Colin Barrow

Colin Barrow is a Glasgow-born business consultant and prolific author with a specific interest in start-up companies. He was Head of the Enterprise Group at Cranfield School of Management for a decade and has been a visiting professor in universities in the US, Europe and the Far East. His early books, The Small Business Guide (BBC 1982), written to accompany the five part BBC TV series the Business Club and the Pocket Entrepreneur (Economist Publications 1987) broke new ground in popularising the subject of entrepreneurship in the United Kingdom. The former book attracted critical media acclaim including, "Would-be entrepreneurs and their advisors will find fewer better investments than this publication," Financial Times.

Education

Barrow attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst following briefly in his father and grandfathers footsteps. A spell in business inspired him to pursue an MBA at Cranfield School of Management.

Embarking on a new writing topic, and in some ways rounding the circle, Barrow attended the first year of the War Studies MA at Kings College London in 2013/4, transferring to the University of Buckingham as an Associate Student on their MA Military History programme in 2014/15.

Professional Achievements

Barrow was a consultant on Microsoft’s project to incorporate a business plan writer into Office 2000. He also led the team that launched the Business Growth Programme at Cranfield, the UK’s longest running and most successful programme for the development of owner-managers. It has been running for 25 years and has helped over 1,500 owner managers achieve their business and personal ambitions. Distinguished entrepreneurs who have been through Cranfield’s programmes include Karan Bilimoria , founder of Cobra Beer, Nick Jenkins founder of Moonpig and Lara Morgan founder of Pacific Direct. Barrow was also instrumental in appointing Mary Creagh, a shadow cabinet member and contender for leadership of the British Labour party to his team at Cranfield, publishing conference papers and a journal article with her.

Believing that, 'teachers have at least as much to learn from students as they have to impart,' has been the enduring source of inspiration for his writing.

Bibliography

Colin Barrow's books have been translated into languages including Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Georgian, Romanian, Polish and Bahasa Indonesia.

The Business Plan Workbook: A Practical Guide to New Venture Creation and Development, (2015), by Colin Barrow, Paul Barrow, Robert Brown. Kogan Page

One of the most important steps in launching a new venture or expanding an existing one is the creation of a business plan. Studies and real-life examples reveal that the absence of a written business plan leads to a higher incidence of failure for new businesses, and inhibits growth and development. Based on methodology developed at Cranfield School of Management, this book takes a practical approach to the topic of business planning for new venture creation and development. It includes a range of topics that stretch from how to create a competitive business strategy through to forecasting sales volume and value. It also looks at how to validate business ideas, brand a business, research and segment markets and raise finance.

The 30 Day MBA, (2013), Kogan Page

The 30 Day MBA in Marketing, (2011), Kogan Page

The 30 Day MBA in International Business, (2011), Kogan Page

The 30 Day MBA in Business Finance, (2011), Kogan Page

Practical Financial Management, (2011), Kogan Page

Starting a Business from Home, (2011), Kogan Page

Starting a Business for Dummies, (2011, 2014), Wiley

Startups: Business Plans for Small Businesses, (2012), Crimson Publishing

Starting and Running a Business All-in-one for Dummies, (2011), Wiley

Understanding Business Accounting for Dummies , (2010), Wiley

Get Backed, Get Big, Get Bought, (2009), Capstone

Starting a Business from Home, (2008), The Sunday Times

The Global Property Investor's Toolkit: A Sourcebook for Successful Decision Making, (2008), Capstone Reference

Buying a Property in Spain For Dummies, (2007), Wiley

The Successful Entrepreneur's Guidebook: Where You Are Now, Where You Want to Be, and How to Get There, co-authored with Robert Brown and Liz Clarke (Jan 3, 2007), Kogan Page

The Complete Small Business Guide: A Sourcebook for New and Small Businesses , (2006), Capstone Reference

The Complete Small Business Guide: A Sourcebook for New and Small Businesses, (2006), Capstone Reference

Buying a Property in Eastern Europe For Dummies, (2006), Wiley

The Successful Entrepreneur’s Guidebook: Where are you now, Where you want to be, How to get there, (2006), co-authored with Robert Brown and Liz Clarke, Kogan Page

The Complete Guide to Buying Property in Portugal: Buying, Renting, Letting and Selling, (2005, Kogan Page

Enterprise Development: The Challenges of Starting, Growing and Selling Businesses, co-authored with Gerard Burke, David Molian and Robert Brown (2004), Cengage Learning EMEA

Enterprise Development: The Challenges of Starting, Growing and Selling Businesses, by Colin Barrow and Gerald Burke, (2004), Cengage Learning

The Business Enterprise Handbook, (2003), The Sunday Times

e-Training and Development - Express Exec, (2003), Capstone

The Business Enterprise Handbook, co-authored with Robert Brown and Liz Clarke, (2001), The Sunday Times

Incubators: A Realist's Guide to the World's New Business Accelerators, (2001), Wiley

How to Survive the E-Business Downturn, (2001), Wiley

Financial Management for the Small Business: A Practical Guide, (2001), The Sunday Times

The Essence of Small Business, (1998), Prentice Hall

Sage Guide to Setting Up and Managing Your Own Business, editor (1998), Kensington West Productions Ltd

Principles of Small Business, co-authored with Robert Brown (1997), Intl Thomson Business Press

The Business Growth Handbook, co-authored with Robert Brown and Liz Clarke, (1992), Kogan Page

Taking Up a Franchise , co-authored with Godfrey Golzen, (1990), Kogan Page

The Economist Pocket Entrepreneur (1987), The Economist

Routes to Success: Case Studies of Forty United Kingdom Small Business Ventures, (1986), Kogan Page

How to Start and Run Your Own Business, Co-authored with Gillian Clegg, (1984), Palgrave Macmillan

Small Business Guide: Sources of Information for New and Small Businesses, (1982), BBC Books

Articles

• Creagh, Mary, Colin Barrow, and Trevor Morrow. Building Business: Management Training for Small Firms: Lessons from Cranfield Research and Experience. Cranfield University School of Management, 2000.
• Are entrepreneurs the real barrier to growth, adapted from chapter 9, of The Essence of Small Business 1998
• Dawn of the managers: Britain has embraced business education with mixed results, Sunday Times, 28th September 2014
• Franchising in the UK, Cranfield Working Paper Series, 1988
• How Green are Small Companies, with Andy Burnett, Cranfield Working Paper Series, October 1990
• Internet firms: what strategic changes have to be managed?, Strategic Change , Volume 10, Issue 2, pages 77–85, March/April 2001
• Key Staff Recruitment in Small Firms in the UK: A survey, Cranfield Working Paper Series, 1991
• Start-up business plan essentials: Preparing for change and growth, Startups, February 2015
• The role of non‐executive directors in high tech smes, Corporate Governance: The international journal of business in society, Vol. 1 Iss: 2, pp.34 – 36, 2001
• The single market and small growing companies in the UK: a survey by Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield Working Paper Series,1991

External Links

• Academic Advisor
• Business Investment for Growth
• Cornwall Business Awards

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