Insights category
Operations, building businesses, systems and decisions.
How to decide what your business will be known for: four kinds of customer value, the price–quality map, why positioning needs separate brands, and how each department must change to deliver it.
10 min read
How a parent and its subsidiaries are combined into one set of accounts: adding line by line, eliminating the investment and intra-group dealings, recognising goodwill and non-controlling interests.
10 min read
A practical guide to cost control for product and manufacturing businesses: understand cost of goods sold, materials, labour, variable costs, equipment utilisation and cash.
10 min read
How core values shape beliefs and culture, how to define and embed them, and the fundamentals they should support: honest customers, fair suppliers, family governance, teams and discipline.
10 min read
How to compare all the costs and benefits of a decision, including hidden, opportunity and intangible ones, then test it with payback, NPV and sensitivity, using a worked machine purchase.
10 min read
A practical guide to customer feedback for small businesses: why it matters, digital and offline channels, designing short surveys, calculating NPS correctly, analysing results and closing the loop.
10 min read
How to calculate customer lifetime value and customer acquisition cost, measure retention and churn, compare repeat and referral businesses, and grow customer value through the loyalty ladder.
10 min read
How to choose between loans and investors using ten questions on cash flow, margins, security, ownership and capacity, plus customer funding and frugal ways to expand.
11 min read
How owners can hand over real responsibility while keeping control: give ownership, separate making from checking, build simple routines, and step back gradually.
10 min read
How to design customer experience deliberately: map touchpoints, keep promises, reduce effort, respond fast, recover well from mistakes and measure satisfaction, effort, NPS and resolution time.
10 min read
A seven-part framework for small-business advertising: define the ideal client, write a magnetic headline, sell outcomes, state a unique proposition, offer a guarantee, show proof and ask for action.
10 min read
Place useful prompts where work happens, connect new actions to reliable moments and adjust physical and digital environments so important routines are easier to remember.
12 min read
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