Your mindset and your circle of control Are you battered by the news on a daily basis – does it […]
Competition is fierce, margins are thin, talent is tight, and the world is constantly changing.  If that’s a fair description […]
David v Goliath – The advantage of being small The big guys have all the advantages, right?  They have money, […]
The vast majority of business owners and managers we encounter have “come off the tools”, usually from the grassroots of […]
The intention with our blogs, and the associated webinars, is to provide you with the thinking, the tools and the […]
Conquering Cash Flow  Companies run into cash flow problems for a whole variety of reasons; expenses are underestimated, the labour […]
  One of my favourite people in the world, a lady called Louisa, who I haven’t seen in years because […]
  Delegation or abdication?  How many of us have all the time we need? How many of us regularly tick […]
I came across two fantastically staggering statistics recently: Most buyers are now 80% of the way through the sales process […]
As a species we are categorised as human “beings”.  … but, I think, in this day and age most of […]
Business is inherently risky.   And many of us thrive on risks associated with starting, running and growing a business; new […]
Connecting vision, strategy and performance indicators  The balanced scorecard is a great little tool that seeks to link the company […]
We’ve said on many occasions “happy staff lead to happy customers and happy customers come back …”  so, is the oft repeated chant of “the customer is King” correct?  For most business leaders […]
The intention with our blogs, and the associated webinars, is to provide you with the thinking, the tools and the […]
Tools to make you THINK differently about your business The last two blogs have taken a peek at: The key […]
Tools to make you THINK differently about your business In the last blog we looked at the differences between B2B […]
Tools to make you THINK differently about your business The most important task for any commercial organisation is to build […]
In the last blog, which will actually be one of four in a series, we outlined the purpose of an […]
As someone pretty into personal development and the development of others, I don’t use this model nearly as often as […]
Having now already defined your organisations Purpose, Mission and Vision the next task is to set about defining the company […]
Many organisations publish their mission, vision and values statements but what is the purpose? The question above is actually two […]
Tools to make you THINK differently about your business It has been said that the most important job of any […]
Tools to make you THINK differently about your business What is an Ansoff Matrix? The Ansoff Matrix is a great […]
Tool’s to make you THINK differently about your business  The SWOT analysis is probably the archetypal marketing or business planning tool, […]
Tools to make you THINK differently about your business   When to use it Porter analysis, also called the “five forces […]
Tool’s to make you THINK differently about your business PESTEL analysis is probably one of the most well-known top-level battle-hardened […]
One of our Associates, Stuart Swalwell, recently spent some time in Los Angeles with Bill Bellows, Associate Fellow at Pratt […]
The Institute of Customer Service (ICS) has undertaken its first comprehensive research exercise examining the return on investment from customer […]