ADVISORY SERVICES

Business Plan Preparation:  Usually plans are prepared for two reasons (1) plan to grow your business and or (2) to gain financing for a new business or to expand your existing businesses.

• If you are trying to obtaining financing for a business startup or growing your existing business, it is even more important to have a professionally written business plan.  This is a very important document that often serves as the company’s first introduction to investors.  We can act as your business startup consultant and help your through the process.
• Plans are also designed for internal use in making sure that all the key components, elements and structure are there for having a successful business operation that is staged for success and growth.

Business Foundation:  In order to succeed a business must have a focus, a purpose (besides making money) a mission, a vision and guidelines of what you and your business values.  It is this foundation that directly makes sense for the business and marketing strategies; the objectives and goals are aligned with your mission and vision.

Competitive Advantage Defining:  We help businesses to either re-define what their competitive advantage(s) are and review them in a new context or help businesses to find what their competitive advantages truly are or help them to develop them.

Marketing Plans:  need help on increasing your business sales with an effective marketing plan?  We can do your marketing analysis including size, segments, growth, competitors, and customers.  We can then assist you in developing good marketing strategies and tactics to reach targeted markets and customers.

Business Operations Consulting:  We provide help with strategic planning, cash flow planning, budgeting, product costing, product pricing,

• Financial systems: we can review and assist in providing assures the financial systems are providing the necessary, proper data and information for helping you the owner or manager in running the business.
• Management systems: we can provide an array of management and supervisory services in terms of managing systems and skill training, human resources,  goal and objectives planning, performance evaluations, and employee handbook preparations

Manufacturing Consulting:  We can help with wage and compensation systems, organizational structure, personnel management systems, business performance metrics, quality systems, ISO 9000:2000 implementations, quality improvement initiatives, purchasing and materials management, MRP/ERP systems and more.

Lean Manufacturing Consulting: We can assist you in leading the initiative in producing at or below the target cost, meet or exceed quality requirements and product it just when the customer wants it.  Lean manufacturing focus on reducing “waste” in the entire process and thus reduce cycle time and improves customer delivery.