Business Development
Self Evaluation Workshops
Business owners and managers are encouraged to evaluate their
position and contribution to the business, to focus on maximising
their input to and rewards from, the business.
SWOT Workshops
Conducted with key employees and owners/managers to identify major
strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats to the business
and develop ongoing strategies to set the course for the future
of the business.
Strategic Plans
Development of practical and usable short to medium term strategic
direction plans for businesses, focusing on clearly defined target
markets and targeting defined overall results.
Business Plans
Putting the ‘meat on the bones’ of the strategic plan,
the business plan is the mechanism by which the strategic plan is
realised.
Particular action plans are developed under the headings of Operations,
Innovation, Human Resources, Marketing and Finance.
Sales Growth Strategies
Developing strategies to expand sales through focus on such matters
as sales enquiry conversion rate, retention of existing customers,
repeat business and average sale per customer.
Strategies to maintain customer contact regularly and add value
through improving the quality of contact with customers.
Customer Profitability Analysis
Identifying high and low ‘maintenance’ customers and
how much they generate for the business, to assess where time and
resources should be allocated for best advantage.
Benchmarking
Compares your business to similar businesses /industries. Analysis
of your business turnover, profitability, return on funds employed,
return on owners equity, compared to industry standards.
These comparisons highlight major areas to target improvements
in business performance and results.
Succession Planning
Particularly with reference to family business, assistance with
an organised process to identify, train and mentor the successor(s)
to existing business owners and managers who are preparing for retirement
or partial or full sale of a business.
For more information please contact John Stead or Steve Tyshing
on (03) 9840 2200.
|