Process to profits : strategic planning for a growing business /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lasher, William
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Mason, Ohio : Thomson, [2005]
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Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Strategic ideas
  • Introduction to strategic thinking
  • Developing long-run thinking
  • An overview of the strategic process for small business
  • Creating a strategic framework
  • Developing a mission and setting objectives
  • Analysis of the present external position : the industrial environment
  • Analysis of the present position : internal to the firm
  • Developing a strategy
  • Strategic planning and implementation
  • Implementation and control
  • Strategy and business planning
  • Strategic issues for small businesses
  • Marketing and sales : the strategic center of small business
  • Legal forms of organization and issues among owners
  • Business names and trademarks
  • Financing strategies
  • Break-even analysis
  • Strategies for service businesses
  • Location analysis
  • Commercial insurance
  • E-commerce
  • Diversification
  • Restructuring strategies
  • Cost reduction and downsizing : planning to get leaner or smaller.