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Businesses are suffering major losses everyday because of lapse security policies, yet surprisingly enough, many are clueless to just how big of a problem security is becoming. You may think that a security threat isn't high-priority, but the amount of data breaches and data loss has been on the rise for the past several years.Such threats do not only include hackers and scammers, but even one's own staff can put a business at risk. In fact, businesses are losing on average, $3.4 millions dollars per year, because of data breaches that involve internal sources. (1)Lack of security education and data risk policies can toss your company's reputation and busin
> HERE: "I just changed the executive summary and added the pricing section. I renamed the document 'proposal-1.2.doc' and emailed it to you. When you get it look
The game you once played on the school playground is now the game you play daily in the corporate jungle.Remember tetherball? There’s a tall metal pole planted firmly in the ground with a long cord attached at the top. At the other end of the cord the ball is tied. No matter how hard you hit the ball, which direction it’s headed or how fast it’s going, the ball remains attached to the pole. The same goes for your relationship with your boss—and you can guess which one of you is the pole and which one is the ball.For as long as you’re in the game, you’re firmly attached to your boss, to his history, reputation, politics, choices, and to some extent his future
We recently worked with a team responding to an RFP (request for proposal) from a large state agency. The RFP itself was nearly 100 pages long. The proposal responding to this RFP would be in excess of 150 pages. Its preparation effort required input from workgroup members scattered from San Diego to Charlotte.
Up to this point the company had done many long, detailed proposals. Their products were complex and involved technology components, civil works (concrete, drilling, boring), and network infrastructure, each of which had to be spelled out in detail.
The proposal development method was "blunt" (I'll say blunt rather than "crude.") In an era of instant messaging and conferencing systems, for _this_ task draft copies were sent back and forth to team members via email or, when the proposals began to top 15 megabytes in size, via an ftp (file transfer protocol) transfer to and from a shared server.
What's wrong with that? Even with smaller proposals they began to face confusion as the proposal developed. A phone conversation from two geographically separated team members might go something like this:
> HERE: "I just changed the executive summary and added the pricing section. I renamed the document 'proposal-1.2.doc' and emailed it to you. When you get it look o
I got into Allentown, PA the other day at about two in the afternoon. It wasn't too bad of a drive from Vermont where I was from. Oh sure it took a long time, but it was pretty scenic and relaxing for the most part. I was arriving at the Allentown business school with my best friend Joe, just in time to have a good weekend to explore before classes started on Monday. I would have liked to get into Allentown a little bit earlier in the month. It would've been nice to have some time to explore the business MBA school before starting, and to get to know the town of Allentown, Pennsylvania little bit better. But I was traveling with Joe, and Joe always makes everything
Up to this point the company had done many long, detailed proposals. Their products were complex and involved technology components, civil works (concrete, drilling, boring), and network infrastructure, each of which had to be spelled out in detail.
The proposal development method was "blunt" (I'll say blunt rather than "crude.") In an era of instant messaging and conferencing systems, for _this_ task draft copies were sent back and forth to team members via email or, when the proposals began to top 15 megabytes in size, via an ftp (file transfer protocol) transfer to and from a shared server.
What's wrong with that? Even with smaller proposals they began to face confusion as the proposal developed. A phone conversation from two geographically separated team members might go something like this:
> HERE: "I just changed the executive summary and added the pricing section. I renamed the document 'proposal-1.2.doc' and emailed it to you. When you get it look
California like the rest of the country has many non-English or limited English speaking residents particularly within the Latino population. To capture these markets many companies often employ bilingual individuals. Sometimes these bilingual individuals chose to take advantage of the limited English speaking for greater profitability to the business and to line their own pockets. While limited English speaking customers may seem like easy targets, California law provides for tough sanctions and expansive protection of these customers.Under California law any person engaged in a trade or business who negotiates primarily in Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnames
The proposal development method was "blunt" (I'll say blunt rather than "crude.") In an era of instant messaging and conferencing systems, for _this_ task draft copies were sent back and forth to team members via email or, when the proposals began to top 15 megabytes in size, via an ftp (file transfer protocol) transfer to and from a shared server.
What's wrong with that? Even with smaller proposals they began to face confusion as the proposal developed. A phone conversation from two geographically separated team members might go something like this:
> HERE: "I just changed the executive summary and added the pricing section. I renamed the document 'proposal-1.2.doc' and emailed it to you. When you get it look
An offshore company can be used for everything from taxation reduction to asset protection, real estate holding to ‘e’ and internet business ease of operation. If you decide that there are definite benefits for you in the establishment of an offshore company the next step is to go ahead and get one set up…It’s usually a very simple affair, it can take as little as 24 hours to get a basic structure in place and in this article I will guide you through the basic set-up procedures and considerations.The very first thing you need to do is ensure an offshore company structure is what you need and that it can achieve what you want. Many companies provide informa
What's wrong with that? Even with smaller proposals they began to face confusion as the proposal developed. A phone conversation from two geographically separated team members might go something like this:
> HERE: "I just changed the executive summary and added the pricing section. I renamed the document 'proposal-1.2.doc' and emailed it to you. When you get it look
Business phone systems can be purchased from telephone service providers, other manufacturers through their sales networks or through Internet. Most businesses usually need to have several telephones to run their operations and it is neither practical nor necessary to have each telephone connected to the external (service provider's) network. Communication systems containing internally operated switching systems are available that do not require connecting each telephone set to the public telephone network.Most businesses usually install an internal phone switching system (called "Private Automatic Branch Exchange" or PABX) that provides an interface between intern
> HERE: "I just changed the executive summary and added the pricing section. I renamed the document 'proposal-1.2.doc' and emailed it to you. When you get it look over my changes and add your integration section and send it back to me."
> THERE: "Okay, but I had already renamed my working copy to version 1.2 last night."
> HERE: "Well then, open your copy, rename it to version 1.2.1 and send it to me that way. Which sections did you change?"
The person responsible for ensuring each set of changes was copied and pasted into the right places had many different pieces to keep up with, and the process didn't always go well. Arguments about who had made the most recent change and which document it was in were common.
An online search of ways to control this kind of version confusion revealed some additional confusion of its own. One system recommended for proposal writers includes building a tracking database to log information on sections and changes, which doesn't really change the process; it just makes one person really busy keeping up with changes.
With the approach of this large RFP, something had to change. The proposal required text, graphics, photos, drawings, and spreadsheets -- all properly tabbed and organized.
This is where w
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