APN All Communicationshttp://app.feed.informer.com/digest3/ZMFJ6RMYSI.html Respective post owners and feed distributors http://feed.informer.com/ Cycle Time Definitions – A case for change: Can you imaging trying to synchronize watches with thousands of others to ensure timely coordination, but everyone uses a different definition of a day and has differing length hours and even a different number of hours in a day? It is a ridiculous scenario, ye the collision [...] http://www.scottbiggs.com/blog/?p=43 Scott Biggs Blog http://www.scottbiggs.com/blog/?p=43? Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:18 GMT The following points were crafted by industry stakeholders and offered publicly as a foundation for debate and discussion. The points are related to business practices within and between insurers and repairs often referred to as DRP. In most cases, these points address areas of concern and conflict between trading parties. By listing these points and [...] http://www.scottbiggs.com/blog/?p=42 Scott Biggs Blog http://www.scottbiggs.com/blog/?p=42? Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:35 GMT At your current shop labor rate, can you repair enough cars in your market to pay all of our overhead, parts/materials, employee wages, loan payments, and achieve your profit goal? The answer today in the collision repair industry is NO! In this article we will explore why and how you might change that [...] http://www.scottbiggs.com/blog/?p=41 Scott Biggs Blog http://www.scottbiggs.com/blog/?p=41? Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:25 GMT I wrote at least 3 responses to the accusation thrown out by CCRE. Here they are for you to read and consider: ———————————- I recently read your comments to Jeannie Silver about the DRP reform panel we conducted at CIC. I understand yours and others initial response to this as some sort of endorsement of [...] http://www.scottbiggs.com/blog/?p=40 Scott Biggs Blog http://www.scottbiggs.com/blog/?p=40? Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:56 GMT When is enough, enough? On a warm spring day in Atlanta, Georgia in April, several prominent collision repair notables barked out “Enough is enough” as a declaration that they could no longer standby and accept the distorted and seemingly arbitrary demands, concessions, and illegal steering insurers do each day all over the country. [...] http://www.scottbiggs.com/blog/?p=39 Scott Biggs Blog http://www.scottbiggs.com/blog/?p=39? Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:28 GMT What if I told you I have a great idea of how to fix our economy and get us rolling again? Well, I do. Read on and I will explain starting with a little history lesson and then some simple economics. … I watch with wide-eyed wonderment at the missteps the government is [...] http://www.scottbiggs.com/blog/?p=38 Scott Biggs Blog http://www.scottbiggs.com/blog/?p=38? Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:43 GMT