Business advice & tips

Each month we add relevant articles, checklists and other material. We hope you will find some of them to be of practical use in your business lives. If you need additional help, please do not hesitate to contact us.

The section is divided into six principal areas of interest: Planning; managing growth; profit improvement; buying, selling and merging companies; board effectiveness; thriving in a recession. 

Board Effectiveness

Managing Board Conflict

The Role of the Board

Accessing appropriate skills and experience for your Board

How to evaluate your accountant, advisor or mentor

Planning - to build shareholder value you need to think, plan and act differently:

Avoiding "Group Think" in established companies

Planning effective strategies for privately owned businesses

Is your business plan credible?

Managing growth - issues entrepreneurs face at each stage of growth and how to tackle them

Establishing the initial growth phase

Creating and managing rapid growth

Board actions required to sustain growth and build lasting shareholder value in maturity

Profit improvement

Make your marketing relevant

Effective marketing

Successful sales

Does your sales machine whimper or roar?

Operational efficiency

Motivating and focusing your management team

Retaining and motivating the right people

Using your time more effectively

Five issues business owners often duck

Things to consider when launching a new product or assessing an existing one

Buying, selling or merging your business

Planning the sale of your business - article

Planning the sale of your business - checklist

Planning the sale of your business - when and how

Good, bad and questionable reasons for mergers

Where to find cost synergies when merging your operations

The importance of non-financial due diligence

Thriving in a recession - and applicable to other points in the economic cycle

Thriving in a recession - looking after your customers

Thriving in a recession - motivate and focus your management

Thriving in a recession - Cash is King checklist

Thriving in a recession - drive out waste

How our clients beat the economic downturn

Managing Growth - issues entrepreneurs face at each stage of growth and how to tackle them

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