I blogged about Semco SA yesterday, but it was a shallow, dull post merely outlining the ways in which the management philosophy has improved opera­tions for the Brazilian manufac­turing and environmental/IT services company. Some more inter­esting details: Due to management style clashes with his father and founder of the company, current CEO Ricardo Semler threatened […]

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Semco is a Brazilian company that has recently taken digg by storm and is making waves amongst more real world folks too. The company is turning pretty much every­thing we know about how to run a business organi­zation upside down, and getting great results doing just that. The long and short of it: Employees set their own […]

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There are several ways in which a business can improve their cash flow situation by optimizing their payables management. Mostly this relates to timing issues – when to pay your suppliers. Pay invoices on or close to the due date. Supplier terms are typically the only source of interest-free credit your business is going to […]

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Over at the AAO Weblog, there’s an inter­esting post concerning the Adelphia fraud and an “enabler”, Scientific-Atlanta, which is now a unit of Cisco. Around August 2000, Adelphia asked Scientific-Atlanta to increase the price of digital cable television set-top boxes it was selling to Adelphia — then kick back the difference to Adelphia in as […]

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Gives a whole new meaning to the term “asset management” doesn’t it? With more than 53 years of multi­media content under its belt, Playboy Enter­prises takes content management and rights management very seriously. Devel­oping the best systems to manage all those photos, videos, television footage and text is top priority for Playboy chairman and chief […]

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