Overcoming Barriers to Growth to Improve Business Valuation (P4)

Part 4 – Overcoming Barriers to Growth to Improve Business Valuation Maximizing the business valuation involves improving the management team performance when it comes to planning and executing the strategic plan.  The valuation of the business by buyers and investors such as private equity depends on how well the president or CEO has addressed the issues such as these disconnects between strategy and performance. These  disconnects  must  be  analyzed  for  root cause and a plan developed to shape and nurture Read More …

Overcoming Barriers to Growth to Improve Business Valuation (P3)

Part 3 – Overcoming Barriers to Growth and Improving Business Valuations Management team effectiveness is a very large part of the assessment of business valuation by business buyers and investors such as private equity firms. Critical areas that teams typically address to reduce dysfunction include: Communications Understanding how each member communicates and then how to effectively communicate and resolve conflicts within the team Personal behavior Understanding one’s personal behaviors and how those behaviors impact the team’s Collective Effectiveness Team problem Read More …

Overcoming Barriers to Growth to Improve Business Valuation (P2)

Part 2 – Overcoming Barriers to Growth and Improving Business Valuations Having a track record of developing and implementing a strategic plan is critical to business buyers and investors such as private equity firms. It has a positive effect on business valuations when the track record can translate into predictability of future performance. An  alignment  driven strategic planning process will be different for some. Yet properly conducted it can provide a comprehensive, efficient means to adjusting varying viewpoints toward a Read More …

Overcoming Barriers to Growth to Improve Business Valuation

Buyers and investors in companies are buying or investing in the potential for future growth. They assess the organization for predictability of future earnings as part of their business valuation. Ensuring the future becomes reality results not only from keen insight and excellence in execution, but also from overcoming any barriers to growth. Essential actions to overcome the barriers to growth include: Aligning the organization to the plan Reducing team dysfunction Defining competencies  and  behaviors critical to the strategy Companies Read More …