http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Douglas+Luchansky Business Management Douglas Luchansky Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=296654&ca=Business+Management What is your organizational culture? Is it entrepreneurial? Work hard, play hard? Do you value team work or innovation? If organizational culture is “the way things get done around here”, then being realistic about your culture can help you define your best manufacturing strategy. There are a lot o... Business Management Douglas Luchansky Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=292363&ca=Business+Management In an age when the platitude “The customer is always right” has morphed into the more alarming maxim “An unhappy customer can blog about it”, Customer Relationship Management would seem to be getting a new spin. The reasoning goes like this: the internet has forever changed our world and we must cha... Business Douglas Luchansky Sun, 04 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=250046&ca=Business You are sitting at your desk at work and you take a look around you. What do you see? Aside from that coffee stain on the rug that someone needs to tell janitorial about, and a ficus in desperate need of water, you probably see people. Friends, colleagues, employees -- human capital? Well, yes. Thi... Business Douglas Luchansky Tue, 25 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=211297&ca=Business When you study history, you see that the challenges society faces are cyclical in nature. If you get nostalgic for the good old days, watch the local television station that rebroadcasts shows from the 70’s. You might notice the hot issues look awfully familiar: saving the environment, the energy cr... Business Management Douglas Luchansky Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=207110&ca=Business+Management Yes, the times they are a changing, that has always been true … but with technology in the picture, the changes are so rapid that what we learned yesterday is likely to be outdated tomorrow. In today’s world we must never stop learning, and if we have a workforce, we must never stop teaching. We use... Business Management Douglas Luchansky Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=200322&ca=Business+Management I have consulted with hundreds of companies, derived from many industries, over the past 10 or 15 years. I have seen it all – everything from mom-and-pop “stores” to multi-state, multi-national companies. What has continued to amaze me is how many not only started out on QuickBooks, but have contin... Business Management Douglas Luchansky Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=195455&ca=Business+Management If you are ready to switch accounting software for your business, you know there are hundreds of publishers ready to take your money, as well as thousands of system implementers. There are hosted solutions, web-based solutions, pc-based solutions, MAC solutions – the choices are overwhelming. Here... Business Management Douglas Luchansky Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=189461&ca=Business+Management As a software integrator and systems specialist, I’ve helped implement scores of ERP and business software systems over my career. One day I thought – “could I bar code my children?”. I have six children, and I felt there had to be a better way to know when they left (sales), when they got back (rec... Business Management Douglas Luchansky Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=184322&ca=Business+Management Businesses are increasingly relying on non-domestic production of product. Both U.S. and foreign-owned companies are purchasing their product from other countries then selling and distributing locally, regionally, or nationally. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions for companies that import...