Wayne Spivak

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Radio Interview: "The Finest Hours" with Wayne Spivak, VP AFRAS on Breakthrough Entertainment (Airdate: Jan. 30, 2016) - https://lnkd.in/eEp-U-e

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Many of the questions asked when selecting corporate software are asked in this fashion: “What is the best software for [Fill-in type]”. This is the wrong question; whose answers will invariably yield poor results. There is a reason that most major enterprise system implementations don't fully meet their primary objectives and come in over budget. The right question is: "What is the best software for [fill in the blank] the particular needs or our products/people/processes and our company at… Show more

Many of the questions asked when selecting corporate software are asked in this fashion: “What is the best software for [Fill-in type]”. This is the wrong question; whose answers will invariably yield poor results. There is a reason that most major enterprise system implementations don't fully meet their primary objectives and come in over budget. The right question is: "What is the best software for [fill in the blank] the particular needs or our products/people/processes and our company at this point in time and the reasonably predictable future?" This requires significant self-knowledge, process and introspection.

This course provides an Overview for the project-sponsoring-execs (e.g. the CFO, Controller, VP of Finance) and an in-depth discussion for the actual teams involved in the process to provide a best practice approach to the acquisition of new software for the finance, accounting or related enterprise functions.
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The concept of supply-and-demand in a purely academic fashion makes sense here—Oversupply leads to lower prices, higher demand increases prices, and scarcity of product come higher prices and with a fall-off of demand prices go down—but there is a real-world wrinkle.

When the commodity is people; you’re buying not only skill sets but psyches and behaviors.

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Quoted in story: "...Patience is a virtue: Wayne Spivak isn't worried about losing clients. But the swings in the market mean he may have to work harder to win new ones..."

Wayne Spivak uses QR Codes in his company’s corporate logo and has received the response of either, “Cool! A QR Tag!” or “What’s that?” Both statements have led to more sales.

Wayne Spivak, consulting chief financial officer of SBA Consulting in Bellmore, New York, added, "Every good spy can become a double agent, by either a) leaving your employ or b) job dissatisfaction. Remember, what's good for the goose is good for the gander."

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"Why Most Product Launches Fail" HBR article by Joan Schneider and Julie Hall, April 2011

Risk management is a logical process or approach that seeks to
eliminate or at least minimize the level of risk associated with a
business operation. Essentially, the process identifies any type of situation that could result in damage to any resource within the
possession of the company, including personnel, then takes steps to correct factors that are highly likely to result in that damage.

Many small and mid-size companies complain about their Certified Public Accountant (CPA). Their complaint centers on the fact that their CPA never quite learns their business. Is this necessarily a bad thing?

It depends on what you believe the role of your CPA should be, and in fact what the CPA feels there role actually is. It is this mis-communication that brings disassociation of purpose and leads to the business owner finding a new CPA.

I have been involved in the SMB marketplace for many years.  One continual source of problems for the SMB has been access to the credit markets.</span></span>

In this day of very tight credit controls, the bank you choose is a primary concern.  Too many SMB's pick the "large bank" or the nearest bank or the bank with the snazzy logo to do business with.

The United States military has in its wide arsenal of weapons and assets two unique organizations that can be of great assistance during times of emergencies or training. The diversity within these organizations can supplement or force-multiply existing assets that an emergency manager may have or even require.
What are these not so secret, secret assets?

The United States Coast Guard Auxiliary and the Civil Air Patrol, the United States Air Force Auxiliary.

You're a Small to Mid-sized Business (SMB), and you're the owner.

You may be very profitable, you may be barely profitable. But you are in business, and your business has finance and cash flow issues.

*Journal website is restricted, so it is reprinted above*

Communications with the public before, during and after an emergency are critical to the success of both the mitigation and response phases of that emergency. But what the messages contain, how they are provided, and when can make the difference between success and failure, when it comes to encouraging members of a community to keep emergency food supplies on hand and store them safely.

Letter to the Editor based on a prominent omission in a feature article about the new Commandant of the Coast Guard, ADM Robert Papp.

* Written in 2004, but still valid *

Windows - MAC - Linux the age old question. For servers at least its a no brainier - LINUX

All it takes is communication, which is at the heart of Customer Service, to sooth the savage beast, or at least me. Give me the proper expectation. Make the effort to address my concern. Make me feel like the only customer you have.

* Written in 2004 but still valid today *

Corporate giving to charity

Sure you learn a lot from the best, but I think you can often learn even more from others, especially when they do everything they can wrong.

The Caribbean Basin consists of more than 30 nations, plus the bordering countries in Central and South America. This region has become the world’s foremost aquatic playland, with its miles of pristine beaches, resorts and secluded bays and coves.

Thousands of seagoing vessels ply these waters, from small recreational boats to inter-island vessels, from the major cruise lines to supertankers. Add to this traffic the commercial airlines that fly over the vast maritime portions of the… Show more

The Caribbean Basin consists of more than 30 nations, plus the bordering countries in Central and South America. This region has become the world’s foremost aquatic playland, with its miles of pristine beaches, resorts and secluded bays and coves.

Thousands of seagoing vessels ply these waters, from small recreational boats to inter-island vessels, from the major cruise lines to supertankers. Add to this traffic the commercial airlines that fly over the vast maritime portions of the Caribbean, and we
have the unwelcome possibility of an untimely “landing” in the water. Show less

I was surfing the net the other day, and I must be getting either old or I was just plain tired because I haven't a clue how I found this fascinating program. Its called Open Office 1.1 (http://www.openoffice.org/) by Open Office. All of us who use desktop applications in which we need a word processor, a spreadsheet and a presentation developer should take a look at this package.

Originally written in 1996

Now that society is firmly making headway in this new land, what exactly are the rules? We've all heard through the popular media that there are no rules. No one runs the show. No one is in control. There is no Commander-in-Chief of the Internet (Bill Gates, please take notice).

Articles (both for in-print and for publication on web-sites) for major accounting journals and information technology magazines written between 1995 and 1999.

Topics covered were accounting system software, office technology, networking, operating system reviews, business viability and customer/vendor relations, and a Q & A column.

Articles written are geared to assisting, educating, cajoling members of the Recreational Boating Community to increase their vigilance, when it comes to Recreational Boating Safety.

There are articles relating to such topics as Marine Safety, Search and Rescue, Environmental Protection and Homeland Security. Each topic area is part of the "multi-mission" United States Coast Guard, and as such, are key missions of the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary.

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Articles written are geared to assisting, educating, cajoling members of the Recreational Boating Community to increase their vigilance, when it comes to Recreational Boating Safety.

There are articles relating to such topics as Marine Safety, Search and Rescue, Environmental Protection and Homeland Security. Each topic area is part of the "multi-mission" United States Coast Guard, and as such, are key missions of the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary.

There are over 150 articles and press releases that have been re-printed (all are free to be re-printed) in thousands of boating and other interested venues (magazines and web sites) Show less