by Kevin Appleby | Feb 8, 2024 | Uncategorized
Introduction Many fast-growing businesses struggle to execute their strategy effectively and align their teams around a common vision. They often face challenges such as unclear goals, conflicting priorities, lack of accountability, and poor communication. How can...
by Kevin Appleby | Feb 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
Introduction Executing the business plan in a fast-growing business is the subject of February’s GrowCFO Best Practice Accelerator. Ahead of that, I’ve been taking a look at the CFO’s role in execution. Fast-growing businesses face many challenges...
by Kevin Appleby | Jan 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
In last week’s newsletter I talked about the place you need to get to to begin executing your business strategy. The strategy needs to list the things you will start, stop and continue to do. That’s the easy bit! The tricky bit is implementing that list,...
by Kevin Appleby | Jan 15, 2024 | Uncategorized
In the dynamic and ever-evolving business world, developing an effective strategy is crucial for sustained success. A strategy can’t end up as a document that sits on the shelf gathering dust. It must be something that is executed by the whole business. Unless...
by Kevin Appleby | Dec 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
Are you starting to plan for 2024 and beyond? Setting objectives for yourself and your team? Before you get to individual objectives, you must ask whether you have the right team to support the business. Do you have the correct number of people, and do those people...
by Kevin Appleby | Dec 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
As I write this, I’m about to kick off the December 2023 GrowCFO Quest, helping finance leaders develop a governance checklist. I thought it would be interesting to delve into essential components of a strong governance framework and explore how the finance...