New Zealand Business Advice & Mentoring
To run a business successful, excellence in marketing, operations and scorekeeping. is key. It is not often that one person possesses this complete skill set, let alone the time. Business owners normally have high technical expertise in their products but lack certain competencies and skills to take their company from good to great. Lack of success often result from:
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Lack of vision / strategy / planning
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Poor or inadequate marketing
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Poor credit control and cash flow management
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Incorrect costing / pricing
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Inadequate record-keeping, measurements and reporting
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Failure to seek external business advice
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Business concept, products or services not viable
What can we do for you?
We specialise in providing you with business advice and mentoring to succeed. We are change agents that will turn the fear of success into the energy of success. We are the only providers of a holistic view and solution for your business, being able to use a problem-focused or business-focused approach. All our solutions are customised to your needs.
Our services
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Business Mentorship delivers in house coaching, training and advice to you. In agreement with you, we will introduce new ideas, concepts and frameworks.
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Business Health produces a single view of all aspects influencing your business.
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Process Design ensures that your processes are effective (do the right things) and efficient (do the rights things is quickest way).
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Accounting / Financial system implementation. We are vendor independent and will analyse your needs, find the proper system and assist with the project management of the implementation.
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Risk Management ensures that you understand and mitigate the fundamental risks your business are exposed to. We aim to ensure that no single risk occurring can put you out of business.
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Business Planning ensures that you have professionally prepared plans for external and internal use. Internal plans can consist of 1 page and be effective.
- Business Mentorship
- Business Health
- Business Planning
- Process Design
- System Implementation
- Risk Management
We develop leadership, mentorship and coaching for our clients. Our business mentors will provide you with the necessary skills and frameworks to accelerate success in your business.
We provide a single view of your business health covering people, strategies and operations.
Furthermore, we will assess the maturity and capability of your business enablers i.e. people, processes, systems and financial capital.
Our business advice is supported by our business mentorship programme which will provide and assist you with an execution plan to address any shortcomings identify.
We prepare business plans for internal use as well as submission to banks and into tender processes. We provide business advice related to business startup, strategies required for growth and when business owners want to exit their business.
We identify failure points within your business processes and will draft new busines processes for you. We will provide business advice to enable you in the definition of ownership, accountability and responsibility towards processes.
We determine if the current IT systems implemented are supportive of the key drivers and strategy of your business. In addition, we identify the appropriate systems needed and assist with the implementation.
We determine your current cash wastage, optimum working capital cycles and the appropriate debt cover. Our business advice will ensure that you understand your cash flow and that you are able to manage it in a predictable manner.
We design effective risk management strategies for your business, enabling you to understand the major risks your business are exposed to and the controls needed to mitigate these risks. Our business advice will ensure that you understand your downside risks and that you can remedy it appropriately.
We analyse and improve the current financial health of your business. Our business advice includes scenario (what if) analysis and benchmarking. We provide you with desired financial position for you business and furthermore, we prepare budgets and forecasts, providing you with adequate information to support your financial decision making.
