Corporate EDGE
What is Business Acumen
Business acumen is an important element of the curriculum for developing and supporting your company’s competitive edge, it is also an essential part of any aspiring career; from understanding the implications of your decisions to being able to ‘deliver the numbers’. So how do you know if you have business acumen? Please take a look at our diagnostic questions.
- If you wanted your business to have its best year ever, can you list the top three performance metrics that the Board would use to judge success?
- If someone in your team asked you ‘What is our business strategy?’ could you summarise the answer in a couple of sentences?
- If you want to invest in a new opportunity which requires investment, then what are the factors your business uses to build and judge a successful business case?
- How does the budget cycle work in your business so that you can plan, monitor and motivate your team to achieve their targets?
- How accurate are your forecasts and could they be better?
- How does your business determine the cost to produce and provide its products / services and are you focused on controlling costs that will enable the greatest profit?
- How is your pricing strategy determined so that you optimise the factors which offer the greatest value to your customers?
If managers within your business find some of these questions challenging to answer, then there is likely to be an opportunity to make a difference and enhance the performance of the business by developing Business Acumen through a tailored learning programme.
What we do
Financial Management
Enable managers from all disciplines to make improved business decisions with a clearer understanding of their financial impact on the business.
Strategy & Planning
Reconcile the needs of your markets to your resources, in a changing world, to determine the direction and scope needed to achieve success for your organisation and meet the needs of your stakeholders.
Excel Business Modelling
The key to understanding your business propositions is to construct business models; only by developing assumptions, applying scenarios and testing options can the real value be explored and evaluated.
Value Added Marketing
Equip your people with the skills and techniques to identify and deliver market leading products or services that are fully aligned to changing customer needs.
Supply Chain Effectiveness
Enable your people to apply best practice as they plan, source, make and deliver your products and therefore provide your business with greater flexibility, reduced costs and improved availability.
Business Simulations
Develop a virtual reality representation of YOUR business to facilitate real strategic choices; or alternatively develop a tailored, interactive simulation for teams within a competitive environment to obtain real-world business understanding.
Driving Sales Growth
The key to growing sales is to fully understand your customer, enabling you to create value propositions that really meet their needs better than the competition.
Raising Consulting Performance
Developing the professionalism and competence of consultants, technical specialists and professional service deliverers, Elevation Learning (part of Corporate Edge group) specialises in raising consulting performance.