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Evaluating A New - Or Existing - Market

Monday 16 April 2012

How do you reliably assess a market for a new venture? How do you determine if the business that you are already in is still relevant? It's vital to perform due diligence when evaluating markets you're currently in, or about to go into when looking at expanding your business. If you go through these ten steps as you would a checklist, you will have achieved some seriously good due diligence.

Seven Secrets Of Successful Strategic Alliances

Tuesday 25 January 2011

No business is an island. Here are seven tips to help you develop strategic alliances that deliver the goods, rather than turning out to be full of hollow and unfulfilled promises.

5 Steps To Focusing On Your Business Priorities

Tuesday 9 February 2010

Whether you are trying to get clear on your business direction, or your daily tasks, you have to chunk up from the detail swimming around in your head to a higher level focus.

7 Mistakes To Avoid When Writing A Business Plan

Tuesday 9 June 2009

A business plan guide is a great place to start when you are getting ready to write your first business plan. But we're going to ignore the step-by-step tutorial for a moment and focus on the real world mistakes you need to avoid.

A Simple Strategic Planning Framework That Gets Real Results

Friday 8 May 2009

Let me cut through the clutter to offer a simple framework for strategic planning that will turn your strategic plans into the results you want.

Redundancy - A 'How-To' For Managers And Employees

Wednesday 15 April 2009

When an economy is experiencing a decline or downturn, restructures and redundancies will always gain greater attention. But this can be part of any business during their life cycle - due to circumstances such as loss in business, a directive from global head office, new management or the merging of two or more businesses.

Predictors Of Success When Entering A New Market

Monday 16 March 2009

How to quantify the attractiveness of entering a new market.

Creating The Future - Writing A Business Plan

Monday 23 February 2009

What are the essential elements of an attractive business plan?

Reducing The Risk Of Business Plan Failure

Friday 26 September 2008

Whenever anybody has a new idea or initiative, before investment dollars are won, the necessary prerequisite of a business plan is demanded, as it should be. The problem is, too often those tasked with writing the business plan are the very same people that conceived the idea, and thus they are biased even before they start.

Ship-Shaping Your Partnership

Friday 30 May 2008

Things to consider when starting a business with anyone other than the person that stares back at you in the mirror.