Strategic Planning in Five Easy Steps That Will Help You Create Your Strategic Plan in One Day!

Using this powerful Strategic System you will in five easy steps create your strategic plan in one day. It is so simple that people may prefer to spend so much money hiring consultants to give them the same strategic planning result, all be it, in more days and with elaborate language.

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?

Developing a Solid Business Plan - Part II

Developing a Solid Business Plan: essential categories that you'll want to include in your plan.

Help With Your First Invention - Provisional Patent Application

Purpose of Provisional Patent Application, its benefits and drawbacks. Provisional Patent Application allows inventors to start patent process without incurring the high cost of patent lawyers. However, because Provisional Applications are simpler to complete then the Regular Patent Application, it doesn’t mean that inventors should take them lightly.

Why Small Engineering Companies Should Seek Out An Experienced Business Strategist

Engineers are trained to think in a linear fashion - answer question one before going on to number two. Business events occur spherically - unrelated but impacting questions require answers according to their own deadlines. This article explains why and what to do about it.

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?

Corporate Data Backup a Must in Today's Business World

In today's fast-paced and cutthroat business world, the loss of vital business documents can mean ruin and disaster for any company. Remote online backup is the most practical and cost effective way for businesses to ensure the protection of such documents.

Annuitize Your Biz

What's better than making a dollar today? Making a dollar the next day and the next day and the next day. Build long term relationships with your customers for success!

Opening a Dollar Store - Cut Start-up Costs

Are you opening a dollar store? Start thinking of creative ways to help reduce the costs associated with getting started and open for business. Remember that cost reduction will be one of the continuing areas of focus for you in the future. Why not get started early?

Aligning Departments With Your Strategy

Robert Bradford discusses concrete ways you can create better alignment between your corporate strategic plan and departments, based on 20 years of experience working on hundreds of strategic plans.

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.

Can Finance Really Become a Strategic Partner to the Business?

Much has been written about how finance organizations can become strategic partners with the businesses they support. Despite significant effort, not much progress has been made. Paradoxically, the link between finance and the business has been under finance's proverbial nose for some time - resource allocation. A serious concerted effort to optimize an organization's resource allocation ultimately enables finance to develop the bridge between finance and strategy. This discipline known as corporate portfolio management works to actively manage the company's resource allocation as a portfolio of discretionary investments.

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?

Executable Strategic Planning Is Effective Delegation of Who Does What By When

Does your strategic plan indicate who does what by when? If not, it should.