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6 Tips For Preparing Your Business Plan
Introduction Every business is unique and therefore your business plan must be structured to suit the needs of your business. There is no right or wrong way to structure a business plan—each differs in presentation and emphasis. The particular...
7 Huge Business Plan Mistakes (And How to Avoid Them)
Make no mistake—business plans are critical. You'll need a well thought out plan for your bankers, investors, and management team. A business plan that carefully explains how you will make money and how you will be able to repay loans and investments. But...
Culture as Culprit: Four Steps to Effective Change
Corporate Culture is Under Attack In most articles you read, corporate culture or perhaps a lack of culture, is blamed for most implementation and execution problems. Culture "trumps everything," it is argued, usually without the empirical evidence to...
Change is Most Powerful When It Comes From the Top
Refresh Your Organisation to Increase Power How often do you change the structure of your organisation? Recent research suggests that many organisations, are in a nearly permanent state of organisational change. One plausible explanation for the...
Innovate Before It’s Too Late!
How to Nurture Innovation and Avoid Stagnation Businesses that fail to prioritise innovation are unlikely to thrive – or ultimately survive - in today’s increasingly competitive market with the need and expectation for continuous improvement. The...
Professionals Guide to Planning & Leading Good Change
Introduction You need change. Change is good and necessary. Simple, clean, positive change within your organisation will help improve morale and raise profits. Why then, when we know change is good, do we baulk at implementing it? One clue as to why we...
Every Organisation Has a Culture, Which Either Works For You or Against You
In Roger Connors and Tom Smith’s novel “Change the culture, change the game”, Connors and Smith elaborate on the strategy for energizing your organization and creating accountability for results that all businesses should be cognisant of in their...
Mapping the Value of Employee Collaboration
Introduction As collaboration within and among organisations becomes increasingly important. Companies must improve their management of the networks where it typically occurs. Although collaboration is at the heart of modern business processes, most...
Unlocking the Manager’s Potential for Leadership – One Becomes Two
Introduction Your managers are your potential successors. If not why are they working for you? Instead of administrative work and meetings, managers should focus on coaching their employees and on constantly improving quality. Managers are particularly...