In last week’s post we looked at the areas of your business you might consider letting go of, outsourcing, or partnering with others on to enable growth. Once you’re focused on the growth of your organisation, things can really start to take shape for SMEs.
In recent posts, we’ve talked about what growing SMEs need to prioritise this year to make their mark in the business world, including raising productivity levels and having a business model that really makes sense. But what if the secret to success for your business is to let go of something? Let’s take a further…
Think back to a time when your organisation was still in its early days – what would you have told yourself, and others at that time, knowing what you know now? How would years of wisdom, experience, success and failure changed what you did? Would you have taken more risks? Would you have invested more…
This post was previously published on 27 September 2013. For more up to date information on the PIC scheme and other budget initiatives, please refer to our most recent blog post on Singapore Budget updates, with the latest available information from IRAS. For the full details, visit the IRAS PIC site. There’s talk of re-emerging…
This post was previously published on 13 September 2013. For more up to date information on the PIC scheme and other budget initiatives, please refer to our most recent blog post on Singapore Budget updates, with the latest available information from IRAS. For the full details, visit the IRAS PIC site. Companies set to grow,…
For those of you who have been in business for some time it might seem that thinking innovatively is a luxury you just don’t have the time, energy or resources for; instead your days are spent putting out fires and following the same trusted processes day after day. Sound familiar?
No one likes a drama, especially in business. Your operation needs to run smoothly, quickly and underpin your profits; otherwise why are you in business? SAP HANA promises drama; but only the best. The best way to curate your data, the best way to gain accurate insights into your organisation, the best kind of analytics…
What does a ‘growing’ company mean to you and your industry? More staff? More machinery? More manufacturing? More warehouses? More locations? Definitely more sales and more customers! But have you ever considered that while all of the above are inevitable for a growing business, that the most challenging element might be (literally) staring you in…
They all started there – in that startup phase where the CEO was also the operations manager, the production manager, the sales and marketing guy, the hirer and firer, the chief problem solver. They knew everything about the organisation because it was their concept, their baby and they knew every contact, every sale, every team…
This may sound familiar to many of you: each day begins with an influx of emails to your Blackberry / iPhone / Smartphone device and before you’ve even left home you’ve downloaded several attachments full of facts, figures and colourful charts from numerous departments telling you the average call volume, the number of emails received…
