Business leaders often strive for “efficiency,” and this word is used so often that we can sometimes forget how much nuance is packed into this singular idea. Efficiency is the careful balance of time, resources, performance, and cost. Each of these elements is important to a profitable business, but if you optimize any of them […]

A wave of new legislation, packed with rules and regulations for businesses like yours, is coming out of Washington. Few businesses are aware of it, let alone prepared for it. The rules are a blend of requirements around benefits and how you communicate with your employees, with the biggest element being requirements for price transparency. […]

Traditional insurance providers intentionally make health care costs complicated. If you have ever asked, before the procedure, what you will pay out of pocket for something as routine as an MRI or a physical therapy appointment, you have likely experienced this firsthand. You can spend a few hours on the phone, transferring between departments and […]

The fourth quarter of 2020 was especially challenging for my family and my team. My daughter was born eight-weeks early and would need a 66 day stint in the NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit). I say this was challenging for my team because we’re all family-minded people, so if someone we know is facing a […]

When Fujifilm began outpacing Kodak on the North American analog photography market in the early 90s, Kodak’s executives didn’t see a reason to change. Kodak shunned the relatively cheaper E-6 photo film processing technology used by emerging competitors, opting to stick with the established methods which had worked so well for them in the past. […]

Part of our internal culture is to perpetually improve new learnings and new insights. This is something that many companies pay lip service to, but we have committed to it in a big way. We often find that our clients and our peers overlook the biggest opportunities to grow because they fear the risks of […]

BY RYAN SPENCER   Many businesses falsely believe that self-funding their benefits plan is not an option for them because they are “too small.” The reality is that your benefits options are not that black and white. Regardless of your size, you have options to self-fund or to partially self-fund to dramatically reduce your healthcare […]

BY BEN CONNER   2021 should be the year of returning to strategic planning and strategic execution. For many businesses, 2020 was rife with crisis responses. Regardless of your political leanings, the chaos of 2020 made it exceptionally difficult to plan, prepare, and execute ideas. Lockdown cycles shifted and changed with little warning both locally […]

BY RYAN SPENCER COVID-19 threw dozens of new challenges at CFOs and HR managers this year. Every day, company leaders faced questions they had never considered before: How do we keep our workers safe? How can we remain efficient while working from home? What are my legal responsibilities during the pandemic? Answering these questions has […]

BY CONNER INSURANCE During a recent media briefing, the Centers for  Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced an  update to quarantine guidelines, offering options for  shorter quarantine periods.  The CDC’s updated guidance allows for the following  quarantine periods for those who may have been  exposed to COVID-19 but are without symptoms:  Ten-day quarantine period—An individual  […]