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		<title>Tools Explosion!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When man invented the first tools, and got them going, how would you think he felt  &#8211; exhilarating? Imagine the guy who got ready the first wheel and rolled it away from him&#8230;started chasing it with his mind racing even faster with a thousand possibilities…
Exhilaration was what we eventually felt as a team that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1st February, 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine There&#8217;s No Excel

Even the people selling business analytics (BA), business intelligence (BI), and financial planning and analysis (FP&#038;A) software — jobs traditionally performed through Excel — sing Excel’s praises. And why not? In a 2011 study, accounting and tax advisory WeiserMazars found that 87% of the CFOs they surveyed relied heavily on Excel spreadsheets [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stylusfms.com/newsletter/1st-february-2012/</link>
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		<title>Think &#8216;Virtual teams&#8217; and not &#8216;Outsourcing&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Even as more and more entrepreneurs are opening up to the idea of dealing with “virtual teams” involving advanced cloud technology, there still remain areas where they are hesitant during the initial process start-ups. One of the common concerns being the identification of “outsource-able” components of the business processes.
What could have been an easily closed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stylusfms.com/blog/think-virtual-teams-and-not-outsourcing/</link>
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		<title>18 January, 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Top 10 Business Plan Mistakes

It’s been nearly seven years since I posted Top 10 Business Plan Mistakes on this site. Looking back and reading the post again today, I think the list holds up very well. Still, I can’t resist making a few changes. So here is my revised version for 2012, incorporating what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stylusfms.com/newsletter/18-january-2012/</link>
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		<title>10 January, 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Year in Review
Although we might wish it otherwise, there have been few dull moments in the business world this year. Herewith a look back at some of the hot topics covered in these pages (and on cfo.com) throughout 2011.
1) In February, we wrote about the fine art of the turnaround, and quoted a veteran [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stylusfms.com/newsletter/january-10-2012/</link>
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		<title>Breaking the myth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Australia is a land of franchises which nestles a large network of small businesses whose &#8220;owners can leverage a strong brand name and purchasing power of the larger company while keeping their own investment affordable&#8221;.
It is often seen that most people leave their otherwise stable   salaried jobs and start their own small businesses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>22 December, 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[















December 22, 2011















Leverage: The Dynamite Strapped to Our Markets
Last week, I was talking to my friend, Landon Rowland. Landon is the kind of guy who knows what is going on in the business world. He&#8217;s highly respected as a national leader in the industrial space, having run a major railroad. But he&#8217;s also the chairman [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stylusfms.com/newsletter/22nd-december-2011/</link>
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		<title>Why small business owners need to join the cloud?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is a great time to enter the world of cloud computing especially for small business owners who can benefit the most with its cost effective set up while making use of the latest cloud technology to maintain a smoothly running finance cycle for their usually demanding business processes.
Too much to be done in too [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stylusfms.com/blog/why-small-businesses-need-to-join-the-cloud/</link>
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		<title>Using tools to gain competitive advantage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cloud computing have been in news for quite a long time now&#8230;Even though most of us know what is cloud computing, below is a list of basic cloud tools popularly used in remote engagements. And if you already know about it, then we have enlisted a few of the latest cloud offerings of the last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stylusfms.com/blog/using-tools-to-gain-competitive-advantage/</link>
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		<title>Analysis: Are you having enough of it?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A former colleague of mine who was a visionary and a very creative mind used to warn us of too much analysis that would  cause &#8216;analysis paralysis&#8217;.  He would sooner side with Malcolm Gladwell&#8217;s &#8216;Blink&#8217; than worry much about Business  Intelligence. 
However, the tools that are accessible even to small business leaders [...]]]></description>
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