Business services

Many business plans are written solely to secure external funding. A good business plan will, however, do much more and should provide a strong platform for your business – we often recommend businesses to have detailed business plan.

Why should I have a business plan?

A good business plan will:

• Provide a clear view of your business purpose and enable this to be communicated to partners and staff
• Predict future impacts and contain actions to ensure they do not threaten your business
• Set clear targets and objectives so that business performance can be monitored
• Set out where you want to be in the future and how you will get there.

Our consultants will work with you to put strong plans in place, achieve financial goals and address critical resource requirements in the planning process.

We will help you to uncover the following areas:

Typically, business plans will cover:

• The market your business operates or plans to operate within
• Target client base
• An analysis of competitors
• Marketing strategy
• Marketing plan
• Business risks
• Sales targets and objectives
• Operational requirements
• Financial requirements and forecasts

Our Business strategist consultants will help clients to consider new strategies for the development of their business.

Strategy must be understood, planned and then implemented. It must identify what your business has to do now and in the future to be successful and qualify what success means. Whilst driven at senior management level, strategy must be owned by decision makers throughout your business to be successful.

However, we are also firm believers that development of strategy should be fun and have considerable expertise in achieving this balance, through use of strategic tools which significantly differentiate your business from others.

Benefits

You will benefit from our business strategy services by:

• Knowing where resource – time, people and money, should be focused in the future
• Definition of where a different focus is necessary to be successful
• Understanding why particular products or initiatives have been successful
• Understanding where your business has skills deficits and what needs to be done about them
• An analysis of where your business makes the most cash and why
• Knowledge of the market you operate in and why clients purchase from your business and its competitors
• Better knowledge of premium customers and how to gain their commitment for the long term
• Identification of areas of the business which have limited shelf life and should be discontinued or sold in the future

Why should I invest in business strategy services?

• To differentiate your business from others and make it increasingly different and better than those of competitors
• To retain and better serve your most profitable customers
• To make sure that your business achieves its maximum potential.

We provide high quality proposal writing and proposal management services. These are geared, again, to winning business in highly competitive markets.

We also provide marketing services which contribute to increased revenue and profitability – from preparation of comprehensive marketing strategies to implementation.

Our sales consultancy team helps to develop your business for Specification Selling Process which will offer you the following benefits:

• Understand the impact of market influences
• Recognise the different contracts used and their impact on decision making
• Appreciate how the residential sector is evolving and its future industry wide impact
• Know how different decision makers influence specification
• Effectively use the different sales tools available
• Develop strategies to manage the process

Outsourcing of the Testing function can save companies a significant amount as compared to in-house testing. Independent Verification & Validation (IV&V) will give organizations that choose to focus on creating a culture of quality a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

We are known to bring order even in the most chaotic environments within a short span of time, the key value drivers of this center of excellence are Coverage, Domain Value Add, Time to Market and Resource Scalability.

Software testing is a vital phase in any software development project. Frequently changing requirements coupled with a reduced product development life cycle has increased the risk of application deployment before a product is ready for the market. Surveys have proved that bug fixing accounts for a huge percentage of software project cost.

Our testing experts take the uncertainty out of product quality. Our proven QA methodology has worked consistently to our customers’ benefit. With every project, we rigorously follow steps such as requirements analysis, project planning and scheduling, test planning, team planning, implementation, feedback and follow-up. This has ensured bug free products in the shortest possible time.

We can complement your QA team by fulfilling tasks that your QA team does not have bandwidth to do. Alternately, you can outsource your entire QA effort to us. In either scenario, our experienced project team will work seamlessly with your development and QA team to deliver a great product.

We offer our customers functional testing on both Manual and Automated Testing services

New strategies involve a process of change, which must be handled at the right pace and carefully considered. The best performing businesses must be aligned and adaptable to changing circumstances and market forces.

We work with our clients to achieve the benefits of change – whether driven through extraordinary growth opportunities, market alignment, investor, merger, acquisition or downsizing.

During transition, our consultants are on hand to assess, manage and advise on the infrastructure and systems required for successful business transformation.

Our strategies will help engage your workforce towards any change there by creating commitments over compliance and reduce unnecessary resistances.

Projects should fit with business strategy, be clearly defined and bring specific benefits to your business.

A well project, achieved through strong project management involves planning, communications, handling budgets and keeping a balance between the key parameters of time, cost and quality.

What are the key benefits?

The project manager is often viewed as a balancing mechanism, being responsible for time, cost and quality.

Our Business project managers will:

• Comprehensively plan all elements of the project
• Control costs, quality and efficiency effectively
• Control the project thoroughly, gaining the trust and support of colleagues
• Engage the project team in decision making – boosting both productivity and trust
• Structure tasks in logical and correct order
• Solve problems and contingency plan
• Stay focused on results.

We are able to provide highly capable project managers, available to handle part or full project lifecycle. We have experience of successful delivery of large, complex multi-stakeholder projects, although we will project manage any business development, change or IT project whatever the size, particularly where this is the result of consultancy services.

Formal project management methodologies such as PRINCE2 and Lean Six Sigma are available providing robust, dependable frameworks which minimise risk and exposure on bigger projects.

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