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		<title>Developing Fair Trading Practices</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 08:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Shubinsky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his famous book, "The Jungle", Upton Sinclair narrated the terrible consequences of the trusts and monopolies in America in the late 19th century. Known as the "Robber Barons" the owners of these large corporations had unbridled power and thus were able to gain domination over the means of production, distribution and marketing to such an extent that they controlled ordinary worker's lives and very often impoverished their workers to serve their own greed. These actions were possible for two reasons. First, there were no real regulations other than the "market forces." Second, the American public abhorred any kind of government intervention.]]></description>
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		<title>How To Develop Your Organization Relationships Better</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 13:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rocky Beavers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Relationship advertising and marketing can be defined as a kind of marketing that may be a outcome of useful marketing and advertising campaigns that encourages and supports lengthy term client retention. It can be unique from other types of marketing and advertising as it sees the value in creating a relationship with an buyer over time that's beyond advertising and overt communication. It really is not just about obtaining new customers via the door.]]></description>
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		<title>Those Who Dare Win &#8211; Leadership Strategies For 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 08:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Johnston</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Business Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[competitive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[executives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[2010 - The Euro is in free-fall, and the global uncertainty continues. After battling through 2009, with your business bruised, but intact, you consider yourself amongst the fortunate ones, having survived the "perfect storm". But now, the uncertainty continues, resulting in more nervous investors, more caution and more doubts about how we position our businesses to meet the challenges of 2011.]]></description>
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		<title>Be A Winner, Devise A Sound Negotiating Strategy!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 09:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Green</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[activities]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business activities are highly dependent upon interpersonal and negotiating skills of their managers or owners. It is through negotiation only, that the parties involved in the business activity can come to common grounds of interest. Hence, if you are unable to adopt a wise strategy to negotiate with the other party, the probability of failure is higher. Three most important elements of a useful negotiating strategy are commonly observed to include; the ability of building and maintaining trust between or amongst the parties involved, the timely decision making and using wise tactics to achieve your objective.]]></description>
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		<title>For Success, Here is the New Must-Have Feature</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 11:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James A Gardner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[innovation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Increasingly, successful products all have a new must-have feature, and that is "beauty". I don't know if you've recognized it yet, but everyone seems to be extolling the virtues of their "beautiful" design lately, and I know that personally, when I'm choosing software, for example, I always want to see what it looks like before I'll be bothered to download.]]></description>
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		<title>CORPORATE STRATEGIC PLANNING</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A strategy is a plan of action in order to give the company a sense of purpose and begins by asking what the activities and goals of the business are, relating both to the present position of the company and the likely future resources and opportunities available to the organisation. These strategic decisions encompass a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MCKINSEY’S SEVEN “S’s”</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MCKINSEY’S SEVEN “S’s” It is a powerful framework for internal analysis considering the interaction of 7 sub systems, when one is changed, the other 6 may also require modifying in order to obtain optimum efficiency and effectiveness. These comprise of the structure which shows how to co-ordinate tasks, the strategy &#8211; planned responses to environmental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Company Stakeholders</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Managers:- These are people appointed by the company owners to superivse the day to day activities. The need information about the company’s current financial situation and what it is expected to be in the future. This enables them to manage the business efficiently and to take effective control and planning decisions. Shareholders:- In plc&#8217;s the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strategy Health Checks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The strategy of an organisation has a life cycle: a dormant phase and a development phase. Because strategic issues are rarely considered by continuous review, many organisations spend most of their time in the dormant phase. Most large companies employ whole departments to monitor the Strategic Management of their businesses. Small and medium sized firms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>M.O.S.T. Analysis</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:36:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the key tools used in Strategic Planning is the M.O.S.T. Analysis. This helps to clarify where the business intends to go (Mission), they key goals which will help to achieve this (Objectives), analyses what options there are for proceeding forward (Strategies) and how these strategies are going to be put into action (Tactics). