Introduction to Succession Business Planning

If you own a business, you worked hard to get it up, running and successful. Succession planning makes sure your business survives when you don't.

Customer Driven Companies - Have a Definite Advantage

Client Driven Companies, Always exceed client expectations and deliver outstanding products and services

Corporate Data Backup a Must in Today's Business World

In today's fast-paced and cutthroat business world, the loss of vital business documents can mean ruin and disaster for any company. Remote online backup is the most practical and cost effective way for businesses to ensure the protection of such documents.

Execution and Executability

Robert Bradford discusses the three basic steps to improving execution of your strategic plan.

Opening a Dollar Store - Cut Start-up Costs

Are you opening a dollar store? Start thinking of creative ways to help reduce the costs associated with getting started and open for business. Remember that cost reduction will be one of the continuing areas of focus for you in the future. Why not get started early?

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.

Can Finance Really Become a Strategic Partner to the Business?

Much has been written about how finance organizations can become strategic partners with the businesses they support. Despite significant effort, not much progress has been made. Paradoxically, the link between finance and the business has been under finance's proverbial nose for some time - resource allocation. A serious concerted effort to optimize an organization's resource allocation ultimately enables finance to develop the bridge between finance and strategy. This discipline known as corporate portfolio management works to actively manage the company's resource allocation as a portfolio of discretionary investments.

Making Lemonade in Your Business Venture

In any business there will be bumps and bruises - it's what you do with these business pitfalls that will make or break your business.

Opening Minds to Diversity

In the world of human resources (HR), everywhere you turn these days people are talking about diversity in the workforce. In particular, companies that operate globally are aware that to go beyond what is required of them legally and morally in eradicating discrimination can bring about a positive climate that will engage their employees, improve their productivity and enhance the effectiveness of their organization.

Strategic Planning – The 2 Gaping Pitfalls

Strategic Planning is the most important tool for any business success. Yet there are 2 pitfalls for any plan. Large, multi-billion dollar corporations often make these 2 simple mistakes and significantly reduce the opportunity to reach their organization's goals.

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.

Essential Business Communication of Your Strategic Plan Delivers Ongoing Employee Motivation

Do you have a strategic plan? Do you have employee motivation problems? Maybe the failure to communicate your strategic plan might be contributing factor to employee motivation.

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.

Time is Money - So Make More Money by Using Less Time!

Robert Bradford discusses how to improve profitability by paying attention to how you use time - both yours and your customers.

An Alternative Way to Conduct a SWOT Analysis

Conducting a SWOT Analysis can be quite a challenging task when you are not so experience. this article is written as an alternative way to conduct a SWOT Analysis. It illustrates the What? When and How? It can be done in a simplistic way.