Data analyzed from the U.S. Census Bureau and Small Business Administration reveals that only half of new firms survive to the five-year mark. Only a third of all new ventures celebrate their 10-year anniversary. The reasons for failure are as complex and unique as the businesses themselves.

Workforce Metrics provides entrepreneurs and business owners with a team of business experts to assist in developing a two-year growth plan specific to their unique organization and market. The Enterprise-Growth Plan is an intense, holistic, and individualized consultation examining:

• Leadership & Management – all the ‘people issues’ and the factors that accelerate or inhibit your organizational growth.

• Goal Setting – creating and aligning your vision and mission statements with the products and services of the enterprise to establish and implement SMART goals.

•  Operations – systemic improvement in the areas of process, quality, capacity, and inventory; diagnosis of the challenges and solutions to existing operations and identification of the decisions required for growth.

•  Finance –examining how your ‘numbers’ reflect financial health; identification of key metrics that monitor the growth of the enterprise and the financial metrics that lenders or other financial resources examine to assess the viability of your business.

•  Sales and Marketing – a deep study of industry trends and forecasts; comparing and contrasting the firm with key competitors; articulation of your sustainable competitive advantage and strategies to strengthen it; establishing the attributes of a key customer profile and their contribution to customer lifetime value; evaluation and improvement of the effectiveness of your marketing and sales approaches.

•  Human Resource Systems– strategies to make the firm the employer of choice; development of recruitment and hiring systems to put the right people in the right jobs at the right time; policy and procedures that comply with Federal and state labor laws to eliminate litigation threats; recognition and reward systems that stimulate higher productivity.

To discuss your situation, contact Dr. Steve Woods at 301-874-2132 or email him at steve@workforcemetrics.com.