The purpose of thisarticle is to highlight the lack of business sustainability of small and mediumenterprises in Ghana and how the trend can be reversed through the adoption of customerrelationship management and strategic management practices as a solution for sustainablebusiness that can transcend generations.
Small and medium businessesin Ghana more often either collapse, shuts down or in case owners are sick, thebusiness cease or when owners die, the business dies with them. Those that are ableto put structures and systems in place soon become dreary and inward looking andeventually fall into decline, as a result of lack of strategic management and customerrelationship management. Failure to build, develop and manage strategic and customerrelationships creates complacency stifling growth and profits notwithstanding businessexpansions, hence the business folds up or shuts down with economic turbulence.
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According to Bloomberg,8 out of 10 small and medium businesses fail within the first 18 months and thereason being that, they simply run out of cash. (Bloomberg 2013). The trend canbe reversed if small and medium enterprises embeds the necessary elements includingcustomer and strategic relationship management practices to enable their long-termsustainability.
Implications of theshort lives of small and medium businesses in Ghana is an indication of a cycleof stifled economic growth as new businesses keep springing up but without a successful,practical and workable existing business model to emulate or learn from to supporttheir sustainable business practices.
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