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Customers are unwilling to entertain higher prices, even if the products involved offer better value than before. George F. Brown, Jr. shares a no-risk strategy that works by offering options.

In the early 70s, The Godfather gave us the immortal phrase “Make him an offer he can’t refuse.” While his line of business was well suited to executing an offer of this kind, most of us are in businesses where the customer can turn down an offer without having to worry about the consequences of saying no to the Godfather.

Arron Fu, VP of Software Development at UniPrint, looks at the security weaknesses in enterprise printing environments and explores the role that technology is playing in safeguarding the printing landscape.

Just as email was 20 years ago, corporate printing environments today are, typically, uncontrolled and unmonitored. Extremely sensitive data is encrypted, safeguarded and highly prized as an asset. For most firms however, this is where the security ends. As soon as a document is sent to a printer, security is often overlooked.

Craig Sullivan, vice president and general manager of International Products for NetSuite, outlines eight ways in which outdated ERP systems can damage your business.

Over the past decade, technology has transformed the broader world of business and consumer applications. Workers interact through mobile devices and social media, with applications increasingly connected over the web. But many ERP deployments remain static in spite of these changes.

We talk to the stock market and forex trader whose contentious comments about the recession to the BBC last year gripped the world’s media.

When business performance is under pressure, the working day can often become more draining than motivating. Kate Lanz of Sandler Lanz outlines how senior executives can lead their battle-weary teams to a place of renewed resilience and vigour.

The much talked-about ‘paperless office’ remains more of a myth than reality—but businesses can still continue to take steps towards it, says Simon Shorthose.

When you learn to know when you’re done with everything the work day throws at you, you’ll free up a lot more time to focus on the things that truly matter, says Jason Womack.

Dennis Stearns identifies five potential game changers that will have an enormous impact on how we live, work and invest in the next ten years.

Statistics show that companies that export tend to do better at home. Sheila Khatri, president of Moti International, has some valuable advice for companies thinking of exporting services to India.

Recently, I was enjoying a café latte with a university professor who is a thought-leader in a cutting-edge field useful to vaccine development. Not only is he smart with a Ph.D., having established his biotechnology company five years ago, he’s also entrepreneurial.

LOC Consulting’s Richard Savery discusses how mobile technologies and a combination of data from internal and external sources can free current BI initiatives from conventional constraints.

Business intelligence (BI) has been heralded as a powerful tool for aiding the decision-making process since the 1990s. Effectively implemented, it can drive efficiency and productivity throughout the business and ensure a more connected, proactive and responsive workforce.

Which category do you fall into? More importantly, which category do your employees fall into? Does the answer really matter? David Dumeresque thinks so—and here he explains why.