Strategic-Planning  

Over the years I have had the benefit of watching the acquisitions process from many different perspectives. I have been a principal of a company being acquired as well as a principal of a company conducting acquisitions. I have also served as an executive working on both acquisitions and dispositions ...read more

How is your life and/or your business doing? Is it stagnating, boring, going nowhere? Have you become obsessed with meeting those loan repayments or trying to just survive until the next fistful of money comes in? Are you having trouble maintaining your positive expectancy about life and/or business?

Too many of ...read more

Having a strategic plan is necessary in today's global market place where at every chamber or networking event another competitor has joined what many business owners already perceive to be a tight marketplace. Yet, before you, as the small business owner or the chief executive officer, begin crafting or ...read more

You need a business plan if you are planning or just starting a new business because a plan will help give you direction and focus as well as keep you on track.

You need a business plan if you want to expand your current business because you not only need to ...read more

The demand profile of products that have been on the market for a while, using tried and tested supply routes, can be forecast with reasonable accuracy, allowing inventory levels to be lowered to healthy levels. In an ideal world, the manufacturer will produce the right quantity for the demand ...read more

Imagine just for a moment going to the grocery store and that you all of a sudden you realize that you left your written grocery list at home. What happens is usually the beginning of a disaster - you SPEND more more, time and feelings. And what you probably didn't ...read more

A Strategic Planning Exercise

There is a locked room with one window that is wide open. Bill and Hilary are dead on the floor. Within the room, is a chair, a table next to the chair and some water and broken glass around the chair and table. How did ...read more

Oh, what a relief it is! The old Alka-Seltzer jingle suggests a plan and process to obtain relief from whatever ails you.

How do organizations obtain relief from the headaches caused by ongoing challenges? More specifically, how do businesses acquire and maintain a high-performance model? Simply put...they achieve focus!

The solution I ...read more

In Strategic Planning, there are many analytical tools like PEST, 5-forces of competitions, SWOT etc to assist in the development of a good strategy. How detail these analysis are used depends on the complexity and competitive position of the business. A business environmental scanning is able to provide leaders to ...read more

One issue facing many small business owners in the 21st Century is the vast marketplace created by internet commerce. When deciding whether to sell to, or setup shop in other countries, it is important to consider some key factors:

1. Do the nationals in the country you wish to export to ...read more