Strategic business planning
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I help small businesses to clarify and achieve their aims.
A good starting point is to define what you do now and where you want see change. Be specific and personal.
From there we will most likely discuss the marketing and operations that will surround your customers’ experiences. Further on we might look at how to stabilise or scale your operation, depending on your ambitions.
Define success
To assess where you’re doing well and where you could put some focus, we’ll need to clearly define your version ‘success’. This will include some financial aspects, but the quality of your working and personal life will also be relevant. Things like working hours, job satisfaction and levels of stress.
My view is that a healthy business is profitable, calm and enjoyable. Only you can decide how much profit you’d like to earn, how much excitement and risk you’d like to keep things interesting, and (of course) what you find enjoyable during your working life.
Considering your work-life ‘integration’ makes more sense than the common view of a work-life ‘balance’.
Plan for the future
I will listen to you, ask a lot of questions, make suggestions for next steps, and then work with you to implement plans alongside you and your team.
As I am external to your business, I will bring an objective perspective which naturally drives momentum and accountability. My experience with production efficiency leans towards simple, evolving solutions that you can further develop and maintain yourself. In my experience, success in business comes from learning what you can predict (and what you cannot).
Case Studies
InJoinery is a labour agency between furniture makers and freelance joinery fitters. Over the past five years, we’ve developed data, processes, ops management and strategic trajectory.
More info on InJoinery
In collaboration with Emma and Tobias since May 2021, Peascod evolved into a unified artistic studio, streamlining projects and launching a focused product line.
More info on Peascod
Between 2012 and 2018 I worked intensively with Rothschild & Bickers across a few realms of their growing glassblowing business.
More info on Rothschild & Bickers strategy & processes
As Constructive and Co grew they sought out external help and I was recommended. We met for coffee in July 2018 and here, in their own words, is what we’ve done together.
More info on A Constructive Strategy