Use StrategyTrees to Visualize Effective Strategic Planning
Every type of Enterprise faces the need to develop a Strategy and then implement it. 12Faces has been doing this in its own businesses for many years and we have developed a very practical approach which we share with you here. This is a blue belt article.
How to Prioritise Business Plans
When you are planning the next steps for your business improvement, there are usually several changes that you could choose from. You believe all these steps will improve your business on your path to Sustainable Business Success. The problem is, it can be very confusing to decide which, of the many things that you could potentially do, is actually the next best step to do. This article provides a method for you to work out which is the best next step. Yellow Belt
Personal Professional Development
As a business Owner, your personal managerial skills and knowledge are going to become a limiting factor in the ability of your business to reach its chosen Goal or Destination. Just as with any other limiting factor, you can improve your professional managerial skill set to keep progress continuing. We cover a way to do […]
Introducing the GamePlan System
Business Owners are Busy People! Dump “Pie in the Sky” 5 Year Business Plans We developed a routine for getting more done faster using the “Work Smarter, not Harder” mantra We were “National Small Business of the Year” and appeared 4 times in the “National 100 Fastest Growing Businesses” list using this approach This is […]
Business Success With Sprints
Speeding Up Success Business success is about innovating and reducing problems as quickly as possible. Traditionally, this has just been a journey with no clear end and no intermediate points where you check progress and reconfirm the direction is still correct. The software industry found this approach led to frequent delays and over-budget problems. They […]
How to Grow a Business in Stages
Many people write about how to grow a business as though it was a single process; irrespective of the size and nature of the business. That’s not the case. Different skills and priorities apply at each business size increment. When doing your businesses strategic planning, any of these steps might be your next 3 year […]
Linear Business Growth Strategy
Some types of small business grow through a fairly steady increase in sales revenue without having to first add staff or other resources. We call this ‘linear’ growth. An example is a retail ecommerce website. It can grow sales volume without having to add staff and other resources for some time because all the production […]
Growing a Local Service Business depends on Headcount (NID48)
When it comes to growing your local business, it’s not just a matter of one size fits all for many types of business. For these types of businesses, the main constraints and pressure points change with the staff Headcounts. A good example are local service businesses that sell services to a catchment area around their […]
LB2: Business Plans
Many businesses will benefit from having a Business Plan.
They can be complex but it is possible to structure a fairly straight forward plan that suits your business.
We offer a Yellow Belt (beginner) introduction and later some more advanced Blue Belt (intermediate) suggestions.