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Jeff Nock, Business Consultant, Explains practical applications for a SWOT Analysis

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Jeff Nock, Business Consultant, Explains practical applications for a SWOT Analysis In the 1960’s there were few tools to use for long term corporate planning. Business plans were 30-page tomes that no one ever read and did not enable employees to connect to the plan in a way that was executable. To address this problem a management consultant named Albert Humphrey at the Stanford Research Institute invented the SWOT analysis. SWOT stands for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Companies who conduct a SWOT analysis evaluate internal strengths and weaknesses and external opportunities and threats.  Jeff Nock  explains, “A SWOT analysis can be an effective part of the overall strategic planning process. It is helpful not only for leaders within the organization to evaluate their own strengths and weaknesses as well as external opportunities and threats but also helpful to bring in a third party (such a business consultant) to get a fresh perspective. Often compa...

Christian Values in Business, Jeff Nock Explains How They Can Help Any Organization

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Christian Values in Business, Jeff Nock Explains How They Can Help Any Organization In today’s polarized world, it is often challenging to share one’s beliefs as inevitably those beliefs will inspire some and upset others.  Jeff Nock  is a Christian and has learned through many years of business leadership that utilization of Christian values can be beneficial to all business leaders regardless of religious belief.  Jeff Nock is  an experienced executive, consultant, and leader with a demonstrated history of growing startups, nonprofits and established companies. Skilled in strategic plan development  and execution, business plans, leadership development, marketing, Sales, finance and presentation development, Jeff has a strong, well-rounded background with a Master of Science in Management. No surprise, given the topic of this article, Jeff Nock is a committed Christian blessed with four children and a long-standing career as an expert in growing companies...

Jeff Nock Shares Insight on Strategic Planning for Businesses

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CEO and Founder of Prescient Consulting, LLC,  Jeff Nock  has helped grow businesses and startups by teaching them core basics for years. Here, he shares his own insight on strategic planning to encourage businesses to take the reins on their growth and find success in their ventures. Jeff Nock is an experienced executive, consultant, and world-class leader who has demonstrated a history of growing startups, non-profits and established companies. Mr. Nock is skilled in areas such as business planning, the strategic planning process, management development, comprehensive marketing, sales, and presentation development. He has a strong, well-rounded background in business and applies a Master of Science in Management to all his professional projects. Jeff Nock is also the CEO & Founder of Prescient Consulting, LLC, which is a consultancy that helps early stage and mid-cap companies achieve their vision and growth goals. Prescient is able to accomplish this by offering se...

Jeff Nock Shares Insight on What Qualities Make for a Good Business Leader

Jeff Nock  has spent years demonstrating key leadership qualities in a range of positions, improving both small-scale businesses and corporation-style establishments. Here, he shares insight on what makes a good leader and how these characteristics promote growth and stability. Jeff Nock,  the CEO & Founder of Prescient Consulting, LLC, understands good leadership. His business helps early-stage and mid-cap companies grow and ultimately achieve their goals by offering a range of services, notably business planning, and software application development. He teaches companies how a positive leader will affect the entire business from the top down, strengthening their production and encouraging healthy growth with time. “Without good leadership, the culture fall apart and the business can’t scale from a start-up to a sustainable, growth oriented company,”  says Jeff Nock . The first quality of a great leader he mentions is integrity, which he tells us sets the stag...

Jeff Nock is an experienced leader with years of dedicated work as an executive and consultant to growing startups, established companies, and non-profit organizations

Through years of experience helping companies improve and expand their potential, Jeff Nock has developed a well-rounded understanding of the vital pieces of a growing business. Apart from a few other critical characteristics, Mr. Nock is convinced that businesses can only achieve their potential if they have a full understanding of the market they are operating within. Market analysis, says Jeff Nock, is both a quantitative and qualitative assessment of your business’ market, which considers customer segments, buying patterns, market volume, economic environment, competitors, and more. “Using market analysis, companies define their niche and gain insight into the hurdles and barriers in the way of success and what effective means should be taken to reach success,”  says Jeff Nock . He explains that a market analysis will help companies to understand that they are clearly solving a problem as Kleenex did with tissues, or incrementally improving the market like Google d...

Jeff Nock Encourages the Growth of Social Entrepreneurship

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Business developer and skillful leader Jeff Nock works with startups, established companies, and non-profit organizations to enhance their growth prospects and achieve their vision and goals. He encourages businesses to pursue social entrepreneurship strategies not only because it is the right thing to do but because it is good business. Jeff Nock has  spent decades crafting business models, enabling companies to grow, and helping leaders develop solid plans for success. He’s the CEO & Founder of Prescient Consulting, LLC, which uses this experience to help early-stage and mid-cap companies achieve their potential. As a demonstrated, versatile leader, he shares his learning experiences with other professionals in the hopes that they will take on positive leadership and drive their ventures to new heights. “Now’s the time to integrate social entrepreneurship into each company’s core planning,”  says Jeff Nock . “Companies like Toms and Warby Parker have proven that...

Business Developer Jeff Nock Shares Tips on Strategic Planning for Long-term Success

Jeff Nock  is the CEO and Founder of Prescient Consulting, LLC, which he has used to help startups, established companies, and non-profit organizations push their limits of success. Often, this means helping businesses understand positive strategic planning and building a stronger foundation to work from. Many businesses consider strategic planning a useful strategy for large, evolving corporations without understanding how it can help set all businesses up for success down the road. On the opposite end are businesses who consider strategic planning an essential component but don’t understand how to develop a truly useful plan. This is where Jeff Nock of Prescient Consulting, LLC lends a hand to teach companies and organizations of all sizes the proper way to strategize for the future. “In a good strategy plan, businesses will set top priorities, make wise investment decisions, and lay out the plans that will help expand their reach and potential,”  says Jeff Nock . “Poor...