Driving efficiency

OEConnection allows auto dealers across the country to streamline service operations.

Still going

How Energizer’s lean manufacturing initiative keeps the company on the cutting edge

Leaning up

How Bettcher Amherst did more with less

A prescription for change

How employers can better understand the health care environment and reduce costs for themselves and their employees

Are these part of your health care culture?

Consider the tax advantages of Flexible Spending Accounts for both you and your employees. Explore innovative plan options to give employees more choices and more involvement in plan selection and health benefits management. Encourage employees to take advantage of in-network providers to reduce co-payments. Promote the use of formulary and/or generic medications. Use mail order […]

Lighting the way

Mood lighting helps to set the tone and create an atmosphere for all kinds of restaurants and businesses. But a new survey by The Creative Group, a California-based staffing service, shows that the office environment can play a big part in your employees’ creativity, not just in customer perception. Things such as office layout, dcor […]

Incentive to share

At many professional service firms, the emphasis is on the individual. Employees work alone, acquire their own clients and are rewarded for their individual efforts. While this methodology may be good for the individual, it’s probably not good for the company as a whole, says Jim Hill, managing partner of Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff […]