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Protecting Your Business: Developing an Early Warning System<\/h2>\n

The sooner you know something needs fixing the earlier you can remedy the issue and the stronger your business will be.<\/p>\n

The absolute worst-case scenario in a business is when sales slowly erode over time (death from a thousand cuts) and it becomes too late to fix the problem, or you don\u2019t know what the issue is. It\u2019s possibly better to have a sharp revenue shock from a crisis (loss of a major customer, rapid falling demand) as it can be easier to decide what to do.<\/p>\n

The first step towards business resilience is therefore identifying your business drivers and setting a series of red flag thresholds to trigger action before it\u2019s too late.<\/p>\n

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Identifying Your Drivers<\/h3>\n

Sales revenue tends to be the primary indicator of how well a business is doing (which we assume you check regularly), but an early warning system helps measure why the drop.<\/p>\n

Sales drivers and their issues can be:<\/p>\n