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Development or updating the organization’s strategic plan is frequently a key management exercise undertaken each year.There are many tools that support and facilitate the strategic planning process such as SWOT, PEST, Porter’s Five Forces, Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Matrix, SPACE Matrix, competitive analysis, etc. (Templates for these tools are available from the Business Tools Store )Strategic gap analysis is an excellent approach to developing a highly effective strategic plan. It id …

We have updated our Staff/Employee Annual Leave Management Excel TemplateStaff/Employee Annual Leave Management Excel Template to include a feature that provides an option for enterprises to document, schedule and track leave carried over from one leave year to the next.Many enterprises have an employee leave policy that allows staff to carry forward unused leave to the following year. It is a feature than has been frequently requested and are delighted to now include it in the Leave M …

We are all familiar with SWOT and PEST as strategic analysis tools. Many will be less familiar with the Strategic Position & ACtion Evaluation matrix, frequently referred to as SPACE Matrix tool.The SWOT and PEST tools are both environment (internal and external) analysis tools.PEST takes us through a process that scrutinizes the external environment within which the organization has got to plan and operate.The four factors Political, Economic, Social and Technical will all to a greater or …

We set ourselves the highest standards in customer service and go the extra mile when necessary to ensure we have a satisfied customer. So it is really pleasing when we get a thank you message and genuine appreciation from our customers.We recently received message on Friday night at 10.00 PM (our time) from “Tom” who had placed an order earlier in the week for MS-Word and MS-Excel General Electric GE McKinsey Matrix Templates. Tom had “ a meeting on Monday morning where I need to make use of th …

  3D Analysis in ExcelExcel has always been a very popular and powerful business tool.One of the features of Excel that is easy to use and is frequently under-utilized is the Excel Bubble chart.The power of the Bubble chart is that it allows us to present data analysis in three dimensions and can be significantly more informative than visually trying to aggregate multiple two-dimensional charts in the mind’s eye.By way of example, we are all familiar with customer surveys where we ask …