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Sometimes you can hit a brick wall and things start to stand still. At these times, clear planning will help to get you through but you will also benefit from some practical guidance.
We have extensive experience of working on business efficiency programmes with significant profit improvement. Efficiency is about people doing the right thing at the right time, it's about systemisation and simplification. But fundamentally, it is also about sales.
We can help you identify and put in place plans to improve capacity and profitability. You'll find that on the capacity side the best option is to sell the spare as efficiency grows, and we can guide you on this too.
Working closely with our business strategy team can feel like a revelation, so if you need some smart help, and are motivated enough to do things about it, get in touch.
The overall strategic plan required significant profitability improvements to provide a sustainable return to shareholders and funds for further investment. Workshops with the senior management team identified a number of projects over a two year period, with each team responsible for defining the problem, getting authorisation for change, implementing the change and maintaining the process. Project teams take on two projects for each session and most are dealt with within 6 - 8 weeks. Now into its second year, key projects included improving customer relationships to define planning, extend and clarify contracts, and increase utilisation levels, simplifying the sales order process and database making it much easier for the team to process transactions, automating sections of the business processes, and working with suppliers to improve input quality. Significant efficiencies have been gained, and the business is very successful.
"Thank you again for your part in the success of the Berlin conference. The group discussion session went extremely well, and your introduction and facilitation were great. It's always difficult to find a theme that is relevant to everyone, and I felt that this was just the right approach and allowed them to address a really practical issue while "networking" with others in their group at the same time."
Susan Humphry
CEO IAPA www.iapa.net
