1. Organizing Business Cards for Effective Contact Management by Christopher J. Brunner
    Now that you've had colorful new business cards printed, and have been distributing them diligently, what do you do with the cards you collect from other people?If you're like most people, you have a stack of rubber-banded cards floating around you desk. ... more
     
  2. Business Ethics: Lesson Plans, Knowledge Management, Ethics and Capitalism Collide by Leanne Hoagland-Smith
    Recently I read of a new website where teachers can post and sell their lesson plans to recover the time that they had spent in developing these plans. On the surface, this sounds reasonable and why would anyone object to teachers making a little more mo... more
     
  3. Management Aircraft Washing Business by Lance Winslow
    If you are setting up an aircraft washing business you need to be concerned with your management skills and the need to start by writing a business plan. I started my first aircraft washing service when I was 12 years old at a small airport in California.... more
     
  4. Wise Business Management Consultants Write Children's Books by Lance Winslow
    Business Management consultants should learn how to write children's books because so often in business when we are trying to mentor other business leaders, MBA students or small-business owners we find that they do not nearly have the mental faculties to... more
     
  5. Business Management; Managing Bureaucrats in Washington DC by Lance Winslow
    About the most challenging organization to manage would be a bureaucracy in Washington, DC and it is amazing how many people attempt to do this only to fail miserably. It is truly amazing in fact how many people learn corporate business management and th... more
     
  6. Business Management and Condemnation of Some Non Profits by Lance Winslow
    Many business management professionals agree that for profit businesses and capitalism is more efficient and will get the job done faster and better than a non-profit organization. In hind sight of many a task folks have noted that if a business were to h... more
     
  7. Desktop Management: Saving Your Small Business Resources! by LP Morton
    Table of Contents Introduction.......................................................1 Importance of PC Management.........................1 Effective PC Management.................................2 Alternatives for Acquiring Good Tools: Build, Sof... more
     
  8. How To Improve the Management Wins for Winning Business Teams Part 5: Identify Real Problems by Leanne Hoagland-Smith
    A quick story:During the annual meeting, the CEO of a manufacturing company informed her executive team that she wanted to achieve a 10% growth during the next 12 months. The VP of Operations made plans to purchase new manufacturing equipment for new prod... more
     
  9. The Business Of Global Asset Management by Erik Schouman
    Global asset management gives you an active investment management platform for your business. Management of assets is for institutions, private clients, and intermediaries. Global asset management delivers outstanding results to you and your business by ... more
     
  10. Business Continuity Management: How Do You React When Your Business Continuity is at Risk? by Adrian Pepper
    The biggest problem with owning a small business is that your life can be full of worry. I encourage my coaching clients to manage their potential risks. If you do the same, this will allow you: To identify which issues must be resolved to keep your bus... more
     
  11. How to Improve the Management Wins for Winning Business Teams Part 4: Implement Executive Coaching by Leanne Hoagland-Smith
    Executive business coaching is a proven management strategy to help increase the management wins for business teams whether Fortune 1000 companies or small businesses. A recent report by Management Research Group released in May of 2006 that surveyed 6,00... more
     
  12. How to Improve the Management Teams Wins for Winning Business Part 3: Focus on Strengths by Leanne Hoagland-Smith
    Before the book, Now Discover Your Strengths, was published, I discovered first hand the second reason why training of new supervisors or managers fails to be as successful as originally planned. During the first facilitation session for some incoming sup... more
     
  13. How to Improve the Management Team Wins for Winning More Business Through 7 Proven Strategies by Leanne Hoagland-Smith
    Successful management teams understand that organizational success is much more dependent upon the effectiveness of their teams than any other market influence. Robert H. Waterman understood the importance of people in business when he wrote that organiz... more
     
  14. Management in Your Business Means Protecting Information by Lance Winslow
    Is your management team able to protect proprietary information? You have to be in this day and age of Corporate Espionage. Not to mention the laws on identity theft. If you lose valuable employee personal information you could be sued or worse yet be sue... more
     
  15. Business Management and Fair Compensation by Lance Winslow
    Organization run smoother when every one gets to sit at the table and eat and no one is forced to eat scraps, treated like a lesser or not paid fairly for the job title or the work that they do. If you are economically enslaving your work force or are tur... more
     
  16. Business Management and Charting Progress by Lance Winslow
    Are you monitoring the results of your management team? Are you charting the progress of your organization? Are you paying attention to the organizational capital, which comes thru working thru crisis and achieving results?Can your management team cut the... more
     
  17. Business Management and an Enjoyable Work Environment by Lance Winslow
    Do your employees and management staff like their work environment? Can you sense a team effort there? Are people actually happy to be involved in the organization? Are people showing up on time?Does your sick day or holiday numbers come close to your ind... more
     
  18. Business Management and Organization; Understanding of Mission Statement by Lance Winslow
    Having a good mission statement for your company is essential and it really does not matter how big or small your company. Consider it like a Constitution really. It is much about the goals and objects, morals and integrity, as well as the link between wh... more
     
  19. Business Management Case Study; $25.00 Mobile Oil Changes; is it a Viable Business? by Lance Winslow
    If you started a mobile oil change business could you charge $25.00? Would people pay that price for services? Would people forgo the low prices at Wal-Mart of $12.99 for the added convenience of you doing such a service at their homes or offices? Recentl... more
     
  20. Business Management Case Study; Mobile Auto Motive Services and Hot Summer Heat by Lance Winslow
    Starting and owning your own business can be literally be a dream come true for most new entrepreneurs, unfortunately it can turn into the biggest nightmare in the world too, as over regulation, labor issues and cash flow dilemmas from time to time. Indee... more
     
