Payment behaviour quite often inadequate 9. August 2006 by Thomas Jannot The payment behaviour of European companies´ is anything but satisfactory. This is the message of a press report by the psychonomics AG. In the eyes of foreign business partners it is in particular the payment behaviour of Italian companies which leaves much to be desired: About one quarter of all business relationships (26 percent) are …
Printers pose a threat to IT security 8. August 2006 by Thomas Jannot The pressetext news agency has reported on a warning against security caps caused in IT networks by multi-purpose network printers and copying machines. This is the conclusion drawn by security experts at last week´s Black-Hat-conferences in Las Vegas. In a public presentation, Mr. Brendan O´Connor, who is an IT security expert, demonstrated that such devices …
SMEs capitalize on continuous R&D 8. August 2006 by Thomas Jannot Small and medium-sized entities (SMEs) continuously doing research & development (R&D) benefit from market innovations to a much higher extent than companies not engaging at all in their own R&D activities. This difference is particularly marked for companies launching completely new products or processes onto the market. In these cases the share of such innovations …
Mittelstandsblog presents Second After-WorkPodcast 6. August 2006 by Thomas Jannot Please click here and then on Play in order to listen to the podcast. Do you feel like finishing work or having a break? Well close your email programme, put your feet on the desk, relax and take 20 minutes off.
Anniversary: 10th M´BlogDocument published! 6. August 2006 by Thomas Jannot In our tenth M´BlogDocument the word is again with ladies: Manuela Franzò writes about “The art of teamwork” and gives valuable advice on “How to deal with colleagues and superiors in companies”. From her point of view teamwork and dealing with different people is an art. She knows from her own experience that it is …
Regular customers and senior citizens particularly courted by companies 6. August 2006 by Thomas Jannot Most of all companies like to court their regular customers. 93 percent of companies consider them to be important or very important for their business success. Next in the hit list of most courted clients are high-income consumers (for 70 percent of companies) and senior citizens (55 percent). These are the findings of a survey …
Survey on new developments in a female secretary’s job 6. August 2006 by Thomas Jannot Whereas some decades ago typewriting was an important task of female secretaries, today office angels are saved a lot of work by modern communications technology. Which are other general conditions that have changed this profession? Answers to this question will be given by Mrs. Manuela Franzò, who is one of our M`BlogDocument writers. In order …
Statistics duties cost one hour of time each month 6. August 2006 by Thomas Jannot The average time spent by companies on preparing documents for official statistical reasons amounts to 64 minutes per month. At least this is the finding of the “How much a burden are official statistics requirements to the economy” study carried out by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). The study which was commissioned …
Recommendations for successful mergers & acquisitions 5. August 2006 by Thomas Jannot M&A business has once again grown in the year 2006. Clear trends in this business can also be identified. German companies pursue a global acquisition strategy and do not even stop at hostile takeovers any more. Another significant fact is successful acquisitions often being made after bidding fights without prior so-called due diligence examination, i.e. …
DIHK publishes stands on EU topics 5. August 2006 by Thomas Jannot Ranging from the Postal Guideline to the European Constitution, from the quality of air to antimonopoly laws: in their brochure “Political topics in Europe 2006” the Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry (DIHK) have recently compiled their stands on 26 political subject matters of European relevance. The respective writers of the brochure give …