How to Build Capacity Among Diverse Suppliers Within Your Small Business
It is important to evaluate suppliers to ensure they are a good fit for the organization. Those who are should have demonstrated industry experience, knowledge, and the capability to [...]
When Is It Time for Your Company to Hire a Consultant?
A consultant is someone external to the company who can provide valuable feedback. Hiring a consultant is an investment in time and resources--both human and financial--in the health [...]
Is Your Current Organizational Structure Holding the Company Back?
The word structure can have many different meanings within a company. Organizationally, structure can refer to a legal designation, such as a corporation, partnership, or sole proprietorship. Operationally, structure [...]
The Courage to Lead: How Leaders Can Successfully Implement an Organizational Vision
Effective leaders who expect to project a future vision they and others will follow, must first address the fears that could hinder them. Leaders establish and communicate an [...]
How Interpersonal Dynamics Affect the Customer Experience
A customer’s experience and impressions derive first and foremost from interactions with the individual employee, and only afterwards with the larger organization. For example, people who visit a [...]
Here’s Why Businesses Without a Diverse Supply Chain Might Be Worrying
Exactly one year ago today, Bellewether posted a blog on the importance of supply chain diversity. At the time, we focused on the general benefits of a diverse supply [...]
Tips to Improve the Quality of Your Business Operations: The next level of performance starts with redefining YOUR expectations!
As we wait out COVID-19, think about the ways your business can ready itself to blast out of the blocks . . . . Establishing [...]
25 Essential Business Tips Every Manager Needs to Know
Regardless of the industry or vertical, business management is no easy role. Every manager will be faced with constant challenges and be required to handle incredible responsibility. Although there [...]
Bellewether MoDOT Supportive Services 2018-2019 Cohort
As part of the MoDOT Supportive Services contract in Western Missouri, Bellewether provides opportunities for DBE (Disadvantage Business Enterprises) firms to participate in an Executive Roundtable – Strategic Growth [...]
Top 4 Challenges to Improving Work Performance in Operations
Most organizations hope to grow every year in terms of revenue and profits. Often the perception of top leadership is to dogmatically pursue maximum revenue today, without considering [...]
Bellewether Drives Diversified Supply Chain with MoDOT
Innovation has always been a critical component of the growth of any economy. While most people think of innovation as the latest high-tech gadget, process innovation [...]
The Key to Business Growth Is the Shift from “Chief Doer” to “Chief Executive”
At the beginning of the business life cycle, most businesses lack structure. They exist on raw determination or effort and the things that people can sell or trade. At [...]