Fail to plan… plan to fail.  An overused cliché but here is another one… no smoke without fire!

Why is it so necessary to plan? For centuries, both in business and in our personal lives, we plan every day. We plan what time to get up, what to eat, where to go on holiday. So if it is all so easy and routine, why does a large portion of the business community never put a business plan in place? Just as significantly, a good number of those that do complete the process of developing a business plan, never carry it through. It simply sits on a shelf or in a drawer gathering dust. Let BPi develop and implement your business plan. Get in touch here.

Add a variety of skillsets into your business. What is General Management, a myth or a method? Perhaps the more important question is what can it do for your business?

• Drive and Implement your business plan

• Add diversity of skills for a specific phase, short or long term

• Reduce risk

• Provide cover during periods of transition

How is your business doing? And we mean really doing?? Unfortunately, a large part of business success is determined from a pure financial analysis perspective.  Obviously, this is important. However, to the correctly orchestrated business, good financials are an output... not a driver. The 3P formulae:

People + Process = Profit

or

People + Process = Performance

(Nonprofits or Civil)

In today's world, continuous improvement is almost mandatory. A common phrase in business is that "if you are not continually getting better... you are getting worse".  There is some validity in this. However, how does your business approach this..  In the first instance, ask yourself the following questions:

• Am I/we completely happy with every single aspect of our business?

• Do I/we regularly ask ourselves the above question?

• Are we doing this review with complete objectivity?

If you answered yes to all three questions, that's excellent. Please get in touch and share your secret!

For a no to one or more of the above, get in touch using the details at the top of the page or by clicking here

From building construction to administration systems, the principles are the same. However, the key lesson to be learnt from good Project Management is the 3C method.  Communicate, communicate and, lastly, communicate. Below each one of those sits coordinate, cost and conclude.  Lower risk for one of your projects and let BPi help you through or even mentor your existing team.

Business vs Strategic, choose one? You should not and do not have to. While some maintain that they are the same thing, they are clearly not. The first of these provides an overriding vision of where you want your business to go, whereas strategic planning provides something specific about how to get there.  On its own, your strategic planning may be a subset of your business plan or it could be an ad hoc stratagem.  Either way, we will provide visibility on progress, implementation and feedback.

Need a solution to herding cats? We can help with that.

Have you experienced scenes of multiple people with varying skillsets and a wide variety of talent not being able to agree? You may be going through that in your business or postponing a project you know is the best thing for the business... if only they would work together! A familiar phenomenon for Business Performance Improvement.  Get in touch and let us help you ensure you get the most out of your experts.