Strategic Management – 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
• identifying 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 intelligence: research to assist in a number of areas from seeking development opportunities to identifying critical areas for improvement; from assessing internal attitudes to preparing budgets.

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.

Recruitment: identifying and defining the need, producing job specifications, assistance with the recruitment process.

Working with both the ‘enterprise’ and the public sector we enable clients to capitalise on the valuable features of both.