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When Should a Small Business Hire an Executive Team?

Up and Running

That often involves working long hours and keeping your costs lean. Think of it as an investment in your company — you’re dedicating resources (compensation) to highly skilled employees who will hopefully bring your business to the next level. All of this is to say—there isn’t one right or wrong way to build your executive team.

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Lean Planning Drives Growth For Small Business

Up and Running

These days more than ever, as a business owner and entrepreneur, you need to innovate or die. This mantra is most true for any business in the technology sector. The pressure that a small business owner has to leverage innovation into growth is only emphasized by the difficult economic climate.

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Introducing Lean Planning: How to plan less and grow faster

Up and Running

Today, I want to introduce you to a new concept for starting and growing successful companies: Lean Planning™. Before I dive too deeply into the Lean Planning methodology, it makes sense to talk about its history and where it comes from. It starts with “Plan-As-You-Go” instead of detailed, formal business plans.

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Episode 9: Lean Business Planning with Tim Berry | The Bcast

Up and Running

This week Peter and Jonathan talk to Tim Berry, founder of Palo Alto Software, about lean business planning, strategy, tactics, specifics (milestones), and the forecast. Listen to Episode 9: Show notes: What is Lean Planning? Free Download: The One Page Business Pitch Template. What’s the lean mean?

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What is CRM? Customer Relationship Management Explained

Up and Running

Many small businesses are turning to customer relationship management systems(CRM) to better understand customer wants and needs. Customer Relationship Management is a technology designed to help your business manage customer relationships and interactions in an organized way. Identify your business needs.

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30 Entrepreneurs Share Their One Prediction for Business in 2023

Hearpreneur

Changes in the Workforce are one of my 2023 business forecasts. Due to the economy's turning point, the growing trend of people working from home will likely continue next year. More people will be able to work from home or other remote locations as a result of technological advances and increased corporate flexibility.

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Lean Management: 3 Things Your Business Can Learn from Toyota

Transformify

Called the Toyota Production System, it is one of the success stories about the lean manufacturing process. Lean manufacturing simply aims to minimize waste as much as possible because in this industry, and other manufacturing-related industries, it is very easy to accumulate it. How to apply it to your business? Where to start?

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