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The USA government included large amounts in its stimulus bill for driving research, and particularly health and life sciences research. Now it seems the EC has decided to do the same and in 2011 will spend an additional €700 million on FP7 projects. For the record next year the programme will now allocate grants totalling [...]

Business strategy always comes first, before the business plan, in my book at least. Marketing, Sales, Delivery and Finance strategies are all components of that business strategy, but follow on from it. The business plan consists of each of those strategies, to the extent we’ve developed them. It doesn’t have numbers in it until we [...]

It’s not only the big businesses that need to keep their act together.  Smaller businesses have to adopt the same principles, but need a different style of system to do that with. Efficient operations management is vital for any business. Ultimately every entrepreneur or company has to do their thing producing the maximum customer value [...]