by fineco | May 22, 2020 | Business growth, Leadership, Performance reporting, Planning
How is life in the trenches going? If you’re still alive I suppose that means quite well, all things considered. Having previously set out what to do to get your dental practice through lockdown, I’ve been modelling how cashflow might look for a typical...
by fineco | Apr 2, 2020 | Business growth, Finance, Performance reporting, Planning
Panic can lead us into self-destruction. When someone scared of water thinks they’re drowning they burn precious energy and oxygen flailing and hyperventilating. In the knowledge that this wild state is potentially fatal to others too, lifeguards are trained to...
by Guest | Mar 11, 2020 | Business growth, Leadership, Movers and shakers, Performance reporting, Planning
Working as a consultant to dental practice owners I have become convinced of the value of a tool that I created during my MBA. For want of a better name I’ve called it the Abstraction Model. I’ve seen it make a difference for practice owners who engage...
by Jonathan Fine | Jan 8, 2020 | Business growth, Performance reporting, Self-managing business, Workshop
A good business manager (BM) in dentistry can seem chimeric. You can do your best to recruit the right person but then you can only hope and trust that they will deliver. That transition period leaves the owner vulnerable, because the BM is responsible for their...
by Jonathan Fine | Dec 21, 2019 | Business growth, Communications, Patient journey, Performance reporting, Treatment coordinator, Workshop
The next five years in UK and Irish dentistry are all about retailisation, a process that’s already in full swing but has some way to go. The dental practices and small groups that have already nailed this are outperforming the corporates and redefining the...
by Stewart Roode | Dec 12, 2019 | Advertising, Business growth, Communications, Inbound marketing, Online marketing, Patient journey, Performance reporting
We’re all paying a Google tax. It has a monopoly, or near enough, in online search around the world. Some countries want to enforce fair competition but the juggernaut, based in the US, ploughs on. Alphabet Inc, created through a corporate restructuring of...
