EVERY PROBLEM HAS AT LEAST ONE SOLUTION

Practical Solutions to your Business Headaches

We are a team of senior experts who work across a range of business disciplines, with decades of experience collectively of solving the thorniest business problems facing business owners.

BESPOKE SOLUTIONS TO YOUR BUSINESS CHALLENGES

Regardless of the barrier between you and success in your business, we have the expertise to identify, develop and deliver management solutions in a wide range of areas. Although the techniques we use are based on standard, professional management tools, the formula we develop to help you is always unique to your business and will take into account its own individuality.

STRATEGIC DIRECTION AND COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

Our lead strategic consultants have many years of operating at the highest level in small and medium sized businesses, constantly asking and finding answers to the same types of question facing you.

BOARD LEVEL DIRECTION AND FOCUS

Your board of directors isn’t necessarily the same as either your group of shareholders or your management team, it sits in between as is the responsible body for your business. So if you aren’t certain that its current make-up can cover in one way or another all of the aspects of your business competently enough, then you have the opportunity to make improvement.

PLANNING AND FOCUS

You may have the greatest and most achievable mission and goals in the entire universe, but action has to start somewhere. Once your aims are written down in an attractive and appealing format, your work has only just begun. With our experience of managing business projects in a changing environment, we can introduce just the right amount of discipline and structure to make managing a huge change as palatable and enjoyable as it can possibly be.

EXIT, SUCCESSION, LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT TEAM DEVELOPMENT

Have you ever thought about your exit from your business? In preparation for it, you need to find a way to bring on your management team and develop your business so that when you do finally take your well-earned rest, you can have a great deal of confidence that it will continue to (or start to!) produce financial returns and capital growth. We are experienced at working with long-established businesses, especially family businesses and manufacturing firms, that have seen the world and their traditional markets change beyond recognition, to modernise them and make them run themselves.

SUSTAINABILITY AND CAPITAL GROWTH

Working capital and cash generation are the life blood of your business. If you are constantly left scratching your hear and wondering where all the cash in your business is disappearing, we can help.

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT & WORKING CAPITAL

Presumably you aren’t planning on dying at your desk (although it has to be admitted, we’ve come across situations that make us think some people are), in which case you will want to find a way to bring on your management team and develop your business so that when you do finally take your foot off the gas, you can have a great deal of confidence that it will continue to produce financial returns and capital growth. We are experienced at working with long-established businesses, especially family businesses and manufacturing firms, that have seen the world and their traditional markets change beyond recognition, to modernise them and make them run themselves.

BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION AND CULTURE CHANGE

It’s sometimes hard to believe, but the attitudes and thoughts of your staff can have as much as an impact on the performance of your business as their technical skills and the tasks you set for them. An organisation with a forward-looking culture that is aligned to its mission is one which gets there sooner. We are experts in managing change in a way that develops your organisation over time into the one that you need it to be.

MARKETING STRATEGY

Having a marketing strategy that supports your business strategy, rather than one which has grown up organically and hasn’t been sense-checked against where you want to get your business to, is the way to achieve this. Our marketing experts, who work under close supervision of our lead strategic consultants, will lead the development of this view for you.

SALES PROCESS DEVELOPMENT

Sales don’t just happen by accident; effective selling is a repeatable process. Do you understand the steps that need to take place to convert potential customers’ interest into buying action? Do you understand your conversion ratios and most valuable customer profile? And what about the simple rule of thumb that twice the activity, other things being equal, should produce twice the results?

OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY AND QUALITY MANAGEMENT

How do you eliminate all non-value adding cost from your business? How do you identify which parts of your business to work on first? A thorough analysis of every area of your business will ensure that your engine is running as efficiently as possible, contributing significantly to the performance business and cash generation.