Anders Mikkelsen

The Management Myth

This is a good article in The Atlantic – The Management Myth. Summary: Most of management theory is inane, writes our correspondent, the founder of a consulting firm. If you want to succeed in business, don’t get an M.B.A. Study philosophy instead Notes: Philosophy is important. A key question should be – how do we

01
Feb

Interview With O’Neal Steel

Prime Advantage, an amazing industrial buying group we encourage our manufacturing clients to work with, did a great interview with O’Neal Steel. O’Neal steel is a leading large steel company (service center) with dozens of locations and thousands of employees, exactly the kind of company we like to work with. They’re family owned and have

27
Jan

Save Money With R+D Tax Credits

If your company pays federal taxes, like many you may not know all about the new IRS federal tax credits of 6.5 % for all spending on product development, especially employee salaries. Many companies aren’t aware of these new tax rules and just how much more is covered today, but our tax experts are. The

30
Dec

How Mortgage Industry Problems Parallel Vendor Cost Management

Today’s news shows that Allstate is suing Countrywide (owned by Bank of America) for misrepresenting the mortgage investments Countrywide sold Allstate. You can read a good analysis here. http://www.zerohedge.com/article/how-allstate-used-sampling-confirm-bofacountrywide-lied-about-virtually-everything-selling-m?goback=.gde_40850_member_38750536 Allstate claims to have had no idea what is was really buying, just like most firms have no idea what they’re really buying from their telecom

01
Dec

Volume Commitment Telecom Agreements: With a Focus on AT&T’s MARC Contracts and You

This is an in depth how-to guide for IT, finance, procurement, and legal, and relevant to telecom and IT contracts generally. Readers are encouraged to contact us for a full more official version of this guide. We’ve found that many of our clients come to us with signed Volume Commitments, especially AT&T contracts with

18
Aug

Free Wi-Fi and Security

We got a fascinating piece of spam today from free wifi robin dot com. It brings up interesting security concerns. Their product helps one get on wifi networks, it is unethical and looks very slick. Not the kind of free we recommend. Basically the $160 solution will crack WEP WiFi networks. Due to the crummy

18
Aug

How Even Good Sites Can Fail At Web Marketing 101

There is nothing better when you have a web site than having powerful pages that speaks directly to their target audiences and are easy to find. A page that makes the customer want to take action – to click and buy or ask a sales rep for a meeting so they can buy. We saw

30
Jun

Visibility—Key to Network Cost Management

[Download one pager on Visibility.] Visibility is the key to managing any cost, including network costs. Surprisingly even smaller firms have network management systems that give visibility in to the network and make tight management possible, yet they aren’t provided with network cost management systems that give them visibility it to their costs. This makes

02
Feb

Wireless International Roaming

We’ve recently found clever solutions for wireless, especially people with international roaming. Most people agree that Verizon Wireless has the best network for the US. But they’re the most expensive and their international network isn’t the best. Plus international roaming is very expensive. AT&T Wireless and T-Mobile are popular for international travelers, but they’re expensive