  21. Business Management Decisions; Mobile Oil Change Bus, Build Your Own Unit? by Lance Winslow
    When folks start out in their own business there are many critical things to think about. There are so many options. Let us consider this case study. A gentleman wished to start his own business; a mobile oil change business. So he looks at all the option... more
     
  22. Business Management Decisions; Environmental Controls for a Mobile Oil Change Business by Lance Winslow
    When considering the executive management decision to launch a mobile oil change business whether it is a small business or a large Corporation there is much to think about besides the obvious things of employee training, equipment, scheduling, marketing,... more
     
  23. Business Management Teams Need To Understand Why They Are In Business by Lance Winslow
    To so many business executives do not really understand why their company is in business. Sure they have achieved an MBA and they look at the numbers each week and the goals set for the company for sales. They are aware that they need to achieve certain... more
     
  24. Business Management Case Study; Choosing Equipment for Pressure Washing Business in the Bahamas by Lance Winslow
    Business management teams are often asked to solve problems. Now then let us do a case study here. Lets say that a Corporation owns lots of assets in the Bahamas and needs to pressure wash them, but it has to spend money to import a pressure washer unit a... more
     
  25. Business Management; Mini-Marketing Strategic Planning Exercise for a Mobile Oil Change Business by Lance Winslow
    Business management teams need to consider very carefully whether to open an additional outlet in an outskirts market. Building brand and making money is important and therefore you need to look at all options, possibilities and areas. When they review ar... more
     
  26. Hurricanes and Business Management by Lance Winslow
    What separates the men from the boys in business management? Well, during the 2005 Atlantic tropical hurricane season we saw many large corporations and even small businesses in their local communities rise to the occasion and they had managers and stron... more
     
  27. The Four Top Secrets of Business Development and Risk Management by Peter McLean
    Everyone loves a winner! In the business world, the more money you make, the more effective and successful you and your business become. This truism is consistently born out by top business owners who take their ideas to market. But what are their secre... more
     
  28. Is Excel Running Your Business? A Transition to Project Management Software is Worth the Investment by Matthew Steffen
    Businesses small and large have been using MS Excel for years to run processes and manage projects. For small, simple projects Excel is a useful organizational tool. However, projects have a tendency to grow in complexity at a rate that Excel can not ke... more
     
  29. Business Process Management Outsourcing by Peter Emerson
    The growth and survival of business in the dynamic environment depends upon the development of new products. Organizations must always be on the lookout for new opportunities and exploit the opportunities by creating new products and services. That’s wher... more
     
  30. Creating Successful Management Systems for Small Business by Daryl Des Marais
    Creating successful small business systems can have varying degrees of success depending on many variables. The size of the company, location, number of people, level of skills, company resources and various other items come into play. How do you manage t... more
     
  31. Management Accounts and Small Business by David Willetts
    Many small and medium sized businesses, as well as some large companies, have little idea of the financial state of the organisation.It some instances a daily, or even a less frequent check on the bank balance, purports to represent the financial control ... more
     
  32. Accelerating Business Management and Organizational Capital by Lance Winslow
    Most Business Management Consultants and Experts understand that the key to strong teamwork within executive management is to insure that each member of the team works well together. One of the newest buzz-words is organizational capital. Which is simply ... more
     
  33. Business Process Management Training by Peter Emerson
    In business process management training, qualified executives look to the future and prepare. One important way to do this is to develop and train managers so that they are able to cope with new demands, new problems and new challenges. Indeed, executives... more
     
  34. Business Process Management Solutions by Peter Emerson
    In designing an environment for the effective performance of individuals working together in groups, a manager’s most essential task is to see that everyone understands the groups purposes and objectives and its method of attaining them. If group effort i... more
     
  35. Business Process Management Consulting by Peter Emerson
    Decision-making is the primary task of a manager. While making decisions, it is common that managers consult the existing organizational policies relevant to the decisions. Policies provide the basic framework that managers operate in. Policies exist at a... more
     
  36. Business Process Management by Peter Emerson
    Business process management is the process of designing and maintaining an environment in which individuals, working together in groups, efficiently accomplish selected aims. This basic definition needs to be expanded as manager’s carry out the managerial... more
     
  37. Business Process Management Tools by Peter Emerson
    Business process management tools are comprised of planning, organizing, staffing, leading, controlling and coordination. Planning involves selecting missions and objectives and the actions to achieve them; it requires decision making like choosing future... more
     
  38. Business Process Management Systems by Peter Emerson
    An organized enterprise does not exist in a vacuum. Rather, it is dependent on its external environment. It is a part of larger systems such as the industry it belongs to, the economic system and society. Thus, the enterprise receives inputs, transforms t... more
     
  39. People Management versus Business Management by Raymond Walley
    How much help do we get to ensure that we have the right people doing the right job? Most of us get plenty of guidance and systems to run the business but what can we do to ensure that we can get the best out of our team?In fact, are our people managemen... more
     
  40. Improving Management of Your Business by Halstatt Pires
    All companies have business processes that can be improved. Most companies can benefit from automation or further automation of solutions.Improving Management of Your BusinessImproving business processes is all about a work flow plan, often graphic, and i... more
     
  41. Creativity Leadership and Business Management by Kal Bishop
    Creativity and Innovation are often taught using airy-fairy, intangible, ungrounded, unscientific, non-useable, undefined, mysterious terminology and theories. To get a handle on it you need to talk in real, tangible, useable, measurable concepts to explo... more
     
  42. Business Process Management by Peter Peterka
    Business Processes are a group of activities which are recurring in nature and contribute significantly to the growth and development of the business. Managing these activities efficiently so that maximum business benefit can be captured is better known a... more
     
