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small business mistakes

Business & Finance

Top Ten Small Business Mistakes

In context of the best management practices, examining the most frequent small business mistakes is one of the prioritized activities an entrepreneur needs to undertake when planning for a small business start-up. People who tried to start a business but failed can tell you about a lot of reasons for small business failures. Those people can explain why their business initiatives have failed. And if you decide to start your own business, your role will be to learn their experience, investigate the most frequent mistakes, and then try your best to avoid those mistakes and errors. In this article we’ll talk about the top ten small business mistakes that many individuals make when planning for business startup. I hope this short post will help you better understand the “bad” steps of business planning, so your small company will never be one of those outsiders.

Small Business Recovery Planning – What is a Business Recovery Plan and How to Avoid Business Insolvency?

Business & Finance

Small Business Recovery Planning – What is a Business Recovery Plan and How to Avoid Business Insolvency?

In the world of business management, small business recovery planning is one of the key activities aimed to avoid business insolvency and develop a contingency action plan. The term “business recover planning” also refers to “disaster recovery planning“. Most experienced business owners perfectly understand the need for disaster planning to ensure their businesses’ survival when disaster strikes. Crisis management and business recovery solutions require small companies to make their best to take into account both inside and outside factors influencing business stability and continuity. Some small-sized companies employ business recovery professionals and specialists who analyze their business activities, make necessary evaluations, and finally give helpful small business recovery advice. Others prefer using their own internal resources to cope with the challenging business environment and outline a business recovery plan template.

4 methods of project information management

PM Tips & Ideas

Four Methods for Gathering Information on Projects

Project information management is a series of activities for gathering, analyzing, tracking and utilizing data on projects. These activities are also called steps that are consistently taken to provide project participants and stakeholders with all necessary information on their project. In this article, let’s talk about Information Gathering. The article briefly describes the four methods of gathering and managing project data.

project technology management

IT & Software

Project Technology Management – How Technology Drives Project Changes

While business and economic conditions change all the time, a revolution (or a drastic change in managing projects using advanced technologies and IT software solutions) is a discontinuous and abrupt series of IT innovations that make a foundation for effective project technology management. Due to the acceleration of IT software development and further implementation of project technologies in real project environments, today you can hardly find a project that doesn’t use IT software solutions for driving changes.

Project Constraints and Assumptions - A Planning Checklist

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Project Constraints and Assumptions – A Planning Checklist

Efficient planning for project success significantly depends on the right statement of the constraints and assumptions. Why are constraints and assumptions in project management so important? The answer is that because setting proper project constraints and assumptions paves the way for adequate risk analysis, efficient project planning and timely project delivery. This article is intended to give you definitions of both project constraints and project assumptions and also show what steps can be taken to determine the key characteristics of project success.