My Philosophy on Valuations

This article describes the best way to manage the valuation process.

Business Development Strategy

The goal of any business development strategy should be new business or better business. For those who offer products or services online a business development strategy that works can be invaluable. Whether you sell B2C or B2B a solid business development strategy can become as common to you as breathing. However, it isn't easy to get there.

Strategic Business Planning While You're Still Working

Strategic business planning is very important to your business success. The key to successfully transitioning from employee to business owner is the quality and thoroughness of your strategic business planning.

Paving the Road to Success: Modern-Day Logistical Systems

The link between the operating activity of a business and its market, an efficient logistics process requires a combination of strategic planning, inter-departmental, and indeed inter-business cooperation, and a healthy dose of common sense. It is about ensuring that the business has a steady inflow of the goods (and services) it needs to be productive and further, it is about ensuring that this product gets to the right place at the right time.

Business Plan Outlines - The 5 W's

Business plan outlines help you structure your answers to the most important business planning questions: who what, when, where, and why. The answers to these 5 W's must be included in your business plan outline.

Learning How To Write A Business Plan

Locate details about how to write a business plan, using business plan samples to help you write your business plan and things to include in your business plan. Also the benefits of learning how to write one on your own.

Build Versus Buy - A Merger and Acquisition Strategy for Information Technology Companies

The window of opportunity is small for information technology innovators. This article explores a merger and acquisition strategy for larger firms to connect with the entrepreneurs to enhance new product success.

Business Market Research and Planning: What Size and Composition is your Market?

Many businesses have difficulty defining their market by size and composition and so their marketing and sales planning is ineffective. By analysing what you know about your customers, finding what industry bodies know about your market and making intelligent guesses, you can plan how to target your marketing and sales effort to get the best return and satisfy the most customers.

What Can Be Said About Business Formulas, And Should We Use Them?

Every business, large, medium or small, should employ business formulas and ratios as barameters of where the business has been, is now, and will be in the future. Statistical measurements can measure whether or not the business is on course. If not, such measurements can determine what significant subjects and changes need to be identified and implemented.

Inventory Accuracy Hints

Does your company need to improve inventory accuracy? Often, writings on inventory accuracy improvement focus on techniques, such as cycle counting. This article offers effective inventory accuracy hints consisting of several important elements.

The New Conference Room Pilot

This article looks at the definition and role of the conference room pilot in success of major business system projects. Most importantly, the article discusses how to set up and operate a CRP.

Aggregate Inventory Management

Aggregate inventory management is an often neglected Best Practice area. This article explains, and serves as a mini-Best Practice checklist for proven methods and techniques that, when done correctly, bring substantial improvement into the inventory performance for almost any company. Most of these techniques are not dependent on any enterprise software system in particular, and so are relatively universal.

A Conversation with Helen Johnson-Leipold, Chairman of Johnson Outdoors and Johnson Financial Group

Helen Johnson-Leipold is Chairman & CEO, Johnson Outdoors; Chairman, Johnson Financial Group; and the first woman in five generations to lead a Johnson Family Enterprise. She will deliver the Keynote Address at our Best Bosses Conference & Celebration on September 27, 2006. In Part 1 of this interview, she discusses how her family members use passed-down values to arrive at majority decisions on important business matters.