The Top Challenges Facing Business Decision Makers—and How Leading Organisations Respond

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In an increasingly complex and fast-moving environment, business decision makers are expected to deliver results today while building the capability required for long-term success. Whether operating at board, executive, or senior management level, the challenge is rarely a lack of ambition or intent—it is ensuring clarity, alignment, and disciplined execution across the organisation.

Through our work and engagement with business decision makers internationally, we recognise that organisational needs differ by sector, scale, and operating context. Yet across industries, the underlying leadership and management challenges are remarkably consistent. Which of the priorities below resonate most strongly with your current agenda—and would you welcome further insight?

Aligning Strategy with Execution
Many organisations have well-defined strategies, yet struggle to translate them into consistent, organisation-wide action. For business decision makers, the issue is not strategy formulation, but ensuring that priorities are clearly deployed, understood, and measured at every level of the organisation.
Entrepreneurial Drive for Financial Results
Entrepreneurial drive must be anchored in financial rigour. Sustainable growth depends on clear capital allocation, disciplined cost management, return-focused innovation, and accountability for financial outcomes—ensuring strategic initiatives translate into measurable profitability, cash flow, and long-term value creation.
Strengthening Leadership and Management Capability
Sustainable performance depends on leaders who understand systems, manage processes effectively, and make sound, data-driven decisions. Business decision makers increasingly recognise that leadership development must go beyond individual competence to establish a shared management philosophy that drives coherence and accountability.
Embedding a Culture of Continuous Improvement
High-performing organisations do not rely on short-term initiatives. They embed quality, learning, and improvement into daily work. For business decision makers, this means creating conditions where people are empowered to solve problems systematically and improvement becomes part of normal operations.
The Drive for Employee Retention
Organisations that invest in capable leadership, stable systems, and continuous learning create environments where people feel valued, engaged, and motivated to contribute long term—reducing turnover while strengthening organisational knowledge and performance.

Organisations that address these priorities successfully tend to rely on proven management principles rather than trends. Our approach is grounded in classical business management science, which emphasises leadership responsibility, system thinking, respect for people, and continuous improvement.

For business decision makers, the objective is not transformation for its own sake. It is sustained performance, organisational resilience, and confidence in the management system that supports decision-making at every level.

Next Step for Business Decision Makers

If one or more of these priorities reflect your current challenges, we would be pleased to:

Share relevant insights
Provide a short executive or board-level briefing
Explore how proven management principles can be applied within your organisation.

Progress often begins with the right dialogue

If you are a member of a Board of Directors, CEO or part of the Senior/Executive Management Team of your organisation and desire further discussion, please contact our CEO directly for further information.

With best wishes for your continuing success…

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KOLA OLUTIMEHIN is the CEO/Principal Consultant of MakeWay Global. A Business Management & Process Improvement Consultant on Continuous Improvement, he is an astute professional who has trained and consulted internationally for a wide variety of clients in diverse industries for circa three decades.

📩 Email: getkola@makewayglobal.com
🌐 Website: www.makewayglobal.com