The key success factors of business are very powerful when you understand and use them. Yet they are not complicated. In fact any small, medium or large business can use these key success factors to improve their strategies, operations, human resources, finances and positioning in the marketplace.
Over the years we have devoted countless hours to exploring answers to the question, “What are the most important success factors that enable one organization to succeed while others stumble or fail?” For at least the past 30 years, specifically since Tom Peters’ In Search of Excellence in the early ’80s, thousands of other authors and consultants have attempted to answer that question, too. The challenge, of course, is to identify success factors that really make a difference and that will stand the test of time – not be the fad of the moment.
This website is devoted to sharing with you what we have learned over many years in business, plus reading hundreds of books and thousands of articles, the most important, useful, enduring success factors you can use to improve your business and life. No tricks, no thousand-dollar price tags, just great information and strategies for your success.
The 5 Key Success Factors of Business
We’ve devoted a page or more on this site to each success factor, plus a book available on Amazon.com called The 5 Key Success Factors: A Powerful System for Total Business Success. The key success factors are:
- Strategic Focus (Leadership, Management, Planning)
- People (Personnel, Staff, Learning, Development)
- Operations (Processes, Work)
- Marketing (Customer Relations, Sales, Responsiveness)
- Finances (Assets, Facilities, Equipment)
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- Participate in our new Forum for Business Success – ask questions, interact with others
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- How to Maximize Your Success with Strategic Alignment
- The Knowing-Doing Gap, and how to close it
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- The Importance of Capacity Development in Business-Organization Success
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