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Category: G3: Optimizing a Business for Growth

Learn how to optimize business growth! Over time, boats left in the water build up a layer of barnacles. While doing little direct harm, they slow down how fast a boat can progress once it starts sailing. It is the same with your business. While you are fairly stationary, the poor and redundant work processes and system that have gown up over time may have an acceptable impact. But once you start growing, they will start to drag on your progress and make your growth slower, and more expensive, than it would be if the business barnacles were first removed. This collection of resources provides insights into common business barnacles and how to remove them. You are encouraged to optimize your business for growth before launching into a growth phase. You will save time and expense in the medium term; and get better results.

Powerful Benefits from Sales Funnel Optimisation

Learn from the following sources how to improve your Sales Funnel and increase sales. Yellow Belt Theory of Constraints (TOC) to Optimise Sales Funnel The Sales Funnel is a well-known method of describing the several layers that a possible customer needs to pass through en route to becoming a customer. Each layer contributes more information about […]

Cost of Over and Under Stocking

In a manufacturing or retail environment, having too much inventory of products your customers don’t want and/or too little inventory on hand of what products your customers do want will cost you money and, consequently, profit.  Many service businesses also have inventory even if it is items like stationary incidental to their main operation.  This article  shows you why under and over stocking costs and how to reduce the damage.

SM5.0 Theory of Constraints (TOC) and your Bottlenecks

The Theory of Constraints (TOC) has probably had more impact on our prizewinning business than any other management gem! We first heard of it when reading that Jeff Bezos, Founder of Amazon, required all his managers to read the book that introduced ToC – The Goal.  Bezos has done OK so must be something in […]

How to do a Tuneup and Improve Website Speed

Increasingly, your website is becoming an essential marketing tool and can often be a major sales tool as well.  Learn how to tuneup your website. When you designed your website, it probably represented the “state of the art” in your mind.  Over time, you will have fresh insights into what works, your competition on the search pages will change and your product emphasis may change.  Periodic tuning can keep your website healthy and doing its job.  This menu provides a list of activities to get more out of your website.  Yellow Belt

Level 2: Streamline My Existing Operation (Optimise100)

YOU want to make YOUR business as Profitable as possible With YOUR problem in mind, select the area below that best fits NOTE: Optimise100 is a structured course with CampaignsSignup for the Campaign now Optimise100 aims to streamline your business with its existing Revenue, directing more money to bottom-line Profit.This is simpler than growing Revenue, allowing […]