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How To Scale 98% of US Companies

by Ian Smith | May 18, 2023 | Scaling

Hard to believe but 98% of US companies employ less than 100 people. Take a look at the table below created from the latest US Census data. The green cells represent the companies employing 99 people or less or 98.1% of US companies, 6 million out of 6.1 million (who...

How To Get Better at Strategic Planning – Part 1 Shareholder Objectives

by Ian Smith | Feb 20, 2017 | Strategy

First, a definition of Strategic Planning. It is a practical process that produces a clear strategic vision for the business, generates a compelling positioning statement and therefore, in context, delivers an aligned set of operational actions to get you there....

Strategic Plans – How to Do Them

by Ian Smith | Jan 19, 2014 | Strategy

The Strategic Plan sounds like a big company tool. The sort of thing that IBM or Google might pull together. Well I’ve been involved in large and small companies, driving strategic plans for many years and I’m convinced they’ve become, ironically,...

The Key To Financial Plans are the Policies

by Ian Smith | Jan 5, 2014 | budgets, Execution Tips

Whether you are about to dive into your new financial year or are half way through it, it’s likely that you created a financial plan to aim at. But the achievement of financial plans has nothing to do with the financial numbers. It’s all about the policies...