Buying “green” Selling “green” and Living “green”

In today’s economy it can pay to be “green.”  As Earth Day approaches we’ve mined the ACCTivate! customer database and have noticed three trends:  buying “green”, selling “green” and living “green.” For the most part, these are not companies staffed by people with activist approaches.  They are companies that have recognized the commercial and competitive [...]

Stay on course in challenging times

“The worst economic times – the Great Depression – was actually a rich period of management reinvention…Enterprises outperformed competitors and actually grew by excelling in understanding and satisfying customers’ changing needs.”    - Harvard Business Review: Editor’s Blog, June 2008 “Companies that delay investments [in current strategy] may forego significant growth opportunities when uncertainty subsides and [...]

Who’s that knocking at my door?

Cyber security is a hot topic.  It has gone from a bunch of precocious adolescents with too much time on their hands to international spies and criminals.  The stories are circulating around the news media about the evil doers who are knocking at our doors to retrieve our identities, our personal data including credit cards [...]