Introduction to Grow your Enterprise in 365 Days
The third of our signature 12Faces Campaigns is a Growth Strategy Over One Year. Grow Your Enterprise in 365 Days is a Campaign builds on the rapid optimisation carried out during the Campaign: C2.0 Optimise Your Business Enterprise in 100 Days (Optimise100). This Growth Strategy is designed to work with the various types of enterprise we service: For-profit, […]
How Thinking Ahead Leads to Profitable Business Exit Sale
At some point down the track, you will most likely find yourself with a successful business that you want to sell or pass to another. These exits can be planned or unplanned. Either way, it is best to be ready to exit. It is quite likely that the value of your business, when you sell it, will […]
C3.2 Get Ready: What’s Stopping You Growing Profits?
When setting out on a path to rapidly grow your profit, you are almost certainly going to have a few “crises of confidence” when you ask yourself “is this even possible”? There is no simple solution to this question but we will take a Profit Growth Reality Check here by examining a few of the […]
C3.1 Introduction to Grow your Enterprise in 365 Days Campaign
The third of our signature 12Faces courses is a Growth Strategy Over One Year. This course builds on the rapid optimisation carried out during the course C2.0 Optimise Your Business Enterprise in 100 Days (Optimise100). This Growth Strategy is designed to work with the various types of enterprise we service: For-profit, Public Sector and NFP. Each of these enterprises […]
C3.4 Go: How to Execute Your Profit Growth Strategy
So far in Grow your Business Enterprise in a Year (Growth365), we have discussed checking if your business can grow, planning to grow and now we look at executing the profit growth strategy.
If you are thinking “how do I do this” it probably looks like a huge impenetrable forest of issues that has likely caused many before you to give up at this point or adopt a timid “we’ll dip our toe in the water” approach. That means you won’t get very far along the route to the double your profit destination we have in mind. This article will start to turn that forest into steps that you can execute until they become habit and comparatively easy. This is a Yellow Belt (beginner) degree of difficulty.
C3.3 Get Set: Planning for Profit Growth
There are many alternative pathways to approach the issue of planning to grow your revenue and your profit. We make suggestions here on some of the philosophical issues you might want to consider. These will let you tailor your growth planning to suit your comfort level. This is part of our Boost Your Growth in a Year series (Growth365). It is a Yellow Belt (beginner) level Program.
Level 2: Optimise the Growth of My Business Over a Year (Grow365)
Take Advantage of Agile / Scrum / Kanban to Increase Productivity
In a smaller business there is always plenty to do and many demands on a managers most limited resource; time. Often the owners time is the major bottleneck on the growth of the business (see the introductory article to Theory of Constraints). Plenty of other businesses have struggled with prioritising time before you and several techniques that are very similar have evolved. The three best known of these are named Agile / Scrum / Kanban. Various references cite improvements in team productivity ranging from 25% to 300% by using these methods. This article introduces these concepts and a way of using a free software app named Trello to manage the process. A mix of Yellow and Blue Belt introductory material.