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How a SWOT Evaluation Can Help Your Business

February 15, 2014 Business Process, Business Strategy, Customers, How To, Marketing, Teams and Organizations, Technology, The Manager's Resource Handbook

How to Conduct a SWOT Analysis: Take a Closer Look At Your Business Leading a successful company requires you periodically spend time identifying ways to improve and get better. A SWOT analysis is one evaluation method that aids in organizing characteristics of your business that you deem as successes or concerns. Specifically, a SWOT analysis is an evaluation technique that helps you capture the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats

Is Your Research and Development Under House Arrest?

February 4, 2014 Business Strategy, Finance and Accounting, How To, Project Management, Technology, The Manager's Resource Handbook

Research and Development Spending: Where Did the Money Go? I recently read Borderless World by Kenichi Ohmae in which he discusses the approaches companies take in terms of their technology growth and research investment. In his book, Ohmae highlights the differences between companies that truly flood the pipeline with investment, and those that play the betting game with a handful of specific projects. Having

Doing Business in China 101

February 1, 2014 Business Strategy, How To, International Business, Marketing, Project Management, The Manager's Resource Handbook

5 Tips for Working in China China is a vast and exotic place. You will find dazzling skyscrapers like something out of Sci-Fi flick. And you will find remote villages that make you feel like you’ve taking a trip back in time. If you are going to China for the first time, take note: doing business in China is very

Run More Effective Meetings With The 3 “W”s

January 31, 2014 How To, Management Tips, Productivity, The Manager's Resource Handbook

How to Assign Action Items in Meetings We are all accustomed to going to meetings where there is a lot of discussion and head nodding around the room. After 60 minutes, there are jovial pats on the back as people leave the conference room; after all, there’s another meeting in there at the top of the hour. But how many meetings

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