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Five ways to improve your business productivity
You will probably be familiar with the adage: Productivity = Potential – Interference. Many of us are battling daily with interference of one sort or another, both external and internal. Potential is not always something that is easy to quantify, or to realise. ...
Why do earn out clauses often create conflict or end up in court?
How do you value your business when you're selling it? In recent years there seems to be more significant differences in expectation of valuation between buyer and seller, and increasingly the Earn-out clause has been used as an appropriate way to bridge this gap....
The Value of MEASUREMENT
Knowing what to measure and how to measure it can make running your business easier. To make better decisions you need to gather the relevant data and format it into a report showing the essential information. Your decision makers can then be taught how to use that...
How to Stretch for Success – Business Lessons from our 3 x Ben Nevis Bike Challenge
Some businesses move from year to year making small adjustments but never stretch themselves for the big achievements. Other more ambitious businesses, and their leaders, try to find a way to achieve leaps forward that at first sight look too hard or possibly...
No short cuts for obtaining genuine cost reductions
Can You Do a Quickie? Blog by Neil Grime During initial meetings or even while networking I am often asked can you carry out a quick review? There have even been some occasions when I have been presented with a sample invoice for a product or a service and been asked...
How to select the best recruiter for your talent search
For a business to succeed I would prescribe a Business Success Cocktail (PIMS) consisting of: People – the means to expedite and create value Investment – time and money in working capital and assets Marketing – Accessing the market and customers ...
Why chatbots are great for business!
Recently we’ve been seeing in the media how robots/chatbots/AI (artificial intelligence) are transforming how we do things and how robots might one day take over the world and we humans will become superfluous to most tasks. Worries over AI and how robots will become...
The Value of Time to Your Business
We are all allocated the same amount of time but some people make more of their time than others. Knowing the value of your time is essential to getting the most out of your business. When you are in business you must treat TIME as an ASSET like CASH. You need to look...
Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks
UKBA recently held one of its bi-annual National Conferences, the chance to meet up with colleagues you don't see between one meeting and the next, apart from exchanging emails. Really good to renew relationships, discuss common issues and concerns, and generally...
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