What’s the Problem?

Businesses are beset with a multitude of issues, we all have them. As time passes we learn to live with the ones we know about and don’t feel able to address, we end up stepping over and around them every day without realising. A great many others go unrecognised, until they become critical.

Every one of them is creating waste and costing time, effort and money.

When they reach critical mass, they impact business results dramatically, and this manifests in a number of ways.

We bring a tremendous amount of experience in identifying and resolving the root cause of issues and can help you effectively address a number of key challenges businesses can face.

If any of the below sound familiar, then we may be able to help.

  • Constantly firefighting

    If your business is constantly facing one crisis after another, if time is always consumed dealing with pressing, unplanned matters and problems, it is a sign that you lack basic controls, and core processes are letting you down.

    We can help you get things under control, establish robust core processes, and create a more ordered and less stressful working environment.

  • Declining Profit

    Even in times of low inflation, it is vital to continuously drive productivity to protect margins and profitability. With higher rates of inflation, like now, it is more critical than ever.

    If your margins are suffering, then we can help by addressing cost consciousness within the business, and drive productivity and value added activity in areas which will improve your margins.

  • Stagnating Growth

    Slowing growth or contraction, can be caused by many factors, problems with the product or service, competitive issues, or ineffective sales and marketing processes. All of which can be a critical issue for the future prospects of the business.

    We can help you identify the root cause of the issue, implement corrective actions, and reverse this serious condition, bringing your business back to a healthy growing one.

  • Poor Cash Flow

    With supply chains stretched to the limit, and inflationary pressure everywhere cash flow is becoming critical for many businesses.

    We can offer support in analysing your cash situation, cash cycle, and identifying ways to try and improve your problem, from identifying cost reduction opportunities, helping with supplier pay terms, or assistance with sourcing additional funding.

  • Employee Retention or Performance

    Employee retention or performance issues can be symptoms of competitiveness of remuneration, or of deeper problems with recruiting or management processes.

    We can provide an unbiased assessment of your issue, and help implement actions to give you a highly engaged, effective and loyal workforce.

  • All of the above

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 These aren’t the only problems we can address. In short if you’re struggling with something and want some support to help you address it faster than you could by yourself, or if you’re faced with a challenge your team haven’t encountered before, please get in touch. We can offer advice, guidance and pragmatic support on a wide range and level of challenges and activities.

 We will use a structured approach to help you resolve your issues, including the use of industry accepted tools and frameworks as appropriate.

Our Approach to help you solve your problems

  • Analyse the Situation or Problem

    Society in general is endemic with addressing the symptoms of a problem, rather than the cause, and unfortunately many businesses are exactly the same.

    It is critical if we want to fix a problem properly, and fix it forever, that we address the fundamental root cause/s.

    We will work with you and your team to analyse and get to the heart of your problems so that moving forward you can have confidence that they have been thoroughly addressed.

  • Suggest Solutions

    Once the root cause of your problems are clearly identified we will help you develop appropriate solutions.

    In many cases we will be dealing with issues we have addressed previously, and where we can help you save time, money and effort we will recommend these, and support you with them.

    Ultimately, though the choice will be yours, it’s your business.

    This is why we don’t follow a one size fits all approach. Our role is to support your needs.

  • Support Implementation

    As your organisation works to implement the solutions you have decided upon, we will be on hand to support you however you may require.

    This may take the form of training and development of staff in new tools and techniques, supporting the improvement of key processes or development of new ones, helping with the implementation of new systems, or with introducing best practices.

    Once again this will be determined and controlled by you, based on what you want and need.

  • Follow Up

    Once implementation has occurred we work with you to monitor and track the improvement, and to ensure you are seeing the results expected.

    In the very unlikely event that you are not, we will continue to work the issue with you, at our cost, until you are completely satisfied.

    See our guarantee on our services page.

The Solution

We work with you directly, and on many levels to help get to the root cause of the issues and challenges you are facing, and fix them for good, in a practical and pragmatic way.

Whilst it is impossible to eliminate all problems that will occur, or all of the stress, both being a part of the responsibility you hold, we can help your business perform significantly better, and provide you and it, with a calmer, brighter and more hopeful future.