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Why some companies see business growth and success over many years, while other companies struggle to move beyond their initial growth stage and early successes? Having a sound growth strategy is essential. Discover business articles, case studies and tools to help grow your business.
Recognising the different stages of your company's growth and adapting your own leadership skills to what is required, will pay off in spades as you face the myriad of challenges that lay in wait for anyone who runs a successful company.
Expert Talk > Business Growth & Performance > Assessing Business Performance
Now is the time to plant seeds that can bear fruit for your organisation in the future. You can even provide seeds of value at little or no cost. Here are some ideas.
Expert Talk > Business Growth & Performance > Growing The Business
Business growth through acquisitions are complex projects which stretch the capabilities of most businesses. Thus it is not unreasonable to find a high rate of failure. Many companies undertake acquisitions with inadequate preparation and with inadequate resources. The reasons for failures are many. An appreciation of the root causes of the most common failures can help the entrepreneur appreciate the nature of business growth through acquisition activities and the type and scope of resources needed to succeed.
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Are you looking to start up a business commercialising a new technology, engineering or other innovation? There is help available - from government grants to private equity backing - if you know where to look and how to go about positioning your business to potential backers.
Expert Talk > Business Growth & Performance > Growing The Business
Companies that are growing rapidly - whether by design or demand - deal with additional problems. Managers have new issues and often the problem solving strategies of the past are not sufficient. Learn the three 'R's of communicating effectively and lead your team into the future.
Expert Talk > Staff Motivation, Incentives & Performance > Boosting Staff Productivity
Once you are actually in business and have placed a "stake in the ground" and developed a product or a service, a brand, some customers and some distribution, moving to the next level should not be all that difficult, or necessarily risky. All that is required is an understanding of some simple principles.
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Are you taking full advantage of the gears to accelerate your business growth? If not, then make a start and the most of the opportunities. It may make a significant difference to your bottom line.
Expert Talk > Business Growth & Performance > Growing The Business
Identifying, assessing and appropriately acting upon business growth opportunities is always one of the most crucial aspects of business success. And even in difficult economic times, there are likely to be opportunities for solid, successful businesses to develop and grow.
Expert Talk > Business Growth & Performance > Growing The Business
Why do some companies grow and are successful over many years, while other companies struggle to 'move-beyond' their initial growth stage and early successes? Having made the decision to grow the business, how does the business owner plan for growth?
Expert Talk > Business Growth & Performance > Growing The Business
In today's competitive environment, the message for corporates is - 'Get Serious - Get Big or Get Out'.
Expert Talk > Business Growth & Performance > Growing The Business
Are you 'fit' enough to pursue something new or different? This session will explore some of the myths of creativity, innovation and enterprising behaviours. Many organisations have simply forgotten how to grow.
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The typical progression of a successful growth business, whether it be
an independent enterprise or a division of a large corporation, is
normally piloted in the earlier stages by ambitious souls who work long
and late to fill the cash and people voids caused by either the sudden
excess or continuing lack of orders. This article focuses on the
management issues of companies that have passed beyond the problems of
month-to-month existence and meeting the next payroll.
Expert Talk > Business Growth & Performance > Growing The Business
For the past 14 years, BRW magazine has held an annual competition to
find Australia’s fastest growing small and medium-size businesses (limit
of 200 employees) and record how they achieved their success. Companies
are ranked according to average annual revenue growth.
Case Studies > Business Growth & Performance
Business growth has a bad reputation today. With downsising and
spinoffs dominating the news, the sentiment seems to be that small is
beautiful, whereas big is bad. This article outlines how companies that
grew helter-skelter in the 1980s and crashed and burned in the 1990s didn’t
fail due to growth, but failed because they never planned that growth.
Expert Talk > Business Growth & Performance > Growing The Business
Do your business’s budgets bear any resemblance to its long-term
strategic objectives. "No" is not an uncommon response. A
probable reason?
Expert Talk > Strategic & Business Planning > Creating Future Directions
'Franchising is the single most successful marketing concept ever'
writes John Naisbitt, author of Megatrends. The secret of developing a
successful franchise arrangement starts with the foundation of a tested
and profitable business that has been in operation for at least 2 years.
Expert Talk > Business Growth & Performance > Growing The Business
Having a staff performance management system in place in your firm
assists in promoting the skills and motivation of employees and also keeps
staff results-focused.
Expert Talk > Staff Motivation, Incentives & Performance > Conducting Performance Reviews
It’s a myth that Marketing needs to be overly expensive or needs to
take up a lot of time or resources in your company to achieve real
measurable results and add to your bottom line.
Expert Talk > Sales & Marketing > Writing A Marketing Plan
Vacation periods should teach everyone one important lesson. Customer
service never goes (or must never go) on holidays.
Expert Talk > Sales & Marketing > Increasing Customer Satisfaction
Franchising is a great way to expand using other people’s capital and
skills. But the success of any system depends on good communication
between franchisor and franchisee.
Case Studies > Business Growth & Performance
A brain-injury rehabilitation business has more referrals than it can handle - but expansion is not an easy option.
Case Studies > Business Growth & Performance
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