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Building Longterm Viability into Your Prototype
Software prototypes are supposed to model how to implement a solution. But today's business world forces many prototypes (and all their short cuts) to be used in production environments. This article describes a number of characteristics that ensures a prototype can incrementally and effectively grow into the sophisticated product that lets you go to market on a wide scale.

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PREPARE to Fund Your Technology Development
Finding funding for technology development can be a daunting process. Sources of funding, which include Federal Grants, State economic development funds, debt financing from investment banks, and equity funding from Angels or Venture Capital, will use some form of rating to determine your suitability for funding. This article presents a schema for evaluating a venture's "Funding Readiness Level (FRL) ®", which includes the market readiness of the technology or "Technology Readiness Level (TRL)", the maturity of the business or "Business Readiness Level (BRL)", and the ability of the venture to manage the deal process and negotiate in its own best interest or "Dealsmanship". (This article appears in the Jan/Feb 2006 issue of The Austin Business District magazine.)
Understanding Your Prospects Readiness To Buy
By understanding your prospective client's readiness to buy you will be able to tailor your presentation to meet their specific needs. This article discusses the 4 different buying mindsets and how to position your products or services for each one.
9th of the Top 10 Kurlan Sales Management Functions
#9 - STRATEGY Strategy comes in several forms and is required in different dosages depending on the position. For example, a line level sales manager may be more concerned with call strategy while a Worldwide VP Sales may be more concerned with market strategy. At the VP level, strategy is far more important than tactics while at the sales manager level, tactics are more important than strategy.
Change Management Best Practices
Organizational change provides the opportunity for organizations to build more focused, disciplined, and mature businesses. This opportunity comes with significant financial risk if changes are not planned and managed proactively. Change management is primarily concerned with how to understand, engage, respond, and communicate with PEOPLE. A solid vision, senior management sponsorship, and having the right people in the right roles, are the key success factors for implementing a successful change management campaign. Use our Change Management Readiness Assessment to measure your readiness for a major organizational change.

How to Align your Corporate Strategy
A recent article covered the symptoms of corporate strategy misalignment and 3 common causes of strategy misalignment. Take a look back at those articles to understand what happens when corporate strategy becomes misaligned and what causes it to go out of whack in the first place. When corporate strategy is aligned throughout the entire organization, operational initiatives are working in sync with strategic goals and desired outcomes are much more likely to result. Thus, understanding corporate strategy misalignment is critical for any business leader and knowing how to correct a misalignment is essential.
3 Common Causes of Corporate Strategy Misalignment
A recent artcile on corporate strategy covered the symptoms of corporate strategy misalignment. As discussed, a properly aligned corporate strategy will align strategic goals with the operations and execution tactics necessary to fulfill the organization’s desired outcomes. With a well-aligned corporate strategy, the entire organization – both internally and externally – will move in the same clearly-defined direction. Left to its own devices, a strategy that is misaligned will result in operational initiatives that are out of sync with strategic goals, missions that drift operationally off course, and chaos that compounds into serious consequences. Now it’s time to consider the causes of corporate strategy misalignment.
How to operate in 'I'm Okay' Mode
In the knowledge that your circumstances are never you, be aware that the world you see is not the world that is you. Open your heart to a readiness and a willingness to say ‘I can change my world’.
Can We Remove Risk From Our Strategy?
If you could, wouldn’t you choose to test your organization’s strategy before gambling your business and your career on the assumption that the strategy is right? This article contains a short list of tactics to help remove some of the risk from your strategy.
Five Steps to Good Strategy
Possibly more organizations fail because of bad strategy than those who fail because of no strategy. Bad strategy happens all the time to every organization and if left to its own means can destroy an organization. Bad strategy can be characterized by executives failing to face real problems or simply by lack of clarity. Learn how to craft good strategy.

Business Presenting - It's Always About Your Audience!
What's the number one "Rule" in presenting? "It's always about your audience." Discover the power of this rule -- and score your skills in a quick Presentation Readiness Quiz.
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