On an overall basis, companies rate their capital investment planning process at
5.8 On a scale of 1 (poor) to 10 (best). Companies that are unhappy with their process cite the following problems:
• “Gaming” of the process
• Special treatment of certain capital investments (such as information technology projects)
• The effect of executive incentive bonuses on investment decisions
• The treatment of implementation and uncertainty risks by the project appraisal process
Also, only about half of the companies examined conduct post investment reviews. However, when such reviews do get done, the primary intentions are perceived to be to learn lessons from investment decisions and to improve forecasting. Fewer companies use the reviews to help improve their capital planning process.

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If we are a product manufacturer which has own brand and own distribution line, the challenge growing bigger day by day. This is because our competitor try harder to go through to the core market which the essential area as the trend setter. Off course this is not easy and cheap way because they need some famous people as endorsement person of their product. So what can we do if we only have limited fund? How can we resist and counter it to get our customer back?

The marketing option still a main weapon to recovery our market and trust from our customer. We still need to do regular marketing approach like distributing promotional badges for (more…)

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One way to think about business opportunities is to focus on the potential for a product or service within the following groupings.

• Market penetration ideas

These ideas consist of selling more of an existing service or product to an existing market. You are looking for ways to increase sales to existing customers or ways of attracting customers away from competitors. This category (more…)

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Have a cookware store is look like following our hobby an convert it to the money creator. People who love with cooking world will always like all stuff related with food and how to make process. They will prefer to open business that using their skill or knowledge to support their business. Cooking is like (more…)

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My baby was born in the mid of February and we are still staying in the happiness situation. In the past when we were preparing for the born, we bought clothes, bath equipment, lotions and others baby equipments. Since that day I have another thought about another business like baby (more…)

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The business idea can come and go easy but if we already got the great feeling, may be the rest action is needed to make it come true. So how to get the best idea for starting our own business is? Here I give some source where the idea comes from:
• Our dream; it means we already have this dream since several times ago (more…)

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If we see in the cities, most of them have a fitness center at least one building. The owner I can say they can see the vision of the future business when people more care on their health of their body. I am sure most of the owners are familiar with the fitness or body building world because this business is really different with others business. This is combination between business, healthy, life style and hobby. This mixing is really (more…)

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I saw some glass workshops along my way to the home. In my though there was an answer are they can survive in this age? Because I saw the competition was hard and will be harder in the future. If right now their business is only focusing on the glass product, can they fight with the big manufacturer?
When I tried to saw detail about their activities, I can identify that most of their product (more…)

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In my home town, there is a big store which selling most of kitchen and dinning equipment. Since I was kid, my mother always asked me to join her to go to this store. My mother bought some item that needed based on the order from her friends in the community. Yes actually my mother was selling all kitchen and dinning equipments and her clients allowed paying until ten months. Look like this is a small and simple (more…)

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I can see there is new opportunity to build business base on the baby’s world. This is another story and outside from the regular rule of business like logistic business to complete the baby’s need like milk, pampers or baby clothes. If we see on the market demand, that’s all of them always become top priority for completing due the new baby born. So it’s very interesting to research deeper how to join in this business (more…)

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