The News Review:
- Veros Releases Latest Real Estate Market Valuation Forecasts
- Pitney Bowes Management Services Showcases Records Management …
- Technology Managers Forum Recognizes Best Practices in IT Management
- Synygy’s Latest Executive Education Series Focuses on Sales …
- Insurance Agency Network Selects Partner XE as Their Agency …
- Lenox Wealth Management, Inc. Declares Dividend
Veros Releases Latest Real Estate Market Valuation Forecasts
MarketWatch
-based Veros Real Estate Solutions, a proven leader in
enterprise risk management and collateral valuation services, announced
from the 95th Annual Mortgage Bankers
Association Conference and Expo, the results of the company’s
latest 12-month forecast for the nation’s
residential real estate markets covering the period from Sept. 1, 2008
through Sept. The forecasts, based upon the VeroFORECAST models reflect projected
market gains and declines for single family residences in most major
metropolitan areas and a large number of non-metro areas resulting in
coverage of 75 percent of the nation’s
population. Veros delivers forecast data on geographic levels that
include CBSA, county and zip codes as well as by property type and price
range.
Related: Equity investing: Sell, buy or wait?
Pitney Bowes Management Services Showcases Records Management …
MarketWatch
The session, “Decisions, Decisions,
Decisions: How Long? What Format? How to Let Go?”
will address information surrounding records management governance
requirements, from creation, execution and special projects, to final
deposition. It also will address:
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Minimizing real estate costs associated with records storage;
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Determining the most efficient and cost-effective media for retention;
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Effectively managing hybrid records;
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Eliminating fees from storing documents beyond business needs. Attendees to ARMA can also learn about PBMS solutions offerings for
records and information management at Booth #336. As a leading provider of document processing and records management,
PBMS helps optimize the management of content, information and records
throughout an organization to help customers better manage key content
challenges.
Technology Managers Forum Recognizes Best Practices in IT Management
MarketWatch
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey receives an honorable
mention in the Business Process Improvement category, as does Prudential
Douglas Elliman along with technology partner Gig Werks. In the
Information Security category the first place winner is the United
States Postal Service. In the Storage Management category, Hilton Grand
Vacations Club along with technology partner 3PAR is the first place
winner, with Grey Healthcare Group and technology partner FalconStor
Software receiving an honorable mention. All winners were chosen from nominations from organizations in the
United States, Europe and Asia. As Technology Managers Forum’s
Best Practice Awards program moves into its 15th year, it upholds its
significant contribution to the establishment of benchmark best
practices for IT management in large enterprises. SOURCE: Technology Managers Forum
Technology Managers Forum
Priscilla Tate, 212-787-1122
Executive Director
ptate@techforum. com
Copyright Business Wire 2008.
Synygy’s Latest Executive Education Series Focuses on Sales …
MarketWatch
, a recognized authority on sales performance and sales
compensation management, today announced that the focus of its next
Executive Education Series is Sales Operations Management (SOM). This
latest series kicks-off on Wednesday, October 29, at 2:00PM ET with a
live webcast, Quota Setting: Best Practices and Land Mine Avoidance. The online event,
the first in a new interactive series on ten essential components of
effective sales force management, will explore the challenges in setting
and communicating quotas and the impact on sales force effectiveness. Synygy managing consultant Erich Sachse and Sales Incentive Planning
senior manager Jeff Echternach of Wyeth Pharmaceuticals will discuss
best practices for designing and managing quotas that help achieve sales
targets, reduce sales force turnover, and ease the operational burden of
quota setting. Attendees of this webcast will gain insight into:
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Ten symptoms indicating a quota setting problem
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Commonly-used quota setting methodologies–and
their strengths and weaknesses
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Best practices around designing and communicating quotas to your sales
force
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Challenges in the quota-setting process–and
how to overcome them
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How Wyeth improved sales force effectiveness with better quota setting
and communication
To register for the October 29 online discussion visit.
Insurance Agency Network Selects Partner XE as Their Agency …
MarketWatch
, Oct 20, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) –
Strategic Insurance Software (SIS), a leading provider of agency
management systems, announced today that Insurance Agency Network (IAN)
has selected SIS’ Partner XE management
system. IAN, a partnership of agents focused on the Massachusetts
market, determined that it needed a dynamic product that could handle
its needs today and as it grows. “With the Massachusetts market in such a state
of flux we knew we needed an agency management system that could grow
with us as our organization and needs evolved,”
said Paul Brennan, founding partner of IAN. “We
looked at all the major systems out there and really felt strongly that
Partner XE has everything we need in a management system today and
tomorrow. ”
“Insurance Agency Network is a prime example
of a forward-thinking agency,” said SIS
Product Manager Nolan Davis. “IAN understands
the components needed to be a successful business in today’s
market. SIS is pleased to bring them into our family of agencies already
on Partner XE.
Related: Preeminent Insurance Attorney Jerold Oshinsky Joins Gilbert …
Lenox Wealth Management, Inc. Declares Dividend
MarketWatch
(Pink Sheets: LNXW) announces its Board of
Directors declared a cash dividend of 20 cents per share at its Board of
Directors Meeting held on October 17, 2008. The dividend is being paid
to shareholders of record on October 31, 2008 and is payable on November
14, 2008. Lenox Wealth Management provides wealth management and family office
services to executives and retirees of the Procter & Gamble and Scripps
companies in Cincinnati. The company was originally founded in 1887 by
William Cooper Procter to meet the financial needs of Procter & Gamble
families. It was originally chartered as a thrift institution. The
thrift was sold in 2003 and the company was repositioned as an
independent fee only Registered Investment Advisory (RIA) with current
assets of $500 million. The Corporation’s common stock is traded on Pink Sheets under the symbol
“LNXW.