Study pizza delivery / Incompetent and unfriendly staff costs to average 30 minutes - Joey's is test winner

Whether spontaneous party, soccer game or evening because the desire is missing for cooking. Delivery services promise easy ordering, fast operation and immediate Pizza enjoyment. But what about in times of analog cheese and ham imitations of the quality of products? Who can convince priced? And who provides fast and as fresh from the oven?

The German Institute for Service Quality has now examined six supraregional pizza delivery services that are represented in at least two of the three largest German cities Berlin, Hamburg and Munich. As part of a comprehensive service analysis, the delivery quality, friendliness and competence on the phone as well as the websites of the providers were analyzed. In addition, the product range and the prices of the pizza suppliers were examined carefully.

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In 2008 49 percent of businesses used in the search for suitable staff personal contacts of its employees. For micro-enterprises with fewer than ten employees, the figure was 53 percent. For large enterprises with 200 or more employees on the other hand less than a third used social networks. This is the result of a study by the Institute for Employment Research (IAB).

In large farms formal structures are often established in filling vacancies, according to the IAB. By contrast, information could be incorporated easily informally in small businesses through greater social proximity. Overall 29 percent of new hires came about through networks.

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German give not less / consumer demand stable thanks to subsidy policy

Despite the crisis, the holiday shopping 2009 is under no bad star. The Germans put the gifts purchase but clear priorities. Although - as the West Europeans as a whole - give more optimistic than last year, they buy more targeted and sustainable model: In addition to the price-performance ratio, especially the utility plays an increasing role. Both in the budget as well as in the number of recipient no reductions are provided.

Average plant each about 485 euros for Christmas one: 300 euros for presents and 185 euros for the festivities. These are some results of the Deloitte reports "Xmas 2009: the rebound", western to the consumer in 18 and were interviewed Eastern European countries. In Germany participated 1.754 people.

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Trade increased advertising spending in the crisis - discounters are investing more in TV - organic range and local presence ensure stable sales in the discount

The trade defies the crisis - in the advertising market: Trading has its gross advertising expenditure compared with the same period last year, according to Nielsen Media Research to 5,2 percent to a total 3,6 billion euro increase (each January to September). Primary beneficiaries TV (+ 37,7 percent) and Internet (+ 41,5 percent). A decent increase of 26,3 percent also listed poster advertising.

Commercials - the strongest in the field of trade advertising medium - contrast forfeit 2,7 percent. However, the biggest loser in the field of trade advertising are the popular magazines with a loss of 16,3 percent. The discounter discover now the advertising medium TV: While 2008 2,7 total percent of the budget was invested in television, there are 2009 already 4,9 percent. This resulted in an analysis of SevenOne Media in the new publication "markets in sight - discounters in food retailing".

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EU wants to protect consumers - and leaves them in the dark

After analog cheese, ham and form "shrimp" from fish remains the call is reactivated for more consumer protection. Outraged consumers demand better education and protection against dubious tricks of the food industry. But in some areas, the EU strives for a long time to stand aside and their citizens to prevent dubious marketing strategies: For health claims on packaging there will soon be a Europe-wide positive list - all other statements are prohibited. Whether this strict regulation is, however, benefit consumers, remains questionable.

Hardly any other industry has currently so strong fight against their "bad boy" image as the food industry: Association spokesman regularly on talk shows and panel discussions whipping boy, the anger of consumers always discharges to manufacturers who want to market seemingly cheapest goods at great expense. That the issue of food often leads to very emotional debates, is obvious. Not only that, no one wants to eat low-quality products with a certain ick factor: Food makes today for far more than saturation and enjoyment. Eating should give the necessary strength for a busy life, eat to keep fit and healthy. Food is lifestyle, wellness, often a status symbol. At least, the advertising industry has for years communicated to consumers, thus giving them a good life. "Delicious and healthy" are often the criteria by which the customer's choice of goods at the supermarket - with the comforting faith to do his body any good.

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Given the demographic changes companies need to adapt to an aging workforce. Adequate organization of working time helps to maintain health and working capacity of employees. In Project KRONOS KIT researchers have examined working time models that are the process of aging needs. Based on the results, they recommend among other shift patterns with fast forward rotation and customized long-term accounts with credit balances can be used according to the needs of workers.

Part-time work, short breaks, age-appropriate shift patterns and long-term accounts are among the instruments, dealt with by the research group led by Professor Peter Knauth at the Institute of Industrial Management and Industrial Production (IIP) of KIT in the context of KRONOS. In the now completed study on "working life models - opportunities and risks for the company and the employee" is a sub-project of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Priority program "Age work systems". The KRONOS final report has just been published in Universitätsverlag Karlsruhe.

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Intuitive knowledge management with semantic language technology

Scientists at the TU Darmstadt are currently developing a software based on semantic language technology in the research project "Wikulu - self-organizing wikis", which should help solve the problem of confusing and redundant knowledge collections, for example in companies.

For a long time there have been wiki software in companies, with which important information should be made easily accessible to other employees internally. Wikis have many advantages for companies: You can add information to a wiki quickly and from almost anywhere. Others can access them and update and extend them if necessary.

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The phenomenon is not new: Despite strong demand from young people every year numerous training places remain unfilled. The proportion of companies with unfilled training courses varies between 10 and 20 percent - with partly rising. How can this mismatch between high demand of young people and cast difficulties of enterprises explain? And - more importantly - how can this be overcome in the future? The companies call mainly lack of capacity and lack of motivation of young people as reasons why they could not find a suitable candidate. But that is enough to justify?

The Federal Institute for Vocational Training (BIBB) has found in a survey of more than 1.000 establishments that, reasons are also on the part of companies, ie the providers of apprenticeships that training places remain unfilled.

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Not only by clothing or hair fashion can be socially and culturally, gender stereotypes to express. The shape how and what we eat, still constructed in our society sex. This is the conclusion the social scientist Dr. Jana Rückert-John of the University of Stuttgart-Hohenheim and the educationist and theologian Dr. Hans came Prömper, director of the Frankfurt CEF Bildungswerk.

Under the 12. aid Forum refereed both scientists on "Men want more women want better - nourishing communication gender perspective". Socially shaped and corny assignments like "Typically male - typically female" are, says Dr. Jana Rückert-John, not only when parking, but also at the stove or grill and eating commonplace.

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The Chair of Business Administration, in particular Business Informatics III (Prof. Dr. Michael Amberg) of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, in collaboration with the consulting firm Detecon, has investigated the support of business goals by IT in companies in a comprehensive study. It showed that there is still a considerable potential for improvement in the alignment of IT with the requirements of companies.

In many companies today, IT enables market and growth potential. She is increasingly required to contribute directly to the business success of the company. To meet these requirements, while at the same time gaining strategic value for the company, requires a comprehensive alignment of the use of IT with the business activities of the company. This orientation is typically referred to as business IT alignment.

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The current economic crisis affects the manufacturing industry particularly strongly. Drastic drops in orders mean that the capacities reserved can no longer be fully utilized. But there is also a chance in every crisis. The low capacity utilization offers the possibility to design processes and processes in the production area holistically and sustainably. In order to achieve a lean production, a variety of optimization methods has become established.

As part of the study "Increasing added value", the Fraunhofer IAO is investigating the dissemination of such process optimization methods in manufacturing companies. The study focuses on the value stream method. The value stream method looks at the entire value chain and thus enables a transparent analysis of material and information flows in order to identify potential for improvement and to identify weak points. All the activities necessary to bring a product from the input material through the production into the hands of the customer are included in the investigation, waste is reduced and thus the added value is increased.

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