Simple Small Business Planning Templates
Doing a business plan for a small business need not be complicated See the simple method that made us “National Business of the Year” & 4 years in the “Top 100 Fastest Growing Businesses“ Plans Done in a day! Dump Pie in the Sky 5 Year Plans! Your Plan’s style depends on what’s on your […]
C4.0.1 Rapid Solutions to Common Issues
Are You or Your Business Troubled? It is a sad fact that many small business owners face problems in their businesses. The Goal of 12Faces is to help you resolve those problems and put you on the path to success. Our Turnaround90 (T90) Course is designed around a 90 day GamePlan. But this special edition […]
SM5.3 TOC to Optimise Your Sales Funnel
Rapid Optimisation of Your Sales Funnel to Improve Profit 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 your business to the potential customer to encourage them to purchase. The Theory of […]
SM3.1 De-Stress
Stress is one of the major problems faced by business Owner/Operators. There are straight forward ways, though, of reducing the 4 main contributors to this stress; and they do not take very long to implement. We show how to convert “distress” to “de-stress”. Typical stress points in smaller businesses are caused by: People: hiring, firing, managing […]
SM5.1 When a Bottleneck is Good – Theory of Constraints (TOC)
Believe it or not, it is often a very good thing to find that you have some Bottleneck / Constraint in your production system. A body of knowledge about how to take best advantage of bottlenecks has evolved into what is now known as the Theory of Constraints (TOC). It is said that Jeff Bezos, […]
SM5.5 Demand Driven Materials Requirements Planning (DDMRP)
The previous article, SM5.4 TOC Drum, Buffer, Rope Optimisation Techniques, introduced the concept of Drum-Buffer-Rope (DBR) to demonstrate how to efficiently run a workflow. If you have become an aficionado of TOC and want to know more about correctly evolving a DBR system, we have links to resources here that will help.
SM5.4 TOC Drum, Buffer, Rope Optimisation Techniques
The Theory of Constraints (TOC) demonstrates the importance of finding and managing the constraint in your business.
This article covers three of the major techniques to optimise any production system around its constraint.
SM6.2 Profit Autopilot Focused Business Model
12Faces Profit Focused Business Model will show you how just 7 numbers will let you be fairly confident of achieving the Profit and personal Salary you desire. In turn, this will help to reduce one of the major causes of stress in smaller businesses – “will I make a Profit and will I be able to pay my bills”?
SM5.2 Benefit from Theory of Constraints in Retail
The Theory of Constraints (TOC) argues that good growth can be achieved by focusing on the one or two limiting factors or “Constraints” in a production system. This article applies TOC to the Wholesale/Retail sector.
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The Amazing 80/20 Rule has the power to grow your business up to 16 TIMES FASTER and make your life a whole lot less busy and complicated. Got your attention? Work through this Menu to learn some of the best lessons 12Faces has to offer. Yellow Belt