professional, software that maps the fertilizer needs ... Read more
Office and Operations
Recent Office and Operations Articles
A Moving Experience
Relocating your business can be an agonizing and expensive experience. But when you weigh the benefits against the costs, moving could be the best thing you ... Read more
IT Outsourcing Can Be Profitable - or a Headache
Here's how to strike a mutually beneficial partnership. Read more
Saving Money in the Magic Kingdom
Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse (and friends) are the big draws as families all over North America make room for Orlando in their summer vacation plans. The ki... Read more
Do Your Own Thing
The Web is becoming a vital administrative tool for a growing number of businesses. Companies can now outsource almost anything to Web-based services, from d... Read more
Let the Net Do It
A look at the proliferation of new Web-based businesses that will handle your most arduous tasks, from personnel to technology management. Read more
Software That Cuts Legal Fees
When Munchkin, a $15 million designer and marketer of baby bottles and other products for infants, needed a secondinternational-distribution agreement, Ch... Read more
Getting In on the Ground Floor
The last thing Matt Phelan ever wanted to do was to run a storefront operation. But last year Phelan gave up his fancy office on the second floor of... Read more
The Fewer the Merrier
Michael Conley, CEO and founder of GeneraLife Insurance Co., cut fixed costs by operating chiefly on the Web. Here's why the insurance industry works so well... Read more
The Ties That Bind
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) can speed up work flow by uniting different corporate divisions under a single family of software modules. Now, smaller co... Read more
Irreconcilable Differences
Donn Rappaport and Liza Price, husband and wife cofounders of American List Counsel Inc., tried to continue running the company together after getting divorc... Read more
Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise
Office buildings can harbor pollutants that make employees sick and decrease their productivity. The cofounder of Verifone Inc. describes how his company bui... Read more
Upstarts: Sale of Modern Music Keyed to Customization
CDuctive, an online music retailer, allows shoppers to customize CDs. Also, several shorter articles about companies that provide mass customization of blue ... Read more
Do I Really Need a Written Agreement?
Is a handshake enough when entering a business alliance, or should you protect yourself with a written agreement? Here's what a written "memorandum of unders... Read more
Don't Worry, Be a Little Unhappy
CEO Brodsky suggests that legal disputes rarely yield an ideal solution for either party. If you're prepared to be a little unhappy with the outcome, you'll ... Read more
Nine Steps Toward the Home Office of Your Dreams
What to think about when it comes to design, equipment, and management. Read more
Techniques: Microcases
How two companies solved problems with technology. Topics include developing a system for managing pet kennels and off-the-shelf software for tracking invent... Read more
From Steer to Eternity
American beef producers are revolutionizing their industry with technology. New tracking systems allow ranchers to document every aspect of a cow's life, imp... Read more
All in the Family
Anthony Scaturro, CEO of EZRider, explains to his father, the CEO of Ski and Sport Shack, why he should get with the times and use technology to help run his... Read more
There's No Office Like Home
A look at how four entrepreneurs designed unique home offices to meet their specific needs, personal tastes, styles of work and physical limitations. Read more
Work Your Way Out of the Office
Many CEOs who work long, hard hours dream of cutting back. Although it may be a while before you can reduce your hours at work, even today you can
Hands-Free Travel Computing
Personal information managers are all the rage, but how do you use one of those tiny keyboards when you're driving? Jeffrey Epstein has found a better alt... Read more
Don't Pay Until It Works
Buying his first network was a disaster for Joe Alloway, owner and founder of Credit Union Marketing, in Mount Pleasant, Mich. The idea was to link writer... Read more
Who Says You Can't Survive EDI?
Even before Jody Kozlow Gardner and Cherie Serota knew what it was, they dreaded electronic data interchange (EDI). Belly Basics, in New York City, is the... Read more
Computerize on a Shoestring
Time is of the essence in Allison Rosson's $1 million design and manufacturing business. Mike & Ally, in New York City, makes decorative purse, bath, and ... Read more
Streamline, Then Automate
Lantech's plant runs on technology that could have been installed 40 years ago. Instead of a shop humming with numerically controlled lathes and automated... Read more
Buy It or Build It?
Tim Litle's business processed mail-order companies' credit card orders. Each day, Litle & Co., in Salem, N.H., faxed its customers information on the pre... Read more
Track Hardware Depreciation
Most electronic equipment -- e.g., computers, fax machines, telephones -- has a five-year life on tax depreciation schedules. After that, it's considered ... Read more
Share Data with Your Suppliers
Some growing companies are extending their data sharing with their large customers. And, rather than having to establish systems that are compatible with ... Read more
Getting a Fix on Outside Contractors
Air Taser, a stun gun manufacturer in Scottsdale, Ariz., decided the best way to handle order fulfillment was to outsource. If you outsource any process, ... Read more
Let Your PC Draw Up the Contract
When Munchkin Inc., a manufacturer and designer of infant products in Van Nuys, Calif., needed to prepare its second international-distribution agreement,... Read more
Who Owns Your Web Site?
If you're not careful, someone else could end up owning your Web site . Be sure to address these issues early on: Who has the i... Read more
Watch Your Postage Meters
When Federal Express lowered ABL Electronics' shipping prices, the cable manufacturer started billing clients according to the new rates. But FedEx had ne... Read more
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