IDEA TO REALITY
Business Start-up
We help new and existing business owners explore their new business idea.
6 Month Programme
This programme is tailored to the specific needs and availability of the business owner.
Sessions
Sessions once or twice per month. Working at your pace for between 2 – 3 hours each time.
Available in
Auckland / Waikato
Bay of Plenty
Hawke’s Bay
Government Funded
Government money is available to help fund this programme. Talk to us about applying for it.
Explore the posibilities and
Develop your expertise
BUSINESS SUSTAINABILITY
Helping you to develop and write a Strategy Plan that outlines what you want to achieve; including the potential market size; what share of the market you aim to achieve over the next 3 years; barriers of entry: time frames to establish the new venture; capital investment requirements, competitors – actual and potential; working capital requirements; a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) analysis; risk analysis; etc.
Business Planning
Using the three-year Strategy Plan as a base, developing plans to raise any required funds including bank facilities and investments. The Business Plan will also form the basis of a project plan to allow for forward planning to avoid the daily chaos of what needs to be achieved or completed next. The Strategy Plan should also be updated as actual plans fall into place.
Business Processes
Develop business processes that follow the critical path and so eliminate waste (rework) and reduce or remove potential business efficiency. Aligned with the strategy.
Financial Management
Learn how to read and setup Profit & Loss Statements and Balance Sheets to help manage your business. Reporting by business segment to identify both segment mix changes and under-performing areas of the business. Develop key financial business drivers to help to make more informed financial and management decisions. Create financial software systems if required.
Business Systems
Identify key business systems requirements within your business and complete a needs analysis to ensure that these systems meet both your current and future requirements.
Capital Raising
The Three-Year Strategy Plan will include capital requirements and timings of capital spend. It can be taken to the banks to obtain banking facilities and loans. We can also help you to provide specific information requirements for crowd funding, angel investors, investment companies, and other known investors to help obtain required capital requirements.
Marketing Strategy
Know your competitive advantage, tailor your marketing to the market conditions, your target market and increase your value proposition from a client perspective. Brand awareness. Value Propositions and unique value proposition.
Customer Satisfaction
Ensure your clients are happy. Good communications are key. Annual customer surveys (once established) to get a better understanding of what they think of your business and what you could do better. One-on-one’s with key clients to promote your business and to ensure that you are relevant to your client.
Human Resource Planning
Plan resources to meet client demand, don’t over-staff. Know the timeline to employ and train new staff. Think about the subcontractor / employee trade-off while starting-up the business and in times of skill shortages. Are owner / management and employee cultures aligned? Understanding of Team dynamics.
GOVERNANCE
(Working on the business) – helping you to develop better practices to enable you to have dedicated time to work on the business during working hours.
Procurement
Best practices including supplier reviews.
Resource Management Planning
Being prepared and knowing when you need to purchase, replace or release resources.
Process
Turn your idea into reality
We offer guidance, act as a sounding board, test your thinking, help you to validate your idea and support you in the development of a robust business plan.
Explore your idea in a confidential environment
Put the right foundations in place
Help you understand your legal obligations
Identify any potential risks
Other Funded Services
AUCKLAND | WAIKATO | BAY OF PLENTY | HAWKES BAY
Business Transformation
This is a fully comprehesive business transformation programme for business owners. We work on a one-to-one basis to build your management capability skills so your business will have the capacity to thrive, grow and transform to the next level.
Reconnect & Profit
This is hands-on coaching for business owners and their senior managers. We work with you one-on-one to support you through the Reconnect and Profit process. We provide the process, teach you how to use it and then get you to implement it.
Business Exit
A tailored one-on-one hands on business coaching / training approach to exit strategy. We help business owners identify what they need to do to prepare for the day when they want to leave and/or transition the business from one owner to another.
Funded
Our approach is grounded, pragmatic and realistic.
Real Business Advice
We find a one-on-one, face to face approach is still the best way to engage and deliver the most effective advice.
Real Experience
Experience tells us our that clients are not looking for an off-the-shelf solution to their problems.
Real People
Our clients are smart, hardworking entrepreneurs who seek guidance, advice, insight, and a good sounding board. In short a travel companion for the journey.
Real Results
We won’t sell you a pipe-dream. Everything we work towards with you realises a tangable benefit for your business and lifestyle.
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