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by Alexander Gordon - 2006-12-20
Companies need to comply with many laws and regulations such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the freedom-of-information act and Basel II, making it increasingly important to manage documents and archive th...
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by Michael Sisler - 2006-12-20
(1)EBay is an auction website designed to be the fastest way possible to effectively sell goods online.Analyze this statement and think about the recent fee hike imposed on eBay store sellers. Could t...
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by Alexander Gordon - 2006-12-20
Strategic planning plays a very important role in determining the success of a business. It is the systematic planning and guiding of the company in such a way that target goal is met within predeterm...
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by Sarika K - 2006-12-20
The modern offices demand an economic outlook. With everything so mindlessly attached to the economics of the workplace, often, the looks and style, reminiscent of classical craftsmanship, are ignored...
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by Graeme Nichol - 2006-12-19
Like most people we have plans for our businesses. Strategic plans, budgets, succession plans and the like. The real question is do you have a plan for your life?I have thought about this time and aga...
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by Graeme Nichol - 2006-12-18
In my world of working with companies to achieve their strategic plans through execution, we're always developing goals and objectives to work on achieving during a calendar year. So in the prospecti...
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by Dan Goldberg - 2006-12-18
Lofty goals and plans can hit a roadblock when they create friction inside of a business. If they run counter to the stated mission and vision of the company or are skirting the edge of its culture it...
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by Lance Winslow - 2006-12-15
Strategic planning and business is paramount to winning market share and growing the company. Unfortunately, strategic planning has become a buzzword by MBA business consultants and the university pr...
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by Dave Kauppi - 2006-12-15
The next line could be, "Will it Derail Your Sale?" We have seen it go both ways, unfortunately. If a deal does blow up, everybody looses. The seller has spent six months of divided focus and many of ...
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by Wayne Messick - 2006-12-14
As business owners we are often trapped by the unintended results of untested assumptions. After all we've been in business a while, maybe a long while, and we've been successful so far. Often that on...
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by Carol Lynn Blood - 2006-12-10
It may be hard for many of my readers to believe, but an organization's strategic plan needs to be no more than a one-page plan of action that will allow you the ability to make the complex simple and...
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by Trina Newby - 2006-12-10
Many women are so confused by the words - "Business Plan". What is it? Who do I show it to? Do I really need it? What is it really going to do for me?A business plan is a written blueprint for your bu...
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by Paul Kopp - 2006-12-09
Many people create their business plan and work their lives around it. However I know that this is a huge mistake. I made that mistake with the first two home based businesses that I started. It did n...
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by Rick Johnson - 2006-12-08
Upon completion of the strategic plan, an operating plan for the upcoming year must be prepared. An operating plan is a schedule of events and responsibilities that details the actions to be taken in ...
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by Michael Aral - 2006-12-08
Stumbling across an empty, profitable-looking niche is like finding the house of your dreams for sale at a rock-bottom price. At first you can't believe your luck, then you think, "Wait...what's wrong...
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by Darrell Wilk - 2006-12-07
USA companies have failed in China, because they underestimated the differences in doing business in China versus the USA, and they lacked a long-term commitment to be successful in China.China Busine...
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by John Bancroft - 2006-12-07
If you are considering starting your own business sometime soon, we have put together ten things you need to consider before taking the plunge. One thing you can be sure of is you won't be alone, in t...
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by Don Paris - 2006-12-07
Remember what it was like to be in school? It may not have seemed like it at the time, but things were simpler when you found out quickly whether you had the right or wrong answer on a test.You have ...
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by Larry Galler - 2006-12-06
Here we are in the midst of the holiday rush. Shopping, wrapping, open houses, giving, cooking, eating, entertaining, caroling - you know - it's that "over the river and through the snow" time of yea...
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by Jim Hart - 2006-12-05
If you are in the beginning stages of setting up a business, one of the first things you want to do is conduct a competition analysis. Studying the competition can pay enormous dividends and save you...