  43. Integrating Six Sigma with Business Process Management by Peter Peterka
    The concept of Six Sigma was first developed by Motorola Corporation as an approach to address the high defect rates within the company’s manufacturing processes. With the success of Six Sigma, Motorola has registered the Six Sigma brand name to the corpo... more
     
  44. Crisis Management - A Team Approach to Addressing Business Problems by George F Franks III
    During the course of day-to-day business, only one thing can be expected. That is that problems how will arise. Some businesses hold individual managers responsible to resolve problems. Others address problems through teams of managers aligned either orga... more
     
  45. The Basics of Business Process Management by Joseph Peterka
    The key to efficiency in any business or organization is its processes. By processes, we mean the steps and actions that must occur for a particular outcome to be achieved. When those processes go wrong, occur too slowly, or simply don't work, the busines... more
     
  46. Business Management – Removing the Blade from the Stone by Bill McRea
    As business managers we often feel as if we are asked to do impossible task. It really does not matter what industry or product you are trying to manage, obstacles are going to appear which seem insurmountable. Owners, bosses and fellow employees may see... more
     
  47. Connections: Business Process Management and Six Sigma by Peter Peterka
    One of the most powerful ways to improve business processes is combining business process management (BPM) strategies with Six Sigma strategies. BPM strategies emphasize process improvements and automation to drive performance, while Six Sigma uses statis... more
     
  48. Doing Business In The Future - Business Process Management by John Morris
    Business Process Management (BPM) is a set of activities performed by organizations to improve or streamline their business processes. Since software tools are usually used to aid these activities, these software tools are referred to as Business Process ... more
     
  49. How Your Business Can Benefit from Management Training by Stephanie Tuia
    Business is not perfect. Every employer faces internal problems that include employee differences, unmet company expectations and lack of productivity to name just a few. Unfortunately, these problems eventually land back on the desks of the organization... more
     
  50. The Investment Management Guide to Business Management by Hans Bool
    Investment is about allocating different investment instruments into a portfolio in such a way that this portfolio is aligned with your personal profile. Banks and financial advisors could help you achieving this alignment by offering a certain modelport... more
     
  51. Business Architecture & Management - Information Systems by Hans Bool
    Architecture is (normally) about buildings, cities and infrastructure (and the like). You can see it around you and everybody has an opinion about it. You either like the style of that building or you don’t and all the nuances in between. Between the Styl... more
     
  52. Adopting a Business Process Approach to Management - 6 Critical Steps by Samuel Okoro
    1. Determine Who Are Your Customers and Stakeholders, and What Benefits Your Organisation Offers Them In our previous article we emphasised the customer/stakeholder focus of the business process approach to management. The first step is therefore clearl... more
     
  53. Management: Training Is An Investment for Forward Thinking Business Leaders by Leanne Hoagland-Smith
    Training is not new to small businesses or to the Fortune 1000 corporations. Employees must be trained to learn specific skill sets within their job functions as well as policies and procedures. This is especially true in today’s technology driven 24/7 b... more
     
  54. Business Process Management: Understanding and Implementing by Nowshade Kabir
    If yours is a business with several departments, at one point you start to realize that in order to stay competitive, increase productivity and bring efficiency to your business, you need to optimize and automate some of your business processes. To identi... more
     
  55. Business Management (and the Action Man) by Hans Bool
    In the stock market there is this saying: “paralysis by analysis”This is about taking risk. Everything in life is about taking risk and more it is in business.When designing your investment portfolio you will reach some point of taking a decision and most... more
     
  56. Business Management & Culture: Not Invented Here by Hans Bool
    Before submitting this article I just peeked on wikipedia, to see whether there was really something new to add on this issues.And there is. By thinking about personal productivity.The Not Invented Here “syndrome” – which is a bit of a harsh denomination,... more
     
  57. Business Architecture & Management - Some More Useful Elements by Hans Bool
    If you apply the rules of (business) architecture in management you will be able to build a coherent business.Have you ever seen a church with a roof vault somewhere in the middle? If you walk in a library you see books. Easy. The main function of a lib... more
     
  58. Business Architecture & Management - What You Need to Know by Hans Bool
    Architecture is (normally) about buildings, cities and infrastructure (and the like). You can see it around you and everybody has an opinion about it. You either like the style of that building or you don’t and all the nuances in between.Business is less ... more
     
  59. Software Project Management in Today's Business World by Martin Floyd
    As a practicing project manager I felt that I could provide some good tools, useful information and cool links related to this field. This page is for project managers and the purpose is to share information on software development project management to... more
     
  60. Effective Management - 4 Ways to Inspire Loyalty in Your Business by Kunbi Korostensky
    Today as people become increasingly conscious of their worth, they are no longer willing to stay in a job that has become intolerable and impersonal to them.This means that in the corporate or business world, it no longer suffice to have a system in place... more
     
  61. Business Management - Be Aware Of Fear And-Greed by Hans Bool
    This is probably such a day as many others. Business as usual. Nothing wrong, no alerts, you loose some, you win some. You go with the flow and let your profits grow.... Do not think that this jargon is for investment managers only; business management an... more
     
  62. Micro-Management Has a Negative Growth Effect on Business by Don Monteith
    MICRO = too close for comfortWhen you stifle the creativity of your associates through micro-management practices then your company pays in lost profits.Nothing kills the spirit of your associates quicker than a boss or supervisor standing over every... more
     
  63. Management Team Section of Business Plans by Lance Winslow
    Writing an award winning business plan is a great skill, but rather than winning any awards you need to get funded. In order to be funded the bank, venture capital firm or even family members need to be sure they will either be paid back or receive their ... more
     
