Posts by Venkatramanhttp://www.brighthub.com/search/searchresults.aspx?u=7018&o=DateDescending&a=275Posts by Venkatramanen-USManpower and Capital Expenditure Components of a Business Planhttp://www.brighthub.com/office/entrepreneurs/articles/42925.aspxWed, 22 Jul 2009 22:16:42 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:42925venkatluxIn 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. Human Resources Plan We will again continue with what we...Business Model and Marketing Plan Components of a Business Planhttp://www.brighthub.com/office/entrepreneurs/articles/42409.aspxFri, 17 Jul 2009 08:59:13 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:42409venkatluxHaving 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. Vision, Mission, Goals, and Business Model We...Server-based Computing: Trends and The Key Vendors of Virtual Servershttp://www.brighthub.com/environment/green-computing/articles/41287.aspxFri, 03 Jul 2009 15:54:17 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:41287venkatluxServer-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 History of Virtualization Virtualization is, in e...Everything You Always Wanted to Know Writing a Business Planhttp://www.brighthub.com/office/entrepreneurs/articles/42234.aspxWed, 15 Jul 2009 20:31:39 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:42234venkatluxOne 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. What is a Business Plan? Your first-ever decision to start a new venture, or your decision to...Resource Management With Microsoft Projecthttp://www.brighthub.com/office/project-management/articles/48745.aspxSat, 12 Sep 2009 12:45:37 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:48745venkatluxYou 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. Warming Up Once a project has been broken down into manage...More about Toolbars and Some Tips and Tricks in Microsoft Project (Lesson 4)http://www.brighthub.com/office/project-management/articles/46339.aspxFri, 21 Aug 2009 10:56:41 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:46339venkatluxThis 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. Toolbar Icons The first two lessons in this tutorial on Microso...Getting to Know the Menus and Toolbars in Microsoft Project (Lesson 3)http://www.brighthub.com/office/project-management/articles/46338.aspxFri, 21 Aug 2009 10:39:25 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:46338venkatluxIn 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. Introduction One idea behind taking this subject up in Les...Task Insertions, Amendments and Other Features in Microsoft Project (Lesson 2)http://www.brighthub.com/office/project-management/articles/45691.aspxSat, 15 Aug 2009 21:46:23 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:45691venkatluxThis 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. Learning Objectives In our previous lesson, we went through ...Types of Task Relationships in Microsoft Project (Lesson 5)http://www.brighthub.com/office/project-management/articles/46741.aspxTue, 25 Aug 2009 04:00:37 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:46741venkatluxIn 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. What is a Task Relationship? In the first lesson on Getting Started with Microsoft Proj...Step By Step Tutorial on Microsoft Project: Getting Started in Twenty Minuteshttp://www.brighthub.com/office/project-management/articles/45402.aspxThu, 13 Aug 2009 00:26:11 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:45402venkatluxThis 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... Getting Started There are no pre-requisites to the...