Growing Your Business by Acquisition

by | Oct 29, 2019 | Uncategorized

By: André Larabie, CBC, MBA, PhD Making a business grow is one of the biggest challenges that anyone can ever have, but it’s also one of the most rewarding–there’s nothing more beautiful than looking at something that you have created and realize how much it has grown...

The Personnel Section of a Business Turnaround Plan

by | Sep 1, 2019 | Uncategorized

By: André Larabie, CBC, MBA, PhD  In this section of the Business Turnaround Plan, you will provide an overview of all those positions you will be keeping and why they will be retained in the post-turnaround period. You will also discuss those positions that will...

Increasing Revenue Stability With Product Replication

by | Sep 1, 2019 | Uncategorized

By: André Larabie, CBC, MBA, PhD Consider an oil-painting business owned by an artist who paints about 1 picture per month. Is this business attractive to a potential buyer? As long as he will agree to keep generating these paintings at this rate (or some other rate),...

Revenue Stability and Business Turnarounds

by | Sep 1, 2019 | Uncategorized

By: André Larabie, CBC, MBA, PhD With respect to business failures and business turnarounds, certain concepts are very important. If you own a distressed business, you should take the time to understand them. Revenue stability is one of them. I have coined a phrase,...

Revenue Stability as it Relates to Business Stability

by | Sep 1, 2019 | Uncategorized

By: André Larabie, CBC, MBA, PhD To illustrate the concept of revenue stability, it helps to consider extreme cases, so let us do that here. First of all, when I mention the words “stable revenue,” what type of business comes to mind that has a very high degree of...