Service: STARR - Corporate Health Check

Under Construction: Due early 2008

Service: CASHWATCH

Under Construction: Due early 2008

Service: Turnaround Management

Many skills, tools and techniques are brought to bear when addressing Turnaround Management.  Invariably it is a survival mode situation which means an urgency to quickly assess what key actions are needed in the shortest time possible. This is best done by an independent experienced person with no emotional attachment. The essential attribute is a fresh hard objective review while management is in crisis mode and fire fighting. The turnaround specialist assists management with difficult decisions to quickly improve the business.

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Service: Strategic Workshops

Businesses should always review their corporate strategy on a regular basis. Having a vision and crystallising the steps to be taken is a challenge. A strategic workshop is a forum to bring together key role players and the collective thinking of the group. The assistance of an external facilitator ensures participation through a structured process. Creating and documenting action plans to be implemented in a timely manner. 

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Service: Business Plans

Is your bank manager asking you where your business is heading? Are you able to explain and give insight to all the various aspects of your business from strategy, marketing, products/services, growth plans, finance and importantly your future cash situation? Your bank manager wants to have confidence in you and comfort that the bank’s loans are safe. Having an independent professional adviser, who will act as a sounding board and a checking mechanism. This is especially so with regard to over optimistic or even too pessimistic views of your future business activities. What is needed is a robust and realistic business plan. What better way then to have assistance with the structure and contents of a good business plan for presentation to your bank then engaging an independent adviser.

Service: Mentoring/Coaching

The support, guidance and advice of a mentor or coach can do wonders to eliminate obstacles and many pressures. SMEs more often than not are grown out of small start ups by entrepreneurial people with a good idea, and who want to remain being their own boss. Often there is no time for learning all the skills and management techniques which is fine while growing. As businesses step up to higher bigger levels the need for more appropriate management skills become more glaring. There are now people to manage, delegation required, controls to put in place, HR issues to handle, communicating proper cohesive messages and the list just goes on and on. That feeling of being overwhelmed and swamped can cause the downfall of that business that has been built up successfully up to now. From time to time having a mentor or coach alongside to share the burden will really help.

Service: Business Valuations

Selling your business or have you been made an offer and you want to know what your business is worth? Do you need more finance? Perhaps you merely want to restructure your business or shareholding as personal circumstances change. Then you need an independent qualified experienced professional, with both business and corporate finance experience. Someone who has integrity and is able to deal with all matters in a confidentiality manner and create a strong level of trust. Having a valuation you believe is fair and reasonable, while at the same time allowing room for negotiations, that will enhance your situation.

Service: Process Improvements

Organisations structured by departmental may lose sight of key processes that transcend departments. Three important areas People, Technology and Process need to be assessed as their inter-dependency is often not known or recognised for enhancements to be achieved. An independent adviser can undertake this difficult review, make recommendations for implementation which should result in significant benefits.

Service: Project Management

From time to time most businesses have to go through a major change which invariably means initiating a project. A typical project normally involves achieving a major objective with predefined goals, major cost implications and a timeline to achieve these successfully. Very often a senior manager is tasked with the responsibility of overseeing the project, notwithstanding that there is an expectation that their normal responsibilities still remain. This situation creates a twofold risk. Their existing responsibilities may not be managed as well as they should be and the project cannot be properly managed, creating a lose lose situation. Engaging an independent experienced project manager who can focus 100% on the project within the same terms and conditions will significantly enhance the success of a project.