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• Innovation in Business and Stock Investing (Part 1) - Editor, 19 December 2007 - No Comments yet

Creative thinking is universally valuable. Executives in large corporations, small and medium business owners, as well as investors of all genres have stocks in discovering new avenues for growth and for delivering value. The path is full of thorns, especially when accountants are around, because so much of innovation appears to be wasteful of scarce resources. Business leaders always search for new efficiencies in their processes of innovation. Some of the most recent thinking on this matter postulates that customer focus and alignment with organization strategy are the best ways to keep research productive and relevant.

• Innovation in Business and Stock Investing (Part 2) - Editor, 19 December 2007 - No Comments yet

Innovation in Business and Stock Investing (Part 1)

Provocative Operation for Business and Stock Trading Success

Conventional thinking about business results and about matters related to stocks tends to be highly reactive, and imposes conditions of instant evaluation. It is common to feel obliged to support or oppose ideas about how sales or profits can improve even before a written or a spoken sentence is complete! It appears, if we accept recent survey findings on creative processes in the corporate sector, that such discipline fashions all attempts to develop new products and services. Perhaps it should not be so, because chronic problems with outdated business models need fresh and unrestrained thinking.

• Influences of Stock Options on National Issues (Part 1) - Editor, 18 December 2007 - No Comments yet

The stock market is not a level playing field. Stock quote dice are heavily loaded in favor of large corporations and large financial institutions. Small investors agonize endlessly over the tempestuousness and lack of logic of stock price trends. Derivatives, hedging, and short selling by large holders of stocks may be behind every unexplained movement in stock price. Regulations limit degrees of fluctuation within a single stock trading day, but officials are either helpless or parties to massive manipulations in day trading of some stocks. The situation, in this respect, is no better in developed democracies compared to totalitarian states.

• Influences of Stock Options on National Issues (Part 2) - Editor, 18 December 2007 - No Comments yet

Influences of Stock Options on National Issues (Part 1)

National Stocks and Governance

MTBE is an example from the United States of how stock price considerations influence national priorities. That does not mean that Washington is alone in keeping stock exchange considerations uppermost in minds. Countries with all varieties of governance share common concerns over the vital need to protect selected stocks. The stock market sometimes overtakes inflation and jobs in keeping federal honchos busy! Private capital holds sway in emerging economies such as that of India, while regimes in Russia and China make no bones about using State power as corporate forces. Globalization implies that small policy changes in one economy can set off tsunamis in many others. Most Asian stock markets for example, react in most exaggerated ways to anything and everything a US Federal Reserve Chair Person says!

• Financial Planning Starts Here! (Part 1) - Editor, 17 December 2007 - No Comments yet

It is normal for many people to face mounting health care expenses as they age. Financial planning should always start with adequate provision in this respect for every individual and his or her dependants. Financial planning is normally a trade-off between risk and return, but who would want to take a chance with a chronic or a potentially fatal condition? Therefore, there is no substitute for setting aside a nest-egg that we hope we may never need to use. Young adults and small business owners are most vulnerable to delaying financial planning for future health needs.

• Financial Planning Starts Here! (Part 2) - Editor, 17 December 2007 - No Comments yet

Financial Planning Starts Here! (Part 1)

Financial Planning to Fill Medicare Gaps

Medicare is so full of holes that you could be in for nasty surprises at the ripe age of 65! Obviously, this form of social security for old age does not provide for foibles such as getting treated abroad, but there are other restrictions as well. Many people find their medical expenses climbing rapidly from middle age onwards, while Medicare is more than a decade awa

• Mosaic Theory for Stock Picks (Part 1) - Editor, 14 December 2007 - No Comments yet

Labels can be misleading. The Mosaic Theory, for example, raises specters of bureaucrats and stock analysts putting discrete information together, in order to discern important trends. The matter has been mixed with notions of withholding information from the public, and of presenting unsupported conclusions as well. All this is a pity because the Mosaic Theory can also be another term for Environment Scanning, a process which is integral to Strategic Planning. There is certainly nothing illegal about using the Mosaic Theory, whether under this name or another label, to make top stock picks for your own portfolio!

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