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Effective Leadership</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leadership in the managerial context is about organising, directing, guiding and helping people to do their work well. All the different leadership styles can all be effective, but at different times, and with different groups of people. The best managers are those who do not use just one style all the time, who recognise that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership and management styles</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:09:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is democratic, autocratic and paternal management styles of leadership, with followers and leaders. A democratic leadership encourages discussion, consultation and involves staff in decision making. An autocratic leadership issues instructions without explanation, avoids discussion and has dominant control. Paternal leadership is when the leader is like a father figure and the atmosphere would be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Organisational Culture</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every Organisation has a culture, its self-beliefs, values and learned ways of managing &#8211; and this is reflected in its structures, systems and approach to the development of corporate strategy. Its culture derives from its past, its present, its current people, technology and physical resources and from the aims, objectives and values of those who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ansoff Matrix</title>
		<link>http://thebusinessidea.com/business-strategy/ansoff-matrix/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:56:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ansoff’s Product/Market Matrix indicates the direction the business is likely to pursue with a product strategy as it relates environmental factors to internal ones. It is designed to transform the firm from the present position to one described by the objectives, subject to constraints of the capabilities and the overall potential of the organisation. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Consultancy Group Matrix</title>
		<link>http://thebusinessidea.com/business-strategy/boston-consultancy-group-matrix/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BCG Matrix can be used to analyse the portfolio of a business by identifying where the product is within its life cycle (i.e. Cash Cow) and is determined by two variables, the rate of growth and the relative market share. It offers an understanding of a variety of markets by identifying the probable direction to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Porters 5 Forces Model</title>
		<link>http://thebusinessidea.com/business-strategy/porters-forces-model/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Porters 5 Forces Model Porter’s 5 Forces is a model of competitive analysis within a particular market, helping the business understand the market it’s located in by illustrating how the competitive forces shape a business and the relationship between market structure and market behaviour. It identifies new entrants, suppliers, substitutes, buyers and industry competitors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Competitive analysis</title>
		<link>http://thebusinessidea.com/business-strategy/competitive-analysis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This requires an in-depth analysis of the competitive advantages and weaknesses of the firm. The business should know about their competitors and their market share, strengths, weaknesses and product differentiation. They can range from companies to entrepreneurs and do not necessarily simply apply to the desired target market, but equally areas that can be viewed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Porters generic strategy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Porter’s Generic Strategy is an industry analysis providing information on which competitive strategies may be based in order to obtain the most advantageous position within the market place. It identifies the 3 strategies as cost leadership, differentiation and focus with the need for every business to adopt one of the strategies in order to succeed [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many stakeholders within a business, including yourself. By identifying who has a vested interest within your business ensures you meet the needs of each of them in order to ensure your business functions properly and prosperously. There are generally more people with a vested interest in your business than you would initially anticipate. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PEST Analysis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Understand the environment where your business functions Investigating both the markets you intend to enter as well as researching the external environments are a fundamental part of your business plan, which will ensure you have the right tools and are prepared for most eventualities.  An awareness of government and political factors, legal requirements, economic factors, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SWOT Analysis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities &#38; Threats Starting a business begins with the initial brainstorming of thebusinessidea. This can come from a brilliant flash of inspiration you had at 3am or can be an extension of a hobby, interest or starting your own project. Whichever method, the best ideas usually start with an interest in the subject as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business Strategy Ideas &amp; Objectives</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Objectives indicate the distinctive competencies or strengths whilst providing guidelines for measuring internal performance in the company and are the cornerstone of any management activity. If the company’s objectives at present is ‘ to remain small and make a profit’ – this is rather vague and requires further expansion, since both terms are relatively ambiguous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business Strategy Mission &amp; Vision</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your initial business strategy or concept covers all aspects found on this website, but should begin with its Mission statement: Once you have decided upon your business idea, you need to structure your business accordingly to ensure you identify it’s direction and purpose. The Mission Statement determines the organisations’ fundamental purpose for existence and the [...]]]></description>
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