Winning new business can be as simple as the process of “Meet”, “Talk” and “Act”. Provided you not only follow this simple 3-step plan, but also continually act on it, you should find yourself winning new business from your clients!
Adapting and applying a “zero sum days philosophy” to your business development projects is one sure-fire way to ensure you stay one step ahead of your competitors.
Given the intense nature of professional services firms, the concept of “the R.U.L.E.S” seems a fair and equitable profitability measure. But: Are the RULES the most appropriate measurement of a professional services firm’s profit or loss?
When I first started working in private practice back in the mid-1990s, there were what was then commonly known as the Three Noble Horsemen of private practice: ‘The Finders, The Minders and The Grinders’. And then we introduced the ‘balance scorecard’.