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Your Employees, Your Customers and Your Products
I love this Jack Welch quote from a recent Financial times article on the future of Capitalism. "On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world. Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy...your main constituencies are your employees, your customers … Read More
BuildDirect Speaks With Guy Parsons of Value Stream Solutions, Part 1
Every day the news is filled with more bad news regarding the economy. I think that in this type of environment, many companies are paralyzed by the fear of the unknown. My personal take is that there are always things that can be done. The focus needs to be on … Read More
Our Laminate Experiment
We decided to put our laminate floors through some pretty significant, although unscientific, testing standards to see how they would measure. The reason..... Some people assume that the reason that our prices are so low is that the quality is inferior. We decided to install … Read More
Welcome Robbie Banks!
Robert Banks, my friend of over 20 years and co-founder of BuildDirect has recently joined the blogosphere. His role at BuildDirect has him travelling all over the world to develop really strong manufacturing relationships. He is a great story teller and has some very interesting … Read More
What next?
I have been trying to stay away from entering the fray with my opinion on the financial markets. There is enough good commentary out there and anyone who has followed this blog for some time knows from previous posts that this has been coming. (The worst U.S. housing crisis … Read More
Some Manufacturing will come back to the United States – Top 3 Reasons
I read an interesting article that was sent to me by Rob Woods, our Director of Merchandising. The article is titled "An inside look at Logistics from Asia." Full text of the article is HERE. In it, the author who has lived in China for over a year suggests that America will … Read More
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