A consultancy specialising in undertaking strategic business projects. We will understand, digest and resolve complex problems or issues; we master the detail but bring clarity to the whole.

We work sensitively but effectively with people from shop floor to boardroom, technical expert to salesman.

Developing Ideas

Turning a raw undeveloped concept into a business proposition

· Business research - basic market and business research to generate knowledge
· Defining capability - assessing the capacity to service a given sector; product or service specification, production capacity, matching to market sectors
· Formulating ideas - taking a germ of an idea and developing it into a business proposition

Business Modelling

Developing quantified proposals and outline plans from the original concept

· Quantitative assessment - financial or market modelling to develop quantitative information
· Business case - assembling the whole business case for an investment proposal
· Strategic planning - working out what needs to be done to develop a project

Implementing Business Plans

Translating the ideas from concept into action

· Business project management - coordinating cross-functional activity
· Contract negotiation - contract negotiations for products, services or individual transactions
· Consultation papers - lobbying to alter government taxation proposals

Divestment Projects

Practical activities to smoothly transfer ownership of a business

· Identifying and managing the interfaces between a parent and the divested business before, during and after the sale transaction
· Preparing, organising and implementing the practical things that need to be done before, during and after a business sale
· Negotiating transitional and long term service and raw material agreements

Business Processes

Mapping and understanding the processes that take place within a business

· Preparing process maps and key measures at all levels - strategic business level to transactional level
· Facilitating business process improvement teams
· Designing and deploying standard operations manuals

· Chemical
· Energy
· Recruitment
· Training
· Waste Management
· Business Services

After an early career in research with ICI Harry moved into increasingly senior business roles. This has provided very broad experience of business and senior management decision making. His career includes:

· Board member of a Sunday Times Fast Track 100 Company
· Mergers and Acquisitions in ICI
· Management of a utilities and services business
· Leadership of infrastructure functions (HR, IT, Health and Safety, etc.)

Harry's MA was awarded by Cambridge University and his PhD and DIC from Imperial College London.

· Understanding opportunities for natural gas storage
· A market driven evaluation of a waste disposal scheme
· Evaluating the business case for a new product
· Business divestment projects