Business Advisory, Strategic Support Services, Business Coaching Solelyfor the CEO, Managing Director and or Business Owner.
Business Advisory and Support Services.
The job of a Chief Executive Officer brings with it power, great salary, and of course, the often envious task of being the boss - it is also the loneliest position in the business world! We UNDERSTAND THIS and have been working with CEO's, like you, to assist in providing solutions to your very complex issues; this includes coaching, mentoring, strategic and general business support, by trained and experienced staff who have been there and got the T shirt. We provide un-biased help to the CEO, Managing Director or Business Owner. So if you need Business Support to the CEO fill in the box below and we will contact you.
Rates.
We charge between R1000 and R1750 per hour for our Business Support programs.
Our turnaround strategies also incur a percentage success fee. We work with you in the beginning to set down benchmarks to measure against.
Business Planning.
Our business planning process has helped CEO's put together business plans that have unlocked inner profits for decades.
If your Business does not have a Plan - written and shared with your Staff- it isn't going anywhere!
“Drive your business or it will drive you” - Benjamin Franklin.
Complete the forms below which will open to give you a link to cut and paste into your browser in order to download the files.:
A One Page Strategy Planning Guide.
How to
Write a Business Plan Guide.
An Executive Summary Guide.
Business Planning Services
Writing your own business plan is not easy. Whilst we provide templates we recommend that you use our Business Planning Services as we are professionals and have written hundreds of plans. Where we don't have a sample plan we have contacts developed over the years that also have many sample plans that we can tap into. This makes it probable that your plan will be tied into the latest thinking and methodologies, which change frequently.
Business Planning Contents.
Our usual Business Plans are fairly comprehensive. You can decide which element of the plan may not suit your personal requirement. Contents include:
We charge an hourly rate of R1000. An average business plan can take up to 24 hours depending on the level of research needed. Obviously the more information given to us reduces this research time.
Business Plan Review Services.
If you have written your own plan and need a professional review with tips we can do this. We charge as follows:
If you still want to write your own plan then we recommend the Palo Alto Range of Software Planning tools
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The exclusive Sample Plan Browser lets you quickly find the plan that meets your needs. Then you can write up the plan in your own words (step-by-step guidance makes it a snap!). Or simply edit the text found in any of the real working sample plans. Every single plan can be opened and edited in Business Plan Pro to give you the jump-start you need.
Business Strategy- Balanced Scorecard: The Kaplan and Norton Methodology.
Mapping out a long-term vision and strategy is possibly your key task as a CEO. Once completed it is imperative that an effective plan is laid out to achieve your strategic intent. We assist you in ensuring that your vision and mission are clearly and explicitly articulated so that all levels in the organisation are in alignment.
Successful execution of business strategy requires you to make some tough choices. Whether you are improving your organizational infrastructure, reorganising your sales force, crafting a marketing plan, restating your financials or seeking efficiencies in a merger or acquisition, the right alignment of people and resources is critical to your success.
Our strategy services are there to help you develop a strategy that is clear to all stakeholders in your organisation. We assist you to prioritize and execute major business initiatives so that organizational resources support the successful achievement of your business strategy.
The strategy services include:
strategic planning using the Balanced Scorecard method, incorporating Strategy Maps, alignment of Strategic plans to all levels of the organisation.
alignment of your strategic plans across all business units and service units to all levels of the organisation.
planning using driver based performance planning ensuring that strategic initiatives are tied in to operational execution,
budgeting, ensuring alignment to the strategic plan and forecasting using techniques such as the Rolling Forecast model
financial support to ensure that your strategic goals are met and that dashboards reflect the correct measures and targets with initiatives that close the value gap.
crafting marketing plans that work.
organizational readiness to execute strategic plans down to the individual level.
"Risk is a function of how poorly a strategy will perform if the 'wrong' scenario occurs"Michael Porter.
Mark Frigo said Strategic Risk Management is "how well a business strategy will perform under different scenarios and events" and whose goal is to "preserve and enhance value".
We believe that Strategic Risk Management is about identifying, evaluating and managing the risk associated with your business strategy. It includes evaluating events and scenarios that can have not only a negative but also a positive impact on the organisation's performance. The ideal is to make your leadership team more agile in responding to events if and when they occur.
Rates.
We charge an hourly rate of R1000 for our Balanced Scorecard service.
Tax Consulting
We
assist in ensuring best
practice tax structuring and
have saved our Clients
Millions of Rand's in the
past 5 years.
Rates.
We charge an hourly rate of between R350 to R1000, depending on the seniority of the Consultant and your tax matters..
Forecasting – Sales and Operational Expenditure.
Companies must move towards a more modern method of financial planning. If your competitors do a better job of linking their budgeting to their strategic planning they will rapidly take market share and erode your customer value proposition.
Our method ties in your strategic plan which we have reduced to a visible and understandable strategy map incorporating your
Balanced Scorecard with its measures, target and initiatives to ensure that your strategic intent is not lost in the budgeting process.
We charge an hourly rate of between R350 to R1000, depending on the complexity.
Organisational Health Check.
We offer a self diagnostic Health Check that assesses the health of your organisation. It assesses your company in 7 areas that we believe are essential to success.
Leadership - The leadership category evaluates the commitment and involvement of senior level management in creating and sustaining a focus on values of quality such as customer satisfaction amongst others.
Information and Analysis - How well you cope with Management of Data, Competitive Analysis and Analysis and use of data.
Strategic Planning - How well you deal with the strategic planning process and performance planning
Human Resources - How well you do around Human Resource planning, employee involvement, education and training, employee performance and recognition and employee satisfaction.
Process Management - How well you design and introduce new products, production and delivery processes, business and support service processes, supplier quality and quality assurance.
Operations - How well you manage product and service quality, operating results, business and support service results and supplier quality results.
Customer - How well you manage, customer expectations and customer relationship management amongst others.
Complete the form below and
we will email you an
Organisational Health Check
at no charge.
As the CEO/Managing Director/ Business Owner have you recently assessed the functional areas in your business to see how well they are coping with the fundamental business principles, applicable to all businesses , no matter what Industry or sub sector you are operating in?
Find out if your business is ready to take advantage of market opportunities. Send us an email and we will send you a free business review form.
OurDr. Freestone is available for Non-Executive Director services. His IFRS, King 3 and New Company Act are all up to date with the latest changes. He recently completed the JSE Alt-x Directors Induction course.
