Small Business Blog from Atlantic Canada

Due to the unusually large number of submissions for this week, the carnival will be posted on Wednesday instead of Tuesday. I apologize for any inconvenience.
Starting this month, I am planning to send out the carnival into the blogosphere. The only condition is be creative with your hosting. Hosting the carnival is a great way [...]

Have you ever asked fellow traveler the price s/he paid for the air ticket? Chances are that the two of you would have paid different fares – for adjacent seats. You knew this, didn’t you? If not, welcome to the world of variable pricing. The price they charge depends on the country of booking, date [...]

Welcome to the 12th edition of the Carnival of Small Business Issues at Atlantic Canada’s Small Business Blog

How many of you know More Merchant.com? Their motto is save more money and make more money. So, back to my question - do you know this blog? If not, then this blog helps you make and save money.

That’s what the competition needs to fear. Before I lose you, Iceberg On Demand is a web-based application development tool and it’s definitely not floating in the oceans. With no software to install onto your local PCs, it looks like they are going to take on the application development world by storm. Now you do [...]

Where you have a team of Business Analysts working on a project, all the links on the requirements chain must be strong. Any weak link will cause the project to fail. This means all the business analysts in the entire chain must be competent and on the same boat, working towards the same objective.

Just when you thought we were saturated with the online community tools comes thoughts.com - a free online blog. They have positioned themselves to be a blogging platform that enables you to share videos, photos, music files and podcasts. They also have a user rating system that enables you to rate other bloggers.

Welcome to the 11th edition of the Carnival of Small Business Issues.

Let’s use a hypothetical case study to show why you may need to rethink your compensation structure.
Assume your body is an organization. Let’s also assume the body parts are individuals. They perform their respective functions needed for the organization to exist. The following is the list of 12 critical employees your organization needs to function [...]

The road to business analysis can take a number of forms. The most common (and I suspect the often) road traveled is the IT path. You start your career as a developer and code, code and code. You work your way on from there. The other path traveled is the Business route and that’s the path I took. This path requires you to analyze the organization: its environment - both internal and external, processes, trends, industry best practices, formulate and implement strategies.