Developing your strategy In a congested world, it can feel like most of the space is filled. Rapid changes in the market and economic circumstance mean finding that winning strategy is unclear. We will help you to find that inspiration, to propel you to advantage. Aligning your customer’s needs with your strategic direction, will lead to greater commitment and better results for you.
Reviewing and understanding In the complex world it is difficult to grasp all of the issues surrounding you; your time is eroded with balancing the delivery today with the planning for the future. We provide you with extra eyes and time to help to align you to gain control. Accessing our experience and resources will help you to plan and prepare for today and the future.
Engaging your customers You cannot survive without your customers; whether starting out or well established, potential growth requires a customer focused strategy. From the initial messaging and acquiring new custom through to developing the ultimate service. To succeed you must understand your value, initial offer is key, increase customer acquisition, improve results and provide greater business stability.
Nurturing your environment Your people are looking for purpose, true commitment can unlock that ultimate competitive advantage. Our answer is help you to develop a healthy culture of growth that makes for a more sustainable business. We will help you to take time to invest in people for the benefit of all round alignment, better staff, better customers, means better results.
Inspiring your teams The power behind a team is the individual agreement and alignment towards a shared goal. Working to support your team formations with an establishment of its success from the start. We help by aligning their individual objectives with those of the team, helping you to develop a shared a vision, set goals and widen the communication to produce a better outcome.
Your project strategy Any project has the potential to dramatically change a situation for the better, but it is risky; fail or deliver. Large or small with our experience we will help your people to deliver. Supporting your team in your strategy, identifying risks and sharing experience, reviewing improvements and add-on processes to ensure project success.
Creating great leaders Leadership can be immensely satisfying but lonely; you are expected to have all the answers when at times there is no right answer; at times like these it can help to have someone trusted to explore your ideas with. We work to help you and your people to become more effective, positive, balanced, focused, well-rounded and influential leaders.
Managing direction With responsibility there is expectation, the surest way to guarantee success is to work with people that you know can support the pressure and help your implementation supporting you to the next stage. We will help you and and your people to take control of the process with details, direction and decisiveness.
Succeeding through challenge Overcome the challenges presented with experience, explore different perspectives and encouraging determination, enabling you to take control and be more effective. Challenge is never the same; dig deep, we will help with your challenge with an ability to rise above the issues while being effective under pressure.
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And how to achieve it! Managing any projects with multiple parties and delivery partners can be challenging. It can be likened to trying to ‘hold water’. However our stakeholders rightly expect the project manager to package up these components into a ‘receptacle’ of confidence, that ‘receptacle’ itself being success.
Project success Running projects well makes good business sense; good projects lead to a shared pride between those involved in the project and your customers. People want to be associated with them and they will want to come back, which hopefully means more work.
Investing in the intangible Running a business is challenging; managing your orders, finances, operations and staff. All of this while you are looking to grow, attract customers and help them to find you. In this paper we look to explore the benefits and pitfalls of generating new business. Your time and money invested in the intangible, to ultimately achieve the tangible, for customers and a sustainable business, allowing you to take control and invest in the things you want.
Solving Innovation Why do great businesses struggle to innovate? This is a prolonged issue that can be a cause of decline. A recent study featured in Forbes explored the common themes of innovation, including conflicts with existing business priorities to understand the barriers to progress. Concluding that successful innovation can only be achieved by combining the generation of ideas with overcoming barriers of resistance.
Simplifying complexity If you enter ‘strategy’ into Google you will receive the complexity of over 640,000,000 references to the word but most simply if you look at the top; ’a plan of action designed to achieve a long-term or overall aim’. So which one of these many references is correct?
As ‘Institutional entrepreneurs’ Ever considered what is the role of the CEO? Well, where the role of the MD is primarily to manage inside, the role of the CEO is to manage outside, anticipate and set goals for the future. CEOs are the ‘Institutional entrepreneurs’ with obligations to their industries. Machiavelli once said ‘It is not titles that honour men, but men that honour titles.’ This is something for all of us to remember and in this paper we consider this.
The reality behind the words Books, books, books, the industry of business philosophy and autobiographies has created over 150,000 titles and with its variety is making many an author rich beyond those that seek its wisdom. In this paper we look to declutter the noise and seek to test these theories in practice with the desire to help guide developing practitioners towards identifying best practice.
Practical advice from leading practitioners Leadership today is extremely complex, with your every movement and every decision displayed through the social aspects of information. With guidance, advice and opinions readily available and every move second guessed by those who work for you and that you report to, often both having more information than you have. We asked a small group of practitioners how they approach their leadership style and cope. What basic principles do they abide by?
Where all business starts Ever wondered why you are continually having to over-manage your business to stay on track? This is probably nothing to do with your customers, your market, your people or your business, it is probably just natural evolution. The J-curve effect is related to many phenomenons, from economics to social sciences and in this paper we first look to explain the business cycle and then look at ideas to improve how you can best manage its natural evolution.