Growing Your Business helps owner/managers develop growth strategies for their businesses by providing frameworks, ideas, inspiration and hands-on assignments. Its contents are a distillation of the authors knowledge and experience, which has successfully helped hundreds of owner/managers to grow and develop their businesses and themselves ov

Gerard Burke is the Programme Director of BGP and the Director of CREDO, the part of Cranfield School of Management which works exclusively with owner-managers and their businesses. Liz Clarke, David Molian , and Paul Barrow are core members of the BGP delivery team and are all visiting fellows at Cranfield School of Management.

Introduction Section 1: Where are you Now ? 1. Your Business and its Market 2. Are you in Good Financial Health? 3. Diagnosing the Management of your Organization 4. Now, Let's Talk about You! 5. Where are You Now?: Bringing it all Together Section 2: Where are you Going? 6. What do you Want? 7. What does the Business have to do to Enable you to Achieve What you Want? Section 3: How do you Get There? 8. What is your Growth Strategy? 9. How do you Further Enhance your Distinctiveness? 10. Can you Develop a Balanced Management Team? 11. How do you Manage the Changes? 12. How do you Fund Growth? 13. What Will your Role be in the Future? 14. Acquistions, Mergers, Joint Ventures and Divestments 15. What are your Options for Realising Value? 16. Writing up your Plans