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Notwithstanding this article's title, not all ailing businesses can be revived. Some are just so messed up that reviving them will just be a waste of time and effort. For this type of situations, closing them up and starting a new business on a clean slate is infinitely better.
However, all businesses encounter lean periods as well as critical periods wherein even soundly managed companies find themselves at risk of being dissolved. For these cases, there are methods that might be able to reorient ailing companies towards recovery and growth. If your company falls into this category, here are some tips that may be able to turn your enterprise around:
An ailing business need to contend with company credit, delinquent receivables, staff morale, customer retention and other issues that require creative strategies in order to be addressed satisfactorily. One of the first thing on the recovery agenda is to form the recovery team. The recovery team must be a strong team of managers that are committed to salvage the most valuable assets of the company and use them for a calculated recovery later on. To turn an ailing business around, all stakeholders must be willing to take actions that could really hurt. An assessment of the situation is needed in order for the right impetus towards recovery is attained. In addition, immediate and decisive action is required to prevent further deterioration of the situation. This means that major problems need to be addressed immediately with carefully drawn solutions.
Essentially, a turnaround is a sustained positive change in the performance of a business to obtain a desired result. It is the process by which a business with inadequate performance is analyzed and changed to achieve a desired result. In a turnaround, analysis and action are simultaneous. The immediate requirement is to find the major problems, analyze them and implement solutions.
