December 15, 2011
Los Angeles, California (PRWEB) December 13, 2011
Mutual Insurance Association of Iowa (http://www.MIAI.ORG), recently hosted business speaker Scott Greenberg as a keynote for their 131st Annual MIAI Convention held November 13-15. The attendees included some of the 500 owners of Mutual Insurance Agencies throughout Iowa as well as representatives from them National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies. Greenberg spoke on November 14, 2011 at the Holiday Inn Airport Convention Center in Des Moines on the topic, “Survival of the Finest: Thriving During Times of Change and Adversity”
This annual conference hosted by Mutual Insurance Association of Iowa was designed to motivate their independent insurance agents to operate at peak performance during times of change and adversity. This topic was relevant to Iowa Insurance agencies such as MIAI who have been challenged by bad weather throughout recent years, particularly 2009 when according to the MIAI President Richard Main, the association?s state and county members re-invested over $ 105M back into their local communities.
?I have always enjoyed speaking to insurance agencies as I feel like I can relate to them on certain levels,? says business speaker Scott Greenberg. ?Being in the ?people helping business? is a big responsibility but even more so for insurance agents who play a vital role in sustaining a community when hard times hit.?
In the presentation, Greenberg reminded the insurance agents that they play an important role in helping families get back on their feet when tragedy strikes. He told them that is something that they can be proud of. Greenberg said to use this as an opportunity to demonstrate their value to the community.
As a business speaker who travels around the world for speaking engagements, Scott Greenberg has worked previously with insurance companies such as Cost-U-Less Auto Insurance, Axis Capital, and most recently the Saudi IAIC Cooperative Insurance Company in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. For more information about Scott Greenberg please visit the website at http://www.scottgreenberg.com or call 1-800-450-0432 (or outside the U.S. 1-818-785-5202).
About Scott Greenberg
Greenberg is a professional business speaker specializing in resilience, peak performance, and emotional intelligence. His personal battle with cancer and inspiration from his ?Schindler?s List? holocaust surviving Grandmother are the basis for some of his motivational stories. Since 1993, Scott has spoken to a variety of organizations looking to improve their leadership, customer service and work environment. Clients include Nike, Cargill International, the United Nations and the U.S. Department of the Interior. Scott has written three books on leadership and is a contributing author to ?Chicken Soup for the College Soul.? For more information about Scott Greenberg, visit http://www.scottgreenberg.com or call 1-800-450-0432 (or outside the U.S. 1-818-785-5202).
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November 17, 2011
Columbus, Ohio (PRWEB) November 16, 2011
The Columbus Chamber and its Small Business Council honored top small business leaders in the Columbus Region at the 27th annual Small Business Forum and Leader Awards. The event took place at the Renaissance Columbus Downtown.
The Small Business Leader Awards celebrate an elite group of business owners and entrepreneurs from some of the most successful businesses in Central Ohio. In 2011, the awards were expanded to include five new categories.
?Small businesses help drive the Columbus Region economy,? said Michael Dalby, president and CEO, Columbus Chamber. ?The Small Business Leader Award finalists and recipients represent some of our very best, and the Chamber is pleased to recognize this group of innovative, dedicated and passionate leaders from our business community.?
The 2011 Small Business Award recipients include:
Diversity Leadership
Farah B. Majidzadeh, Resource International, Inc.
Awarded to a minority or woman-owned business leader that has made a direct impact on the marketplace and promotes inclusion in the workplace as well as within the community.
EcoBusiness
Christopher Irion, e-Cycle LLC
Awarded to a local business leader who promotes sustainability in business practices and the environment.
Young Professional Leadership
Derek Grosso, Columbus Young Professionals Club, LLC
Awarded to a young, local business professional already making a considerable contribution within the Region.
Adapt & Innovate
Kristen Harris & Catherine Lang-Cline, Portfolio Creative
Awarded to a business leader or leaders who achieve success in spite of challenges.
Emerging Excellence
Jim Lane, GBQ Redbank Advisors
Awarded to a leader or leaders of a startup business gaining prominence within the Region.
Award finalists and recipients were selected from applications by a panel of Small Business Council and Columbus Chamber representatives. Award finalists had included Justin Spring and Danielle Walton, BringShare and Adept Marketing; Gordon Scherer and Paul Keinath, DataCenter.BZ; Bobby Whitman and Matt Dopkiss, Dynamit; Otto Beatty and Brian Brooks, E.E. Ward Moving & Storage Co. LLC; and J.J. Rodeheffer, Andrew Lynch and Edward Williams, Zipline Logistics.
