The classic mindset is to try to get a business plan or product 95% right before taking action. This is great in theory, but it rarely works. Why? Because as soon as you ship the product you immediately recognize its fatal flaws. By then, it’s often too late to change the packaging, the marketing or the product itself.

Think saving energy will require costly new equipment or complicated changes to your operating practices? Not necessarily. Here are twenty low or no-cost steps you can take to improve efficiency using in-house expertise. You may be surprised to discover how these simple changes will cut your energy bills.

Throughout the United States, the Business Software Alliance (BSA), headquartered in Washington DC, is looking for businesses that are not in compliance with software licensing, which is what we all agree to when we install software. You know that annoying check box next to “do you agree” when you load your software that you just check so you can get to work? Next to that is “laywerese” language no one reads but in fact is a legal document that is binding, and, if not followed, will cost you dearly.

...When a company shifts its production for U.S. markets to a foreign country, it transforms U.S. GDP into imports. Every time a U.S. company offshores goods and services, it adds to the U.S. trade deficit.