The startup and small business marketplace is a highly-competitive space where timely, high-quality advice can mean the difference between success and failure. The right advice at the right time can be a powerful competitive advantage.

Getting guidance from experienced individuals can help define strategy with clear execution and built-in problem-solving. This saves precious time, reduces risk, and helps you to control costs and increase revenue. This holistic approach is essential to any company looking to grow.

Strategy Development

Crystallizing your fundamental objective, and applying appropriate models, e.g. Porter’s Five Forces, Strategy Canvas, Value Chain Analysis, Resource and Capability Audit etc., supported by financial analysis, to refine strategy and ensure your organization is positioned where it needs to be to maximize value for customers and differentiate from competition.

Organisational Health Check

Ensuring alignment between the strategy and the resources required to deliver on it. This may include assessing and adjusting organizational architecture to ensure that it is optimized to deliver on the organizational strategy. Common issues for startups include poorly-defined processes or control systems, outgrown structures, and competing cultures between internal functions.

Innovation & Growth

Analyzing options for growth, whether into adjacent products or markets, or through greater market penetration and improved operations. Deciding the most suitable implementation vehicle for growth options, whether to build (through organic growth), buy (through merger or acquisition) or borrow (through partnership or strategic alliance).