Business Management Philosophy
The views of Insightful Coaching Solutions that underpin business management support and coaching are:-
– The key drivers for business are profit & value
– All operating models must move from principal focused to having a “businesses” Focus
– There is no “best practice” business, there is though a “best behaviour” business*
– We believe that working towards these best behaviours is working towards a sustainable business
– Behaviours are an overarching philosophy, each business actual behaviours or operational outcomes will differ according to the business
* we are not prescriptive about the specifics just that the business must have the presence of these behaviours. (i.e. we don’t say a particular marketing plan is best, just that the business needs to have one)
Best Business Behaviours
While many consulting businesses claim that they provide “Best Practice” we respectfully ask “according to who?” We believe that best practice cannot be determined by the entity selling their solution, as this view of best practice can be biased.
To avoid being a part of a biased solution we have adopted an approach that embraces what we define as Best Business Behaviours. Effectively we are not selling a solution or a toolset to a client, we are providing a philosophy into which the toolset fits.
In other words, you don’t need to have a system or process that is defined as “Best Practice”, you just need one. We work with the business at a higher level to ensure their business aligns to the philosophy into which their solution set fits. Each solution or process is then aligned to delivering an outcome to a set of defined business behaviours. These behaviours have been distilled over years of observational analysis and we believe are present in all successful businesses.
While not all businesses will use the same processes, they will have the same behavioural attributes that lead to their success.
We have defined these behavioural placeholders as the “Best Business Behaviours” or (BBB); of which we have distilled 10.
Our approach not only empowers a business to adopt a philosophy that embraces continual and incremental change it enables it to adopt any systems and processes that deliver to that solution.
The following is a list of the Insightful Coaching Solutions 10 BBB
- Business Workflow Operations
- Technology & Systems
- Financial Management & Reporting
- Client Value Proposition, USP, Service and Pricing philosophy
- People & Culture
- Ideas, Learning & Sharing
- Strategic Marketing & Planning
- Risk minimisation
- Investing For Growth
- Enterprise Strategy for Succession