If you're on a mission to increase sales by ten percent for the quarter or for the year, your first step is to make sure everyone in your organization is aware of this objective.

A chain is a group of one or more stores that have the same name, sell the same products and follow the same corporate policies. Chains can be local, regional, national or international.

The challenges in operating a global company include languages and cultures, different legal landscapes, communication and technology and differing environmental concerns.

A single-use plan, otherwise known as a specific plan, is used for nonrecurring, one-time situations in business. A single-use plan is meant to solve one particular problem and then be discarded.