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Understand Why to Scale Your Business?

Scaling is like getting out of your comfort zone, you want to do it, but it is always challenging. You need to know first why you want to scale? When analyzing the business KPIs, it’s essential to benchmark the data with your business objectives. Do not rely on how good or bad the numbers look, what matters is the impact of these numbers, the long-term plan and the business objectives.

The 7 steps guidelines to scaling your business will give you an overview of the whole process of scaling and growing your own business.

Step 1: Figure Out What’s Out of Balance

Understand what is out of balance, you need to identify the root cause and start troubleshooting. You need to know first why you want to scale? Accordingly, decisions can be assessed and categorized, whether it presents the solution or not? And what are the threats and opportunities behind these decisions.

Step 2: Surrender Your Biases

It is advisable to have fresh eyes from outside the business looking at it and asking the hard questions about your business model before applying any changes. Your passion for your work might be blinding you from the economic changes and market shifts happening in your industry.

Step 3: Review the Business Infrastructure

Reviewing the business infrastructure should be the first step in analyzing a business performance to determine it’s effectiveness. The infrastructure consists of the foundational systems for managing people, processes, procedures, technology, human resources, sales, profits and more. Without a proper infrastructure including digital systems, there can be no sustainable, long-term growth.

Step 4: Look at Your Historical Data

They say data is King! deciding if a particular part of the business is working or not must be backed up with factual data. A company that has been in existence should possess historical data that leads to in-depth analysis and insights. The only real question is who can analysis the data and provide recommendations? Using Professional third-party entities is advised for such evaluations to avoid bias.

Step 5: What would you do differently if you had to start over?

When the answer to this hypothetical question is both clear and compelling only then it is time to rebuild and start over. Scaling is the chance to set things right! It is a chance to change the course of actions, reevaluate the company’s vision, mission and objectives.

Step 6: Prepare Yourself to Adapt Quickly

Recognize that staying on the top is harder than reaching it. Be ready to adapt to the market changes with embracing new technologies and innovations. Think of your business as a temporary solution to a problem. Make plans to adapt quickly. Leverage your core competencies to better help your customers. Change is inevitable. Your company’s demise does not have to be.

Step 7: Have the mindset and the time for growth

Scaling is a long, time-consuming process, drafting the scale plan only can take months. Then execution, monitoring and controlling. However, the true challenge business owners usually face during the scaling process is that they still have to keep the business running, making business deals and overseeing the whole current operations.

How can Bowarr Management bring value in the process of scaling your business:

• Analysis and Assessment
• Administrative analysis
• Quantify and control risks
• Strategic planning
• Procedural engineering
• Innovative working procedures
• Organization restructuring

If you think your current business model is in need of an enhancement because you are eager to scale your business, contact us on info@bowarr.com or call +971 55 5575007 for our best advice on analyzing and boosting a business performance.