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Government Contracts Pricing Strategy – Ten Dynamic and Synergistic Pricing Practices

Granite Leadership Strategies

What is the overall average labor rate? What was the actual labor mix? This information is vital in the pre-RFP stage for timely information to your leadership team on the pricing direction, the technical team for feedback on their solutioning price tag, and to your subcontractors, as you shape the top-down target prices.

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Why Amazon’s Grocery Store May Not Be the Future of Retail

Harvard Business

Starting in the mid-1990s, RFID was expected to transform inventory control by using electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects. But the tags never took off, because their cost was never offset by sufficient benefits. It also promised to obviate the need for manual barcode scanning at checkouts.

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German Economist Concludes Refugees Will Ultimately Cost Germany €900 Billion

MishTalk

At his Market Economy Foundation presentation, Raffelhüschen stated that " even with an integration of migrants into the labor market within six years, administrative fees in the long term will cost 900 billion euros." Then again, I am quite confident a big percentage of the migrants will not be in the labor force within six years.

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Is Gathering Real Time "Inflation" Data With Smart Phones a "Game Changer"?

MishTalk

Software automatically tags the location of the products down to the individual store and analyzes the images—items such as meat and produce—to gauge quality differences. In contrast, the Labor Department collects price data by dispatching its staff to collect product prices once a month.

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Crony Capitalism Tribute: Mafia Dons vs. Politicians; Who Really Won the Election?

MishTalk

Following the NEA are a slew of other labor unions — the Carpenters & Joiners Union ($11.2 Will the incentives in the Status Quo be reset to punish rapacious financialization and gaming the system and reward productive investment and labor? million to outside groups. million), the AFL-CIO ($7.6 million) and AFSCME ($6 million).

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9 Out of 10 People Are Willing to Earn Less Money to Do More-Meaningful Work

Harvard Business

Among those “happy few” he met who truly enjoyed their labors, Terkel noted a common attribute: They had “a meaning to their work over and beyond the reward of the paycheck.” The height of the price tag that workers place on meaning surprised us all. The Dollars (and Sense) of Meaningful Work.

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How Low-Paying Retailers Can Adapt to Higher Minimum Wages

Harvard Business

These increases will seriously affect low-wage employers such as retailers and restaurants, which means investors should be asking some tough questions to see which low-wage employers in their portfolios will benefit from the wage hikes and which will lose: How are you increasing your labor productivity? Simplify processes.

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