Why F.O.C.U.S. is good for your business. F.O.C.U.S.℠ Resources (F.O.C.U.S.℠ Resource, Inc.) founded in 2002 and headquartered in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina. It is a strategic and financial consulting firm working with companies throughout the world with primary focus in North America. The company also provides specialized services related to finance, corporate governance, leadership, and private and government funding...

Finance. Your business’ financial results reflect everything it does and does not do. Your bottom-line profit is the measure of your success…or at least one element of it. Revenue is not the only thing that matters.  You must also be able to grow profits and generate cash.  Cash is needed to grow your business. Revenue growth and profits are great, only if you have the cash flow to keep the business running. The numbers– finance and accounting –...

Operations. How you do business – the nuts and bolts of your operations – determines how efficient and effective you are in using your resources, delivering on promises to your customer and growing your business. Operations – your people, processes, and activities – make or break your business. Are you working on the right things? At the right time? Do you have your best resources (people) in their right roles? Do your people have the right...

Commercialization. Commercialization means translating your ideas, abilities, and technology into products and services that the marketplace will buy – at a price that includes a profit.  Whether you are a for-profit (return on activities to benefit the shareholders/owners) or non-profit (generating funding to support your mission), every organization needs to make money to fund its operations and invest in its purpose. Successful commercialization requires...

Utilization. How you use your resources – people, money and time – determines what you are able to achieve. If you lose FOCUS in your business by: • trying to do too many things at once • lacking clarity in who your customers are • failing to set and meet milestones • putting together the wrong team • managing resources poorly … then the business will not succeed. Time is money. Money is time. People are time. People cost money. Processes...

Strategy. Strategy impacts every aspect of what you do. You can take things as they come, worry about putting a plan together, or think “I don’t have time right now to put a plan together… I have to get things done.” Well if you don’t have time now to lay out a strategy and a plan to execute it, then when will you have time? Too often organizations wait to make a plan AFTER resources have been used up, ad hoc marketing and sales efforts have failed,...

Results. Imagine that success is like gaining entrance to a vault of riches with three locks to open. Now these locks aren’t like the usual padlocks, door locks, or other real life, tangible mechanisms opened with traditional keys (or brute force).These locks are more like those portrayed in the science fiction adventures. You know the ones that require solving a riddle, navigating narrow ledges with chasms and torments all around, and then finding the...

  Lea Strickland, MBA/CMA/CFM/CBM/GMC, President/CEO of F.O.C.U.S.℠ Resources is an internationally recognized expert with numerous appearances in a national media including Entrepreneur Magazine, thestreet.com, MWorld, FoxBusiness on-line and others. She has more than 20 years of experience in operational leadership in Fortune 500 and Global 100 companies, including Ford, Solectron and Newell Corporation, regularly sharing her extensive first-hand...