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Managing a Mature Business – Risk Management Planning
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Growing Your Business By Setting It Up To Scale
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Starting A Small Business and Making Workflows Automatic
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Training Your Employees For Your Absence
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Clean Up Your Business While You’re Quiet

Managing a Mature Business – Risk Management Planning

This is the fourth article in our series of Managing a Mature Business. If you haven’t caught up, the other articles in the series, published so far, are:-

In this article, we will deal with identifying, prioritising, and mitigating risk – Risk Management Planning in a mature business.

But first, to recap what a “mature business” is. The business cycle of a business, starts with a new business, then rapidly moves into a growing business, and then eventually morphs into a “mature Business” and ultimately – unless you do something at maturity – goes into decline. Each stage of this business cycle has different challenges.

In a “new” business, those challenges are all about establishing the business – proving the product, finding customers, poor cash flow. In a growth business, the issues are around retiring debt, satisfying demand, larger customer bases and proportionately larger debt-collection problems, control over organisation and business systems.

In maturity, it is about fading demand, older products, reducing customer bases, reduced cash flow. If this is recognised, businesses can “kick-off” a new growth phase by innovating and finding new products and markets through expansion or change. In this way, they can stave off the ultimate slide into decline.

Risk Management Planning is important at every stage of the business, but why is it especially important in maturity?

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Growing Your Business By Setting It Up To Scale

When you start your business, and as it grows, you will have a picture in your mind about where it will end up as your successful business.

The chances are that you see a business that grows and is prosperous, efficient, duplicating what it does for your clients now, but on a much larger scale, and repeating your success in bigger contexts.

This doesn’t happen by chance. You need to plan it, you need to set it up correctly so that it will scale efficiently rather than in fits and starts and discover all sorts of inefficiencies and roadblocks to growth along the way.

We will look at the steps you need to take, right now, before the growth spurts start, to set up your business to scale.

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Starting A Small Business and Making Workflows Automatic

Welcome back to our series on Starting a Small Business. If you have missed our earlier blog instalments, you might want to check on these:-

Starting a Small Business – Make Sure You Know Why

Starting a Small Business – What To Think About

Starting a Small Business – How Do I Start?

Starting a Small Business – With A Feasibility Check

Starting a Small Business – With a Plan

Starting a Small Business – Hiring Your First Employees

This week, we are going to look at how you can make some of your important workflows automatic so that you can boost efficiency in your startup.

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Training Your Employees For Your Absence

Unless you own and wish to continue to own a micro-business where you work on your own in your profession or trade, it is more than likely that as a small business owner you wish to expand and grow your business to the extent that you will be employing people as you grow.

Most of us who run and operate small businesses wish to grow in size – as our sales and profits grow, by necessity we need to scale and grow our workforce so that we can produce more, or meet more customers or provide more services. We are constrained by the number of productive hours we, or anyone we employ, can spend on producing goods or services. So we employ more people.

Some of the new people we employ may not be directly customer-facing. Indeed we may need more and more “back-room” hours from new people – keeping the books, managing the stores, manufacturing or working behind the scenes.

The question is, how do you introduce more and more people and continue to control and manage the business as more and more people do the things that you used to do?

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Clean Up Your Business While You’re Quiet

OK, so it’s early January; you’re still full from the celebratory food and drink, and you may not have opened your business in the New Year yet.

Even when you open this or next week, maybe because of the usual holiday period and a little virus it will be a bit quiet in these first few weeks.

Well, instead of doing nothing, how about taking advantage of this and cleaning up some things in and around your business? Now is a great time to tidy up inefficiencies, catch up on some administration, finish those new ideas you have, and make plans for the future.

Here are some of the things you can do around and in your business when it’s quiet.

First, you can sit quietly over the next couple of days and prepare your business plan for the coming year.

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