Business strategy

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.

Boosting profitability depends on doing many little things better than the competition. Our guide to making your business more profitable.

Profitability needs to be the key long-term aim of any business. Follow our helpful tips to ensure you have the best chance of making profits.

Firms are always searching for ways to trim their costs and increase their profits, in good times and in bad. Make your business leaner and fitter.

Once you've come up with the idea for a new product or service, you need to develop it, test it and take it to market. Our guide to the key steps.

Innovating isn't a luxury, but an essential if you don't want to be left behind. How to use innovation to improve and expand your products.

To make good management decisions, you need clear information on how your business is performing. How to identify and monitor key business drivers.

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.

Use this checklist to help to develop new products, from developing new ideas to setting budgets, deciding on product specification and prototyping.

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.

To be successful and grow your business, you should consider reviewing and setting new goals for your business. What objectives should you be setting, and what's the key to achieving them?

Every business owner wants a successful business. We share ten strategic imperatives that can help boost your business.

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

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

Benchmarking provides a means to compare your firm against other businesses, and identify areas where you can improve your performance.

Thinking of setting up a home-based business? Intended to help you succeed, here are ten tips from one of the founders of StartUp Britain.