  64. Business Knowledge Management by Lucas Rodriguez Cervera
    In the last few years a lot has been written about Business Process Management, and about technologies supporting it such as BPMS, SOAP and Web Services. Most of these theories, tools and techniques refer to processes of a highly structured nature.Typical... more
     
  65. Management: Can Your Business Run Without You? by Abel Cheng
    If you are a business owner or a business owner to be, let's examine this scenario.Like other people, you are so excited when you first started your own business. But after a few months, you come to realize that you work longer hours than what you expecte... more
     
  66. Is Your Management Style Assisting or Hurting Your Business? by Vishal P. Rao
    Many times business owners can have significant differences in management styles that can deter the growth of both the employees and the business.Employees can have differing needs that require differing methods of management as well. Problems arise when ... more
     
  67. Negotiators Should Use Basic Business Management Skills by Eric Jones
    Negotiations essentially are dysfunctional small groups. They need to be managed to determine a common goal, establish objectives and set a course to obtain the desired results. Mediators are trained to manage such small groups and lead them to resolution... more
     
  68. The ACCOUNTABILITY Challenge for Today's Business Management by Leanne Hoagland-Smith
    In today’s 24/7 driven business word, accountability is becoming a more critical issue for every business owner, manager, executive and salesperson. The challenge is to realize that accountability is just not a single issue, but an issue with many support... more
     
  69. Effective Time Management and Your Small Business by Jeff Schuman
    Effective time management becomes one of the most important things you must do on a daily basis if you own a small business. For some people it doesn't seem to matter how long their day is. They just never seem to have enough time. The clock is ticking an... more
     
  70. SBRM, Small Business Rights Management: Securing Your Company Assets by Nathan Kully
    1f64 Have you ever found a proposal of yours in the hands of a competitors? Unfortunately, far too many small businesses these days have experienced this issue. Until lately, few businesses have done much to protect their company IP. In 2005, according t... more
     
  71. Six Small Business Management Tools Can Make You Rich! by Mike Kramer
    Did you ever delegate a project to an employee that did not quite produce the results you were looking for?Did a vendor, customer, or employee ever communicate a valuable piece of competitive information that slipped through your fingers and that you did ... more
     
  72. Five Strategic Management Tasks for the Small Business Owner by Marjorie Geiser
    You have been considering starting up your own small business for some time, now. You have read books and perhaps subscribe to some magazines that focus on small business. Maybe you have started to investigate what exactly you would like to do or offer, a... more
     
  73. Cash Flow Management - Your Ticket to Business Success by Greg Beverly
    Cash flow. To stay in business, you've got to keep a steady stream moving through your company.During a consultation with one of my clients this week, he proudly stated, "Greg, I ran the numbers yesterday. I've got enough business to keep us busy until Fe... more
     
  74. What To Say: How to Find Material To Fill Your Seminar or Small Business Management Course by Irena Group
    Running a seminar or a small business management course can potentially be a labor intensive undertaking. You want to ensure the ROI. A major part of that effort will be in researching developing your materials for presentation. How do you do this?The fo... more
     
  75. ERM Not Just For the 'Big Guys' Anymore: Small Business Rights Management A Reality by Marilee Veniegas
    Small Business Rights Management (SBRM) is a term which reflects the shift ERM (Enterprise Rights Management) technology has taken as awareness of industry compliance issues and protection of original works has evolved and become implicit within businesse... more
     
  76. Obtain Maximum Results For Your Small Business Through Better Time Management by Rhonda Winn
    Most small business owners are faced with so many responsibilities and an unbelievable workload throughout the day. Mainly because of the many different roles that we have to play. On any given day a small business owner must be a customer service repre... more
     
  77. 5 Small Business Management Questions to Help Choose Marketing Programs by Bobette Kyle
    As small business managers, we juggle limited resources in a quest for success. To an extent, when we focus on success in one area we forego attention elsewhere. Limited money and time mean we must choose from seemingly endless -- and often conflicting -... more
     
  78. Content Management: Wise Investment for Business Prosperity by Alex Polonski
    The time when a website was just a simple set of HTML pages has gone by. It’s true, just five or seven years ago simple websites developed with HTML and JavaScript were usual. Nobody thought there could be another option. However, year by year, Internet b... more
     
  79. Management, Balance & Time - 10 Tips for Managing Overwhelm in your Business by Megan Tough
    How many of us have been in a position where we have more to do than can realistically fit into one day, or week. So we spend all of our time feeling rushed, being rushed, and wondering how on earth we are going to manage. If you are having that feeling ... more
     
  80. Streamline the Way your Business Functions with Various Data Management Softwares by George Kounis
    For an IT business to grow and make handsome profits, you need to make sure that it follows various processes and use high-end solutions for data management and its security. Read further to know how various database management solutions help to streamlin... more
     
  81. Business Management: Create a Mobile Office by Jan Verhoeff
    What's in an office anyways? Create a Mobile Office the simple way by just learning what you need on the road and collecting it all in a convenient travel sized pack. In my case, it's a briefcase, a phone, and a laptop. My briefcase, opened, is a convenie... more
     
  82. Business Process Management Software by Peter Emerson
    Like a human organism, an organization is a system. Just as the nerves, digestion and blood circulatory systems are interdependent in the human body, people, tasks and the management are interdependent in an organization. A change in any of these aspects ... more
     
  83. Why do Manufacturers Invest in Business Management Software? by Scott Davis
    1f70 With many manufacturing shops heading over seas in favor of lower cost, it is tough to compete in today’s marketplace. As a result, the goal for manufactures who want to compete going forward is to run leaner, faster and more accurately.The manufac... more
     
