Capacity Planning for Growing Businesses
Growth is exciting until it starts breaking things. Missed deadlines, burned-out teams, and scrambling to keep up with demand are all signs that a business is growing faster than its systems can support. Focus on capacity planning for growing businesses.
Scale Your Growth Without Burning Out
Growth is exciting until it starts breaking things. Missed deadlines, burned-out teams, and scrambling to keep up with demand are all signs that a business is growing faster than its systems can support. In this webinar, we focus on capacity planning for growing businesses: how to make sure your people, processes, time, and resources can actually handle the growth you are going after. You will learn how to spot the early warning signs of overload, plan for increased demand before it hits, and build the kind of structure that lets your business grow without falling apart. Whether you are hiring, launching something new, or just feeling stretched thin, this session will help you scale on purpose.
Meet the Capacity Planning Experts
Dana Ampy
Dana Marie Ampy is a lifelong dancer, beginning her training at age four and continuing through professional programs in Philadelphia. She honed her skills at institutions like Philadanco and Temple University, and now channels her passion into Amped To Dance, her own dance studio in Maple Shade, NJ. With a master’s in Early Childhood Education, she is dedicated to bridging the arts and education for young people. As the Director of the F.O.C.U.S Mentoring Program, she empowers youth through dance and creative expression.
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- Website
- Instagram: @ampedtodance & @dana_speakslife
Chad Patterson
Chad Patterson is a business executive and strategic visionary, with 15+ years of experience in finance, sales, and marketing. Chad has successfully founded three ventures and is passionate about helping small business owners and entrepreneurs scale their ventures.
Chad is also a business advisor with Accion Opportunity Fund. Sign up for a free business advising session here.
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Capacity Planning Topics
This session includes conversations around the following topics:
- What does capacity planning for a small business actually mean?
- What are the signs that demand for your business has exceeded what you could realistically handle? What should business owners look out for?
- What are some early warning signs that a business is approaching its capacity before things reach a breaking point?
- When your business has been especially busy, how can you tell if you are dealing with a short-term rush or something that requires a longer-term change?
- If a business owner wanted to do a simple capacity check today, what should they look at across their people, processes, time, and resources?
- Once you have identified a capacity constraint in your business, what should you change to create more room for growth?
- When demand increases, how can you determine what kind of capacity you actually need to add? Is it: another employee, outside support, new technology, or a better process?
- How can businesses plan ahead for predictable periods of increased demand, like a busy season, a launch, a large contract, or a new location?
- What can business owners put in place earlier to make growth easier to manage?
