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What influences your decision-making process? When you decided to start a company, you thought it would be easy to make decisions. As the boss, you get to decide on all the outcomes, right? While you do get the final say, it doesn’t mean you always get your own way. In an ideal world, you could look at a decision and make a call just like that. However, many obstacles stand in your way and influence decisions. This can often mean that you don’t follow the path you hoped to go down. For example, you wanted to sell a product for a certain price, but other factors dictated that you needed to list it for a lower price. What are the biggest factors influencing your decisions? No matter the business, we can usually break it down to the following: Money Money talks, and it is often the … [Read more...] about The Biggest Things That Influence Decision Making In Business

Businesses today are abandoning legacy technologies in favour or high-tech software solutions, and efficient business practices to increase their productivity and revenues. It’s a necessity really, if a business today wants to be competitive in it’s marketplace it must embrace the changes to keep up. This might require some investment initially, but the reality is that overall it provides businesses with a nest gain. In this article we look at some of the ways to make your business more efficient. Reassess Your Business Plan If your business is already up and running chances are you already have a business plan that outlines your business goals and projected growth. If you don’t have one it’s a good idea to draw one up as soon as possible – having a business plan in place could be the … [Read more...] about 5 Ways to Make Your Business More Efficient

Big Data. It’s a term that most entrepreneurs have heard. But not all really understand what it means. One could be forgiven for shrugging it off as just another buzzword. The kind that come and go through the office like that squashed and forlorn looking Danish that nobody wants to eat. If you’ve had enough of blue sky thinking, red flags, bottlenecks, growth hacks and customer journeys Big Data is one more digitally-savvy platitude that you could do without. You prefer plain speaking, honest, transparency and clarity. After all, that’s what you’ve built your business and your brand upon! You wouldn’t want to bamboozle your customers with flashy sounding slogans, so you don’t expect them to permeate your operations. You want straight talk only in your boardroom.    Image by … [Read more...] about 5 Ways Big Data Can Cause Big Problems

Planning for the future within a business takes a lot of forward thinking, and making sure you’re always referring back to the drawing board to keep an eye on your goals. After all, the world of business can throw a lot at you, and being flexible is the number one skill a small operation like yours needs to have in your arsenal.  So, the future is coming and coming fast - what are you going to do about it? Well, here are some things to keep in mind over the next few months, to make sure you’re on the right track. Rethink Your Business Plan A business plan isn’t set in stone. It needs to be redrawn every few years or so, to ensure you’re always using a relevant plan to the world around you. But how do you change a business plan without completely ruining it or losing track of where … [Read more...] about Planning For The Future Within Your Business

No one wants to be “hopelessly unrealistic,” in the sense of being seen as delusional, and wasting time and energy running in circles while achieving nothing. Nonetheless, there’s a good argument to be made that the more serious risk for the majority of people is actually dreaming too small, and daring too little, rather than the reverse. In business, as in life, the dreams and ambitions that motivate us the most will tend to be some of the grandest and most seemingly “unrealistic,” rather than the ones that seem like they are easily within reach. Here are just a few reasons to dream big, and to dare – in business as well as in life.   Once you start taking the initial steps, the way ahead will often reveal itself to you     There are all sorts … [Read more...] about 3 Reasons to Dream Big and To Dare