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.

Strategic Planning Should Not Forget Goal Achievement Training and Development

Strategic planning centers around goal achievement. Are your people trained to consistently achieve goals?

What Every Successful Business Plan Has in Common

The first and most important attribute that every business plan needs is an idea behind it. You need to hone your idea and vision until it shines.

Various Ways of Stopping Foreclosure

This article would let you choose and implement the method to get you out of the foreclosure problem by either stopping it and living in your house or by getting out of the foreclosure problem while still retaining your financial stability. A number of options are available to choose from in the pursuit to escape the hard times.

You Get What You Measure in Strategic Planning

You may have heard this before - that you get what you measure. In business, this is definitely, true. However, in certain types of business there is SO MUCH being measured that it's sometimes difficult for employees to decide which measurements are really important.

International Impacts on a Business Plan

Business plans are complicated when operating across international borders. Four critical things must be considered and are high-lighted in this discussion.

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.

Rejuvenate & Re-Fuel Your Inner Drive

Solo Entrepreneurs have unique needs as they build their small businesses. Here are three key ways that Solo-E's motivate themselves to success: by maintaining a focused marketing approach, finding the support they need in alliances that fuel their creativity and personal vision, and honing in on their assets to create personal expertise.

Introducing the 15 Frameworks of Successful Self-Employed Professionals

A framework is a way of thinking, a point-of-view, a perspective on something. Here are the 15 frameworks of the successfully self-employed professional. You'll find some of these to be radical and foreign. Don't let that stop you! Try them on; see what you learn from them.

Fear of Success? Fear of Failure?

Fear of success/failure are two sides of the same experience. Both results offer opportunities for self-discovery and change. Developing the clarity to know who you are on the inside is a key ingredient to achieve rich outcomes with ease, strength, and focus!

Avoiding the Small Business Cash Flow Roller Coaster

Running a business on the feast-or-famine roller coaster is hard on the cash flow aspect of your business and harder still on your nerves. With diligence and determination you can break this cycle. Learn how.

10 Essential Tips for Starting Entrepreneurs - Ignore these at Your Peril!

Opening a new business? Get a head start by heeding these time-tested success factors -- doubly important for the Solo Entrepreneur!

Build Your Small Business by Building Relationships

Building relationships to build your business is just like planting a seed to grow a tree. Seeds that grow and develop are in fertile ground with the water and sunlight that they need. Relationships that thrive and turn into customers, alliances or referrals have been nurtured over time with these techniques. Read more about this…..

Think Yourself To Success

You've bought and read every popular book on entrepreneurship and success in business. You've joined all the right organizations and met the right people. You've learned the latest time management tips and have the most up-to-date software. Still there is something missing. What is left to do? Read on...