Recent Articles
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Justifying the cost of warehouse improvement
Ken Ackerman Distribution & WarehousingHave you ever had difficulty obtaining approval of capital investments for your warehouse? Many warehouse managers find themselves competing with people from manufacturing, marketing or other departments who are all looking for capital investments to improve their operations.
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Disaster: 6 actions to avoid leaving the elderly and disabled in danger
Christina Thielst Healthcare AdministrationThe recent wildfires once again shine a light on the importance of increased attention to the needs of the elderly and disabled during disaster planning, response and recovery phases. Nearly 75 percent of those who died in the Hurricane Katrina disaster were older than 60. Two years later, busloads of elderly and disabled were evacuated from care facilities in San Diego County, but were left stranded and trapped by flames as wildfires raged.
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Networking: A new form of training for facilities engineers
Denny Hydrick Facilities & Grounds2015 is 75 percent over. Our facilities engineering and maintenance staffs have faced typical, albeit in some cases magnified, situations. But this article is not about weather or global warming or climate change.
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College sports offer an education in marketing, economics
Bob Kowalski Sports & FitnessAt this time of year, college football captures the nation's attention. The cooler afternoons, the changing colors of the picturesque campuses and gatherings of alumni reconnecting on football Saturdays foster the romantic notion of the schoolboy game.
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Ensuring school security: The good, the great and the terrifying
Ryan Clark EducationFollowing the recent college shootings in Oregon, Texas and Arizona, schools nationwide are rightfully investigating ways to strengthen their building security. More than ever, school safety is in the news. While many are placing the eye of scrutiny on guns, others are choosing to place it on physical accessibility.
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5 steps to making the right hire for your design firm
Lloyd Princeton Interior Design, Furnishings & FixturesOne of the more costly mistakes you can make to your design business is hiring the wrong person. Research of U.S. employers shows a bad hire can cost a company as much as much as $50,000 or more. In addition to bearing the cost of recruiting a replacement, your firm likely will suffer a loss in productivity and possibly lost revenues and damage to your brand or client relationships.
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The data-driven do’s and don’ts of online advertising
Emma Fitzpatrick MarketingPay-per-click (PPC) ads seem like a great deal. Digital ads are only shown to your target audience, you only pay when someone interested clicks, and each click isn't too expensive. Those clicks add up quickly, though.
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The key to making independent educational evaluations work
Howard Margolis EducationYou're happy. You sent your child's IEP team a brief request for an independent educational evaluation (IEE), and they agreed with it. Like you, the team members said they wanted greater insight into your child's struggles with reading, writing and related problems.
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Report highlights perils facing US manufacturing and distribution
Alan Kelsky ManufacturingChicago-based business services provider McGladrey recently released its annual Manufacturing and Distribution Monitor Report for 2015. The report covers the manufacturing and distribution industry based on information from 1,660 manufacturing and distribution executives across the globe.
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Turn your next trip into a hall of fame vacation
Dave G. Houser Recreation & LeisureAmericans love to celebrate the best of just about everything. Nothing makes that more evident than the amazing number of halls of fame scattered across the country. People, places and things — the subject doesn't seem to matter — there's probably a hall of fame among the hundreds out there to extol and memorialize its merits.