As we all enter the unknown for a 20/21 fiscal year and our requirements to establish a budget and new strategic business plan, it is still an essential requirement that even through uncertainties surrounding this coronavirus we must plan through using as many assumptions as possible to include risk mitigation. Yes I know this will [...]
There is plenty of evidence around today that would suggest our confidence in political leadership is diminishing where we could even argue that our democratic process could well be threatened. We could also argue that confidence in morals and the capability of business leadership is also diminishing? Maybe there is some element of truth in [...]
As we all traverse through this extremely challenging dilemma we are all capable of getting through this scenario if we encourage each other and put away the constant criticism that is leveled at those who have put their lives on hold to get Australia back to what we are best at. INNOVATION & BREAKTHROUGH. When [...]
As Australia and indeed the world enters an extremely challenging time, the strategies which businesses put into place now will determine their survival against mammoth odds associated with potential recessionary pressures which most have never experienced before. Now, more than ever, is the time to 'Strategise for Revenue' Businesses must now realise that Revenue is [...]
To manage a successful business cash is the life-blood it needs if it wants to keep operating and there are so many instances of companies failing because they ran out of cash. Some of the many reasons I hear of failures due to cash shortfalls have been: Bills to pay and no cash to pay [...]
We must ask ourselves 'What is managerial output? In reality, a managers output can only be measured by the performance of his subordinates. As a business consultant skilled in business development and improvement my approach consistently generates a capacity within organisations to achieve and maintain high levels of competitiveness in a global context. This approach [...]
In today's rough and tough business world and our (Australia's) ability to compete on the world stage, one important aspect of struggling businesses that I have experienced is that they have lost a focus on enhancing all employees quality of work life. Can I also say that one of the main reasons for this is [...]
Businesses fail because their respective leaders and/or managers fail. Sadly there are many thousands of businesses which succumb via a bankruptcy or insolvency route simply because of a few basic but yet simple causes depending on the specific nature of the enterprise. No business or enterprise is immune from these failures and as I have [...]
As a manager you have a prime responsibility to achieve results through people, and yet, however sound your ideas or well reasoned your decisions may be they will only be effective if they are transmitted correctly and succinctly resulting in the desired outcomes which are 'value-adding' to all parties. Communication is one of your most [...]
Let Cost reduction and Cost avoidance be vital strategies which are incorporated into a successful business plan for 2020 and beyond. No matter what your business is or what it deals in, the principles for success are all the same. There is no such premise as 'But we are Different' - This approach is just [...]