The Ambitious Entrepreneur: Tackling your barriers to growth

As the UK economy recovers from the pandemic, entrepreneurs are setting ambitious revenue growth goals, with plans to enter new product categories, expand into new markets and improve their financial operations.

It is clear that achieving ambitious growth targets will require a strategic plan, a full understanding of and view into financial performance, a values-based, ethical talent strategy and the ability to commercialise creative ideas. Entrepreneurs are having to rethink how they do business from the business model and strategy down.

The UK’s entrepreneurial businesses have shown remarkable resilience and agility over the last two years. They have responded to some enormous business challenges and are now achieve high growth. However, as entrepreneurs steer their businesses and people through significant change, they also need to manage businesses operations efficiently and effectively.

Our Ambitious Entrepreneur hub hosts a range of resources designed to support you, the entrepreneur, to navigate 2022 and beyond.

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5 barriers to building a future-proof strategy

Mark Sykes, Head of Entrepreneurial Businesses, discusses the barriers you may face when setting and executing the strategic direction of your business:

Supporting The Ambitious Entrepreneur

Our approach to supporting ambitious entrepreneurs like you is to provide strategic and financial insights as well as practical business support and resource. You can let us take on some of the more time-consuming and demanding tasks or functions, such as finance, so you and your management team are free to focus on growing your core business.