Business
Strategic Planning
4-consulting enables organisations to achieve their targets through effective strategic and corporate planning.
We use a wide variety of relevant management tools and techniques to develop an organisation's business strategy.
Performance Improvement and Benefit Analysis
Corporate Planning
4-consulting uses corporate tools and techniques to create a strategy and action plan or to carry out a management review.
Action plans have considered areas such as:
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assembling a management team
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organisational changes
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production methods
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property
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information technology
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reporting structure
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accounting systems
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raising investment
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implementing a buy-out
Performance Improvement
4-consulting will effectively use performance improvement /value review tools and techniques to achieve reorganisation or to enable a business to work smarter
We can help an organisation to improve performance through:
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reviewing management and administration
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reviewing the organisation and procedures
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auditing performance against published quality standards
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offering confidential career and personal development counselling
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improving the performance of restructured teams
Training, Development, Coaching & Mentoring
We provide a variety of training and development solutions to enable people to become more effective.
Our consultants offer specialist training in many areas, and our bespoke training events can be tailored to meet the needs of specific individuals or groups.
Through coaching or mentoring we can provide a support mechanism to a range of people in senior positions, enabling them to review their performance in a safe environment and ensuring their effective development.
Key Contacts
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Ralph Leishman
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Ros Southcott
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Fiona Ballantyne
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Ken Marr
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Laurence Grainger
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Sandy Pratt
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
* Facilitating 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.
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Successfully assembling management team, raising investment and implementing a buy-out opportunity in the North Sea Oil Industry.
* Undertaking a management review for a leading UK garment manufacturer resulting in a change action plan.
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Assisting 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.
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Developing 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.
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Planning, developing and launching a series of three visitor centres for Scottish food company.
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Advising 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.
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Advising a Scottish electronics company on the logistical, structural, and corporate finance aspects of expansion into the United States and Hungary.
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Business plan for proposed expansion of a manufacturer of electronic weighing equipment, followed by implementation of an upgraded microcomputer accounting system.
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Against a background of external predatory influences, successfully turning around a company in the newspaper industry and restoring profitability.
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Completing a number of projects for the World Bank, in the following areas: textiles and thread production; banking; and paper manufacture, principally in Turkey.
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External audit of performance against its published quality standards for the National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting for Scotland.
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Working with the board, executive and financial backers of a leading edge biotechnology company to plan its strategy for development and diversification.