The article focuses on the need for resources to be available, as required, to meet the demands of the strategic plan.

Business Plans are more important than ever in today's technologically driven internet driven marketplace for your success. There are essentially only three central tenets that are a part of business plans: 1. A focus on speed in all of its manifestations 2. The integration of the Web into the core of what the company does 3. A focus on how the company adds value for its customers The old adage never fir better " Plan Your Work and Workd Your Plan" To not plan is to severly limit your options and encourage disaster for yourself.

A checklist can be more than simply a list of things to do; it can strategically communicate to readers that you have carefully analyzed your message and that the content is well organized.

After hearing Daniel Pink speak about his new book A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age for the fourth time, I finally read it cover to cover (less than a day). I finally got what he's talking about when he says jobs that are high touch are here to stay. That is, jobs that builds relationships between business and client whether it's B2B or B2C. To that end, he advocates that we incorporate more storytelling into our relationships, that we m...

Accounts receivable factoring is the sale of part or all of a debt that someone owes to your company. When companies purchase a debt through accounts receivable factoring, they pay for your invoice at a discount. They then collect the debt directly from the company who owes you money. Accounts receivable factoring is distinct from using your accounts receivable as loan collateral because you are outright selling some or all of your receivable to a factor, such as a bank o...

The United States Department of Labor has developed a set of guidelines that can assist the owner, operator or manager of a business in accommodating in the workplace an employee that suffers from cumulative trauma disorders of CTDs. More information on these guidelines can be found through the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) which is an agency of the U.S. Department of Labor. OSHA maintains an Internet website at http://www.osha.gov. When it comes to ...

Six Sigma is about numbers. Six Sigma produces a flood of data about your process that are critical to your success. If you don't measure it and understand what you are measuring, you can't manage it. Six Sigma's clear strength is a data-driven analysis and decision-making process � not someone's opinion or gut feeling. The value of statistical analysis cannot be underestimated. Through an analysis of all of that data, you begin to understand your process and develop meth...

Staring a new business can be a very exciting experience. We often get caught up in the need to have the best tools available right now.

The training administration team at Glasburg Associates perform miracles on a daily basis. Not only are they preparing for next week's batch of training courses, they are assisting in courses running each day and they are covering the phones to sell training to new clients. Their job is never boring but it rarely changes from one day to the next. Oliver Hollins and Philippa Ibbitson are both on the team and, although Oliver considers himself to be better at the sales aspects ...

Standardize your processes! You can save time, money and prevent errors. Things you do over and over should be done the same way every time, if indeed you do the task the best way. They say variety is the spice of life, but for healthcare processes it certainly isn�t most of the time. Consider this, if you would. Would you buy your favorite brand of soda if sometimes your 12 ounce can were 3/4 of the way full and sometimes almost overflowing. Certainly not. You expect there t...