Recognition Is A Journey

Winning Workplaces Chairman Ken Lehman explains that although organizations' goal is to reach some level of excellence, the path toward excellence often reveals the most value and rewards.

Opening A Dollar Store - Tips Regarding Low Profit Merchandise

One of the biggest challenges that faces the entrepreneur who is opening a dollar store is making a profit on the tight margins found with many products. In fact, almost all of the day-to-day necessities are in huge demand, yet they come with very little profit. The smart store owner knows that the balancing act between demand and cost requires constant attention.

Asset Management in the Supply Chain

Over the last decade more and more companies have implemented returnable and reusable transit packaging fleets and pools, whether it is pallets, tote bins, steel stillage, cages or even wooden crates. What is guaranteed is that these fleets require a capital investment, (whether directly or by a fleet / pool provider), and should be protected as you would any other company asset.

Business Growth - Looking At Darwin And The Demon

As commercial processes commoditize in a developed economy, they are outsourced or transferred offshore or both, leaving onshore companies with unrelenting pressure to come up with the next wave of innovation. Failure to innovate equals failure to differentiate equals failure to garner the profits and revenues needed to attract capital investment. It behooves us all to use our brains to get out in front of this Darwinian process.

An Introduction To The Balanced Scorecard Management Framework

In the late 1980s, vast numbers of companies were rapidly adopting Total Quality Management (TQM) principles, yet many of these organizations found themselves struggling to tie TQM to their bottom-line results, because TQM efforts tended to focus on isolated improvement projects that too often were not directly linked to strategic goals.

Insights To Become More Client - Focused, According To Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach

We hear many companies and individuals claim that they are client-focused. And we hear that clients will leave if we do not focus on their needs and if we are not providing better services and products than others. If we pause for a moment and think about this, could it be that the client-focused concept we often hear about is almost always about the benefits to the provider of the services and products? Do you really want to serve our clients with the best service for their benefit or for your benefit? Here are ten (10) insights from Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach to assist you in becoming more client-focused.

Assumptions Continue to Derail the Best Strategic Business Plans

What assumptions do you live and breathe within your business without knowing them? How are these assumptions creating dissatisfied customers?

Business Intuition - The Future of Corporate America

In an increasingly competitive world market, Business Intuition has become a critical skill of successful CEOs who need to think outside the box to find creative solutions. Discover 3 critical business areas where structured intuition can provide unique solutions to take your business to the next level of success.

Business Growth - Examining Five Killer Strategies For Trouncing the Competition

Winners in business play rough and don't apologize for it. Toyota has steadily attacked the Big Three where their will to defend was weakest, moving up the line from compact cars to mid- and full-size vehicles and on to Detroit's last remaining profit centers, light trucks and SUVs. All the while, Toyota has dared its rivals to duplicate a production system that gives the company unmatchable productivity and quality.

Ten Top Benefits of Strategic Thinking and Planning For Business and Not For Profit Organizations

What are the real benefits of strategic thinking and planning for business for a not for profit organization? This is one of the most frequently asked questions I have encountered in more than 30 years of work in strategic planning endeavors. In preparing to write this article I reflected on those years of experience and chose what I believe to be ten top benefits of strategic thinking and planning. These are not listed in a priority order.

Five Deadly Decisions in Business and How to Avoid Them

Think about this for a moment - Thousands and thousands of business decisions are made every day. Many of those business decisions can be and are deadly! And think how very difficult it is to avoid making some of those deadly decisions. Here are five examples of some of the most common deadly business decisions.

Clearing Up The Myths About Strategic Thinking and Planning

I continue to be amazed at the amount of misinformation and the number of myths that exist about strategic thinking and planning. During my entire career, I have heard business owners, senior executives and not-for-profit board members and executive directors utter “mythical” statements about strategic thinking and planning. And I have observed that these same people truly believe that these myths are reality. My purpose in writing this article is to share what I believe are the 5 biggest myths and also provide some insights into what I believe are the 5 biggest “realities” of strategic thinking and planning.

Thousands Spent on Business Strategies with Poor Business Results

Are you frustrated by the lack of results generated by your strategic plan? Possibly, the answer is more than just strategies and plans.

Strategic Planning - The Three Key Elements Of Business Strategic Planning

For businesses strategic planning is a concept, a mind set and a process. It is looking down the road at what's around the bend. When everyone around your place is focusing on what's coming you will all recognize it in time to take advantage of it.