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business support planning: how to

How-to Guides

How to Keep Your Business Viable and Profitable

Effective business support planning becomes one of the most critical activities within successful small business maintenance and development. By developing a complete business support plan, company owners, managers and executives get more chances to make their businesses viable, stable and profitable. A viable business support plan gives a clear explanation on how each of the business activities maintained by a company can fit together to produce profits. In this article we will talk about the importance of business support planning, review the definition of a business support plan and also highlight the key services included in the plan.

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Total Quality Management (TQM) for Projects

The following checklist gives a common understanding of the TQM methodology, its approach and implementation steps. You can use it as additional guidelines for planning your project based on the methodology. We recommend using other TQM resources to learn the implementation process in detail.

business investing checklist

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Business Investing Checklist

An effective decision on investing money resources in some business can be made with help of the following business investing checklist that gives a series of tasks and steps for successful implementation. When you decide on making business investments you can try to use the checklist presented in this article. It will help you take the three steps of effective business investment planning to successfully review the investing opportunity, assess the risks surrounding the project, and investigate the reputations of people involved.

effective talent management in 4 steps

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Checklist: Effective Talent Management in Four Steps

It’s nearly impossible to make a business flourishing and highly competitive without effective talent management in place. Human resources are the driving power of any business, and talent management helps managers and owners to retain workforce, develop employee skills and improve team performance. Effective talent management allows filling up the skill gap and avoiding performance reductions through recruiting talented employees and developing competencies and knowledge of existing workforce. Managing talents and competencies of employees can be presented as a consistent process that consists of the four key steps, such as Recruitment, Retention, Development and Performance. Each of the steps of effective talent management can divided into sub-steps that better characterize the process and its essence. In this article we present a checklist for carrying out the process in the four key steps.

project phasing

Project Implementation Guide

Project Phases

Project phasing becomes important in the context of achieving the project’s purpose and its objectives stated by the policy. It gives information required to understand how to methodologically achieve the project’s purpose, what the project phasing process is, and which phases are typically involved in the project implementation life-cycle.