BASED in the Northampton branch of award-winning, national financial and business advisory firm, Haines Watts, Chris Lonergan heads up the regional business consultancy team.
BASED in the Northampton branch of award-winning, national financial and business advisory firm, Haines Watts, Chris Lonergan heads up the regional business consultancy team. The team provides a range of services designed to help owner managers achieve their personal and business goals in particular when faced with key issues, periods of change and significant events.
Chris said: “Most owner managers and entrepreneurs are, by their very nature, independent-minded people and can be reluctant to seek help from an external business adviser. However, we have witnessed a trend over recent years of the most ambitious and successful owner manager turning for assistance in the following key areas:
* Personal goals and destination – getting an independent view on the art of the possible
* Growth – planning and executing a strategy to go to the next level
* Building long-term wealth – balancing short-term profits and long-term business value
* Talent – finding and motivating the right people to deliver the goods
* Transition – managing the change associated with significant events
Underpinning these activities is the need to develop and implement a pragmatic business strategy and/or business plan, historically seen by many small business owners as a ‘nice to have’ but now increasingly becoming a highly valuable and value-adding investment, particularly in the eyes of a prospective investor or acquirer.
To achieve this we have developed a suite of proprietary tools to benchmark and identify ways of increasing business value. Using these tools enables us to help clients build and execute pragmatic business plans which maximise return on investment. In this way we can help owner managers tackle the challenges they face by taking advantage of the kind of support normally available to corporate with large cheque books on a cost-effective basis.
In addition to providing strategic and business planning support we are increasingly asked to act as project and change managers offering advice and expertise in areas such as sales and marketing, R&D strategy, operational improvement, HR, customer experience, IT systems and data, management development and business change.
Our advice to local business owners and entrepreneurs? Review the areas identified above and assess the impact they are having on the current growth of your business and its long-term value. If you’d like to chat through, don’t hesitate to give us a call on 01604 746760 or get in touch via email at .
