Trends in Business - Risks and Opportunities

Improve important management decisions- with a forward- looking strategic framework that takes into account marketplace trends.

Cutting Through the Clutter- Personal and Business Strategic Planning

Despite a lot of talk about the desire to simplify and focus, many professionals fall far short of their longing. As responsible people doing our best to satisfy competing demands, we tolerate, and maybe even thrive a bit on figuring out how to squeeze in more and more. How do some people go from more to less with better results?

Selling Your Business - It's More Than The Price

Every seller of a business wants the best price, but most fail to look at other considerations which can lead to seller's remorse, tax issues and other problems. Formulating a good strategy for your sale is critical to the success of your transaction

Financial Scheme of Refco Scandal

This article provides a scheme that was used in Refco company and that lead to its collapse. It gives detailed list of crash events.

Mind Mapping Yourself Into Focus

Mind mapping can seem like such a disorderly process. You pull out a big sheet of paper, get the markers rounded up, and start writing, drawing circles and lines in all directions. How can this help with focus?

Benchmarking as a Way of Strategic Planning Approach to Business Success

This article is to share some of the experience gained during one of the Strategic Planning Review session where the CEO adopted a Benchmarking as an approach to Strategic Planning. This approach though is not new but uncommon among many companies I worked with. Traditional analytical tools such as PEST, 5-forces of competitions, SWOT etc. were not used. Does it worked?

A New Era for New Era

New Era is the largest sports licensed head wear company in the world. They have been in business for over 80 years and it shows. Their workmanship can be seen on the heads of many, from Jay-Z to Prince William, Major League Baseball teams to NBA members.

The Hare And The Tortoise

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

How To Start My Own Flowershop Business

First, you have to mind it, you have to take the advantages and balance them with the disadvantages, which are many than the first ones. Is important for you to make something that you like and you are prepared for. Thus you can interweave the practical and the pleasant things. And when you are financial disappointed, it remains to you the pleasure to do the things right that you are appreciated for.

Right Formula to Perfect Wealth Formula

In the internet marketing business world we need right formula to bringing our business to the next Level. But unfortunately, now the internet business world there are flooded of hypes and scam artist formula.

Offshoring - Are The Savings Worth The Cost

The low cost of labor in many foreign countries makes expanding operations outside the US an attractive option, but is it as great a deal as you might think? Here are just a few things to consider before expanding overseas.

What's Your Business Model?

During business plan creation, a business model must evolve that is properly focused but broad enough to to be successful. There are four critical areas to be considered in developing the business model and incorporating it into the business plan. This article discusses them.

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.

Understanding Value

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