Ten More Benefits From Strategic Planning

Strategy is about making choices and your strategic thinking business coach always wants to guide you in the making of the most educated, informed and strategic choices in your business. Today's businesses need a process to guide them in successfully developing and implementing strategies for growth and solutions to business issues, needs and problems. Strategic planning is the process that all businesses need. Strategic planning will save you time, get you and your management team focused, and provide a road map to reach your business and personal visions. In any business activity, one looks for benefits. Here are ten (10) more benefits from strategic planning.

Sun Zi Art of War - A Critical Point to Note for Strategy Planning

In Chapter Seven, Sun Zi mentioned about rushing troops to battlefields and what is the results of it. Inside those sentences lies a very critical point about Strategy Planning? Want to know what it is? Read on to find out more.

What Essential Marketing Models Are Within Your Strategic Plan?

Marketing is an essential piece of any strategic plan. What models are you using to increase your sales or bottom line results?

How Planning the Work and Working the Plan Can Catapult Your Marketing Success

A marketing plan is vital to the success of your business. Without a plan, even the best intentions may never be realized. You must plan the work and then work the plan, or your goals will not be accomplished. They key is to not only have a plan but to implement that plan. Implementation is golden.

Executive Brief: Pandemic Preparedness Planning

Influenza preparedness is different from other types of emergency or disaster planning and preparedness because it requires us to fortify and protect an entire system, not just a project or a task.

Starting a Business With No Time to Plan

Finding to time to create a new business can be tough. In this article I'll offer the secret to finding the time you need to effectively plan your business.

Skip the Resolutions!

Did you take some time this past week to think about and perhaps even write down your resolutions for 2007? To be honest, I'm not exactly a fan of resolutions - really, what's so different about December 31 than January 1 that's going to make a dramatic difference in whether or not you keep your resolutions?

Does Your Strategic Plan Address Increasing Employee Costs and Decreasing Employee Productivity?

Does your strategic plan include employee costs? Are you aware that current research suggests that almost 60% of all U.S. employees are not engaged? What else don't you know and are not addressing in your strategic plan?

Achieving Your Goals - Keeping Things On Track

Apparently when riding the underground people look up at the map and check their progress on average every 40 seconds. Most of these people know exactly where they are going and when they will get there, so why do they do it? I suspect the answer has a lot to do with the need to track advancement and ensure that they are indeed reaching their destination, which is a bit strange considering they are on a rail and the likelihood of them not getting there is pretty much zero.

Opening A Dollar Store - Tips Regarding Low Profit Merchandise

One of the biggest challenges that faces the entrepreneur who is opening a dollar store is making a profit on the tight margins found with many products. In fact, almost all of the day-to-day necessities are in huge demand, yet they come with very little profit. The smart store owner knows that the balancing act between demand and cost requires constant attention.

Prices - It Pays To Keep Them Up

Most buyers typically rank price around fourth in their list of buying criteria. Price is important only when the product or service we're selling is a commodity.

Business Growth - Exploring The Ambidextrous Organization

The Roman god Janus had two sets of eyes – one pair focusing on what lay behind, the other on what lay ahead. General Managers and corporate executives should be able to relate. They, too, must constantly look backward, attending to the products and processes of the past, while also gazing forward, preparing for the innovations that will define the future.

Opening A Dollar Store - Inventory Turns are Important

When opening a dollar store there are many indicators of success. They range from bottom line profit to undesired employee turnover. However one of the most important is inventory turns.