IBM released its DB2 9 “Viper” database back in June with promises of a fundamental shift in how XML data is managed, as well as time and memory-saving functionalities. Early tests of the “hybrid database” have come back with positive results.
Positive PR As a Marketing Tool
While controversial issues frequently attract attention they can also alienate potential customers.
Greenspan Notes Positive Growth Outlook
In a semi-annual testimony to Congress, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said that the Fed should continue to raise interest rates as the growth outlook in the U.S. remains positive.
Positive Results for TYSABRI
Two-year data from the AFFIRM Phase III monotherapy trial presented for the first time, showed that treatment with TYSBARI (natalizumab) led to a significant reduction in disability progression…
Positive 4th Quarter Results for IBM
IBM fourth-quarter 2004 diluted earnings per common share increased 16% from the previous year.
Focus On The Positive Side of Internet Business
A great series of articles showed up in this week’s Time Magazine focusing, for a change, on happiness and its effects on us physically and mentally over time.
Sales As A Positive Experience
No matter what your age or stage in life, some words come with preconceived meaning. “Sales” is one of them. For most people, it means being put in a position to have to buy something you don’t want at a price you can’t afford. Therefore, how do you conduct a critical element of the small business marketing process without incurring the negative impact of the word “sales”?
Create a Positive, Upbeat, “Can-Do” Workforce and Dazzle the Customer with Your Caring!
Given the choice of dealing with a positive, upbeat employee with a “can-do” attitude or dealing with a disgruntled, distracted, uninterested one, which would you choose? No contest. Customers always want the best experience possible; they want it to be easy and pleasant to do business with your company. Enter the real challenge of “Relationship Management,” the relationships. Until all of our business is done electronically, and much of it might be, managers, in addition to making sure the work gets done, still need to be concerned with the performance of the most important link in the customer connection – people.
Outsourcing – A positive approach for Small Businesses
Outsourcing is the strategic use of outside resources to perform activities traditionally handled by internal staff and resources. Small business owners can outsource non-core functions to specialized and efficient service providers. It is required of businesses to hire special contractors for particular types of work or to meet the demands put forth by sudden spurts in the workload. Recently, the trend of partnering with firms whose capabilities complement their own giving them an access to resources that were beyond their individual reach has come up. The difference between simply subcontracting and outsourcing is that outsourcing involves the wholesale restructuring of the corporation around core competencies and outside relationships.
How a positive idea proceeds beyond the dream stage
There are “Four Success-Spotting”, possibility-measuring, opportunity-testing questions most or all of which must be answered affirmatively by knowleadgeable people before a positive iedea, product or service proceeds beyond the dream stage.