| 11 Ways To Creat Successful Corporate Meetings & Retreats by David A. Goldsmith | | What's the cost to put together a strategic corporate meeting or retreat? Regardless of the specifics - hotel expenses, payroll, lost opportunities, lost management time planning the agenda, the cost of guest speakers, food, and supplies - you expect the returns to far outweigh the $3000 or $150,000...
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| Six Ways To Build A Stronger Strategic Plan by David A. Goldsmith | | So you've set some goals, you're feeling ambitious, and you've promised yourself that you're going to follow through. You're determined to make this year better than the last. And hopefully, it works out that way. But you've seen the reality, too. In spite of a sensible plan and good intentions, ...
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| Planning A Business Meeting by Peter Penny | | The First Steps of Planning a Business Meeting.
Meeting planning is extremely complex, and requires very careful attention to detail. Those responsible for producing the meeting must take the time to carefully work out a comprehensive plan, and manage that plan very carefully.
Never forget, you...
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| Business Goal Setting And Then Following Through by Joy Gendusa | | Your business can't go according to plan if you have no plan.
What do you want to achieve this year? More new customers per week? Higher average order amounts? Better customer service ratings? No matter what it is you are shooting for, goal setting is one of the most important things that you ...
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| Action Planning by Andrew Schwartz | | ACTION PLANNING: Action Planning is a process to develop strategies for changes in the organization based on an analysis of the problems which precipitate the need for change. It is a collaborative method of planning which involves the people working in the organization and permits the people who... Full Article | | Views: 461; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 418; Article Characters Count: 2662 |
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| Advice To Manufacturers Creating A Business Plan by Michael Elia | | If you are a manufacturer wanting to use your business plan to attract investors, then your plan must do two things. It must: Comfort prospective investors with putting their money into your hands, and Show why potential customers will award business to you ... Full Article | | Views: 500; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 1117; Article Characters Count: 6695 |
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| Alice In Wonderland - A Parable for A Business Plan by Larry Galler | | Remember reading "Alice in Wonderland?" She asks the Cheshire Cat, "which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.
"I don't much care where," said Alice. "Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat. Alice ... Full Article | | Views: 219; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 277; Article Characters Count: 1574 |
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| Are You Aware of Planning in Business? by Parul Jain | | Human beings are rational agents. Rationality endorses one to take up planning in every sphere of life from shifting to a new house to marriage, as well as business. A business plan is the first and most significant premise to reach and run a successful business. It is not just that capital that ... Full Article | | Views: 222; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 586; Article Characters Count: 3284 |
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| Be Like Bill - Think. by Larry Galler | | Twice a year, Bill Gates goes to a remote island hide-a-way for a week at a time. No, he's not going for a fishing vacation; instead of rods, reels, and lures he takes market analyses, position reports, engineering reports, and opportunity papers. In solitude he reads and thinks and reads some ... Full Article | | Views: 343; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 376; Article Characters Count: 2077 |
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| Benefiting from Strategic Thinking by Stephanie Tuia | | I recently took an organizational behavior class where my professor conducted a strategic thinking exercise in which groups of students were to be a part of a scholarship committee. The purpose of our committee was to use strategic thinking on allocating a scholarship budget to reward several ... Full Article | | Views: 55; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 417; Article Characters Count: 2582 |
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| Breaking the Growth Barriers in the Information Technology and Software Sector by Ash Seha | | There's nothing automatic about corporate growth, particularly in the information technology industry; build it and they will come is a myth. In the real world there is either a structured, process-driven growth cycle, or stagnation and stagnation is automatic. Inherent to growth cycles are ... Full Article | | Views: 55; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 1193; Article Characters Count: 7372 |
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| Business Disaster? Won't Happen to Me by Denise O'Berry | | As fast as you can say business disaster, your business can go up in smoke. That's what happened a while back to Castle Carpet One. Gone were thousands of dollars worth of equipment and carpet, plus two smaller businesses that were housed in the same building. Luckily the owners, Larry and Diane ... Full Article | | Views: 92; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 422; Article Characters Count: 2420 |
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| Business Plan Long Term Goals by Lance Winslow VI | | Writing a business plan is not an easy endeavor, nor is predicting the future. You will need to spent adequate time in preparing your long-term goals and objectives. This will help you understand what you are doing and where you wish to be. Martin Luther King in is most famous speech said; "I ... Full Article | | Views: 189; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 354; Article Characters Count: 1994 |
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| Business Plan: Planning the Operations by Lance Winslow V | | Writing a business plan is no easy task, sure you can whip something together in a day or so, but without proper planning you are setting yourself up to fail. Many first time entrepreneurs have a bit of trouble writing a business plan, which will be acceptable to bankers and investors. One easy ... Full Article | | Views: 84; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 764; Article Characters Count: 4237 |
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| Business Planning and the Bozo Factor by John Savageau | | "Bozo" A clown with a forlorn look, always finding negative implications in every activity or event. A person who tries to find a way to prevent you from moving ahead, giving excuses such as "we've always done it this way, or this is not our culture" when presented a new opportunity or ... Full Article | | Views: 336; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 703; Article Characters Count: 4278 |