  84. Microsoft Business Solutions Products Selection: ERP, CRM, Retail Management by Andrew Karasev
    Let’s first look at your ERP system selection (without Retail Solution). Your options are:Microsoft Great Plains. If you remember successful mid-size application – Great Plains Dynamics, pioneered on Mac and Windows graphical platforms in the mid 1990th... more
     
  85. PPC Campaign Management as an Internet Business Opportunity by Christopher J Enders
    PPC campaign management, management of pay-per-click advertising campaigns, is a service that can certainly be provided through an internet-based business.Once you have learned the ins and outs of managing a pay-per- click advertising campaign, a... more
     
  86. The Viability of PPC Management Services as an Internet Business by Christopher J Enders
    Let me start by saying that offering ppc management services through an internet business is certainly a viable internet business possibility. That is if you are willing to roll up your sleeves and learn how to provide top-notch ppc ... more
     
  87. Content Management for Websites and the Importance for the Small Business by Daryl H. Bryant
    Through my years of Web Consulting, the leading complaint that I hear all the time from small business owners is that they cannot find good, reliable and affordable local Web help for their business. This issue has caused most small business websites to ... more
     
  88. Streamline your Business Website with a Content Management System by Stacey Brooks
    I talk with so many people who have small businesses and would like to have a web presence but don't know the first thing about how to even get started. Some of the reasons I hear are:- I don't know how to build a website.- I have enough work to do... wh... more
     
  89. Change Management and Business Risk Taking by Lance Winslow
    Often there are times in business when corporate managers and executives need a little shake up and that means to shed the dead weight that is not up to the performance standards that are required to run the company efficiently. When this happens it is of... more
     
  90. Business Process Management;Company Policy by Kevin Dwyer
    I would acknowledge the author of this tale I am about to tell about company policy if only I know who wrote it. It is one of those stories that you see handed out at training courses or published on the internet without a hint of who the author was.The s... more
     
  91. How to Improve the Management Teams Wins for Winning More Business Part 2: Focus on People Skills by Leanne Hoagland-Smith
    Over 70 years ago, Napoleon Hill realized that success for businesses comes from the people within those organizations. However, many organizations still fail to grasp this realization because soft or people skills still are viewed as secondary to job spe... more
     
  92. Change Management Issues in the Car Wash Business by Lance Winslow
    We hear a lot about the new buzzword; change management all throughout the trade journals in almost every industry and every industry sector in corporate America. Seldom do we realize that change management issues do also affect smaller businesses.Having... more
     
  93. Change Management Issues in the Truck Wash Business by Lance Winslow
    In a truck wash business it appears that many managers come and go and this means there is always a turnover problem with employees when a new manager comes into play. These issues are serious because many of the truckers who stop at the truck wash are u... more
     
  94. How Can Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Programs Help a Small Business by Grady Hawley
    In this highly competitive world, medium and small business groups struggle for survival. As they established with small capital investments, these organizations usually will not have enough money to overcome the massive promotional campaigns by their lar... more
     
  95. Risk Management and Competitive Innovation: How do you Manage Risk through Business Innovation by Adrian Pepper
    I work with small companies in the southeast UK and for many, the current business climate gives these entrepreneurs two options: they can innovate today or they can fail tomorrow.Costs of production are re-locating the workIncreasingly I notice that prod... more
     
  96. What is Business Process Management? by Peter Emerson
    Managing a business involves a variety of processes and responsibilities on the part of the project managers. What is business process management? Business process management (BPM) is a set of activities that helps the businesses to run more smoothly. The... more
     
  97. Business Process Management Resources by Peter Emerson
    Business process management resources are valuable repositories of details regarding the management of any business. One such main resource is the Internet. There are a lot of websites offering guidance for managing business processes in order to run a ve... more
     
  98. Business Process Management News by Peter Emerson
    Business process management (BPM) is an emerging technology for improving the efficiency of business concerns. It includes the elements of workflow, document management, business rules, and enterprise application integration. The latest news in business p... more
     
  99. A Guide to Business Process Management by Peter Emerson
    Business process management (BPM) has become highly popular due to its capacity of making businesses achieve new operating capabilities and positive results. Now business enterprises seriously consider factors such as the value of BPM to the business, whe... more
     
  100. Business Management Effective Results Strategy: How Management Delivers The Results In A Business by Adrian Pepper
    Among the small businesses that I coach, I find that the more effective entrepreneurs recognise that planning and managing success has three parts:They depend on measuring the past accurately. They strive to follow their plans in the present. They buil... more
     
  101. Poor Business Time Management Drains Profits, Increases Costs and Suggests Poor Leadership by Leanne Hoagland-Smith
    Time management is still one of the most frequently searched times as a solution to improved performance. A Google search (September 2006) indicates 19,200,000 hits. There appears to be a lot of individuals seeking answers from training such as workshops... more
     
  102. Training Managers: Setting the Groundwork for Sound Business Management by Frank Bullard
    1f94 Attracting highly skilled and qualified employees is essential to building a successful business. When a company is growing, it is easy for the owner or a trusted company employee to take each new recruit under their wing and show them the ropes. ... more
     
  103. Business Process Consulting – Business Development and Risk Management by Peter McLean
    Succession planning is a critical linchpin in building the bench strength of a business into a positive long-term future, as well as a key element of business risk management. Most of the business literature on this particular subject focuses on successi... more
     
  104. Business Process Management And Six Sigma by Tony Jacowski
    Six Sigma was devised to incorporate continuous improvement in the industry procedures through its methodological systems of identifying faults and correcting them. In short, it minimizes the number of errors that may occur while a task is being performed... more
     
  105. Computer Service Business Management: Delegating Responsibility by Joshua Feinberg
    Effective management of a computer service business is incredibly important, and the ability to delegate responsibility is a critical skill for any manager. Good delegation allows a computer service business to run more smoothly. Delegation is more than... more
     
