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Dollar General: 8 Days To Grow

Today’s dollar store is a five-and-dime shop, adjusted for inflation. It’s what Sam Walton envisioned when he created Wal-Mart in 1962: a neighborhood store selling

Voice of Experience: Tools of the Road

Tim TalbotCIOPHH Arval,Cendant Corp.Sparks, MD.www.phh.com Manager’s Profile: In charge of information technology for PHH Arval, a vehicle-management company that provides financing and maintenance services to

Accruent: Contract Worker

When Accruent CEO Mark Friedman was a commercial real-estate broker in the early 1990s, he regularly saw clients get cheated by landlords because someone in

BMC Software: Sweating the Big Stuff

Deploying BMC’s Patrol can be an unexpectedly onerous task, but most customers say it’s worth the hard labor because of the software’s deep—and broad—ability to

Putting Your Finger on the Pulse

Software that measures application performance doesn’t live up to the most spectacular vendor promises—and it’s harder to set up than most people realize. But such

Roadblock: 4,170 Newbies

The Obstacle Dollar General needs about six people to work each of the 695 stores it plans to open this year, to run cash registers,