Recently East Hills restaurant Gaia Cafe announced it would be closing which was so upsetting to its staff and regular customers that they have gone about exploring options for purchasing the business from its current owner, Rick Van Dam. They initially considered...
By Rieva Lesonsky, courtesy of SCORE , at the blog post here Most Grand Rapids area businesses, regardless of size, understand the importance of having an online presence. In fact, it’s become expected for just about all businesses to have a website and,...
In preparation for Bill Costantino’s GRAPE talk on Thursday, I’m reposting a review from 2011 by Tim McMahon, author of the blog A Lean Journey I usually have quite a list of books to read. This is compounded by all those who would like me to review their...
It’s a challenging time for everyone in America’s quickly morphing healthcare landscape. Families who have been squeezed for years between paying higher shares of premium costs and higher deductibles now wonder whether they will be able to pay for insurance at all, or...
The following is an account revealing the “implosion” that can occur within large organizations from the top down when Executives micromanage. Jane was hand selected to assist with building a complex department for a large non-profit organization. Her entire...
By Daniel Belanger What is a QR code? The textbook definition of a QR Code is a two-dimensional bar code created by Japanese corporation Denso-Wave in 1994. The “QR” is derived from “Quick Response.” A type of Matrix or Two Dimensional bar-code. Rather than use a...
