Business Turnaround and Cost Reduction

Anyone can audit a business and write a report stating that in order to improve its bottom line, the business needs to increase revenue, reduce costs and sell non-productive assets to reduce debt. That's the easy part. Our consultants understand that the real challenge is to know how. Using their extensive operational experience, our consultants help guide your business leaders, managers and executives to develop a business improvement plan that delivers real, sustainable improvements in your bottom line through insightful leadership and a disciplined analysis methodology. You know your business; we know the right questions to ask.

For a business to improve, it must become more effective in targeting value-adding activities and more efficient in its utilisation of critical resources such as assets, people, time and money.

To be more effective, a business must:

understand its market, its competitive advantage, its strengths and its weaknesses,
understand its strategic objectives,
have clear and precise tactical plans to deliver on those objectives whilst enhancing its strengths and protecting against its weaknesses, and
eliminate all business activities that are not aligned to or add value to those plans.

To become more efficient, a company must:

analyse its business-critical activities,
implement business processes that deliver value whilst minimising waste and duplication,
implement enterprise systems that reduce costs, enhance corporate knowledge and improve decision making,
deploy human resources in an organisational structure that promotes ownership, responsibility and accountability whilst encouraging a shared sense of purpose.

Our approach to business improvement is:

Gain a thorough understanding of your business through a structured approach to business performance auditing and analysis,
Facilitate a review of your business strategic and tactical plans,
Integrate business improvement opportunities into business plans,
Develop and implement risk and change management plan,
Develop and implement cultural change program to ensure improvements are sustained,
Implement and manage delivery of plans including, but not limited to:

Business Process Mapping,
Enterprise system development and implementation,
Cost reduction programs,
Performance improvement programs,
Staff training, coaching and mentoring.

Our goal is to make it easy for your business to:

Sharpen its strategic planning and focus effort on strategic objectives,
Identify and eliminate waste and duplication,
Improve utilisation of business critical resources,
Improve the efficiency of critical business processes,
Develop and implement / update enterprise systems to reduce manual effort, improve cross-functional integration, enhance corporate information and improve management decision making,
Achieve sustainable improvement to business outcomes.