Business Solutions
Your business is unique, your dreams are unique, and your vision is unique, our solutions have to be as unqiue as you. We work with you to develop a range of options to enable you to solve issues and achieve your maximium potential. Some of our services and solutions are listed below:
- Business Planning
Drafting of business plans or business plan review for fitness for purpose - Business Process Engineering
Are your processes efficent? Have you ever considered of your business could be more efficient? Many business owners are too busy to be able to notice how or where they can be more efficient. Remember that efficency improvements directly affect profitability. Let us review your processes to improve your efficiency. - Grant Application Support
A specialty of ours, with over 30 years combined experience of managing government grant schemes, appraising applications, developing policy and the regulations themselves, we have an intimate knowledge of how to maximse your chances of gaining a grant.
Unlike other business consultants we will give you an open and honest opinion of the chance of success. As ex-government managers we have extensive knowledge of the regulations, policies and what aspects have to be covered, in many cases we were involved in the writing of the guidelines that the officials assesing your project uses. Support includes full liaison and negotiation on your behalf to maximise the grant awarded. We can review and revise your draft application or draft the application completely for you (including financial appendices).We aim to make the process straightforward and easy for you. - Project Management
Full project management from initiation to completion. For grant funded projects this can include claims compilation and submission to ensure cash flow to your business. Failing to complete and claims regularly is a common issue for small businesses and can hinder business cashflow. - Joint Ventures
Assistance in setting up and negotiations. We can also identify or seek joint venture partners on your behalf. - Search for finance
Full support in your search for finance. - Innovation support and facilitation
Benchmarking will only get your business to the middle, to go futher and be ahead of the competition in a competitve 24 hour global economy requires innovation. We can facilitate innovation activities including ideas generation, suggestion of alternative areas and partnering with suitable knowledge providers. - Knowledge Transfer activites
Tied into innovation avctivities including technology development we can identify suitable knowledge partners and negotiate terms on your behalf. - Business Coaching
Coaching you and your staff to achieve their potential. - Start-up support
A full range of support from business planning, market assessment, set up of processes and identification of key staff. - Financial Management
Many smaller, and not so small businesses, have poor financial management and controls. We can set up full management systems for you so that you can identify the financial health of your business. Many businesses fail to gain investment because of their poor financial management, don't let your business be one of them.