Remember the Strategic Playbook from our solutions? Here's how we make Fortune 100 strategies work for service businesses. No overwhelming complexity—just proven methods adapted to your reality.
The Service Business Challenge
Most service business owners face three critical gaps that prevent strategic growth:
No Time for Goals
You're busy running the business day-to-day. Building comprehensive strategic goals feels like a luxury you can't afford when clients need immediate attention.
No Data for KPIs
You lack the experience and clean data needed to identify meaningful KPIs. What should you measure? How do you know if it matters?
No Access to Track Progress
Even if you had KPIs, your data is scattered across different systems. Tracking progress feels impossible without dedicated analytics resources.
Step 1: Start Building Your 3yr Goals
This doesn't require an executive offsite and 3 days of strategy discussions. Build it over time and continue to revise as your vision changes. It's OK to change your 3yr goals periodically, just do it thoughtfully and with the least disruption to your team. We'll expose risks and opportunities through our business coaching, helping you craft and adapt your goals.
Remember Your Purpose
Reflect on why you started the business. It's probably not all about revenue. Don't lose why you started in the first place.
Define Personal Goals
As the business owner, you may have goals that are outside of the company's performance. Do you want more independence from day-to-day operations; do you want to prepare for sale. Think of things that you want to achieve personally.
Stretch Company Goals
Let's get ambitious about where you want the company to be. Let's not settle...whatever number you can confidently accomplish, and add 50%. It needs to be a stretch (3 years is a long time).
Our Iterative Approach to Strategy & Executing on Goals
We start simple and build confidence. Each step proves value before adding complexity.
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Start with 2 Essential Numbers
We identify the most critical metrics for your business right now, usually focusing on ratios of Revenue and Customer health.
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Build Simple Tracking
We create easy ways to monitor these numbers weekly. No complex dashboards—just clear visibility into what is changing.
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Prove the Value
Once you see how these numbers guide better decisions, we gradually add more compelling elements. Goals emerge naturally from understanding your data.
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Scale with Confidence
As you become comfortable with your numbers, we introduce more sophisticated KPIs and longer-term strategic planning.
The CARVE Difference: Large companies have teams to build complex goal frameworks. We give you the same strategic thinking, but delivered in manageable steps, with actionable data, that fit your schedule and prove value immediately.
This isn't about becoming a Fortune 100 company overnight. It's about applying their proven strategic methods at a pace that works for service businesses—building the foundation for sustainable, profitable growth.