Here we explore when a consultant can help accelerate your initiatives, and what to avoid when you are looking for a consultant to actually contribute beyond a fancy deck.

Connecting data is critical. Hire professionals to help you sort and clean your data sources. If you’re a small business, this question usually comes up later than it should — and then all at once. Before you even get into the business of evaluating any kind of software tool or platform, there’s a much more basic question to answer: What are you using today, and is it actually organized? Most small businesses don’t start with systems. They start with urgency. One spreadsheet

Start the year off right - what will drive your business forward this year? Most businesses say they think long-term. In practice, many are making decisions almost entirely in the short term and hoping it all works out later. That gap between intention and execution is where things quietly start to break. Short-term objectives and long-term planning serve very different purposes, yet they’re often treated as interchangeable. Failing to understand the distinction doesn’t just