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STRATEGY & PLANNING

When making strategic decisions, drawing on previous experience from similar situations and lessons learnt from other businesses can prove invaluable.  

An external perspective can prove invaluable when you are reviewing strategy -  an objective view to help inform and focus your thinking and options.

 

Sometimes you just need someone to bounce ideas off, or more direct support to sit alongside you, adding weight to your efforts wherever it is needed - from drafting plans and documents to presenting and negotiating as part of your team.

 

Internally, support to help with structured project planning and management, and managing and developing teams and systems, can help make that vital difference when moving the business forward.

 

 

Business Plans

 

Whether you are a start-up looking to set you thinking on the right path, or an established business looking for additional funding or other external resources, producing a comprehensive and professional business plan is fundamental.

 

A good business plan is not just about setting out where the business is now, and where it is going,  it can also a marketing tool - presenting the potential of the business in the best light.  

 

Having written plans for brand new concepts looking for start-up funding, consultancy reports and proposals that have turned into major projects, management plans to help transform corporate departments, and comprehensive plans and documents to support a listing on the AIM stock market,  I can help you produce whatever you need for your business.

 

Turning plans into reality can also mean structured project planning - whether in helping you manage, taking project management responsibility myself, or providing whatever level of support your existing team needs to get the job done for you.

 

 

Mentoring & Support

 

Having someone to talk to, who can question and discuss your thinking, could be important to you, or any members of your team.  If you are running your own business, you can sometimes feel isolated, and do not always have the people around you with whom you can talk to in confidence about the business. If having an external ear, a sounding-board, would be useful, then make contact.

 

 

Market Opportunities

 

Taking a fresh look at your products, services and revenues can open up new doors for your business.  Is there another, new market out there ?   How can we retain and build our current clients whilst taking what we do into new areas?   Are there larger clients and contracts out there for us if we can upgrade how we operate?  Could we take on new markets if we formed the right alliance or network of providers?   What about potential acquisitions to gain market share and add an extra dimension to what we are already doing?

 

Seeing the right opportunity, evaluating the options, and successfully achieving that step-change, could be the most important decisions you make.   

 

 

Beating Your Competitors

 

Beating your competitors is not just about price and quality.  A whole raft of issues can be involved.  Coming out ahead is about looking at all of their strengths, weaknesses and customer relationships, and using them to your advantage to make yourselves the preferred option.

 

Whatever your market and current situation, an objective, commercially focused review will highlight clear opportunities to re-shape your offering and target the right customers with the right messages to clearly differentiate you from the competition.  

 

 

Realising Market Value

 

If you are running your own business the the way forward is as much about you and your aspirations as it is for the business.

 

Do you have a strategy to maximise the market value of your business ?   Have you considered whether you want to sell the business at the right time - and whether as a private sale, to a venture fund, or by being acquired by another business?  Do you want to retain a controlling interest or management control ?

Or maybe you have you considered floating the business on AIM ?

 

Making the right move requires a whole raft of expensive professional expertise. I don’t have all of the answers at my fingertips, but have been through these processes before and can be on your side of the table every step of the way.

 

Finding New Business

 

Being Better

 

Making Technology Work