Business Strategy
Mold Business Index Is Back!
In order to make profits, you need to arm yourself with the right market information.
Read MoreThe Mold Shop Puzzle: Creating Constructive Change: Sales
When a highly effective, natural salesperson’s habits and instincts are closely observed, common characteristics and actions can be readily tracked. So to help you get started in sales, here are two important first steps.
Read MoreFuture Expectations Increasingly Optimistic
Total Mold Business Index for November 2010: 42.5
Read MoreInside the Numbers: Manufacturing Solutions: The Start of Something Big
Manufacturing is the solution to our national problems. We must manufacture our prosperity. Moldmaking on this continent must not just merely survive, it must thrive and expand. Our time is at hand. The next decade must be Manufacturing’s Moment. But it will not happen by accident.
Read MoreRethinking Risk
Risk is a fact of life, particularly so for businesses, which must deal with a wide variety of risk.
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Small Shop HM CS Tool Engineering: The Business Of Customer Service
Despite its location in Cedar Springs, MI—a state that has been hard hit by the economic downturn—CS Tool Engineering, Inc. has landed the 2010 Leadtime Leader Award Small Shop Honorable Mention by constantly investing in technology and offering its customers complete customer service with leadtimes between 10 and 12 weeks.
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Mold Business Index: Underlying Data Show Strong Index Components
The total Mold Business Index is a weighted average of the Sub-Indices for new orders, production, employees, backlog, exports, and supplier deliveries. The Mold Business Index (MBI) for October 2010 is 51.3.
Read MoreIt Is Time to Think About Business Continuity Planning
As the end of 2010 approaches, many businesses are taking some time to reflect on the past year and look ahead to 2011.
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