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It’s Not Just Sony Pictures Facing Security Issues – It’s Pharmacy!
Editor’s Note: Steve Jenkin has an interest in cybersecurity and is the “go to” person for i2P in these matters. The recent hacking of Sony in the US when it was about to release a movie based on the North Korean dictator (and the hackers also thought to be the North Korean government) illustrated vividly…
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Visual Grammar – a Great Advertising Technique
The people that developed the Smart Draw software have come up with a series of advertorials that are both unique and have application as part of a manager’s tool kit. They have intrigued me with their style so that I not only use their software but I am now republishing their advertorials free of charge.…
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Company Culture – Trends in 2015
We all visualise that we have a great company culture (if we are using a pharmacy company structure) and that everything is green in the garden. We are one big happy family. Are you sure about that? How do you develop and promote your culture? Are you aware that it is central to your success…
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Mobile is Eating the World
Some of the figures for mobile phone use are staggering. The take home message is that you cannot avoid engaging mobile phones with your business/practice, or face a disruption that may prove almost impossible to reverse. Given that pharmacists were once avid users of technology and were some of the first to embrace the Internet,…
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Internet Trends over 2014
Those of you that follow Internet trends or are planning an Internet presence may find the slideshow below of interest. Keeping ahead of everything disruptive is the strategy for today and that requires a lot of help. This slideshow helps fill such information gaps. KPCB Internet trends 2014 from Kleiner Perkins
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Instant-start computers possible with new breakthrough
To encode data, today’s computer memory technology uses electric currents – a major limiting factor for reliability and shrinkability, and the source of significant power consumption. If data could instead be encoded without current – for example, by an electric field applied across an insulator – it would require much less energy, and make things…
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On The Other Side Of Christmas
Many pharmacies rely on Christmas trading to fill revenue gaps that may have occurred over the year. December turnover in pharmacy usually is around 50% above the average of the preceding 11 months and often requires taking high risk. That risk is getting higher with discount pharmacies continually expanding their market share. Also, Internet retailers…
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Lessons From Santa
No matter how you celebrate the holidays, or even which holidays you celebrate, chances are you know about Santa Claus. The jolly old elf brings merriment to the season, but he also teaches us many valuable lessons. Of course, the first is the value of giving. Aside from milk and cookies, Santa doesn’t get anything…
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Organisational Styles of Management – Some Charting Views
One of the criticisms that i2P has leveled at pharmacy proprietors/managers and their leadership body, the Pharmacy Guild of Australia is their style of management. It has always been a top down hierarchical style that is slow-moving and now out of date. It concentrates excessive power at the executive end of the organisation, with members…
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Medicines That Matter – Drug Schedules Administered by Pharmacists
It’s taken a long time for pharmacy proprietors and their leadership body to take a good look and this sector of medicines and actually do something with it. But at least it is being reviewed and that has to be a plus. Another sector, with only a handful of scheduled items within it is the…