Creating Value for Your Customers From Feed and Grain Magazine - How well do you know your customers? Do you know and understand what your customers want from you with respect to products, services and information? A periodic reassessment of these questions is key to...
Tying Rewards to Outcomes From Feed and Grain Magazine - Working with people can provide you as a manager with some of the most satisfying and some of the most frustrating experiences at the same time. However, a well-thought out reward system can make your job much...
Invest in Your Company’s Human Capital From Feed and Grain Magazine - We live in a highly educated society in which most people consider knowledge empowering. In the feed and grain industry, managers value well-trained employees and many use opportunities for...
Managing Change From Feed and Grain Magazine - Change is no stranger to the feed and grain industry. Among other recent adjustments, companies have made changes to institute HAACP, ISO 9000, identity preservation of grain for both niche products and GMO grain and...
Making the Right Call From Feed and Grain Magazine - Over the past year, we have been bombarded with a seemingly endless list of corporate crises: Enron, Global Crossing, WorldCom … one major corporation after another has been caught or admitted to illegal activities,...
Departmentalization: A Useful Management Tool for Your Firm? From Feed and Grain Magazine - Do you know what areas of your business earn the most profit? Do some of your departments subsidize others? Are there some products and/or services that you offer strictly as a...
Cost Cutting: Ideas for Surviving Uncertain Times From Feed and Grain Magazine - Benjamin Franklin once said, “Nothing is certain but death and taxes.” Today, U.S. and world economic conditions, as well as tough competition from other firms in your industry and other...
Swimming in a Sea of Information From Feed and Grains Magazine - Much has been made of the information economy — the information revolution. At the airport CNN blares from a television in the boarding area. At least a dozen laptops are open, with people checking...
Expanding your Efforts From Feed and Grain Magazine - The world is a place of constant change, and there is no question the rate is accelerating. As an industry, the feed and grain sector has not been immune to these changes. Roller-coaster commodity prices,...