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| Business Plans Keep You On The Success Course by Marianna D'Ambrosio | | Where would your business be without a proper plan? A
business plan sets the direction for the future of the
business. It gives the business owner or manager a sense
of guidance, listing the goals and objectives of the
business from the start. Writing a business plan requires your attention... Full Article | | Views: 134; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 458; Article Characters Count: 2628 |
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| Business Problem Solving by Lance Winslow II | | Is there really anything as a problem? Does chaos or challenge mean you have a problem? I am under the belief that such things as other call problems are indeed the life-blood of opportunity and the louder it knocks the greater the gain. Embrace chaos. In my many years in business I loved a good ... Full Article | | Views: 185; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 322; Article Characters Count: 1831 |
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| Business Results - Four Critical Success Factors by Leanne Hoagland-Smith | | Scenario One During a recent presentation, a business owner was given the following challenge. If 10 of his 100 employees were asked to name the top 3 organizational goals for the current year as they perceived them to be, would he receive the same 3 goals from everyone or would he receive... Full Article | | Views: 413; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 910; Article Characters Count: 5669 |
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| Connecting Your Offline Business to Your Online Business by Thomas Antion | | These may sound like no brainers, but you'd be surprised. No matter how high-tech your business has become, there is no doubt you still have some non-electronic aspects of your company. These are things like your business cards, stickers, and work shirts, to name a few. Check out your ... Full Article | | Views: 478; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 648; Article Characters Count: 3543 |
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| Content Management: Wise Investment for Business Prosperity by Alex Polonski | | The time when a website was just a simple set of HTML pages has gone by. It's true, just five or seven years ago simple websites developed with HTML and JavaScript were usual. Nobody thought there could be another option. However, year by year, Internet becomes a place where companies can ... Full Article | | Views: 253; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 815; Article Characters Count: 4879 |
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| Corporate Contingency Planning by Martin Maylor | | Part 1 A few weeks ago I attended a seminar sponsored by Independent Solutions Insurance Inc (Edmonton) entitled "Seminar On Disaster Preparedness", during this seminar I heard stories from individual company owners who told us of their misfortunes and how they coped with their crisis. In ... Full Article | | Views: 192; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 711; Article Characters Count: 4425 |
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| Creating a Vision That Achieves Results by Graeme Nichol | | How important is a vision statement to your company or division? Well, have you ever thought about embarking on a journey without knowing where you are going? The same can be said about running a company, without a vision statement you are going places but who knows if it is in the right ... Full Article | | Views: 257; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 656; Article Characters Count: 3821 |
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| Defining Go for It Business Goals by Michele Webb | | Many business start-up kits or consultants will tell you one of the first steps to starting a business is to define your business goals. Your goals may differ from the goals of another individual, for example; some people want freedom to do what they want to do, whenever they want, and without ... Full Article | | Views: 420; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 638; Article Characters Count: 3513 |
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| Describing Intellectual Property in Your Business Plan by Dave Lavinsky | | Most companies that are worthy of raising venture capital have proprietary Intellectual Property (IP). In fact, the quality of the IP and the management team are often the two most important aspects of a venture capitalist's investment decision. The challenge that many ventures face, however, is ... Full Article | | Views: 368; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 749; Article Characters Count: 4655 |
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| Do You Have A Customer Identity Crisis? by Wendy Cobrda | | The trick is to determine what uniquely identifies your best customers. Fortunately, deriving this information is not difficult, and in many cases can be obtained from innocuous questions. Consider a manufacturer of baby goods and the fact that families with new babies often purchase multi-... Full Article | | Views: 366; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 462; Article Characters Count: 3059 |
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| Do You Really Need a Business Plan? by Raj Khera | | "I don't need a business plan." Neither did Alice in Wonderland. "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat. "I don't much care where," said Alice. "... Full Article | | Views: 213; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 685; Article Characters Count: 3866 |
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| Don't Just Talk About the Weather, Use It to Advantage by Larry Galler | | A well known, national chain of restaurants discovered that certain weather patterns substantially impacts their business. They have studied it and found that more people go out to eat dinner when there is a series of beautiful days. So they measure the weather quality at their stores across ... Full Article | | Views: 226; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 332; Article Characters Count: 2025 |
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| ERP Role in Selling Your Mid-size Business – Microsoft Great Plains and CRM Example by Andrew Karasev | | If you own the mid-size business and actively work in it as executive manager or lead, say marketing, you probably know exactly what needs to be done on the daily basis to keep it running. However, in many cases this business critical knowledge exists in your head only. This means that if you... Full Article | | Views: 36; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 467; Article Characters Count: 2774 |
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| Essencials About Employee Motivation by Amarendra Bhushan | | The topic of motivating employees is extremely important to managers and supervisors. Despite the important of the topic, several myths persist - especially among new managers and supervisors. Before looking at what management can do to support the motivation of employees, it's important first to... Full Article | | Views: 253; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 2057; Article Characters Count: 12385 |
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