Ian Smith | The Portfolio Partnership

Building Remarkable Businesses using The Portfolio Partnership (TPP)

by Ian Smith | Nov 17, 2015 | The Portfolio Partnership

These are challenging and exciting times for management teams. However achieving results is never easy. Quietly efficient execution is required. That’s what we do at TPP. Behind the scenes, we make things happen. We add instant know-how to an already smart team. We...

The Acquirer’s Playbook – Amazon Reviews – Help Needed

by Ian Smith | Nov 12, 2015 | Acquisitions

This my 500th blog post! Quite a little landmark! So perhaps I could ask a little favor from my network. If you purchased my new book, The Acquirer’s Playbook, and many of you did, I need your help. I’d love a short review of the book for Amazon....

Why Do Businesses Fail To Sell? – A Buyer’s Perspective

by Ian Smith | Nov 9, 2015 | e-book The Exit Playbook, Exiting your business

The US Census Bureau considers baby boomers to be those born between 1946 and 1964 or aged 51 to 69 in today’s currency! Many of these folk own businesses and will want to realize their life’s work over the next 5 years. A remarkable few will achieve their goal. Below...

Radio Interview – The Art of Scaling

by Ian Smith | Nov 2, 2015 | Scaling

We all want to grow our business but are we scaling our business? Scaling requires an investment ahead of time. People, processes, structures all need to be built at the right level at the right time. As we scale we need to be ever watchful that our efforts as a team...

Developing Second Tier Management

by Ian Smith | Oct 26, 2015 | Management

It drives to the heart of dependency on the CEO/founder. It builds capacity and bandwidth into the C-Suite. It creates a positive engagement amongst all staff. It produces a better service for the customer. It drives innovation. It builds shareholder value. It...