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During these rough economic times, a lot of companies are skimping on wages and employees but with these drastic measures comes a lot of employee distrust and unhappiness. How can a company save up on expenses while still maintaining high employee moral? Our advice is to be creative – like give other incentives when cutting down on wages. An example would be to give a week’s vacation to the mountain outdoors.

So why should your company use this strategy when you can save more by not giving incentives in the first place? Well, with the incentive program, employees will get to take time off from work. They will have a chance to de-stress their bodies and most importantly, they will have a feeling that management still cares for them – and that is what is important in your case. Even better, with someone taking a vacation, you will save on other expenses like electricity, water and other necessities.

Just be mindful to calculate that you actually save some money when giving away that all expense paid trip okay? It can be calculated easily and we are pretty sure you already know how to. Happiness equates to efficiency – so start making strategies that will not only save you some cash but also some employee moral.

Geography divides the planet Earth into large chunks of land called the seven continents. But economy simplifies the world only into three– Americas Division, Europe, and Asia. These three are the major economic regions in the world.

The Americas Division is the biggest economic region. It is mainly comprised of the North and South America and Australia. Europe follows with the EU countries as its majority and Asia, the smallest among the three that includes all Asian countries and the former sleeping giant – China.

According to Fortune’s Global 500 for the year 2008, five of the top 10 corporations are from the Americas Division, four from Europe, and one from Asia. The top 5 corporations were – Wal-Mart, Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell, BP, and Toyota Motor. Wal-Mart and Exxon Mobil have a combined revenues of USD 751.6 billions and they rank first and second respectively in the Americas Division. Europe on the other hand houses Royal Dutch Shell and BP whose revenues add up to USD 647.2 billions. And the fifth placer in the global ranking, Toyota Motor recorded revenues of USD 230.2 billions and ranking first in Asia. But in terms of net profits, Exxon Mobil tops the global ranking with USD 40.6 billions followed by General Electric with USD 22.2 billions and both corporations are from the Americas Division.

In starting a business, the first question you need to answer is – what industry would you like your business to be part of? In any business, whether it’s a big corporation or a small and medium-sized business, it makes a lot of difference if one would carefully select the right industry.

There are a lot of ways to gauge an industry. But coming up with a criteria compose of not just one factor, would really be a helpful guide in picking the right industry. There are three common measures for an industry and they are – market size, growth rate, and profitability.

The most obvious and easiest measure is market size. An industry’s market size is the total monetary worth of the demand in an industry. In 2008, the biggest industry in terms of market size was the banking at least USD 74.2 trillions of worldwide assets. Another measure that can be considered as a complement to market size is growth rate. If an industry’s market size does not grow or it stagnates, that means its demand is not growing – no business will ever grow if demand does not grow. Banking is not only the biggest industry in terms of market size but also the fastest growing according to Fortune’s 2008 Global 500 with a growth in revenues of 26.5% from 2006. Lastly, the third measure is profitability. In measuring profitability, Return on Revenues and/or Return on Assets are commonly used. Although it is the biggest and fastest growing industry, banking only ranked 8th in terms of profitability with 10.4% change from 2007. Mining and Crude-oil Production was the most profitable industry in 2008 with its 19.8% Return on Revenues and Pharmaceuticals comes in second with 17.7%.

Business Process Management and Business Transformation Outsourcing are options that one company can add to its strategy. But knowing the similarities and difference between these two can help companies weigh more carefully the costs, savings, and competitive edge these options bring.

Though BPM started earlier than BTO, both offer technological improvements to a company. But the manner of how they inject and deliver technology to a company is perhaps the major difference between them.

Business Process Management’s key offer is a holistic business process improvement. It triggers critical business processes that are not static or what they refer to as complex dynamic processes involving multiple technologies. On the other hand, BTO solutions tend to put innovation in a company’s business processes by updating them through the injection of the latest applicable technology. This puts BTO as an option that offers a suite of software products focused on processes only and BPM is a management principle that expands the solutions a BTO can offer. BPM is not just innovation but rather it is rooted from modeling to execution. And unlike BTO, BPM’s software products are not just focused to processes but also to the system and the people in it. Hence, the selection between BPM and BTO lies on the kind of change a company is aiming for. If the desired change is specific to a process or processes, then BTO can easily suit the company. Otherwise, BPM would be more suitable for a holistic business process improvement that considers the whole product lifecycle.