When you have poorly defined your contract with a business outsourcing company, the quality of the project may suffer severely.
There are many things you can do to verify the project maintains the expected quality when you are using a company other than yours. When you define the objectives for the project you want completed, they [...]

Image by joshdamon via FlickrWhen you decide upon business outsourcing for project needs it is important to verify who the people are who will be working in your business. You should verify the employees as you would your own.
If you run backgrounds tests on your employees, then you should do the same with an outsourcing [...]

Here are some reasons why you might consider outsourcing for your company. Even if you have a small company, you can save time and money by using smart outsourcing.If you are a growing company you might have many projects you need to complete for your expansion. If you are upgrading systems you might have projects [...]

As a business owner, the last thing you want your customers to do is to compare apples with apples. As soon as they compare apples with apples or oranges with oranges, you enter a marketing state called “commodity” pricing. This is a dreaded word in business because selling commodities means selling on price. The vendor [...]

In order to understand how Latent Semantic Indexing is achieved, it is important to know some basic high school math, particularly Cartesian coordinates.
Typically when a search query is sent a term-document matrix is created. The pages that have been previously processed send back results that contain the correct semantic meanings.
All formatting from the pages including [...]

In today’s high-tech Internet world, teleconferencing has become one of the most useful tools to facilitate increased productivity. It is also a very effective way to save time and resources.
Many of us have been at meetings or seminars where we find ourselves drifting off into our own little world whether it be through boredom or [...]

A box of rocks for the purpose of this discussion is a search engine like Google, Yahoo, or MSN. Of the three search engines, Google is the smartest box of rocks. Nevertheless, it is still a box of rocks, that can be fooled some of the time.
Notice that I said, “some of the time.” Yes, [...]

Many years ago when I was an honest to goodness engineer, we called a feature for what it was. If we built a light blue box with white dials that played 500 songs that came bundled with a white a headphone, we’d call it a light blue music box that can play 500 songs that [...]

The second piece of bad news about Google hit the newspapers today. Yes, I meant physical newspaper. Sometimes you have to get your “facts” from places other than online. The news story said that Google would be laying off 300 employees. Imagine that, the darling of Wall Street plans to layoff people. This news [...]

First, let’s get one thing out of the way. In business, you are either in sales or you are in sales support. There is no middle ground. If you are in sales, you will fully understand and appreciate my statement for all its meaning. If you are in sales support, you may object to my [...]