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How to use SWOT to create a competitive advantage - Mash Bonigala
SWOT is a method for analyzing both your own businesses position as well as your competition’s. SWOT stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. Every business has competition and the key to creating an advantage over your competition and gaining market share is honestly analyzing your competition’s strengths and discovering how your own business measures up against them.
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There's an overlooked tool that is in any businesses toolbox for growth. This review explains what other leaders think.

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Egypt, Ghana, Kenya among top 10 reformed business economies says World Bank report
The World Bank has released its annual ranking of the ease of doing business in 178 economies. The newly released Doing Business 2008 Project “provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 178 countries.

Government Support for Entrepreneurship in Nigeria : Exploring entrepreneurship in a declining economy
Recognizing the indispensability of the small-scale, private sector enterprise as the dynamic impetus for general economic development, many countries have instituted enterprise support networks and structures to fuel the development of these enterprises. Nigeria is not an exception in this regard. At various times since the 1970s, the government has designed and introduced a variety of measures to promote small and medium enterprise development. These measures included fiscal, monetary and export incentives.

Tough Times Demand Tighter Retail Security
Every retailer has a unique set of security challenges and, in the retail world, your security challenges never end. More retailers are realizing that using perimeter and anti-virus technologies alone are not enough. As someone once said, it's like locking your doors but leaving your windows open. Now retailers must take a lot more security measures. Here are some vital strategies retailers need to take for preventative measures against retail loss...
The Power of Good Measures
Most organizations have a TQM (Total Quality Management) Program. It is the quality of the measures in this effort that will determine the success or failure of it. Here is a short paper I wrote on some interesting aspects of measures.
Leadership Development is Key to Organizational Success
Financial measures are not effective measures you can put on a leadership course. What you can do is measure changes in behavior and attitude in the company over a period of time. The effectiveness of leadership training can be measured through a rolling employee survey. Ask employees how their managers are behaving.
Staying positive in business – Drive away the negatives
Do you ever feel that you cannot cope with the pressures or failures that are ruining your business? Do you find it difficult to get into the right mindset to carry on? Here is an article to advise on some measures to help you to stay positive and focused to achieve your goals and make your business a success.
Healthcare Reform: beyond Quality and Cost Cuts: The Brand
Many organizations are focusing, appropriately so, on cost containment and cost/quality performance measures. These will be the ticket to play in healthcare reform. Others are building Accountable Care Organizaions. All appropriate activities. The Winners in Healthcare Reform are also in the process of establishing meaningful, valuable, recognized Healthcare Brands to appeal to those growing numbers of insured under the reform measures. The time to begin is NOW!
Handling PQQ’s in the Correct Manner
The business world is highly competitive and one area where this is very easily seen is the awarding of contracts on the basis of tenders. As a result, there are many measures in place to weed out companies that do not make the grade. One of these measures is called a Pre Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ). Companies and Government agencies that use the tendering process to award contracts use PQQs to find out whether the companies that are desirous of doing their work are actually capable of doing it.
Organizational Measurement and Feedback Pathways and Pitfalls (Part One)
Far too many measures are designed to meet internal needs. They may satisfy management's command-and-control paranoia for "snoopervision" or they're designed to serve accounting information technology, human resources or other support departments. Numerous measures are also highly technical, production- or product What's often missing from these inward measurements is the customer. High performing organizations measure from the outside in along the customer-partner chain. They begin by measuring what's important to customers and pinpointing the performance gaps. Next on the measurement pecking order are the needs of those external and internal partners serving customers. Then attention turns to the people producing products or serving the servers.

Strategic Measurements Guide Change and Improvement
"Crude measures of the right things are better than precise measures of the wrong things." Here are five core measurement areas that provide broad and balanced feedback loops for assessing and improving organization performance.
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