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Take Steps Now to Protect Your Independent Status!

Successful Independent Consulting

About two months ago, the California Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in the case Dynamex Operations West Inc. It’s because of this third part of the test that you need to pay attention to how you operate. While operating as a sole proprietorship is certainly legal, it may not be enough evidence under the ABC Test.

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California Supreme Court Ruling Impacts Independent Consulting and Subcontracting – Keep It Legal!

Women in Consulting

By: Henry Telfeian. :: Two months ago, the California Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in the case Dynamex Operations West Inc. It’s because of this third part of the test that you need to pay attention to how you operate, including how you hire subcontractors. Bottom line, the Dynamex decision has made a bad situation worse.

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Can Lean Manufacturing Put an End to Sweatshops?

Harvard Business

Workers specialize in simple, highly routinized operations. They are incentivized to complete operations as quickly as possible. Operations in a Connected World. In the mid-2000s, Nike embarked on a program to introduce lean manufacturing to its apparel suppliers in the developing world. Insight Center.

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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. But exactly how do today’s companies create or update an operating model to match adaptations or wholesale changes in strategy?

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Currency Lessons: Think a Sinking Currency is Always Good For Manufacturers?

MishTalk

How can a business operate when the currency is on a free-fall?" Indian shoppers are not only cutting back on big-ticket purchases such as refrigerators, TVs or expensive branded apparel but even staples including soaps, ketchup and cosmetics. How Can Businesses Operate in A currency Freefall? Crude Daily Chart.

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How Chinese Companies Disrupt Through Business Model Innovation

Harvard Business

The American textile and apparel industries, for example, will tell you that the evidence can be found in the blood on the floor — their blood, on what used to be their floor. Experts continue to debate whether Chinese businesses are truly disruptive. For some industries in the West, this question appears a bit ridiculous.

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Companies Are Working with Consumers to Reduce Waste

Harvard Business

Operations in a Connected World. Some retailers and manufacturers—in the apparel, footwear, and electronics industries—have launched programs to make their customers interested in preserving their products and preventing things that still have value from going to the landfill. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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