  106. Business Process Management - Who is Accountable? by Kevin Dwyer
    Accountability in business and in government is the cornerstone of good governance and ultimately, good performance. Without single point accountability for processes, organisations have no means of ensuring that what have been determined as the goals for... more
     
  107. Daycare Management Software Saves Business Owners Money by Matt Menster
    Daycare Management SoftwareHere's the scene. XYZ daycare has 200 children enrolled in it's business records. A certain child has a medical need, but the assigned physician needs to know of any possible allergies that the child may have. "Sally", of XYZ da... more
     
  108. Kaizen As A Successful Business Management Tool by Willie Krut
    Kaizen is not a procedure, not a document that describes step by step actions of those workers that have been selected to implement it, not just a paper which becomes approved and becomes an official paper. Kaizen is not a methodology or theory like for e... more
     
  109. Poor Business Management; When Words Become Labels by Kevin Dwyer
    Words in any language are meant to communicate meaning. Communication, in itself, is full of processes which can derail the intended communication. Words which are spoken or written by one person become distorted and filtered by the receiver. The filters ... more
     
  110. Improve the Management Wins for Winning Business Teams Part 7: Consistent Goal Achievement by Leanne Hoagland-Smith
    During the last 5 years when speaking to or working with organizations, I have personally surveyed well over 1,000 individuals from small business owners to Fortune 1000 executives and have learned that everyone wants success. Yet, if this is true, then ... more
     
  111. How To Improve Management Wins for Winning Business Teams Part 8: Secure Measurable Results by Leanne Hoagland-Smith
    Results and accountability are two big buzz words in today's global market place. What results are you achieving? Who is accountable for achieving those business results? Are two of the more frequently asked questions from the boardroom to the loading doc... more
     
  112. How To Improve Management Wins for Winning Business Teams Part 6: Build Organizational Alignment by Leanne Hoagland-Smith
    When the wheels of a car are not properly aligned, the performance of the car suffers. The driver may experience the following: Difficult steering Bumpy ride Uneven tire wear Delay in arriving at the destination A leader (driver) who is in charge of... more
     
  113. Business Management Case Study; Disgruntled Terminated Franchisees and a Moral Mission by Lance Winslow
    Franchising executives need to be careful to hand terminated and disgruntled franchisees with special care because a franchisee who feels that they have been wronged or decides to act on revenge can cause a franchise system a whole lot of problems. Often ... more
     
  114. Business Management Case Study; Franchise Arbitration Clauses by Lance Winslow
    It is very common in franchising for the franchisor to put an arbitration clause in the franchising agreement and the generally it is very easy to see if a Franchisor has done this, because it will appear on the very first page of the 250 page Uniform Fra... more
     
  115. Business Management Case Study; How the Modern-Day Franchise Model Is Being Abused by Lance Winslow
    For nearly a decade and a half, I ran a franchising company, which I founded. I took my existing company and franchised it serving 450 cities, 110 markets in 23 states and four countries. The entire process took about 27 years. I am now retired at age 40 ... more
     
  116. Business Management Case Study; Franchise State Renewal Delays and Disruptions by Lance Winslow
    We are beginning to see a horrible trend in franchising with regards to franchise registration states and franchise registration renewals. What is happening is that the states are requiring certain documentation and company audits to be performed prior t... more
     
  117. Business Management; Failed Franchisee, is Capitalism to Blame? by Lance Winslow
    As a Franchisor with a 17-hour a day, 7-day per week decade long run before retirement I found myself opening units serving 450 cities, 110 markets, 23 states and 4-countries. Later as a Franchising Consultant and prior as a Board of Director for the Amer... more
     
  118. Business Management Case Study; Franchise Arbitration by Lance Winslow
    If you own a franchise or are considering one, often arbitration levels the playing field for the franchisee in a dispute with a big and powerful franchisor. Recently, I was contacted by a franchisee who had bought a franchise from a company Franchisor, w... more
     
  119. Business Management Case Study; Franchisor Collection of Financial Data from Franchisee by Lance Winslow
    Franchisors prior to the sale of a franchise collect information from franchisees to qualify them in the Sales Process to see if they can afford the franchise. Even more importantly by asking for this information the Franchisor can insure that the Franchi... more
     
  120. Business Management Study;Franchise Disclosure Document Issues with Normal Business Occurrence by Lance Winslow
    There are so many naturally occurring business situations, which cannot be properly fit into the UFOC or Uniform Franchise Offering Circular for proper and legal disclosure to new franchise buyers as per the onerous rules and regulations in the Franchisin... more
     
  121. Business Management Case Study; Should Franchisee Names, Addresses, Phone be Listed in UFOCs by Lance Winslow
    One of the most important things in business is to protect your company's information from competitors and personal information of employees, vendors and executives from Identity Theft and yet Franchisors are required to put personal information in the UF... more
     
  122. Business Management Case Study; Over Disclosure Puts Franchisors at a Competitive Disadvantage by Lance Winslow
    The regulatory bodies at both the state and federal level require much disclosure from Franchisors. So, much information in fact that it indeed puts them at a disadvantage to both their foreign and domestic competitors who may not be franchise companies a... more
     
  123. Business Management Case Study; Misuse of UFOC Franchisor Information by Lance Winslow
    Executive business management teams of franchising companies must protect their proprietary information from getting into the wrong hands. Unfortunately in the uniform franchise offering circulars which are required by both federal and some state regulato... more
     
  124. Business Management Case Study; Failed Franchisees Using the F-Word by Lance Winslow
    Franchisor Executive Business Management Teams need to be cognizant of the fact that each time a franchisee fails for whatever reason that there will be potential litigation and the disgruntled franchisee will run around using the F-word. Why?Because the ... more
     
