Few retailers welcomed 2009 with a smile. In planning how to chart troubled waters, Ian Tomlinson of EPoS and e-commerce solution provider Cybertill recommends a seemingly counter-intuitive strategy. Rather than shedding staff, he advises retailers to invest more in training and developing their people...
One of the chief mandates of the U.S. Federal Reserve is to manage the nation's monetary stock. This essay analyzes the historic growth of the American monetary stock (or aggregates) since 1960 and looks at some recent developments revealing a marked adjustment in policy....
Economic slowdown is nothing new to hear these days but slowdown in industry credit is becoming more critical. Credit provides the life support system for all economic activities and industry is much more dependent on credit for survival and growth....
Today success and worth of a business depend more on its intellectual capital than on its physical. Therefore, Knowledge Management (KM) has become a critical input in the growth of SMEs. Globalisation of supply chains, rapid technological advances, superior returns on intellectual capital, growing importance of knowledge-intensive industries...
We are all engaged in number of activities with an intention to achieve our objectives and to sustain them. We desire to be successful and work hard for the same How can we say that we are performing well? We feel what we did is correct. We decided and designed the system according to our best knowledge and experience in order to achieve our objectives...
In this essay we attempt to estimate global money supply and relate it to global supply of gold. For the global money supply, we use money supply figures for currency in circulation from 86 selected currencies, from 81 independent countries and five monetary unions....
