The Growth Enterprise Manual has been devised in response to intelligence gained from our Bespoke Services Division.
Growth Enterprise Bespoke Services only works with smaller businesses intent on growth. Our vision it to help you consistently grow your net profits, avoiding the traditional peaks and troughs.
We create value by offering tailor-made solutions that allow you to create sustainable growth strategies.
We are able to take on specific tasks that you do not have the time to do yourself. This is achieved by operating in any one of a number of capacities – including advisor and consultancy, coaching or mentoring, project management, interim management or non-executive director or chairperson.
We are able to provide assistance on a range of key areas that affect all businesses, but which could have disproportionate effects on SMEs, including access to finance; business development; sales and marketing; international trade; corporate governance; regulatory compliance; exit strategies; to name but a few.
Our focus is primarily on companies intent on pursuing vigorous growth and who have market capitalisations or turnover of under £1 million. We operate across all sectors and in all regions of the United Kingdom. We provide a number of benefits including (but not exhaustively):
- creating rather than just adding value;
- changing behaviours by challenging conventional thinking;
- listening to the needs of your business rather than trying to “sell you something off-the-shelf” (long-term relationship building as opposed to quick sales);
- transferring skills and technical ability towards a culture of non-dependence; and
- establishing defined and measurable improvements in results with pre-agreed targets set in advance.
- Growth Enterprise Bespoke Services guarantees to offer client-focused solutions based on a 360º understanding of the changing needs and aspirations of your enterprise. This means:
- Working in partnership with existing management teams and assisting them to create capacity by offering them technical assistance;
- Actively listening to your needs and identifying a solution based on this need rather than focusing on highest revenue-producing products;
- Learning about your enterprise (including its vision for the future, its products and services, and about the market in which you operate);
- Growth Enterprise Bespoke Services has a proven track record in delivering high quality solutions and innovative ideas which creates additional (rather than merely adding) value and which takes a holistic approach to the whole business;
- Growth Enterprise Bespoke Services is highly experienced at every level of interface, from scoping, testing existing assumptions, researching, designing and applying strategies, through to implementation and management. Our approach ensures that you will receive the most appropriate expertise and advice throughout the duration of our business relationship – a relationship based on long-term trust for identifying the right solution that matches the developmental cycle of your enterprise and setting the foundations for the next steps in your growth;
- Growth Enterprise Bespoke Services has substantial experience and knowledge gained from working on a broad spectrum of projects, both in the private and public sectors; in start-ups, pre-revenue, pre-profit and growth stages; large or small organisations. Our enduring client and partner relationships enable us to confront our client’s problems with an informed, yet fresh perspective; and
- Growth Enterprise Bespoke Services is committed to achieving a sustainable position based on a non-dependency culture from which we can assist clients to build long and lasting legacies. We are passionate about delivering and exceeding your expectations.
We promise you highly professional input, pro-active analysis, effective solutions and uncompromising quality throughout all we deliver. We are totally committed to the achievement of your objectives and to ensuring you receive our best attention and the highest value at all times.
- We will not tell you how to run your business – but we will challenge you;
- We will be sympathetic to the constraints under which you work – but we will ensure everything gets done;
- We will only act after we have consulted, and we will only consult after we have listened to you;
- We will always demand a process to transfer skills to your people – but we will never assume you have unlimited resources;
- We will, on occasions, work with other service providers – but we will never compromise our quality, independence, and above all, our integrity;
- We will bring our experience of best practice from both public and private sector organisations – but never assume that one-size fits all.
…we will only work with committed individuals who are intent on creating sustainable growth strategies for their enterprises. Such individuals will not underestimate the commitment, drive and focus that will be necessary to achieve that success. Of course, along the way they have fun too – that’s essential. All of our clients have several things in common, and before we accept you as one of them, we ask that you:
- are committed – personally and financially – to change;
- acknowledge that you cannot do everything yourself and have the ability to or accept the need to delegate;
- understand the fundamental principles that taking a balanced, holistic approach to your business is more important than chasing sales alone;
- keep an open mind and a willingness to challenge your beliefs about ‘the right way’ to run a successful enterprise;
- possess a desire to learn, share and participate fully; and take personal accountability for your level of success
How we can work to help your business
Growth Enterprise Bespoke Services is able to work in a variety of capacities to suit the circumstances of your business:
- Advisory Consultancy is ideal for specific and defined tasks such as undertaking research or advising on a particular issue;
- Coaching and Mentoring is ideal for individual performance improvement, goal setting, skills deployment and 'supervision';
- Project Management is available to undertake more detailed work which will be scoped and agreed with you in advance, resulting in pre-determined outcomes;
- Interim Management has been designed to undertake day-to-day responsibility for a specific range of functions; suitable for short-term assignments or until a permanent solution has been identified; and/or
- Non-Executive Director or Chairman is available to provide more regular assistance to help you get the most out of your Company by providing the capacity and technical capability, and offering fresh objective inputs to strategic thinking and decision making.
Next Steps
To learn more about our activities, and to explore how we might be able to help your business along the road of sustainable growth, email us at bespoke@GrowthEnterprise.co.uk with your full range of contact details and a brief introduction to areas of concern or interest to you and we will guarantee to call you within 8-working hours or at a time convenient to you.