  125. Business Management Case Study; Disgruntled Franchisees Turning Hostile by Lance Winslow
    Many business executive management teams have chosen franchising as a way to extend their brand name very rapidly into the marketplace. There are many significant reasons for doing this. One is to move a product into the marketplace using other people's m... more
     
  126. Business Management Case Study; Franchisor Responsibility to Update UFOC Exhibit Pages by Lance Winslow
    Many executive management teams have chosen to use franchising as an option to grow their businesses and sell more products and services, while receiving additional royalties from the franchise outlets. Each one of these outlets must be listed in the Unif... more
     
  127. Business Management: Optimizing Creativity and Innovation by Kal Bishop
    1f5a FORWARDI recently gave a presentation at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design on a topic entitled "Is creativity management an oxymoron?"The essential confusion to people resistant to the idea of "creativity management" was the word "mana... more
     
  128. Why Do You Need Business Management Consulting? by NamSing Then
    When business grows crossing the boundaries defined by limited internal resources, including your own and your executives’, it pays to engage the services of external business management consultants. Large business management consulting houses such as McK... more
     
  129. Business Management Is an Art by Sharon White
    One of the important characteristics the warrior had to posses according to Sun Tzu was the ability to be deceptive. Not many troop commanders realized and viewed the war from this angle. Not many viewed the war as the art, where all possible maneuvers ha... more
     
  130. Business Management Case Study; Government Productivity Disaster by Lance Winslow
    It is fairly obvious that the United States government is facing a productivity disaster, but why is this? One of the biggest reasons is that the federal government has imposed too many laws, rules and regulations on corporations and small businesses. T... more
     
  131. Business Process Consulting -- Five Simple Steps to Effective Management by Peter McLean
    Managing with and through other people is how effective managers get things done. Effective managers never assume that they know it all, and they take a humble stance toward knowledge and the skills and capabilities of those around them.They seek out new... more
     
  132. Business Management Software - Do You Really Need It? by Warren Van Duesbury
    As we all know, not all advances in technology are necessarily for the better. Some people swear that having a computer program to manage a business is a 'must have', but is this really true?I have a friend, Chris, who runs a physiotherapy clinic. For t... more
     
  133. Small Business Inventory Management Software by Alison Cole
    248e The success of a small business depends on the proper management of its resources. Studies indicate that most small businesses fail. A major reason for the failure is poor recordkeeping practices, which results in frequent occurrences of stock deple... more
     
  134. Business Process Management and 6 Sigma by Peter Peterka
    Six Sigma is powered by principles which are governed by continuous improvement. In pure terms, Six Sigma helps manufacturing organizations reduce the number of errors or reduce the number of defective products manufactured by them. This is achieved by a ... more
     
  135. Business Process Management – Streamline Your Business by Thomas Gomez
    What is Business Process Management?To stay competitive in the marketplace a business needs to be cost effective. This is largely accomplished by streamlining the operations of the business and making sure the processes are running at peak efficiency. All... more
     
  136. Business Process Management – The Six Sigma Approach by Peter Peterka
    Managing a business entails a wide variety of responsibilities and project managers have to be up to the task. Fortunately, there are Business Process Management technologies in place to help processes run more smoothly. However, Six Sigma does more than ... more
     
  137. Business Process Management 101 by Peter Peterka
    Business corporations are now facing one of the most competitive eras ever. With globalization and technology, businesses need to identify various areas for improvement in order to stay relevant. Although increasing revenue and profits year on year are es... more
     
  138. Business Process Management 101: BPM Defined by Peter Peterka
    Lean enterprise and business process improvement, business optimization, cost cutting TQM, quality, Six Sigma, business reengineering and other such-like initiatives, falls within the cadre of business process management.It forms the cradle, feeding groun... more
     
  139. The Management Team Section of the Business Plan - Don't Just Include Resumes by Dave Lavinsky
    1f4c Even the best new concept or existing plan will fail if executed poorly. The Management Team section of the business plan must prove to the investor why the key company personnel are "eminently qualified" to execute on the business model.The Managem... more
     
  140. The Evolution of Business Service Management (BSM) by Peter Goldin
    Looking back, the emergence of business service management (BSM) seems inevitable. This new generation of tools helps IT organizations manage technology infrastructures within the context of the key services they provide for their customers. BSM tools are... more
     
  141. E-Business Management Online (Electronics Business Management) by Michael Bustamante
    An online education in E-Business Management (Electronic Business Management) teaches students to use technology skills to develop solutions for Internet business issues. Through a distance learning course, students gain a solid understanding of E-Busines... more
     
  142. Business Performance Management Demands Uniting Soft Skills with Hard Skills to Achieve Success by Leanne Hoagland-Smith
    From the boardroom to the classroom, individuals are looking to improve their performance. Continuous improvement through processes such as Baldrige to Lean continue to make significant strides in the business world as solutions to improving the bottom li... more
     
  143. Business Plan Organisation Management: How Do You Organise Your Business For Profit And Growth by Adrian Pepper
    Every company needs a sound and robust business model that scales as life changes. Many small businesses start with a business plan based on guesses.Then as life rolls on, there is never time to update it to reflect your evolving situation. When your acco... more
     
  144. Hard Work Is Bad Management - Business and Personal by Christopher Walker
    1fab Jenny woke tired. Her business was growing and the hours she was putting in demanded more and more of her time. She raised her head from the pillow, stumbled out of her now empty bed, and went to the kitchen. Still half asleep she put the kettle on ... more
     
