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1). Categorizing Business Plans According To Types
Lists the different types of business plans and stresses the importance of planning.
Article tags: importance of planning, types of planning, startup plan, feasibility, strategic, operations, growth
2). Putting Professionalism back in Management Consulting
I have seen many changes in my forty years as a professional management consultant, particularly in the business change and management improvement practices. My specialty is applying information technology for the benefit of the business. In the 1960s and 1970s, we developed information systems from the ground up to satisfy user requirements. It was clear that users could not envisage how IT could really benefit the business.
Article tags: enterprise, management, improvement, consultants, change, capability, risk, implementation, system, erp, methodologies, practice, professionalism, partnership, analytical, develop, applications, conventional, strategic
3). Replacing administration with capital management
Enterprises have a large sums invested in the capital that is utilized in performance, to achieve objectives. Most enterprises don’t even know the extent of what this capital is. There is no manageable organization of enterprise performance capital. People talk of intangible assets like there is a black hole someplace with all that performance capital that we don’t understand.
Article tags: enterprise, performance, capital, utilization, assets, administrative, function, business, process, strategic, management, improvement, develop, human, accounting, resouces, change, implementation, support, operation
4). Marketing Strategy: 7 Steps To Market Segmentation
Market segmentation is widely defined as being a complex process consisting in two main phases:
- identification of broad, large markets
- segmentation of these markets in order to select the most appropriate target markets and develop Marketing mixes accordingly.
Everyone within the Marketing world knows and speaks of segmentation yet not many truly understand its underlying mechanics, thus failure is just around the corner.
Article tags: marketing, market, segment, segmentation, mix, strategy, strategic, plan, planning, steps, 7, technique, method
5). A Vision of Failure
What would it take to make your business fail? What conditions could precipitate and sustain “the spiral of death”? What would complete financial collapse really look like? If your primary competitor acquired the firm, where would they strip out expenses, and what assets would they covet? These are grisly questions to consider, but sometimes we need to envision complete breakdown and failure to understand how to prevent it, and find the next level of success.
Article tags: strategy, vision, business, planning, plan, strategic, action, operational, training, session, excercise
6). Should You License Your Technology?
So when should you license your technology to other companies? This can be a complicated question, since I always say "no one sells your product like you do."
Article tags: software, technology, management, license, strategic, consultant, business, layoffs, blog
7). Strategic Fundraising for Startup Companies Part II
This example makes up the great majority of software companies worldwide. There are many, many solidly profitable software businesses that will never be on the radar screen of the investor community.
Article tags: business, high tech, technology, startup, fundraising, capital, strategic, management, growth, expansion
8). Strategic Fundraising for Startup Companies Part I
Almost every company goes through it, except for the fortunate few. Some people have gone through it multiple times. While never easy, raising money for the second or third time (assuming success the first time!) is a picnic, compared to the first time.
Article tags: tech, technology, startup, fundraising, capital, strategic, management, growth, expansion
9). Is Advertising the Future of Software Revenue? Part I
We have a word for this overstatement of a trend: "hype". So, is traditional software revenue model of licensing dead? Will all software eventually be "given away" to the end user, and supported solely by advertising revenue?
Article tags: software, technology, management, advertising, strategic, consultant, business, offshore, blog
10). Software vs. Hardware Business Models
So what are the differences and similarities between successful software and hardware businesses?
Article tags: software, technology, management, hardware, strategic, consultant, business, models, blog
11). Outsourcing Software Development Projects Offshore Part I
Outsourcing Software Development Offshore This is a strategy that has "taken off" and is rapidly becoming mainstream in the software industry.
Article tags: software, technology, management, development, strategic, consultant, business, offshore, blog
12). Software and High Tech Product Planning
There are many ways to skin a cat, so the saying goes. Planning high technology software and hardware products seems to fit in the same category.
Article tags: software, technology, management, product, strategic, consultant, planning, development, blog
13). Strategic Partnerships
Forming Partnerships, or Strategic Alliances, is one of the key elements that make up the business development function in technology companies. I believe that alliances are underutilized, in many ways. Conceived and executed properly, alliances can greatly extend the partner companies reach in the marketplace.
Article tags: software, technology, management, marketing, strategic, consultant, business, partnership, blog
14). Sales & Marketing-Is a direct or indirect approach best? Part i
There are so many different options within the direct vs. indirect argument.
Article tags: software, technology, indirect, strategic, consultant, sales, direct, marketing, channel, blog
15). Layoffs and Bureaucracy
A while back Id been reading the stories on the last major layoff at HP, and it really struck a nerve. HP announced that week that they are going to reduce their workforce by 14,500 people over the next 18 months.
Article tags: software, technology, management, bureaucracy, strategic, consultant, business, layoffs, blog