Are You Still Not Backing Up Your Data?

Planning for a worst-case scenario isn't alarmist. It's common sense. By putting together a data back-up plan you can avoid a business catastrophe!

Business Growth Strageties Your 4 Part Marketing Plan

Every business should have four basic strategies for generating revenue. In this article the four basic strategies are presented on order of difficulty and cost from low to high. The priority you place on each plan depends on your unique situation and goals. These strategies work regardless if you sell products or provide a service.

The Hare And The Tortoise

Sometimes it is appropriate to change strategy and try something different. And sometimes it is appropriate to do both.

Understanding Value

Robert Bradford looks at the components of value and how an understanding of value can lead to increased profitability.

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!

7 Steps Effective Strategic Planning Process

Strategic Planning Process is key to business planning and success. This TQM aticle illustrated a typical approach taken by several organizations. It involves Vision & Mission, SWOT Analysis, Developing strategic options, Strategic Objectives, Strategy Execution plan, Resource Allocation and Execution Review.

Communicating Your Strategic Plan With Employees

Robert Bradford discusses 5 key ideas for effectively communicating your strategic plan with your employees.

Executable Strategic Plan Provides for Quick Course Corrections

Does your strategic plan provide for quick course corrections? If not, maybe it is time to revisit your plan and your attitudes?

The 3 Strategies of Market Followers

One type of business plan strategy is to be a market follower. This discussion demonstrates the characteristics of the strategy and what one can expect related to business vibrancy and monetary returns.

10 Ways to Look Chic on the Web

Marketing and selling over the internet allows you to enjoy the ever-so-fabulous pleasure of sitting around in a nighty and bunny slippers while you watch the sales and leads roll in. But no matter what you’re wearing, your web presence must still be dressed to the nines. Here are ten tips for making your website chic.

Dealing With Powerful Customers

Robert Bradford talks about eight key ways to make money when your market is dominated by a few, powerful customers, especially when your customer is much larger than your company is.

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.

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.

Business Intelligence - Better Merchandising, Better Sales

Operating within the ever-changing consumer electronics market, cellular retailers face unique merchandising challenges that extend beyond the typical lost sales due to out of stocks and markdowns from excess inventory – their business is susceptible to handset design trends, emerging technologies and of course, passing fads. When planning merchandise, however, retailers are not completely powerless. Business Intelligence (BI) software, with its predictive analytics, helps retailers improve their merchandising processes to identify hidden opportunities and eliminate lost sales and markdowns.