  145. Risk Management and Business Management Go Hand-in-Hand by Elizabeth Newberry
    So, you’ve started your own business. You saved the money, carefully constructed a business plan, thoroughly studied your potential consumers or clients based on their needs for your product or service, rented a space from which to work, hired a few peop... more
     
  146. Small Business Owners: 4 Overlooked Ways to Master Time Management by Rebecca Trelfa
    How much more could you earn with an extra 10 hours a week? As small business owners, we may not have the power to add more hours to the day, but with effective time management strategies, we can certainly give ourselves more time to get things done. Here... more
     
  147. Business Success Strategy: War Management Technique: How To Get Rich In Any Business? by Pnk Guru
    In real battle between two countries, the winner mobilizes more energy, troops, arteries, vehicles to calculated locations and forges them against the rival army in a technique to combat them at their weakest territories.Now I wish to explain the word str... more
     
  148. Time Management –The #1 Cell Phone Problem Every Successful Business Must Avoid by Gerald Cook
    Are all the advances that we have seen in technology during the past twenty years necessarily a good thing in terms of operating a business more efficiently and more profitably? Maybe not.I can remember sitting at airports as recently as 12 years ago and... more
     
  149. Business Management by Ismael Tabije
    Business Management characterizes the process of leading and directing all or part of an organization, often a business, through the deployment and manipulation of resources (human, financial, material, intellectual or intangible). Early twentieth-century... more
     
  150. Effective Business Management Unites Education and Training with Corporate Coaching by Leanne Hoagland-Smith
    Business management spends billions of dollars in corporate training and education. According to a report released in early 2006, the U.S. corporate education and training market exceeded $46 billion. Additionally, business management and leadership train... more
     
  151. Business Contact Management Software by Kent Pinkerton
    Business contact management software is an ideal solution for small and medium sized business enterprises. Business contact management software serves to organize customer relations in a strategic manner. This software is effective for people with plenty ... more
     
  152. Small Business Contact Management by Marcus Peterson
    Small business contact management organizes contact information with its unique features to provide quality service. It is the collection and storage of the details of customers and associates such as business colleagues, suppliers and employees. With the... more
     
  153. 3 Secrets to Time Management for Small Business Owners by Audrey Burton
    I can't tell you why these are secrets, but it might be because most people don't appear to know how to do them. At least, they are not doing them now!Allow me to illustrate my credibility on this subject – I am an only parent of two wonderful daughters ... more
     
  154. Records Management And Its Key Role In Business Continuity And Disaster Recovery by Steve Holmes
    The UK’s Records Management Society defines records management as, “the process by which a company manages all the elements of records whether externally or internally generated and in any format or media type, from their inception/receipt, all the way th... more
     
  155. Understanding Business Development Ideas For Event Management Industry by Alexander Gordon
    What is Event Management?Event management refers to methods of outsourcing business occasions, social occasions, or a combination of both. There is no limit to the business development ideas for an event management business. It is possible to organize eve... more
     
  156. Small Business Management and Entrepreneurship by Peter Temu
    Owning a successful business is no longer reserved for a lucky few. It is because there are some rules followed by those successful business people in making the business people to climb the richness ladder with assurance and comfort ability although any ... more
     
  157. The Real Cause of Business Management Failure is More about Ethics than Skills by Leanne Hoagland-Smith
    Bad bosses, poor supervisors, inept managers create negative impact on the bottom line including less production, higher turnover and increased operating costs. These individuals all share one common trait – poor business ethics and values.An organization... more
     
  158. Business Process Management by Ismael Tabije
    The term Business Process Management (or BPM) refers to activities performed by businesses to optimize and adapt their processes. The activities which constitute business process management can be grouped into three categories: design, execution and monit... more
     
  159. Bad Bosses: Reflection of Bad Management, Bad Leaders, and BAD for Business Profits by Leanne Hoagland-Smith
    No ifs, ands, buts about it, bad bosses are a reflection of bad management. These individuals are bad leaders and bad for business profits. The behaviors of inept managers cascade down the organization and continually negatively affect the bottom line.A ... more
     
  160. Top 4 Mistakes of Business Management by Julie-Ann Amos
    If you are a business manager then you will know the importance to company productivity of effective business management. However, business process management software and financial management are only one part of the task. The best way to go about busine... more
     
  161. The Difficulties Of Implementing Business Process Management by Julie-Ann Amos
    If you are trying to implement a business process management strategy, then you might have found that there can be difficulties involved. Getting the balance right between effective business management of people and using business process management softw... more
     
  162. Business Management - What Are The Good Traits by Ske Chay
    To start a business and have it up and running successfully, you will need to think of some realistic business management plans. With these plans and your dream in mind, you will have to work through the initial difficult stages to build up good business ... more
     
  163. Need For Business Continuity Management by Alexander Gordon
    Companies should have good business continuity management techniques in place. These would help companies to identify, assess and manage both external as well as internal risk factors that may hinder business continuity. Business continuity management str... more
     
  164. Small Business Management Mind Mapping Company Goals by Daryl Des Marais
    If you have a small business that is expanding past 2-3 people you will want to start attracting and developing people that achieve your yearly company goals. It is a good idea to start developing a system that will help you achieve your desired outcomes.... more
     
  165. How to Run a Family-Owned Business: Management Tips by Alexander Gordon
    Just like being the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, running a family-owned business is about good management and leadership. They face the many of the same issues as any other company, as well as some the average business mogul never thought of; it can be a... more
     
  166. SAP Business One Integration with Service Management System by Andrew Karasev
    In this small article we will give you SAP BO integration example with C# code. Service Management System uses Microsoft CRM Case object to store service hours. Integration pulls Customer Number, Billable Time, Unit Price, Service Description and Item n... more