What to Consider When Making a Business Plan

Have you recently made the decision to develop yourself a business plan, for your new business venture? If so, congratulations; you are taking a step in the right direction. Business plans are a great way not only to stay organized, but to attract financial assistance from financial lenders or investors.

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.

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.

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 Training

Strategic planning examines the pitfalls in the current management of organizations, companies or concepts and plans for safe movement towards upward growth, in future. Strategic planning training lets organizations, companies and individuals update their aims and identify capabilities, thereby trying to harness the resources required for being upwardly mobile. Strategic planning training is targeted at managers and professionals deeply involved in gauging the performance of any business, including those who have a role in planning and monitoring.

5 Critical Mistakes Most Consultants and Coaches Make

Please let me share with you some of the mistakes I made starting out so you can avoid those pitfalls yourself...and catapult to success much faster than it took me.

Setting Business Goals-Use the SMART Method to Achieve Dramatic Results

Proper goal setting is a critical element of any successful business. Without realistic goals, business owners and employees are often left to follow a vague and winding performance roadmap. A clear set of goals helps a business continuously improve, compete more effectively, and fine tune its operations and processes over time.

Incorporating A Small Business

It may sound strange to say, but incorporating a small business can be scary. I have been a business advisor for many years, and I have led many clients to incorporate a small business. Many of them are very hesitant to. This is understandable. When you own a small business, you put your heart and soul into it. It is yours, and yours alone. If it succeeds, you succeed. If it fails, you fail. You are tied to small businesses as you would be tied to your wife and children.

Alumni Survey Costs Reduced By 90% & Response Levels Up 500%

The costs associated with doing a Direct Mail university alumni survey are just simply cost prohibitive. You only need to divide the full cost of the survey by the actual responses and realize that if you are paying over $50.00 per response, then there truly is a better way. Costs can be reduced by 90% and response levels increased five fold.

In the Kill Zone

What does a future pandemic mean to American employers? Dr. Ramirez discusses the possible impact of pandemic avian flu on the workforce.

Blackjack Strategy

Blackjack, also commonly known as twenty-one, is undoubtedly one of the most popular casino card games in the world. Much of blackjack's popularity and reputation is due to the blend of chance with elements of skill, and the publicity that surrounds card counting. Card counting refers to the act of keeping track of all the cards, which have been played since the previous shuffle.

Successful Collaboration; Overcome Misinformation Based Pitfalls

You could easily be guilty of underestimating the complexity of coordinating and integrating corporate resources, and overestimating your partner's abilities to achieve the end result. Self-doubt and not believing you have the skills and tools to create an alliance can crop up here. Eventually, Partnering success depends on management’s abilities, skills, commitment, aspirations and passions in assembling the pieces of the puzzle. When unequal dependence in a relationship occurs, the partner with the least dependence could be less likely to compromise and put energy into the relationship.

Sun Zi Art of War - Five Stages of Evaluating Success of Strategies

In Sun Zi Art of War, Sun Zi state down the 5 stages of evaluating the odds of successful implementation of war. Want to know what are the five stages and how to apply them to business strategy? Read on to find out.