The Small Business Forum & Leader Awards are produced by the Columbus Chamber and presented by Commerce National Bank with presenting partners Columbus Business First and Honorary Chair Mike Rosati, Rosati Windows. Partners include Alterra Real Estate Advisors, Anthem Blue Cross & Blue Shield, Bartha, Big Lots, CareWorks, CareWorks Consultants, Inc., Columbus Crew, Hahn Loeser & Parks, LLP, Integrys Energy Services Inc., KEMBA Financial Credit Union, OhioHealth, Spinelli’s Deli, and State Auto Insurance Companies. The Diversity Leadership Award was presented by Precise Resource and the Emerging Excellence Award was presented by Porter, Wright, Morris and Arthur, LLP.
About the Columbus Chamber
The Columbus Chamber helps businesses thrive. It leads business growth, retention and expansion initiatives in the Columbus Region, enhances the business environment and delivers programs and services that enable its members to be more successful. To learn more about the Columbus Chamber, visit http://www.columbus.org.
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November 8, 2011
Pleasanton, California (PRWEB) November 07, 2011
Cordys, a leading provider of software for business process management (BPM) and business operations improvement, today announced for general availability, the latest release of its flagship business process software, Business Operations Platform 4.1 (BOP 4.1).
Cordys BOP 4.1 is a next generation BPM and business operations solution that brings together business and IT users, enabling organizations to dramatically improve the speed of change and drive maximum value out of their existing disparate IT systems, and strengthens how they innovate business operations. Cordys BOP 4.1 allows for a new way of delivering the agility and flexibility needed to support rapidly changing business environments and the challenges posed by globalization.
“The release of BOP 4.1 takes our platform and it?s users to the next level in terms of maturity and flexibility,” said Jan Baan, Chairman and Chief Innovation Officer at Cordys. “Organizations use Cordys technology to transform the way they do business and to extend the life of existing heritage infrastructure. In the latest IDC Business Process Platform MarketScape report, Cordys scored highest for the most complete business process platform and BOP 4.1 provides even greater functionality and simplicity to an already complete platform. The new features of collaborative modeling, social process modeling, coupled with Master Data Management gives business users hands-on control and the ability to make real-time complex business decisions.?
Cordys? BOP 4.1, already recognized by independent research analysts as the industry?s most robust platform due to its unique combination of BPM and Cloud technology, provides significant enhancements in task management, usability, master data management, system management and user collaboration, and further enhances Cordys? position as a leader in the business operations and BPM industry.
Some of the many new features and benefits of Cordys BOP 4.1 include:
Ease of Use: Intuitive graphical tools that enable robust capabilities such as faster information retrieval, auto-suggestions during BPM modeling and multiple customizable options to adapt to differing business needs.
Ease of Collaboration: Be it working together at design time on discovery and modeling or having disparate subject matter experts sharing knowledge on running processes and cases, collaboration across an organization is made much easier. New capabilities include improved tagging, process reporting and composite business applications for subject matter experts.
Ease of Management: Simplified installation & configuration, multi-browser support for design and run-time, 64 bit support, improved management of rules and processes, more intuitive debugging and an easier approach to team and role management.
For more detailed information on the Cordys BOP 4.1 visit http://www.cordys.com. To view BOP 4.1 in action contact Cordys at BOPDEMO(at)Cordys(dot)com or call 1-616-827-0061 to schedule a product demo today.
About Cordys: Cordys is a global provider of visionary solutions for BPM and business operations improvement and is recognized as the best business process platform and best cloud connectivity for BPM PaaS (platform as a service) by leading analysts such as IDC, Gartner and Forrester. Global 2000 companies worldwide have selected Cordys to achieve performance improvements in their business operations, such as increased productivity, reduced time to market and faster response to ever-changing market demands. Headquartered in the Netherlands, Cordys has offices in the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific. For more information on Cordys please visit http://www.cordys.com, and to learn more about Cordys in the cloud applications visit http://www.cordysprocessfactory.com. To become a Cordys reselling partner or system integrator partner please email partners(at)cordys(dot)com or call us at 1-616-827-0061.
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