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As a business owner you can’t look past the fact that the internet plays a big role in businesses these days. It’s not just a time waster for employees that sit day in and day out on Facebook or Youtube. The internet is also there to make life easier for business owners and this is [...]

Cloud Computing is a term that is often bandied about the web these days and often attributed to different things that — on the surface — don’t seem to have that much in common. So just what is Cloud Computing? It’s been called a service, a platform, and even an operating system. Some even link [...]

Every epoch requires people and organizations to develop core competencies or skills needed to be successful. In the time of Henry VIII, key competencies to master probably included fealty to a powerful lord and skill with a rapier. Not so much in demand today, however. What are the core competencies needed in this century? Harvard [...]

What do you do better than anyone does? What does your company offer that competitors can’t match? Why would customers buy one company’s product or service as opposed to another’s? What is your competitive differentiation? These are all definitions of a critical business concept called “value proposition.” What’s the litmus test for a valid value [...]

Terrorism, kidnapping, robbery, theft. In some lucrative emerging markets, these hazards come with the territory. The key to staying out of harm’s way: Be prepared. The U.S. and the U.K. may be mired in what was once thought of as a Third World style of financial crisis, but what was once considered the Third World [...]