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Manpower and Capital Expenditure Components of a Business Plan
In Part 2 of this series, we covered the Marketing Plan. Based on that, you already have a mental picture of the resources you need to implement the Marketing Plan. Intuitively you can classify the resources into Labor, Capital and Technology. We now cover this component of our business plan.
Published by Venkatraman (1,453 pts ) on Oct 10, 2009 to
Entrepreneurs Articles

Business Model and Marketing Plan Components of a Business Plan
Having understood the main components of a business plan in Part 1, the next questions to be addressed are what product-service mix will the venture get into and how will the business generate revenues and profits? Answers to these questions can be found in the business model and the marketing plan.
Published by Venkatraman (1,453 pts ) on Oct 10, 2009 to
Entrepreneurs Articles

Server-based Computing: Trends and The Key Vendors of Virtual Servers
Server-Based Computing has come a long way in the past few years. Competition has steadily increased in the Virtual Server market. Besides servers, several players have started offering Tools and Virtualization services to enhance user experience. Here we compare the offerings of three major players
Published by Venkatraman (1,453 pts ) on Oct 7, 2009 to
Green Computing / IT Articles

Everything You Always Wanted to Know Writing a Business Plan
One can find a plethora of articles on the Internet and in print media about how to write a business plan. However, this article tells you how writing a business plan is as simple as putting down on paper, what you have already visualized in your mind.
Published by Venkatraman (1,453 pts ) on Oct 3, 2009 to
Entrepreneurs Articles

Resource Management With Microsoft Project
You will find innumerable books and articles out there on Resource Management. Most of them deal with the complexities of the topic, and it takes a while to get started using Microsoft Project for Resource Management. This article takes a different approach with doing, followed by learning.
Published by Venkatraman (1,453 pts ) on Sep 12, 2009 to
Project Management Articles

More about Toolbars and Some Tips and Tricks in Microsoft Project (Lesson 4)
This lesson covers some more details about toolbars and icons in Microsoft Project. We will also discuss a few useful tips and tricks for performing certain actions. The best way to learn more tricks in Microsoft Project is to play around with the toolbar icons, as you will learn here.
Published by Venkatraman (1,453 pts ) on Aug 25, 2009 to
Project Management Articles

Getting to Know the Menus and Toolbars in Microsoft Project (Lesson 3)
In this tutorial, we will learn how to navigate through Microsoft Project screens and functionalities. We will discuss the initial screen layout, menus, various toolbars, the icons in the toolbars, and give a few useful tips and tricks as you enter data and move around in Microsoft Project.
Published by Venkatraman (1,453 pts ) on Aug 25, 2009 to
Project Management Articles

Task Insertions, Amendments and Other Features in Microsoft Project (Lesson 2)
This tutorial deals with tasks in Microsoft Project software. Questions such as how to insert a new task, how to modify an existing task, how to redefine dependencies between tasks are all answered here. We also cover special features such as defining milestones, dummy tasks and grouping.
Published by Venkatraman (1,453 pts ) on Aug 25, 2009 to
Project Management Articles

Types of Task Relationships in Microsoft Project (Lesson 5)
In this lesson we will discuss the different types of task dependencies and learn how to define them in Microsoft Project. This is a continuation of what we have learned in Lesson 2 of this tutorial about task insertions and the default type of relationship.
Published by Venkatraman (1,453 pts ) on Aug 25, 2009 to
Project Management Articles

Step By Step Tutorial on Microsoft Project: Getting Started in Twenty Minutes
This tutorial is designed to help you get started on Microsoft Project in literally 20 minutes. Without getting into the finer details, this article explains how to start your first project in Microsoft Project with any version of the software. Once you have an idea of the tasks, you can jump in...
Published by Venkatraman (1,453 pts ) on Aug 20, 2009 to
Project Management Articles