Business Plan - Critical to Success

A business plan is a must. The process of creating one forces you to organize your dreams and goals into a specific strategy. It brings forth issues you may have forgotten – maybe not thought of at all yet. It helps organize your efforts and focus them on the ultimate goal: Success.

Tips for Better Strategic Planning in the Smaller Company

Robert Bradford offers 8 solid tips for better strategic planning in smaller companies with a limited management staff and less than 50 employees, based on 20 years of experience doing strategic planning.

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.

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.

Does Your Strategic Plan Include a Proven Goal Setting Process?

Strategic planning is corrals a lot of information and then develops strategies to out last and out survive the competition. Goals are part of any executable plan and there should be a proven goal setting process to expedite the execution of your strategic plan.

Strategic Planning – The 2 Gaping Pitfalls

Strategic Planning is the most important tool for any business success. Yet there are 2 pitfalls for any plan. Large, multi-billion dollar corporations often make these 2 simple mistakes and significantly reduce the opportunity to reach their organization's goals.

Strategic Planning Should Not Forget Goal Achievement Training and Development

Strategic planning centers around goal achievement. Are your people trained to consistently achieve goals?

Managing Workforce Diversity for Better Corporate Results

How useful is workforce diversity? Is it a problem one need to cope with or should it be seen as an opportunity that can be used to enhance the overall effectiveness of the corporation? Understanding the reasons for the dominance of diversity is the first step towards managing diversity.

Time is Money - So Make More Money by Using Less Time!

Robert Bradford discusses how to improve profitability by paying attention to how you use time - both yours and your customers.

Home Based Tutoring Business

While professors and those with highly-regarded degrees are often top picks for tutors, expertise doesn’t necessarily guarantee patience with struggling pupils and applications of commendable teaching methods. Those who have backgrounds in child care, experience working with special education students, or even patient moms who have certainly put their time in helping their children with after school homework sessions would also be exceptional candidates for establishing a home based tutoring business.

Various Ways of Stopping Foreclosure

This article would let you choose and implement the method to get you out of the foreclosure problem by either stopping it and living in your house or by getting out of the foreclosure problem while still retaining your financial stability. A number of options are available to choose from in the pursuit to escape the hard times.

Strategic Planning - Who Is Missing from Your C Level Executive Team

Do you think you have everyone that you need on your C Level Executive Team in developing a strategic plan? The answer to this question may surprise you.

International Impacts on a Business Plan

Business plans are complicated when operating across international borders. Four critical things must be considered and are high-lighted in this discussion.

Rejuvenate & Re-Fuel Your Inner Drive

Solo Entrepreneurs have unique needs as they build their small businesses. Here are three key ways that Solo-E's motivate themselves to success: by maintaining a focused marketing approach, finding the support they need in alliances that fuel their creativity and personal vision, and honing in on their assets to create personal expertise.

Top 3 Strategies to Boost Your Perceived Value

Three ways to boost your perceived value are: deliver unexpected value, ensure your client's success and toot your own horn. Learn steps in how to do all three and keep clients coming back.