9 Good Questions to Ask When Selling Your Practice

Nine good questions to ask when selling your practice.

Understanding Why Clients and Customers Leave

Have you ever wondered why your clients/customer/patients stopped doing business with you? The reasons are surprising and eye opening! The most important thing is you can get the large majority of them back. In fact many of them want to come back.

Opening a Dollar Store - Get Others Excited by Being Excited!

Do you want to know one of the secrets to success after opening a dollar store? It is to get everyone excited about you and your business. But that is easier said than done for some entrepreneurs. They don’t realize that excitement actually begins with them and the way that they appear.

Three Critical Business Plan Perspectives

Business Plans require many different perspectives. Here we discuss the three critical ones that help us to formulate a vision for the business. Without these views, our plan will be critically deficient.

Strategic Planning Must Connect Human Capital ROI to Time Management to Maximize Business Results

Strategic planning is about how you manage your human capital to maximize your business results or profits. Managing people must include time management to deliver those results. Do you know what unproductive time by your human capital is costing you? Probably not!

Effective Execution of Your Strategic Plan Requires Monitoring of All Goals and Your Dashboard

Do you monitor the results of your strategic plan? Is that monitoring constant and consistent? The failure to monitor the progress of the plan dooms many plans within the first few weeks.

Executable Strategic Planning Is Effective Delegation of Who Does What By When

Does your strategic plan indicate who does what by when? If not, it should.

Get the Money You Need to Jump-Start Your Business

Do you have a good idea, but no the money to create a business for it? Do you have a start-up planned, but no way to fund it? Do you have an existing business that needs a loan or grant to expand? Do you want to introduce a new product or service? Do you have a charity or non-profit that needs funding?

Strategic Planning - Pitfalls in Implementation

In our strategic planning work, we often work with companies who have tried strategic planning before. Almost inevitably, the companies we meet were disappointed in the results they got before using Simplified Strategic Planning.

Managing Workforce Diversity for Better Corporate Results

How useful is workforce diversity? Is it a problem one need to cope with or should it be seen as an opportunity that can be used to enhance the overall effectiveness of the corporation? Understanding the reasons for the dominance of diversity is the first step towards managing diversity.

UK Facilities Managers Focusing on Conservation

With the growing uncertainty in the electricity and natural gas prices, and increased awareness of energy conservation, many facilities managers of UK companies are exploring every option to reduce their costs and decrease their impact on the environment.

The Easy Way to Innovate is - the Hard Way!

Robert Bradford discusses how innovation creates competitive advantage and how you can think about your innovations to create a more solid market position.

10 Ways to Improve Cash Flow

Cash flow problems don’t have to cripple your business if you take a step back and evaluate your options objectively, and just about every business would like to improve their cash flow right? This article outlines ten tips which may help you achieve your cash flow objectives.

Strategic Alliances - What, Why, How, Etc

A strategic alliance is one in which two companies join hands to market services and products for mutual benefit. Traditionally, strategic alliances are formed between companies that are not direct competitors of each other but have complementary products or services that are marketed to the same target audience. There are three primary types of strategic alliances - joint ventures, minority equity investments, and direct cooperation.

Strategic Planning - What Does Your Company Mean?

Last week I had an interesting discussion with a director of Mary Kay, one of the most successful companies in the cosmetics industry. She wanted to know why it would be important for her sales reps to understand strategy.