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Lengthy business plans don’t guarantee success for SMEs, strategy expert Deri Llewellyn-Davies told a recent ACCA event. Sally Percy reports

Back in 2007, Deri Llewellyn-Davies completed the legendary Marathon des Sables, a gruelling six-day ultra-marathon through the Sahara Desert. It’s widely considered the toughest foot race on earth.

Racing with Llewellyn-Davies were a blind man and a man with one leg. ‘It made me realise that we can achieve anything in life,’ he told delegates at an ACCA UK event on lean business planning in February. ‘The relevance of my adventures to business were uncanny. To achieve something like that you need strategy. But writing long business plans doesn’t help with strategy. You need to to plan quickly, adapt quickly and execute.’

Llewellyn-Davies, who is founder and CEO of business development consultancy Business Growth International, believes that the digital era has ushered in the ‘most exciting time in history’ for SMEs. ‘There are two billion people coming online over the next two years,’ he pointed out, adding that finance is the ‘centre of the entire strategy piece’.

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