EI, or emotional intelligence, is the ability to understand one's own emotions as well as the those of other people. EI is used a lot in marketing because it allows companies to focus on things that w...

I don't know if I would use the word "manipulating," but rather influential persuasion. People who work in marketing need to be able to persuade people enough to influence them to buy the product you'...

To me, marketing is knowing your customers and targeting your sales pitch to get them to want to buy your product. This includes things like getting advertisements sent by mail or online, commercials/...

If a company of that size existed as an Inc corporation, it would allow more people to invest in the company's shares. This also gives the option of eventually going public, which would create a lot o...

I think depending on your skill set, you need to decide whether the company's success is big factor in accepting that position. If you're fresh out of school, I wouldn't think that this statistic woul...

Private companies are not able to trade shares with the public, whereas public companies can. The benefit of staying private is that you don't have to alter you business model to fit Wall Street's exp...

There always seems to be a lack of communication between QA and other departments. In my department, whenever the QA department is testing for certain results, it may take a long time, Often times, mo...

As people have stated before, I think a good way of improving QC/QA is to have better communication among different departments. I think in most cases, the quality department only reviews the product ...

I think most companies view the QA/QC departments as being a burden because of the amount of questions that need to be addressed before the release of a certain product. People may be on a time crunch...

I think the reason the FDA is so harsh when it comes to rules, regulations, and the process to approve a device/treatment is because of liability issues. If a patient/customer is not satisfied with th...

In terms of medical devices, accuracy measures how closely certain data fall into the acceptable ranges of operation. If this does not hold true for the device, the device may not perform as intended....

Recalls usually occur due to the product no longer adhering to the FDA laws. For instances where certain devices are recalled after 5-8 years, I would say it is usually because of long term adverse ef...

While very unfortunate, animal testing is critical in developing medical devices for humans. If someone in a medical device-related field is completely against animal testing, they might be in the wro...

If a company were to develop a new biomaterial, there would need to be a significant amount of tests done to ensure that the device has a strong biological performance. Toxicity tests (from the toxici...

Outsourcing, in general, gives you less control over the final results. You have no way of directly observing how the study is being conducted. Also, if the university really is 1000 miles away, it wo...