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Services > Operational Improvement and Restructuring

Setting the target

  • Business planning:
    • Work with management to establish a ‘game plan’ for the company, including market development, human resources, information technology and capital requirements.
    • Ensure that goals, responsibilities and the time table for execution are set out in order to measure progress and create accountability.
  • Counselling and mentoring:
    • Act as a sounding board for the leadership of a company.
    • It is often lonely at the top and having a trusted outsider to confide in and draw from differing experiences, is valuable.

Establishing business systems

  • Define, assemble and measure the appropriate business metrics.
  • Develop tools to measure performance, create accountability and to provide appropriate checks and balances. These tools include timely and accessible operating and financial metrics.
  • This 'system' should be a platform for growth and not one which inhibits opportunity.

Financial analysis and execution

  • Cash flow management:
    • Establish daily controls and monitoring of receivables, payables and foreign exchange.
    • Optimize the movement of cash amongst operations, bank accounts, credit facilities, and other financial instruments.
  • Budgeting and forecasting:
    • Establish monthly targets in all operations for the upcoming fiscal period.
    • Ensure 'drill down' of all expense items, develop operating metrics for measurement in the upcoming period and establish capital expenditure and research and development budgets.
    • Readjust expectations as macro environment changes occur and ensure forecast is based on sound logic.
    • Communicate forecast to appropriate stakeholders (investors, employees, financial institutions).
  • Debtor management:
    • Build relationship and understanding with all financial institutions.
    • Ensure that reporting requirements are clearly understood and executed.
    • Build relationships with other financial institutions in order to provide a comparative for ownership and management.