Business Services - Clients & Projects

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Examples of how our clients have benefited

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Planning and developing business 

We create business plans that cover all financial, human resources and marketing issues.

 

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Managing globalisation

We advise businesses on the logistical, structural and financial aspects of expansion into other countries.

 

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Developing plans for diversification

We can work with a company or organisation to plan a strategy for development and diversification and explore different options.

 

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Acquisitions & buy-outs

We can help clients to assemble a management team, raise investment and implement a management buy-out, and advise on acquisitions.

 

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Managing change

We design and implement change programmes for clients in both public and private sectors.

 

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Protecting the business

We help organisations to prepare business continuity plans for use when unexpected disasters occur.

Sample Clients

bulletFacilitating a National team for Andersen to develop a revised management focus and deploy a new communications strategy. This led on to developing a seminar for the global management team of the internal technology division about their customer management strategy.

 

bulletSuccessfully assembling management team, raising investment and implementing a buy-out opportunity in the North Sea Oil Industry.

 

bulletUndertaking a management review for a leading UK garment manufacturer resulting in a change action plan.

 

bulletAssisting a computer services consortium within the Scottish Health Service prepare a business plan for its future operation in the light of the White Paper reforms.

 

bulletDeveloping Business Plans for the launch and development of an innovative software package developed by Heriot Watt University, for Farm Diversification in Dumfries and Galloway following the Foot and Mouth Disease, for large-scale Lottery bids, and for a number of tourism initiatives.

 

bulletPlanning, developing and launching a series of three visitor centres for Scottish food company.

 

bulletAdvising a Scottish engineering group in its globalisation process including establishment of a Middle-East base in Dubai - serving also the Far-East and parts of Asia; expansion into the manufacturing of key products - in southern Ireland; and acquisition and expansion of a specialised lifting equipment company based in France.

 

bulletAdvising a Scottish electronics company on the logistical, structural, and corporate finance aspects of expansion into the United States and Hungary.

 

bulletBusiness plan for proposed expansion of a manufacturer of electronic weighing equipment, followed by implementation of an upgraded microcomputer accounting system.

 

bulletAgainst a background of external predatory influences, successfully turning around a company in the newspaper industry and restoring profitability.

 

bulletCompleting a number of projects for the World Bank, in the following areas: textiles and thread production; banking; and paper manufacture, principally in Turkey.

 

bulletExternal audit of performance against its published quality standards for the National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting for Scotland.

 

bulletWorking with the board, executive and financial backers of a leading edge biotechnology company to plan its strategy for development and diversification.

 

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