Long Term Thinking, Short Term Focus

The most precious commodity in this world is time. How many of us are time poor these days? Just seems to be a universal pandemic, especially in the western world.

How to Overcome Planning and Forecasting Challenges

In this fast paced world, a company’s plans and forecasts have to be constantly monitored, changed and updated to ensure that the business is geared up to face any challenges that may come its way. Flexibility to make necessary corrections and accuracy of the data used to create the plan is essential for a plan to succeed

Business Coach & Executive Coach: Is Professional Development Part of Your Strategic Action Plan?

Is investing in your professional development part of your strategic plan? Explore why and the how of this important strategy may help you increase your client loyalty.

Writing a Business Plan

Are you getting ready to start developing your business plan? If so, have you thought about how you are going to go about developing that business plan or what you should include in it?

Finding Sample Business Plan Templates Online

Are you interested in starting your own business soon? If so, have you developed a business plan for yourself? Business plans are tools that help a business owner organize their up and coming business ventures. Although business plans are typically used as a source of organization, they are also used to obtain financing or attract investors.

Business Plan Software Is It Worth Your Money

Are you preparing to start developing your own business plan? If so, there is a good chance that you have already done a little bit of research online. When researching business plans online, did you come across business plan software programs? If so, you are not alone. Whether you just started browsing the internet or performed a standard internet search with the words “business plans,” you likely came across business plan software programs.

Business Sellers - Beware of the C Corp Asset Sale

If you are selling your business and it is a C Corp, the tax consequences of an asset sale as opposed to a stock sale can be punishing. All else being equal, push for the stock sale. This article discusses the tax treatment of both transaction forms.

Is Succession Planning in Your Future?

Some forward-thinking companies have had succession management programs for years. They make it an integral part of our leadership development process. Since change is constant, putting a succession plan in place establishes a process for the company to follow no matter who the heir apparent happens to be. Companies that don't conduct succession planning, struggle to replace key employees who leave or die. At times, an interim chief executive may be put in place until the company feels it is ready for a permanent executive at the helm. These tips for selecting a successor to pass the torch to can be challenging, as succession planning requires businesses to plan for what the company will look like and how it will operate after the transition of a new executive is at the helm. This is the reason the current CEO needs to review their succession plans carefully and on a regular basis.

Consumer Product Development

In an age where everyone is practically well educated as a consumer, products are responding by becoming more refined. Without doubt, price, performance and features are extremely important considerations in consumer products, yet, any number of attributes, performance specifications or price enticements will not influence potential buyers if they do not essentially like a product.

Product Design Development

Product design development involves the use of high value and innovative techniques by organizations in order to create new and technically advanced products, to improve on existing products or for product diversification. It includes incorporating simulation technologies into the design process to drive design concepts and optimize product performances.

Product Development Training

Product development training programs involve extensive range of workshops to provide practical training in new product development, as well as training regarding practices and concepts of concurrent engineering (CE), integrated product development (IPD), integrated product and process development (IPPD) and different methods and tools to assist in product development.

What is Strategic Planning?

Strategic planning consists of developing strategies to reach a defined goal. It helps organizations to envision their future and develop essential steps and actions to achieve that future. Gathering and analyzing information, identifying serious issues faced by the organization, development of a strategic vision, mission review or revision and development of goals and strategies are the basic steps of a strategic planning process.

Strategic Planning Guidance

Strategic planning is more stressed primarily in military operations, in the government and in business activities. In a business, strategic planning provides guidance regarding financial and marketing strategies, human resources, information technology adjustments and orientation of the company in general.

What is a Reverse Merger?

A reverse merger, also referred to as a reverse takeover, is a business transaction that converts a private company into a public company without having to go through the traditional paperwork and initial public offering processes. A reverse merger starts by a privately held company establishing a public shell company. The shareholders of the private company then sell their shares in the private company to the public shell company for shares in the public company. By going public in this manner the shareholders of the private company are able to maintain their ownership and control of the company after it goes public.