How to Create a Strategic Position for your Company (21 Mar 2006)
A strategic position statement is kind of like a statement
for your company. You want to explain this statement how
you view your company and how you view it within the rest
of your marketplace.
Circuit City is a good example. It's an electr...
Beyond Budgeting - A New Approach to Annual Budgets (10 Oct 2005)
In their book, Beyond Budgeting, Jeremy Hope and Robin Fraser highlight the inadequacy of traditional annual based budgeting and argue passionately for a new management model that can cope with the volatility of today's business environment. Their...
Business Plan Success Tips for Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners (05 Apr 2006)
What does it take to convey your idea to financiers?
- How will you organize all that information? What you need is a clear outline and focus.
- First you must identify your audience. Who are your potential stakeholders.
- Rank them ac...
Strategic Business Planning - Dont Plan to Fail By Failing to Plan (26 Apr 2006)
Developing a Strategic business plan is a crucial element in determining your ongoing business success. You can maximise business growth and minimise risk through effective strategic and contingency business planning. Plans do not have to be set i...
Intentionalize The Coming Year In Three Steps (16 Nov 2005)
Today is the first day of the rest of the year. I hope 2006 is your best year ever in both personal and business terms. While some events are beyond our control, others are clearly within our ability to create the desired outcomes, or at least c...
Effective Cost Cutting - The Competitive Edge (06 May 2006)
Business today requires more ingenuity in operating profitably than ever before. High costs are not just related to labor, pensions and corporate benefits. Excessive costs can be found throughout the organization and take many forms.
Where ...
3 Easy Steps To Improving Your Business (08 Sep 2005)
I know we are all on the look out to try the newest marketing method or jump in to another way of promoting. Before you do start some new method of promotion, read this first.
Not only will this help you stay better organized, but give you d...
How To Turn Regrets Into Opportunities (10 Dec 2005)
It's time to take inventory. What worked for you and what didn't work for you throughout 2005?
When you think about last year what are the things you regret not doing? Will you also regret not doing these things in 2006?
The best way...
Creating Organizational Values (15 Apr 2006)
Introduction
Today more than ever, organizations have an overwhelming requirement to be founded upon strong Values, Ethics and Principles. This becomes even more critical for publicly funded organizations.
All too often, an organizati...
Free Sample Business Plan – Plan For Profit! (08 Dec 2005)
Are you looking at starting your own business? If so, then a free sample business plan can be an excellent tool for you to use. The starting of a new business and/or owning a business is a large investment in time and money. By looking at a fre...
6 Things You’ll Want to Do In 06 to Start Growing Your Business (31 Jan 2006)
1. Give it away now -
Giving and sharing aren't exclusive to the holiday season. Share your knowledge FOR FREE with all of your customers and
anyone else that wants to listen to you. Look, you're probably an expert in ...
Setting Goals: New Years Resolutions (05 May 2006)
It's here again. The end of the year… It arrives every year, same time, same place, and we're stuck wondering if the new year will begin or we will just cease to exist. And every year, I'm reminded of the back of the covered wagon medicine man se...
Advanced Process Control Increases Profits (15 Dec 2005)
Advanced process control has come to be a term synonymous with computer based technologies. Many companies use this process to help them with increasing their profits by improving the product capacity and minimizing expenses. Some companies have r...
The Addictive Business Plan (06 Oct 2005)
While the average business plan ranges from twenty to thirty pages in length, on average, investors only read one page of each business plan they receive. Obviously, for a business plan to receive funding, investors have to be encouraged to read t...
The Importance of Business Continuity Planning (12 Nov 2005)
Business continuity planning is the process whereby a firm figures out a plan of action that it will take in the case of unforeseen events. The process anticipates risk and helps limit the downside that companies may experience when adverse events...
Business Plan Writing: Consider Your Customers (27 Jan 2006)
When entrepreneurs realize that they need capital to launch or grow their businesses, typically they also realize that they need a business plan. The first question that often comes to their minds is how to write a business plan.
Too many ti...
Business Competition Best Practices: Win Loss Research (22 Oct 2005)
Frequently I am asked "how do you get information about the competition?" Most people are surprised when I tell them that getting useful competitive intelligence is actually the easiest part of managing successful business competition. One of the ...
How to Write A Business (15 May 2006)
Knowing how to effectively write a business plan is important if you want to get financing to support your business. Yet knowing how to write a business plan will also help you define specific issues that will define how you do business in the be...
Countdown to Success : Twelve Things to do Twelve Months in Advance (24 Feb 2006)
When a show's a year away, it may seem like you have lots of time to get ready. But appearances can be deceiving. Twelve months is not long, especially with all the pre-show planning, training, and preparation you've got to do. Here is a checklist...
Selling Your Business - The 2006 M&A Outlook (07 Jan 2006)
Wall Street reported a banner year for Mergers and Acquisitions activity with corporate coffers bursting with excess cash. It seemed like every large company deployed this capital in one of three ways; a stock buy back, an increase in dividends, o...
