Business Management Consultant

Strategist – Troubleshooter – Facilitator

Creative business strategy management that supports your company or organisation and generates sustainable, long-term business growth.

It’s about…

Your Company

Your Business

Your Success

You see the words ‘management consultant’ and either think ‘no, thank you; they’ll just end up telling me what to do and I won’t agree with them.’ Or ‘It’s all a load of words and no action’.

For you, it’s time to change the narrative.

Business management consultancy is about working closely with your company or organisation. It’s about asking the sometimes difficult questions to get a realistic, in-depth picture of the now and a complete understanding of where you want to be in the future.

Allan takes his years of invaluable experience and extensive business knowledge and works alongside you, troubleshooting any issues and challenges, developing business strategies that reflect your ambitions and goals, and helping you achieve your aims to build long-term, sustainable growth.

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Strategy

A strategy is a set of decisions and actions taken by an organisation to achieve it’s long-term vision or a specific goal.

Developing a strategy allows everyone in your company or organisation to focus on reaching business goals. It sets out how success and growth will be achieved, the actions that will be taken to get to where you want to be in a specific period of time.

Strategy
writing business strategy on clear board
Strategy
board strategy meeting
Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting

Every business faces challenges, internally and from the impact of external forces. Some of the biggest challenges facing companies and organisations today include inflation, supply chain stability and security, higher customer expectations, exponential digital transformation, data and device security, as well as securing the best talent.

Allan uses his extensive knowledge and experience to work with you in identifying, analysing the root cause of the problem and assessing how you are performing against your competitors to develop long-term resiliency.

Troubleshooting

Facilitating

Whether it’s creating a strategy to implement change within a business or organisation, adjusting organisational structures to facilitate expansion and growth, understanding the how, why and when for individuals and teams to maximise performance and utilise their best skills, or working with you to evaluate and implement business plans and strategies, Allan is an excellent facilitator.

Facilitating
facilitating a meeting
Facilitating

Testimonials

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When we were growing really fast as a start up, Allan set out our target operating model with a particular focus on our value chain and organisation structure and how the organisation would have to evolve as we get even larger and more complex.  This was extremely useful to me and having this clearly laid down on paper gave me great insight

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CEO of start up Cosmetics Company, now acquired by Multinational Cosmetics Company
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Allan has worked with us over the last 6 years on different businesses reviewing the past performance uncovering the key drivers of over or underperformance, their current competitive position and future potential and required investment to capture this identified growth. Allan’s work has been excellent and supported some very tough decisions that we have had to make.

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CEO of Listed Business – Hospitality and Leisure
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Allan, and his team, worked as a strategy consultants for Microsoft for a period of 12 years completed 146 projects for various parts of the Microsoft business around the world in North Amercica, South America, Asia and Europe. His work always surfaced and addressed the critical issues we faced with recommendations on how to improve our methods and approach to selling and distributing our products into the markets via distributors, resellers, VARs and end multinational customers

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Ex Head of Operations in Europe
Microsoft
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Allan supported us reviewing our governance at the top board level and also at the business unit level. Areas of governance included, purpose, budgeting, accountability, risks, remuneration and reporting. We had a number of people participating in this review. The process has given us clear guidance on areas where we need to improve and put better systems in place and a different culture to support the businesses and all stakeholders.

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Joint Head of Family Business
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For a number of business units we needed a 360 degree review how attractive were the markets and how well positioned were the businesses to deliver shareholder returns. Allan analysis included looking at the capital intensity of the business and what level of performance was required to cover the cost of capital in each business. This exercise provided us with great insight as to the level of challenge we face and how going forward we should allocate our capital across the portfolio.

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Chairman of Business Units in Logistics Services