And Your People Can Help You Get There “All entrepreneurs experience setbacks, but successful entrepreneurs move from one setback to the next without losing their motivation.” Steve Jobs struggled with his business as he tried to sell computers and was even kicked out of his own business for some period, but he didn’t let that stop him. Jobs later took a risk in buying Pixar in the hopes of creating a computer hardware company. In…
Building Kitply Industries From the Foundation Up If you want to support your family and help them through hard times, you need to start your…
Give Back to Others, and You’ll Help Yourself There are significant benefits to incorporating philanthropy into your business’s culture. Your company will help the community…
Technologies That Help Your Business Thrive Keeping all the moving parts of a business running together as one unit can be tricky. Since a business is made up of many individuals coming together for one purpose, it can be challenging to get so many people to work together to achieve the same goals. Scaling Up is a performance platform that helps thousands of businesses do just that. This platform provides these businesses with a model…
A poorly estimated job may damage your company’s reputation when you have to re-quote the customer. It can also negatively impact your bottom line if…
What is lean manufacturing? Lean manufacturing is a series of methods designed to reduce or minimize the waste of labour and material resources while maintaining…
You probably recognize the value of organic, fair trade, and sustainable food products to your health and well-being and long-term availability and impact on the planet. But have you thought about sustainable wood? In your day to day life, why don’t you have the same frame of mind when it comes to buying furniture or any other wood-based product? Like all fruits and vegetables, wood too comes from plants (trees)! Forests are a precious resource…
Cabinet production has remained consistent over the last 40 years. Production technology improvements have worked to enhance productivity and profits while maintaining the process. However,…
A skill shortage occurs when employees lack specific skills to achieve a company goal or when there are not enough employees with the needed skill…
Employees are a crucial part of any organisation. Training and development should be as important to senior management and CEOs as bringing more customers/sales. In the words of Steve Jobs, “It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.” To stay competitive, however, each employee must continuously improve their skills to be a productive part of their team.…
