The Business Systems 360 Review.

When was the last time you took time out to review how well your business was functioning? This is often thought about at the time of a major milestone or decision to be made... but why wait until then.

 If you haven’t analysed your business properly for a long time, if ever... now is a great time. However, it’s vital if you are considering...

• ...looking to purchase other companies.
• ...adding to the management team, or sales team.
• ...looking at investment loans or expansions to an overdraft,
• ...taking on new partners etc.
• ...winning a large tender, or the distribution rights of a significant product or service
• ...consolidation from a Cash-flow management focus, or Work force and/or Supplier rationalisation.
• ...readying your business or business system for sale by franchising, or opening more branches
• ...or simply to maximise your returns in your exit strategy and succession planning

Businesses can experience or be at risk of diseconomies of scale of the management function from:

• Growth through acquisition of other businesses, booms in organic growth (new partner or investor or bank loan), adopting more products/services/market areas, or the securing of a major tender/supplier
• or... Loss of valuable management resources at the wrong time.

Telltale signs that companies experience when these things occur include being...

• Late on delivery deadlines, and slow to react to client demands
• Slow to react to competitive threats.
• A rising cost of sale.
• Falling workforce morale.
• Growth has stalled
• High levels of waste.
• Increasing debt
• Management Stress through, Absenteeism, Decent or Fighting/conflict.

Can My Business Be Improved?

You are probably familiar with the term “Comfort Zones”... Just as the best in sport have their specialists to help them lift their game, business owners also need someone to help them lift theirs. Even the most successful businesses are haemorrhaging profits, some more than others, and through a wide range of potential inefficiencies, so our goal is to prevent that as much as we can. As humans we get comfortable with what we are doing daily, and often miss those improvements by not stepping out and challenging occasionally, the comfort zones that we immerse ourselves in. Sure enough, you can carry on with your own devices, but with your “Personal Trainer” helping you keep focussed and motivated, you can imagine how much more effective you could make your business.

How does it work?

Rather than wading in and shooting from the hip, the best process is to take stock of where you are now, where you want to be, and what needs to be improved or started to get you there... and we’ll do this with a very thorough “360”... a series of questions and checklists to run through to review you and your business. We can schedule this to suit your workloads.

What is included in this?

In your Business Systems 360 we will cast a systematic magnifying glass over the whole business to explore all avenues of opportunity for you to build upon. This will include how well you have systemised...

• your goals and your planning to take you to them,
• your financial management and your understanding of what it all means,
• the consistency of delivery of your goods or services,
• how you manage your time and yourself, 
• everything to do with marketing your niche
• and then how you convert this marketing into sales,
•  your documentation and systemisation including the technology you use,
• and of course, your team, leadership and the complications that all that can involve.

You’ll get some great ideas...

As part of this process you’ll want to have a notepad handy as in the simple process of our asking some of these probing questions, you’ll have some “Blinding Flashes of the Obvious” ... those Bart Simpson “Doh” moments that are little pots of gold that you’ll want to rush away and implement straight away... but that’s normal, but let’s just start by capturing them and then we’ll help you pull them all together into your plan when the timing is right.

Is it complicated?

Most of what we work on is not rocket science and you’ll be able to answer most of the questions off the top of your head, though some may take a bit of research and highlight some areas that need to be worked on to bring into the business. Be prepared for some challenging questions too, but you’d expect that to grow you need to take on some challenges.

Who is involved?

Whilst most of the work is between you and us, with your blessing we can also undertake some market research for you with a small selection of your clients and suppliers who you suggest we can work with. We find this is a really beneficial exercise for you, and you’ll more often than not be pleasantly surprised at the feedback we gain for you. As a third party we can dig a little deeper and they often open up with some little gems.... often things they wouldn’t normally tell you themselves. Your suppliers are a great source for feedback too, because they see growth in your business as potential growth too for themselves.

What is the Outcome?

Our trained and experienced professionals will assess all your feedback and compile an easy to understand report for you to keep and digest for implementing in your business.   You’ll also be given some options for your next steps to take to get some quick gains and solve some challenges.

Why Us?

Our principal has over 30 years of Business Management experience, and has a history of creating logical and simple systems that work, when previously they weren’t. Now a successful Business Coach with the Worlds #1 Business Coaching Firm ActionCOACH Newcastle he has the ability to Coach you and your team through this process. On top of this he has surrounded himself with a team able to follow through and help you with the implementation when the workload is difficult for you to take on yourself.... in fact using his team is often more efficient that taking the time yourself to do the documentation that is part of the process. So you have a powerful combination... more than a Coach, and more than a Consultant... all working together to benefit you and your business.

Help to implement the findings.

We don’t deliver a short term high, and leave you with long term consequences like a lot of the hype you may receive. Our philosophy is to be there for you for the long haul... not just a quick fix... or even just a lot of promises. Yes, quite often we will identify a number of things that can be done to make you and your business more effective and efficient... but we don’t leave you all excited and not knowing what to do next.

Dependent upon our findings in the process of undertaking the 360 for you we will make an offer to help you with the implementation under one of our Business Coaching or Systems Consultancy programs.

This will only be if we genuinely feel there is sufficient opportunity to more than double the value of the ongoing investment for these programs, and if we feel that you are ready and able to benefit.

There are a number of options that we will discuss with you, that are designed to suit your current situation, your budget, your team size, the level of urgency that you have, and anything else that you make us aware of in the process. The key thing is, that if we identify some decent opportunities for you... then our goal is to make sure you can capitalise on them, regardless of how much you want us to be involved. Call Now.... 02 4976 3966.... with our Guarantee You Can't Lose!!!