(Truth)Fundamental truths that relate to and govern business.
The formula for success is a question that has long plagued entrepreneurs, but a helpful tool now exists that will assist in identifying the primary metrics of any business. The business model generation template comes from the minds of 470 contributors and was compiled in the book Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game […]
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Time is the only one true fixed resource. Having a finite amount of time to complete any task makes time management an integral part of an organization. Entrepreneurs often have difficulty balancing their planning and organizing while simultaneously entertaining potential customers. What most don’t realize is that the time they have is very limited, and
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Most side income advice starts with a skill you don’t have or a platform you don’t understand. Location arbitrage starts with something simpler: the same item priced differently in two places. You buy where it’s cheap. You sell where it’s not. The gap is your margin. No special skills. No inventory risk if you play
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If you run a shop floor, a service operation, or any process with more than two steps, you have a constraint. One step limits everything else. Drum Buffer Rope is the Theory of Constraints answer to that reality: a scheduling method that stops you from optimizing the wrong things and focuses the entire system on
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The TOC Thinking Process is an interactive, logic-based approach to problem solving that can be applied to the most complex of systems. We as people often don’t think through issues to the extent that we should. The Thinking Process brings to light the assumptions we make in our thinking habits, and illustrates the ramifications of
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Every business has a conflict that won’t resolve. You keep investing in marketing, but cash is tight, so you pull back, so growth stalls, so you invest again. You know you need to hire, but you can’t afford to until revenue grows, and revenue won’t grow until you hire. These aren’t bad decisions. They’re conflict
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As an individual you are your first business, and as your first business you must realize that continued adjustment and change is part of succeeding. Problems will always arise do to the change around you and your ability to accommodate the changes required can be made easier with a few simple steps. One of the
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Investing into your business is essential if you want it to grow. Your company is a living organism and it must be fed, the question is how to feed it. In “Growth Strategy, When to Step Up Capacity” we addressed when to step up capacity, here we address where the focus should be. Throwing money
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Small businesses have a very dynamic existence for many reasons and as such it doesn’t take much for one to fail. That said I want to touch on a few basics that can help minimize the chance of failure and hopefully lead to further success. The following list is not exhaustive but it does touch
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As an entrepreneur or small business owner there is constantly a demand for three primary resources. The three resources are human capital (knowledge), financial capital (money), and time. Entrepreneurs have to find the balance on which to use in place of the other often a conflict can exists between spending time or spending money? With
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