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Ideas to develop grocery shopping

Listen to this post by clicking here . With coop@home and passabene , COOP in Switzerland is moving into the future. The passabene concept is interesting for more reasons – not least because it is a win-win solution through which both customers and employees win: * By scanning products themselves with a scanner that they pick up at the store entrance, customers participate to a much larger degree than before. * As customers take over the scanning of the products, I imagine that employees get new assignments - for example driving products into the store, keeping the supermarket clean, helping customers in all matters, and helping introduce further innovations. ALDI is also moving forward. By defining management as culture, having a strong degree of self management, using no budgets, and basically keeping everything as simple as possible, the company can bring down costs to a low level – and thereby also offer low priced products to customers. To know more, try reading this article . Do...

15 ideas to develop education

We are in the middle of an era, during which transformation, change, innovation, development, and continuous competence development are important for companies to handle professionally. Due to the rapid transformation in and across more industries in the global economy, the effective use of new knowledge is increasingly seen as the key to economic success. Here are some ideas to develop education. Hope you’ll get inspired to try out some of them :-) Idea # 1: Involve education participants using internet communities Doesn’t learning happen all the time - from the moment a person wakes up in the morning until he/she falls asleep at night? In other words, don’t we need to take more advantage of the fact that learning is not limited to what happens in a classroom within a certain time frame – and, consequently, speed up the use of collaborative tools? Another reason why we need to use blogs, wikis and other collaborative tools to an extended degree is that books are increasingly outdated,...