The Business You Already Have...
Bring it into view
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Beschreibung
The business already contains the story. This book helps you see how it all connects.
Your business may already have loyal customers, valuable experience and ways of working that serve it well. Yet when you are carrying the daily work, the wider business picture can be harder to see.
This book begins with respect for what you have built—or are preparing to build—not an assumption that everything needs to change.
The Business You Already Have... Bring It into View — The DRO-Way in Action brings Direction, everyday work, planning, management and evidence together through one complete, illustrative example of a small business supplying made-to-measure goods.
Five connected parts show what this can look like in practice:
Your Business Direction
See what the business is for, what gives it value, what should be protected and where you want it to go. Connect that Direction to the values and ways of working that guide everyday choices.
Your Business Operations Guide
Follow the complete Customer and Order Journey from first enquiry through completion and aftercare. Make the current position, responsibilities, records and next steps easier to see while protecting personal service.
Your Business Plan
Bring Direction, honest review, progress already made and current priorities into a plan that reflects where the business is now. Recognise what has changed without sending the business back to the beginning.
Your Business as Usual Overview
Give Action Plans, things to Do, matters to Monitor and questions to Decide a clear practical home. Keep the wider business visible without turning everything you notice into more work.
Your Management Dashboard
Bring a small, reliable selection of information together to see what happened, what remains open, what may be changing and what deserves attention. Use evidence to support your judgement—not replace it.
Direction. Review. Organisation.
Keep what matters in view. Look honestly at what is happening. Give agreed decisions and useful work a clear place in everyday business life.
Each part combines a complete worked example with plain-English guidance, helping you see the connections before deciding what to use, adapt or leave as it is. Read from the beginning or start with the work already in front of you.
Written for sole traders, owners of very small businesses and people preparing to begin. Also useful for learners, educators and people providing practical business support.
Drawing on around forty years of practical business and organisational experience, Deborah Rosador shares a route that works beside the reader rather than deciding for them.
A complete book within the DRO Business Books family, it can be used on its own or alongside The Business You Already Have... Help People Find Their Way In, which explores Learning, Customer Communication and Public Presence.
The DRO-Way provides the route.
The Owner decides what belongs.
Not More. Not Less.
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Deborah Rosador
Deborah Rosador is the creator of the DRO-Way and the author behind DRO Business Books. Her practical business and organisational experience includes years supporting a successful family business and an international career of more than twenty years with the United Nations, working across programme and performance management, finance, organisational change, training and facilitation.
Her business books are written for sole traders, owners of very small businesses and people preparing to begin. They help readers step back, see the whole business more clearly and move from concern to decision—and from decision to manageable action—through Direction, Review and Organisation.
Her business titles include Businesses begin more than once... The DRO-Way and Businesses begin more than once... The DRO-Way – Companion Workbook. The collection also includes The business you already have... Bring it into view – The DRO-Way in Action and The business you already have... Help people find their way in – The DRO-Way in Action.
Alongside her business writing, Deborah is the author of the newly released children’s book The School Holiday Lollipop Run, bringing another dimension to her work as an author.
Deborah is new to publishing, but not to the work.
Themen in »The Business You Already Have...«
Sole trader practical guide Business plan worked example Organising a micro business Action plans and priorities Daily operations and workflow Performance dashboard measures Customer and order tracking