Business planning

Learn why business planning is an essential exercise if your business is to start and grow successfully, attract funding or target new markets.

A well-researched and written business plan is an essential tool. Discover how to structure and write a business plan and what information to include.

A business strategy will help you look at the bigger picture and plan your business' long-term future. Discover how to prepare a business strategy.

Unless you are happy as you are, you will be looking for ways to develop and grow your business. These ten steps will lead you in the right direction.

Key performance indicators can help you measure how your business is performing in particular areas, so that you can track and improve this over time.

Although the rate of business failures is dropping, failures are still well above the rates seen before the start of the economic crisis.

Benchmarking provides a way to measure how effective your processes are, compared to competitors. Here's how to set up benchmarking in your business.

Strategy simply means having a plan of action to get your business to where you want it to be. The key is to focus on what you're trying to achieve.

Statistics show business failures are on the increase. Make sure your business isn't next. We share 10 steps to helping ensure your businesses survival.

Some great ideas fail, while what appeared marginal businesses have enjoyed great success. So what mistaken beliefs do many new owners have?