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
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
Does your sales machine whimper or roar?
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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