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	This Month's Featured Small Business
	CONNECT: Life Sciences In & Around Indiana
	A Case Study: Getting Your House In Order

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This Month's Featured Small Business

Mother's Day is only a few weeks away! And we've got just the right company to help you be Mom's hero -- Always In Bloom.

Let Always In Bloom design a custom silk floral arrangement to show appreciation for the mothers in your life. Check out the Always In Bloom Facebook Fanpage to learn more.

Always In Bloom can create silk floral pieces for the other important events in your life, such as weddings, special events, and everyday or seasonal home decor.

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CONNECT: Life Sciences In & Around Indiana

• March 25, 2010 - IHIF Annual Meeting
• April 13-15, 2010 - Design of Medical Devices Conference
• April 15, 2010 - IHIF Clinical Networking April Reception
• April 15-16, 2010 - Pricing & Reimbursement for Medical Devices
• April 20, 2010 - INTERPHEX NY 2010 Keynote Presentation
• April 20-21, 2010 - Human Factors Engineering & Med Device Workshop
• April 21-22, 2010 - BIOMEDevice - An MD&M Event
• April 21-22, 2010 - Medical Design & Manufacturing Expo
• April 21-23, 2010 - 30th Annual Medical Communications Conference
• April 21-23, 2010 - Process Validation for Medical Devices

A Case Study: Getting Your House In Order

A couple years ago, Creo Quality was engaged with a service provider that provides contract manufacturing services and has been in existence for about 10 years. At the time, the company had around 20 employees.

Our task: Just help.

Before we could help, we had to understand where the issues were. The results from one activity provided us direction on where to help next. To read a brief recap of our approach, click here.

Here are our conclusions, which you can also apply to your business:

• Be sure your company vision and direction are clearly articulated and understood by ALL employees.
• Define your sales process.
• Tack actual data and results to determine if you are making money and where you might be losing money.
• Your project proposals need to be realistic in terms of your company costs.
• Know and define your processes.
• Assign project management responsibility to capable resources.

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