Consultancy

Business success is dependent on several key factors. People, market opportunity and an effective business strategy. Here at VPC we will advise and actively support this approach.

We help you to ensure your team is aligned with the key elements outlined above, that you regularly review your performance against your goals, and that you continue to work ‘on’ the business covering such areas as medium-term planning, the opportunities that technology presents, developing your product or service to meet the evolving needs of your customers. From our experience, an effective business strategy focuses on a few key elements, some of which are:

Where are we now?

• What is our customer proposition?
• Do we meet the needs of our customers?
• Is our sales strategy effective?

Where do we want to be?

• Define the key business targets.
• Develop products or services that meet the needs of our customers.
• Ensuring we have an effective sales process that focusses on customer retention, customer acquisition and maintaining business profitability.

How do we get there?

• Understanding the gap between where we are now and where we want to be.
• Building a step plan to bridge the gap. This may include new products, services, routes to markets, additional training, new employees/team members.

Growth & Succession

Helping you prepare your business for a change of management or ownership. We support businesses that are looking to hand over the reins to the next generation and advise business owners that are considering stepping back or exiting completely, ensuring they have the right people in place securing the company’s future success.

We are experienced in working with business owners to future-proof the management and ongoing success of their business. We help you balance future business requirements with individual concerns and provide key support during the transition. We have worked with many management teams to ensure the business leaders of the future are well prepared and have the necessary strategic and management skills and capability to deliver what is required for running the business.

We support business owners that are used to being in the driving seat, to be able start the sometimes uncomfortable, but necessary, process of stepping back into a non-executive role or preparing to exit entirely, and creating the space necessary for a smooth handover.As part of our succession planning support package we offer:

• A succession planning options review.
• Current management team appraisal and identification of any future skills / experience gaps created by the exit of the owner/s.
• Assessment of future potential management team members, gap analysis and identification of the level of internal development required.
• Provision of any requited management development and mentoring.
• Mentoring for business owners who want to step back and to draw on experience about how to start and successfully deliver the succession transition.

For more information, give us a call on 0203 773 99 40.