The Top 10 Questions for Socially Responsible Leaders

Written by Gala Gorman


The assets of your business traditionally include property, plant, equipment, and your customer base. Progressive organizations understand that business assets also include their good reputation, responsiveness to change,repparttar ability to conduct a constructive dialogue with stakeholders,repparttar 104809 ability to take advantage of networked resources, and a host of other non-traditional assets. Companies are increasingly adopting socially responsible business practices based on sustainable development to ensure efficiency, stimulate innovation, and create top-line growth. This “new” approach to business must reach into every area ofrepparttar 104810 organization to ensure that goals and objectives are in alignment withrepparttar 104811 mission. To beginrepparttar 104812 discovery process, ask yourself these questions:

Leadership

1.Isrepparttar 104813 organization managed with an emphasis on being socially progressive? Today's progressive organization understands what it means to be socially responsible and how that contributes torepparttar 104814 welfare ofrepparttar 104815 organization. Leadership must prioritize values and initiatives and incorporate them intorepparttar 104816 agenda in a way that is in harmony withrepparttar 104817 overall objectives ofrepparttar 104818 organization. At this point, this "new" agenda must be communicated so that all concerned can progress it forward.

2.Doesrepparttar 104819 organization operate using a cost vs. benefit approach taking into consideration intrinsic and consequential costs/benefits? Some may think that emphasizing social responsibility will be a financial drain onrepparttar 104820 organization too great to overcome. If that wererepparttar 104821 case, there would be no case for this new approach to management. Costs must be weighed against benefits – not just obvious costs or benefits. Benefits include increased productivity, customer loyalty, innovation, and countless others.

3.Arerepparttar 104822 finances ofrepparttar 104823 operation managed to ensure long-term prosperity for all concerned? Risk is inherent inrepparttar 104824 business world. A business must invest in itself and its future, evaluatingrepparttar 104825 risk of experimentation and development. Without continuing investmentrepparttar 104826 organization is sure to stagnate, with too much emphasis on growth and development there is an abundance of waste. The organization just can’t keep up. To establish long-term prosperity,repparttar 104827 financial plan must emphasize growth in a sustainable way.

Branding

4.Are printed marketing materials and packaging designed to minimally impactrepparttar 104828 environment? This is a great way to getrepparttar 104829 process started. Evaluating howrepparttar 104830 company presents itself inrepparttar 104831 marketplace can provide immediate opportunities to progressrepparttar 104832 social responsibility agenda. Making appropriate modifications to packaging is a quick way to gain some exposure and momentum. The entire life cycle of production materials and packaging should be considered and designs modified to minimizerepparttar 104833 environmental impact.

5.How has product development served to foster innovation and take advantage of advanced technology? The progressive organization is continually improving its processes, systems, and designs. Competition is fast to respond, so there is no time to sit around and wait forrepparttar 104834 next move. The services or products produced must always be ready to evolve torepparttar 104835 next level of usefulness. With an infrastructure that prioritizes creativity and innovation,repparttar 104836 company is always ahead ofrepparttar 104837 pack.

6.Doesrepparttar 104838 organization strive to get to know and understand its customers and their needs? The socially responsible organization recognizes that it must contribute torepparttar 104839 welfare of its customers and meet needs in a way that improves their lives. Sometimes this improvement is highly visible and other times you must stretch a bit to fully comprehend it. Either way, there should be identifiable positive results for customers choosing to make use ofrepparttar 104840 organization’s products or services.

DialResults and Datamanagement Services Merge

Written by Richard Logan


From: Richard Logan November 19, 2003 3:27 PM

Subject: RE: Press Release http://www.dialresults.com DialResults, Inc. and Data Management Services http://www.data-man.com announce merger.

DialResults, Inc., a leader inrepparttar predictive dialer arena, announced today a merger with Data Management Services, a provider of custom software, database development as well as Microsoft® Products.

MESA, ARIZONA – November 21, 2003 – DialResults, Inc., a leader inrepparttar 104808 Predictive Dialing / Call Center industry, announced todayrepparttar 104809 merger with Data Management Services, who provides custom software and database development using Microsoft® technologies –.Net, SQL Server, ASP.Net, Visual Basic, and Access. They also provide Microsoft® Business Solutions Software. The merger will strengthen both companies’ customer service base as well as increaserepparttar 104810 types of products they offer. While atrepparttar 104811 same time, decrease overhead by combining resources and office space.

“It’s not very often you come across two companies who’s core values, work ethic, integrity and energy are so amazingly compatible,” commented Dennis Robbins, DialResults’® President and CEO. “We are very excited about what this merger will mean to our customers as well as to our ability to reach other markets formerly out ofrepparttar 104812 realm of what we offered.”

DialResults is a certified reseller of Dell® computers and Data Management Services is a certified Microsoft® reseller. They also provide Microsoft® Business Solutions – Solomon and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Withrepparttar 104813 combination of these two resources this new collaboration will provide for a broad based coverage of what both companies’ customers look for when seeking hardware and software solutions.

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