Best practice white papers

White paper of the month

Private label – every brand’s Achilles heel?

 

White paper topics

• Business continuity/disaster recovery
• Career management
• Exiting
• Finance
• HR
• International
• Leadership
• Legal

• M&A change management
• Marketing
• Sales
• Skills
• Strategy
• Sustainability
• Trends

Business continuity/disaster recovery

• Developing a disaster recovery plan
• Writing a disaster recovery plan
• Collecting data for a disaster recovery plan
• Business continuity and the recession

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Career management

• How to succeed as a second-in-command
• The 21st century key executive

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Exiting

• How to assess and maximise the value of your business
• Exit planning

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Finance

• Setting up a good credit control system
• Beyond financial statements
• Funding – a guide 
for entrepreneurs
• Key financial management ratios
• Six principles for financing growth

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HR

• Embedding employee engagement
• Avoiding the two most common recruitment mistakes
• Business mentoring – a guide
• Leading your team out of the recession
• Succession planning – worksheets
• Compensation strategy
• Employee retention
• Beat the recession by empowering the line
• Management development

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International

• Going global

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Leadership

• Outperforming as a business leader
• Change and transition leadership

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Legal and compliance

• Joint venture companies and shareholders’ agreements – checklist and guidance

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Marketing

• Private label – every brand’s Achilles heel?
• Nine ways to improve your marketing campaigns – a workbook
• Business positioning and market segmentation – a workbook
• Brand positioning – a workbook
• Goal setting – how and why it works
• Branding
• Developing your marketing mix
• Is your organisation marketing oriented?
• Make your business marketing orientated
• Marketing concepts for SMEs (Part 1: A-C)
• Marketing concepts for SMEs (Part 2: D-I)
• Marketing concepts for SMEs (Part 3: J-R)
• Marketing concepts for SMEs (Part 4: S-Z)

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Mergers and acquisitions change management

• Mergers and acquisitions
• Strategic alliances
• Private venture investing – an overview

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Sales

• Sales training
• Customer retention
• Sales – making the step change for the smaller company

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Skills

• Negotiation

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Strategy

• Profitable growth through excellence
• Preparing for the new business reality
• The product development highway
• Managing in a down economy
• Strategic planning
• Pricing strategies
• Key performance indicators
• Strategic audit workbook
• Implementing the strategic plan

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Sustainability

• Sustainability as strategy
• The journey towards sustainability

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Trends

• Twelve trends for the next five years

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