Building Better Business isn’t just about good financial management. Yet, without good financial management, it’s just not possible.
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Building Better Business Finances
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Six months in, are you ready for the next phase?
For many of the small businesses that I work with and mentor there has been a shift to a more digital, internet connected way of working. The intention of the business owners is increasingly to maintain much of that change into the future.
It’s all about design…
A process starts life as an ad-hoc collection of tasks and lists of things to do that a business has not yet worked out the most efficient way to deliver. I start by looking at what I am doing to achieve something meaningful and valuable. For example, the process of...
Building Better Business Podcast Episode 2
Hear about the background to the five pillars of strategy for small businesses: Signposting, Sales, Systems, Skills, and Self.
Reflections – We have a problem…
“Let’s look at this from the point of view of status, what have we got on the spacecraft that’s still good”
Building Better Business Podcast Episode 1
In this episode of the Building Better Business Podcast, your host, William Buist, gives an introduction to the podcast and details what is to come in later episodes.
If only I had checked…
Sometimes automation of a business process can make something that is complex and too time-consuming to undertake manually possible to scale. Automation may also make it more consistent as well as faster and more reliable. Done well it is a clear advantage, but done...
Great Business Systems open a door to joy.
Systems are one of five strategic pillars of any small business. Without good systems, so many of the key activities of the business, and its interactions with others, would be slower and less consistent. Without good systems business owners are left to handle work...
Reflections on April 2020
What’s next in your plan? How can you accelerate the next phase of your business? What do you still need to reinvent?