Lead Your Firm into the Future
Source: Ric Payne's Blog
Following includes excerpts from a blog post by Ric Payne, reproduced with permission.
In this post, Ric explains that in order to be successful, leaders must have a vision for the future. He outlines a number of critical questions that forward-thinking leaders need to ask themselves. Here are a few of those questions:
- In what ways are our clients' businesses changing and what does that mean for the services we should be offering now and in the future?
- What are our strengths? Are they the right strengths to create and deliver value to our clients?
- Who are our future competitors from within and outside the industry going to be?
- What technologies should we be using now to better service our clients?
- To what extent are we really adding value to our clients? Is their business performing better as a direct result of our firm's involvement or are we simply providing a service that any accounting firm could do for them?
- What are we doing now to implement re-training of our people to equip them with the skills that are going to be needed in the future?
- What are our plans to align with a network that will be able to provide back office research and development support, global reach and a source of colleagues we can collaborate with to quickly and effectively offer affordable solutions to our clients without risking them being lured away from our firm?
- What resources in the form of time and money are we willing to invest to ensure that our firm not only transitions successfully to a new service model but takes rank with the top performers in the industry?
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From Ric Payne's Blog — Confessions of a Lazy Accountant, http://theconsultingaccountant.com, May 26, 2010, “Are you thinking about the future of your firm?”