Operational maintenance is an issue with the companies of any size and industry are facing. Where working industrially, there arises wear, regular maintenance is required. Large enterprises employ for this purpose usually company private, exclusively for those activities Staff responsible. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs), however, rarely have sufficient human and financial capacity.

In his dissertation presents Prof. Dr. Andreas Weissenbach, course director in mechanical engineering at the Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg Mosbach, using case studies and simulations, a concept for an enterprise-wide maintenance of SMEs. In a pilot project this completely new way of cooperative use of resources will now be put into practice.

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With desired software also unnecessary additional software is often installed / elimination often possible / all steps of the installation process carefully perform laborious and sometimes only by resetting Windows / Some providers obscure options for deactivating useless additional tools during installation

Who searches the Internet for useful freeware or shareware for your own computer, lands in the search often occur in download managers. At first glance, these applications promise useful features like a faster or paused downloads and protection against viruses. However, said aid programs over the desired by the user application also install these "Download wrapper" often unwanted software, especially specific toolbars for the Internet browser. Particularly annoying: Some of these additional programs nest after installation so deeply into their own system, they can be removed only with difficulty and a greater expenditure of time again. then helps partly even only resets Windows. This is indicated by the magazine PC World in its new issue (6 / 2013, 3 EVT. May). Readers learn it well, which download manager should avoid them better.

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Planning for Success and sustained profits!

How can the butcher estimate how his decisions will affect his business? What if an investment in a new cutter or filler is planned, a shop needs to be rebuilt? Is he perhaps planning a new branch, or are there wage increases or new employees? Does he just want to know how economical his branches actually are?

All these questions and especially the effects on the profit and the liquidity of the company cannot be answered by the tax advisor with his bookkeeping! When in doubt, the butcher, as an entrepreneur, has to rely on his gut instinct and rely on the help of the house bank.

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Almost 9 percent more franchisees than 2011 and even 10 percent more jobs in franchising compared to last year - these are the main results of the current statistics for the development of the franchise industry in Germany 2012. To ensure that growth is significantly stronger than in previous years. In absolute figures that last year more than 72.700 franchisees (2011: 66.900) means 546.200 employees (2011: 496.300) employed. This very positive development is completed by a slight increase in overall sales of the industry by about one percent to 61,2 billion euros. Only when the number of franchisor a marginal decline of 990 985 on systems should be noted.

By industries, the service sector is a significant growth in 48 percent of the largest area (plus 8 2011% against). This is followed by the trade, in the 27 percent of all systems are located (minus 5 2011% against). Light has gained the hospitality industry with 17 percent (plus 1 2011% against). The craft could not keep the growth from the previous year and now stands at 8 percent (minus 4 2011% against).

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The narcissistic a CEO, the higher its willingness to introduce new technology in his or her company - especially when these innovations are perceived by the public as "beneficial", but risky. This connection could first prove in a study carried out together with the IMD in Lausanne and the Pennsylvania State University study, researchers of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU). Their findings will be published shortly in the prestigious journal Administrative Science Quarterly.

Personal computer, online news, e-books, and low-cost airlines: These are just some examples of groundbreaking - so-called "discontinuous" - innovations that appeared in principle to contradict their time the existing business understanding and hence all markets swirled. What but it depends on whether an established company committing to a discontinuous technology or not? In one study, Wolf-Christian Gerstner and Andreas König studied (both University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) and Albrecht Enders (IMD, Lausanne) and Donald C. Hambrick (Pennsylvania State University) possible factors using the example of the reaction of traditional pharmaceutical companies to biotechnology between 1980 and 2008. The result: more than previously thought, the decision is for or against investing into a discontinuous technology of the personality of the CEOs and his ego.

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Companies that are versatile and can changing market and environmental conditions respond rapidly in the global economy have a strategic competitive advantage over the competition. In Project DyWaMed the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI has for the first time empirically detected based on a survey of more than 200 high-tech companies, such as adaptability potential can be measured and what measures are appropriate to sustainably increase the adaptability of enterprises. The results were summarized in a brochure and also be in the form of an online benchmarking tools.

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Study examines the success of different approaches - for coalition talks is not good compromise

Who uncompromising evident in negotiations so that drives better than representatives of a "soft" line usually. But that is not necessarily true when negotiating with the female sex is - then a strategy of mutual concessions possibly more promising. The show researchers the University of Lüneburg and the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster in a recent study. Another result: Uncompromising hardness can indeed be short sensible compromise the long-term cooperation but. For coalition talks as now in Schleswig-Holstein, this strategy therefore rejects probably less. The publication will be published shortly in the prestigious Journal of Management, but is already available online.

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Global trade in animals and food will rise in the coming years clearly closer together the world even closer. This will cause pollution, but also dangerous pathogens can spread rapidly around the globe. The agri-food industry, but also the public sector see thereby put enormous challenges, technical and organizational solutions must be developed, data and exchanged mainly knowledge.

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Prof. Andrea Calabrò (30) explores the governance structures of family businesses

The business Chair of the Witten Institute for Family Business (WIFU) of the University of Witten / Herdecke has been filled with a native of Italy Prof. Andrea Calabrò. He is an expert on the research around family, especially with a focus on corporate governance and internationalization of family businesses. Already since April 2011 was Prof. Andrea Calabrò in Witten as Acting Chair active, now the appeal process has been finalized by the ministerial approval.

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The topic Interim management is new to many companies. Temporary problem solvers who take over the management of projects or programs for temporary vacancies, win, given the lack of

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The German food industry is in spite of the financial and debt crisis quite optimistic 2012. While the industry can not expect improvements in their sometimes difficult earnings situation, but in the light of an expected stable domestic demand and further growth in the export business, the local food producers are for expansion and investment ready, as Dr. Otto A. Strecker, member of the AFC Consulting Group in Bonn, on the occasion of this year's entrepreneurs tags Food Retail Association Germany (HDE) and the Federal Association of the German Food industry (BVE) on 19. and 20. Notes March 2012 in Cologne. The Entrepreneur Day is this year under the motto "create value".

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