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Business growth strategy and planning
Maximise the chances of business growth success by carefully planning your growth strategy
Business growth: cashflow management
Cashflow issues are common in growing businesses - here's how to control working capital and manage finances for growth
Business growth: developing skills
Developing effective leadership skills and making the most of other people's abilities can help you grow your business
Advantages of reviewing business progress and target-setting
Understand how to use business performance review to set targets and develop a growth strategy for your business
Deciding which key performance indicators to measure
Focus on the key drivers of your business to make your measurement and target-setting much more effective
Measure your financial performance
Use common financial performance measures, such as profit margins and accounting ratios, to review your business finances
Employee focused performance measurement
Tools and techniques to measure and manage your employee performance more effectively
Benchmark your business performance
Use benchmarking to measure your business performance against that of your competitors as a focus for your growth strategy
Set business performance targets
How to move from performance measurement to target-setting in order to help your business improve and grow
Use KPIs to assess business performance
How to select key performance indicators that are well-defined and quantifiable to measure your business performance
Customer focused performance measurement
How to gather and manage information to help your business attract, retain and sell to customers
Competitor analysis
Performance metrics you can use to analyse your competitors, and how to use this information to inform your business decisions
Implementing a strategic plan
How to implement and execute your strategic plan, and monitor performance against your business' strategic objectives
Measure performance and set targets
Understand the importance of measuring business performance, tools you can use, and how to set targets to help your business grow
Identify finance options for your business (video)
In this video, business advisers explain how to identify finance options for your business.
Make best use of standards
Introduction to the different technical, management and best practice standards, and their benefits to your business
Secure equity investment
How to secure private equity or business angel investment in your business.
Setting terms and conditions
How to set the terms of a contract between you and your customers.
Setting suitable payment terms for your customers
Payment terms are crucial to your cashflow and competitive position and should be explained clearly to customers.
Payment terms - commonly used invoice payment terms and their meanings
Payment terms and conditions used on invoices including Bill of Exchange, CIA, CBS, COD, EOM, NET 30 and Net 7.