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Pareto’s Fractal Nature: A Powerful Tool

By Tim J. Smith, PhD September 3, 2003

Nearly everyone is familiar with “The 80/20 Rule.” Almost as many are familiar with its more accurate name, “Pareto’s Law.” The basic…

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Breaking Taboos

By Tim J. Smith, PhD August 20, 2003

In many ways, the advice and commentary provided in The Wiglaf Journal are ordinary business suggestions: conduct market research; prospect for new…

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Preparing to Outsource

By Tim J. Smith, PhD August 20, 2003

The decision to Outsource IT often begins in the area of corporate finance with a yearning to “save money”. It may be…

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Performance / Execution Integrated Sales and Marketing

By Tim J. Smith, PhD August 6, 2003

The Data-Driven Approach to Creating Customers and Capturing Profitable Revenue Management Science Meets the Creative and Relationship Edge Marketing is often considered…

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Getting Lost on the World Wide Web

By James T. Berger August 6, 2003

The marketing reality is the World Wide Web has become a very crowded and intensely competitive place, and it gets more crowded…

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Itron Raises Stakes in Acquisition Spree

By Tim J. Smith, PhD July 31, 2003

Business research indicates that most acquisitions fail to create value, but a rare few firms are capable of acquiring new businesses and…

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Utilitizing Executive Search – When Does it Make Sense?

By Tim J. Smith, PhD July 23, 2003

With so many high-quality executives out of work, one can wonder what circumstances, if any, call for a company to partner with…

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The Full Contact Sport of Creating Business Customers

By Tim J. Smith, PhD July 9, 2003

Janice & Mike’s Quandary at XYZ Corp. Janice, Salesperson at XYZ Corp: “I have been cold-calling these prospects, but they don’t want…

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Performance Based Contracting: Performance Pitfalls and Structural Solutions in Outsourcing

By Tim J. Smith, PhD July 9, 2003

In the last article, we described how outsourcing has spawned an industry aimed at making it more complicated, time/resource intensive, and disposed…

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Business As Usual

By Tim J. Smith, PhD July 9, 2003

In recent days we’ve been inundated with media coverage and information regarding The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) National Do Not Call Registry.…

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