First, be aware of your pain and constraints

Some time back, I had met the small business owner, and when I asked him, " what is your business pain areas?". He responded that everything is fine. When I asked about his sales turnover, he said almost the same for the last 3 years. When I asked about profitability, he immediately responded, ok as of now, but when I showed him different trend patterns of profitability, he started opened out.

some of the signs as mentioned  by the business head 

• Business profitability had been in a declining trend,
• No sign for new customers order,
• People are not engaged and not listening to his instructions
• Not aware of the monthly performance as he was working based on the customer's pressure and somehow delivering.

Here the key point is as business head, you must know your pain point or constraint in your business which is affecting your delivery performance.

The constraint could be your manufacturing process, flow, equipment downtime, capacity imbalance, material shortage, people non-availability, and so on ... Even at the business level, the constraints could be your marketing or order procurement process or planning process or engineering function, and so on.

You must learn the techniques of identifying the constraints in your business through the following organizational capability.

1.Data collection and Transparency across all levels and functions on plant utilization, People efficiency, and product quality performance 
2.Review  / Communication mechanism at levels about performance 
3.WIP data 
4. The capacity and limitation of each function/process that could be manpower, equipment, working capital  or competency gap 

Developing those systems and process help you to be aware of your constraints 

once you know the constraints very well, you are almost towards the solution since with your expertise, once you the constraints clearly, you could figure out the answers quickly.

The point is, as a business head, you need to sure enough about your pain areas and constraints!