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Getting a good renewal rate on group employee benefits depended solely on a friendly relationship with a health plan underwriter. But after decades of steady increases in health care costs and resulting premiums and more than 20 years of failed attempts to curb those increases, technical and strategic know-how applied year-round has become more important than industry relationships tapped only at annual renewals, say principals at the Brower Insurance Agency LLC, a multiline agency based in Dayton, OH. The agency specializes in small to medium-sized employers with 50 to 500 employees, but it continues to provide services to some larger Ohio and Kentucky corporations. Today, about 30% of agency revenue is derived from employee benefits, and the firm has about 21 employees in its benefits...
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Even with the rich literature on knowledge management, we still don't know enough about how the rate of change in production-know-how affects the choice of mechanisms for its transfer. Codifying tacit know-how helps, but codification becomes more challenging as the know-how changes more frequently. Transfer of tacit know-how becomes much more complicated when it changes often. We need more research in this area, particularly to help production and operations managers who must ultimately use the new know-how and change their companies' production processes. The paper suggests a framework as a step in that direction. The framework focuses on the interplay between the level of codification and the rate of change of production know-how, and identifies four zones for classifying production k...
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Here's a roundup of potential problems and advice from experts on how to cope during extreme weather. WATER PIPES
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We'd just wrapped up the TH's Taste of Home Cooking School at the Grand River Center the other night. I served as emcee and everything went well, with more than 1,000 in attendance. But I was whipped, having worked all day and been on stage all evening. On my way out, I stopped at the TH counter to talk to a couple of my colleagues when a white-haired lady using a walker approached us. She was looking for a pay phone. My colleagues and I exchanged glances. There aren't exactly a lot of pay phones around these days. "I need to call for a ride," she said. I was fumbling around looking for my phone when she said she needed a phone book, too, so she could look up the number of a cab company.
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Most kids would have given up. Thrown in the towel. Spit the bit. Just quit. Not Austin Pack. The word surrender doesn't exist in the vocabulary of Galax's senior quarterback.
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The stampede to loosen China's stranglehold on vital rare earth elements may come too late to avoid transferring to the People's Republic critical technology to make some of the world's most advanced products. China's goal was to get that technology, not to reap short-term profits from forcing rare earth prices to skyrocket, when it began sharply raising export quotas on the materials two years ago, said Ed Richardson, president of the U.S. Magnetic Materials Association.
