Top Ten Things About Strategic Business Thinking

To raise the bar on your business performance, from where you are now, to where you want to be (and beyond!), requires a level of strategic thinking which, in perfect tune with your visioning skills, creates a structured and progressive way forward. Here are Ten great traits EVERY business manager needs to know.

What Paradigms are the Unseen Obstacles within the Execution of Your Strategic Plan?

Do you have a strategic plan that is OK, but just doesn't seem to work as well as you think it should in your quest for transformational change? Maybe the problem is your unseen paradigms.

Six Steps to Building a Successful Business

There is nothing as exciting as launching a business. Entrepreneurs have a passion for what they do as well as the courage to take the plunge. It is a bit like Texas Holdem. The trick is setting your business up correctly so that when you go all in - you win the pot.

Opening A Dollar Store - Location Traffic and Access Matters

Are you opening a dollar store? If so location is the single most important decision that you will make prior to opening that store. Invest the time, energy and money to really examine all of the location options before making a final decision. Part of that examination includes traffic counts, access and parking.

Critical Business Plan Disciplines and Resources

Learn the major disciplines and resources of creating a business plan. See how they contribute to the final product.

Violence Prevention: Work Place Planning Principles

FBI policy suggestions to prevent violence at the workpace

Opening a Dollar Store - Cash Required!

Are you considering opening a dollar store? If so then don't discount the need for operating capital as a part of your initial planning. While many will advocate that you will see instant sales that are big enough to cover expenses, or that dollar store sales grow quickly to their maximum potential that is not the case.

Strategic Planning Begins With Mission and Vision Statements

Is your strategic planning process like threading a needle and thread without tying a knot at its end? An undefined business floats its intended outcome with little to anchor its goals and strategic activities. Do not let this happen to you! Let your strategic planning process be anchored with strong and meaningful mission and vision statements.

Business Process Modeling - A Perspective

A look into the need for Business Process Modeling and the high level best practices/considerations before starting with modelling your organization's vital assets i.e. processes.

Event Marketing What, Why and When?

The event marketing is something that will appeal to targeted audience. means you need to create some events with the help of well known personalities and invite all those persons that are interested about this event and here you needs to demonstrate your product that is useful for these type of consumers, here your this efforts give you maximum ROI.

9 Good Questions to Ask When Selling Your Practice

Nine good questions to ask when selling your practice.

Why Small Engineering Companies Should Seek Out An Experienced Business Strategist

Engineers are trained to think in a linear fashion - answer question one before going on to number two. Business events occur spherically - unrelated but impacting questions require answers according to their own deadlines. This article explains why and what to do about it.

Planning To Manage Time Or Managing Time To Plan?

Isn't the year flying by? Have you done all the things you were going to do? So where did it go wrong, already? Or is just that so far the year has been busy and you will implement the changes next month. (The great thing about that sort of planning is that you are usually dead right, you will implement it next month and it has been next month for the last X years!) Or is it simply that it will be ok when you can just find the time.