Innovation And The Challenge Of Growth

Constant innovation is a characteristic of many successful growing companies. Staying ahead of the competition requires inventiveness at individual, group, and company levels. As companies grow, market demands and competition can force them to maintain a culture of continuous innovation. Growth, however, also creates a need for structure and control, which can make a culture of innovation difficult to sustain.

Brainstorming - An Aid To Writing

The success of your written work, or even a whole website may depend on something completely ignored by most people. A big part of it is brainstorming for the basis of your content. Here are some tips to help you with it.

Do You Know What Your Strategy is?

It's 10 AM do YOU know what your Strategy is?

Enterprise Architecture

Enterprise architecture is the total picture of an enterprise. It incorporates the broad decisions that should be taken by an organization to build its information support system. It also acts as a master plan that coordinates different aspects of a business enterprise. These aspects includes the goals, objectives, and strategies in the business planning process; the business terms, organization structures, processes and data in business operations; application systems and databases involved in automation; and the computers, operating systems and networks that make up the technological infrastructure. Thus, enterprise architecture has become an inevitable knowledge domain for enterprises in the information age.

How a Custom Wall Map Can Help Your Business

You gotta know the territory! That's what all the salesmen sang as the train headed for River City in the hit musical The Music Man. A wall map or map mural helps your sales force, delivery staff and customers see the territory and know the territory.

5 Bad Reasons For Starting A Business

If you start a business for one of these 5 reasons you'll more than likely fail. I'll tell you 5 silly reasons for starting a business and why you should avoid them.

Your Business or Your Life - Why Not Both?

Bring LIFE into the strategic planning process Face it – you didn’t go into business for yourself to give up all semblance of the life of your dreams! You had a great idea and/ or wanted to be your ...

My Philosophy on Valuations

This article describes the best way to manage the valuation process.

Strategic Business Planning While You're Still Working

Strategic business planning is very important to your business success. The key to successfully transitioning from employee to business owner is the quality and thoroughness of your strategic business planning.

Business Market Research and Planning: What Size and Composition is your Market?

Many businesses have difficulty defining their market by size and composition and so their marketing and sales planning is ineffective. By analysing what you know about your customers, finding what industry bodies know about your market and making intelligent guesses, you can plan how to target your marketing and sales effort to get the best return and satisfy the most customers.

Strategy Cycle

The strategy cycle is a simple tool that will help you to achieve the goals of your organisation. Consisting of four main phases, the cycle is an iterative process that you can use to build and improve your business year after year.

Planning Your 10 Prospects

When planning for success, goals are always the first thing someone asks about. Goals are indeed one of the keys of success, however, putting action plans in place to support those goals really makes the difference.

How To Plan Your Business

Writing a business plan can be a challenging task but it can also be very rewarding in terms of the future success of your business.