Operations Resources

Productivity depends on how ergonomic is our workspace. Margo Brown shares her expertise how to keep the right posture and the best focus during your workday. As Productivity Specialist, the author points at major health problems that could be prevented if we stand up more often.

At 33 years of age, Ivanka Trump, Executive Vice President of Acquisitions and Development of the Trump Organization, was one of the panelists at this year’s Forbes Women’s Summit and here’s a video interview where she talks about being an entrepreneur and building a business.

If you have a family-owned-and-operated, andyou’re a baby boomer, you need to start thinking about who’s going to run the business when you retire. Something to remember: your style of doing business may be different than those of a Gen-Xer or a Millennial.

A business needs two things to be successfull -- Accounting and Marketing.

As an entrepreneur, you had to create a business plan for your business when you started up. It included an executive summary, financials, marketing plan and some forecasting. But how far into the future did you go? 1 year? 5 years? 10 years? A question you need to ask yourself — and many business owners overlook this — is What’s Your Exit Strategy?

For any business, monitoring your cash flow is crucial. Here are some tips from “Two Men in Your Business”

Chances are, unless you’re as obsessed as I am with John Hughes films, you don’t think “weird science” when you envision coming up with a logo for your small business. Well, it might not be weird, but there’s definitely science involved in great logo design.

National Clean Off Your Desk Day is the designated day you walk into your office and say ‘this is the day I’m going to get my office clean.’ You roll up your sleeves, then a few emails arrive, you take a phone call, you search around for that document-did you print it out or is it somewhere on your computer? And before you know it, it’s time to call it a day.

Creating and sustaining a valuable business enterprise is a difficult task under the best of circumstances. Strategic planning is a key to facilitating superior performance and value creation, yet businesses tend to ignore strategic planning, often relying on seat-of-the-pants management and/or business folklore.

Whether it’s business classes from accounting to social media marketing, today’s business owner needs to stay on top of the latest business trends and technologies. You can bet your target market is tech savvy, so you have to be.