BACKGROUND
Current business conditions are particularly difficult, but businesses can run into difficulties at any time and for a variety of reasons.
These might include:
Product maturity / range…
Technical maturity…
Business overheads…
Operating overheads…
Excess / redundant capacity…
Manning levels…
Operational model / structure / location…
Route to market failing…
Scale…
The experts in Acumentia’s business team will analyse your business and benchmark it against your competitors and the market place in order to understand the true cause of your problems.
All businesses have strengths and weaknesses – and sometimes strengths can become weaknesses. By understanding the strengths and weaknesses of an organisation and aligning these with the previous analysis of its difficulties, a way forward may start to emerge.
Strengths might include:
Prime mover in a segment…
Unique product or technology…
Business model and route to market…
Location…
Raw material cost / quality advantage…
Once strengths have been identified – or the need for new ones confirmed – these become one of the prime building blocks for the future.
THE ACUMENTIA OFFER
Acumentia’s team of expert business managers will use the information and conclusions they have been able to reach to develop a strategy for moving the business forward with the potential to recover its position and become a strong competitor in the market:
o Redefinition of the market.
o Potential future strengths from within.
o New strengths which have to be acquired.
o Internal business alignment.
o Operational reconfiguration.
o Distribution / RTM changes.
o Relocation / M&A.
DELIVERABLES
Business analysis reports.
Recommendations on business strategy.
Financial analysis.
Interim management.