Strategy business consultants

Pharmaceuticals: becoming more effective
Keeping up with demand in a high growth pharmaceutical business

Aerospace market share growth
Sterling was commissioned to advise the client how to grow market share and establish the company as a preferred supplier to its customers.

Integrating an acquisition
We were retained to help a privately owned group of companies in the metal processing sector integrate the acquired division of an international, publicly owned group which more than doubled the size of the business and brought in a totally different culture.

Measuring the performance of charities
Sterling was retained by this high profile charity to develop performance measures based on a fundamental review of how the client should go about fulfilling its aims.

Organisational Review in NHS Trust
Sterling was commissioned to review the organisation and management of a major NHS Trust’s purchasing activities

Strategy & Operations - Business Consultants

We advise and assist clients with the definition of overall business intentions, typically in a long term context, establishing the framework in which the business objectives are set. We will then assist with the effective pursuit of business objectives and the successful implementation of business plans. Typically this involves:

creating strategies

dentifying objectives

developing business processes

defining organisation structures

defining resource requirements

introducing performance measures

ascertaining people skills and capability needs

improving operational effectiveness

'making it happen’

in order to increase profits and achieve objectives.

The skills and expertise Sterling brings to this area of consultancy are :

Business planning: defining customer-focused objectives; developing strategies; assessing resource needs, benefits, and costs; identifying service and system requirements; creating performance measures.

Organisation development: customer- and output-oriented reviews of processes, roles, responsibilities, resources, structures.

Change management: planning change programmes; establishing and leading project teams; implementation of change programmes.

Working with both the ‘enterprise’ and the public sector we enable clients to capitalise on the valuable features of both. The sectors in which established clients specific to this area of consulting operate include aerospace, metal processing, specialist paper processing, charity, pharmaceuticals, and the NHS.