Strategic Planning and Total Quality Management No matter what product or service you provide you will have to face this issue of quality and systems. Whether it is distribution of services or streamlining of processes in manufacturing your product; you will need to address the issues of total quality management.
Business Problem Solving Is there really anything as a problem? Does chaos or challenge mean you have a problem? I am under the belief that such things as other call problems are indeed the life-blood of opportunity and the louder it knocks the greater the gain.
City of Cortez and South Western Colorado Market Survey We have been spending many hours surveying the market for a potential business location in the South Western Region (region # 9) of Colorado. Pouring through data, seeing the tourist sites, and understanding the market there.
Succession Planning for Business - 10 Key Points You Must Know Succession Planning isn't just about preparing for boardroom changes or grooming your son or daughter to take over when you want to retire. It's much more about how those managing others create seamless changeovers, preparing who you have, for opportunities that might present themselves. And it's about making managing people much more effective, creating spaces for whoever you are, with people management responsibilities, to focus on your job, not theirs. Through empowering them, you generate enthusiasm and engagement. Everyone thrives, especially your business or organisation your business.
Parking Business, the Details on Increasing Lot Revenue If you are in the parking business and own or manage parking lots you may want to think on some additional concepts to increase lot revenues. Whether you are looking to add value for your customers, expand your customer base, or simply increase your revenue, the addition of a car wash and/or detailing service to your parking facility may be the answer.
Idaho Market for Automotive Businesses; Doing it Right Anyone who has been watching the Idaho Market Carefully for auto services, knows that the market is ripe, ready and growing. I visited Southern Idaho after establishing franchises in Northern Idaho three years ago for our auto aftermarket franchise company.
Planning for Success Most of us have heard the oft quoted claim, "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail," but still most small business owners pursue business success without first creating a plan. This aricle uncovers the reasons for not planning, then details the problems created by poor or non-existent planning and then outlines some compelling benefits of developing a proactive business plan.
How to Grow Your Business by Clearing the Way to Growth Is your business growing as fast and effectively as it could, or is it stuck at the same level it has been at for years? Research (Larry Greiner, 1972) has discovered 5 specific stages of business growth. Most business never grow beyond the second level. At this level, the business is characterised by a small group of owners (if not a sole owner), supported by a small team of people at an operational level. This describes the 90 plus percent of businesses, which have 10 or fewer staff. Why should it be this way?
Three Steps to Give Your Strategic Plan Traction We all agree Strategic Planning is a critical part of a company's success. All too often, however, strategic plans stall before they ever make it to execution - or they gradually lose momentum. The organization is then left in a vulnerable and uncomfortable position of continuing to go about its business with good intentions but no focused direction or aligned action. Move intention into action using this three step remedy.
The Accountability/Alignment Process: Three Steps to an Accountable Organization Generating genuine accountability and functional alignment into your workplace cannot be left to vague ambitions and abstract statements. Well designed processes must be embedded into the heart of an organization to ensure that each employee's goals and expectations are clearly defined and that the resources to bring about specific measurable results are in place.
Take A Systems View To Ensure Your Business Stays Healthy In order to get everything in your business done perfectly and on time all of your business systems must work effectively side-by-side. As such, it is important to take a systems view when it comes to your business's overall health and well-being.
The Six Sigma Method and Design of Experiments Six Sigma is becoming a proven approach for businesses and organizations to improve their performance. The spectrum of companies actively engaging in Six Sigma today is wide from industrials like Celanese, Caterpillar, GE...
Akron OH; A great place to do business When looking at Akron carefully one cannot help but notice it's brilliant location to rivers, water, large cities and middle class consumer spending populations. With Canton to the South, high-end and growing Fairlawn to the North, Kent State and University of Ohio both a stones throw; the potential for any business is quite apparent.
Memo: Sustaining Growth in Your Business What gets measured gets done. How do you keep your business growing? How do you ensure the health of your business and your personal income against threats from competition, market cycles, commission payout changes, regulation of all kinds, and the human threat of complacency?
Dayton, OH; Why your Company needs to expand there Demographic Research Second Tier City Opportunities. In Ohio: besides the 3-Cs you should look at Akron, Dayton, Canton, Toledo, Youngstown and their suburbs. We have been serious studying these areas quite intensely for quite a while, here is what we found; Dayton OH, is looking up after the recent GM Plant received high ratings for productivity being able to beat the Domestic Averages for time to build cars and SUVs, it's SUV Plant was amongst the top performers in the Country for time to build at an average of 20.7 Hours, much better than the Ford Plants all expect F-150 and Taurus Models.
Urban Flight in Ohio Many of Ohio's downtown areas are in need of upgrading as folks pack up and move to the suburbs. Many downtown revitalization projects are currently going on there. Competition for sales tax, real estate, middle-income housing and quality of life is a power struggle, urban flight has been growing in Cincinnati and we do not see that stopping, but the expansion in the suburbs is very strong indeed.
Corporate Contingency Planning What would you do if a fire ripped through your building and caused a crisis. How long could you sustain your competitive advantage with your doors closed. This article identifies the risks and provides some answers.
Business Disaster? Wont Happen to Me As fast as you can say business disaster, your business can go up in smoke. Any small business owner can minimize the damage by simply having proactive strategies in place to deal with an emergency when it happens.
Expanding Franchisee Advice Franchisor expansion policies are not as simple as one might think. On the mind of every businessperson is the idea of expansion. We think we will make more mo...
Unleash Your True Potential Some time ago I attended a birthday party and met a young guy who just happened to be 30. I say young because when you're 47, that is a young age! He told me ab...
Dating Strategies and Tactics To find a long term relationship, you must go after
it. It probably isn't going to fall into your lap.
Bingo 101 What You Absolutely Need to Know About It is quite surprising and amusing at the same time that most of the people aware of the game "bingo" still associate it with some old ladies. The reality, howe...
Coaching Celebrities Coaching celebrities requires being flexible, available and not incredibly demanding on their time. On the flip side, you can ask a lot of them and they'll resp...
Warts and All - the HPV Virus HPV affects up to 6 million new people each year in the US. This number is even higher than the infection rate of HIV aids.
Reach Your Goals - Make A Game Out Of It The "Reach Your Goals" series started out as a tip sheet that quickly grew out of control - what started out as a small collection of goal and success tips even...
Search Engine Optimization for Dummies Being visible the Internet is the first step to being found on the Internet. So take advantage of these proven success tips and avoid the traps that will make y...
Immigration: Ten Points to Ponder Abusive acts against entrants are ignored, activists say Chris Simcox was convicted on weapons charges: officials say case impossible without crossers' testimon...
The Inspirational Power Of A Golf Training Video Many golf training videos in the market today will show you in great detail, how some of the PGA professionals do it and the so-called secrets behind their succ...
Success Unveiled How do you define success? What every success seeker should know in order to enjoy real, lasting success.
Working With The Light From the moment of our birth, we become externally focused into the material world. The world demands and commands we focus our attention on it. Exhausted at th...
Maintaining Healthy Vision Naturally Mind/Body medicine is based on the fact that our health and well-being depends on all the individual parts to work together effectively. So it should come as no...
5 Free Ways to Increase your Website Traffic Learn about 5 simple ways to promote your website and drive up your visitor statistics. Best of all, each of these methods of promotion are 100% free.
Measuring Your Way to Success Are you a trainer whose delivery is complimented time and again, and yet you are only being asked by 10 to 20% of the clients you see for a repeat performance? ...
