Do you fit into one of these situations and want to know how to move forward?
- Have an idea you want to pursue
- You have developed an idea and are in the process of getting it started
- You have an idea and you have started delivering early results but need more traction
- Want to up scale the business but need to attract investors
Micro Enterprise
You have a business, with limited resources that have been delivering repeatable results for some time but now you want to:-
- Expand the business along with same business model
- Try a different approach to delivering results
- Introduce a new product or service
- Increase resources
- Form an alliance with another company
- Exit from the business
Small Medium Enterprise
The business is established and has been in operation for some time is wanting to, or forced to change direction without any clear way of moving forward.
- We can impartially help the management team:
- Map the causes and define the issues facing the business
- Look at alternative, inspired, options available to counteract the issues
- Develop courses of action to test the possible success of the alternative options
- Come to a decision on the way forward
- Define the work streams across the business activities to bring the option to fruition
- Help the management control the progress of work in the work streams
- Provide staff with mentoring to help them embrace the change
Company Business Unit
The enterprise business is fully developed with departments that handle core functions, Finance, Marketing, Sales, HR, IT as well as specialist units to deliver the products or services for your enterprise.
All the business processes and procedures have been established for some time but you need to get something done and these won’t help you deliver what you want, when you want it and you need some extra help.
We can partner with you as an experienced, non-biased, pair of safe hands to:
- Provide additional support in the initial definition of the activity
- Support the functions of existing project team members
- Take over the role of team members
- Carry out interviewing, requirements gathering, stakeholder viewpoints
- Produce documentation and project planning charts
Case Studies
This successful executive coaching and recruitment company were aware of a burgeoning market segment taping into the start-up and entrepreneurial world. However they were time constrained and although they had a concept in mind they were resource constrained and had no time to devote to the expansion planning.
The concept involved training cohorts of start-up teams, to pitch to selected investors who would have exposure to their new innovative ventures. The video explains how this would work in practise.
Potestas developed a full operational and financial model of the new business in order to assess its viability and integration into their current work practices. In a very short time the business could devote its limited resources to make an informed decision on whether to proceed.
This company was a software integrator for Microsoft products with an expertise in migrating organisations to new platforms and business productivity suites.
Potestas analysed the company’s current skill levels to Microsoft’s existing and the new product range, aimed at the introduction of cloud services. Organisations upgrading to new cloud services was a game changer for the company, as the process was far easier and cheaper. To attain the same levels of income, they would need to dramatically increase their project throughput while at the same time upskilling to offer new product support.
It was clear to the business owners, from this assessment, that they would need to change direction in order to survive. Their decision not to commit more capital to the existing business allowed them to strategically move forward.
Getting children into the right schools and attaining reasonable grades is every parent’s concern when considering their education and their future. The business was run with manual processes and as a result required a large staff and a 7 day a week involvement by the management, to keep the activities running.
Our assignment was to map out a new automated process and deliver the software application to be used by the staff, with a minimum of upskilling. Part of the work entailed encouraging management to use a computerised system and getting them to transfer the data from a paper based system to a database.
The owner of this business franchise had been trading successfully and increasing revenue, in his territory for some time. The parent company (Franchiser) had been recently been bought and the new owner intended to increase the number of outlets, proposing to locate one close to the existing franchise. The new shop location would significantly impact on their existing territory and overall revenue.
Potestas assessed the sales profiles in his existing territory and compared this to the average house prices, to ascertain income per post code. Based on this assessment Potestas applied this profiling to the new adjacent territory being carved out by the parent company. Using the revenue/ house price analysis results, the client was in a position to more accurately forecast the impact on revenue and workload.
The client had the information to make a decision on reducing his income or purchasing the new franchise territory. He bought the adjoining franchise, with a minimum of overhead uplift. The result was a greatly increased revenue base, even with a new shop fit-out and staffing costs deducted.
This was a start-up business based on offering a variety of cuisines, from a selection of independently run local restaurants, as a take away meal. The customer would order by telephone, from a combined meal menu that was delivered regularly to their door every Thursday.
Our task was to take the proposed service and automate the steps into a seamless, ‘just in time’ software application that would provide an interface for the customer order, restaurateur and delivery providers.
We were able to take away the worry of the software development and limit involvement to series of key milestone reviews, allowing the business owner to focus on the other parts of the business set up. This dramatically decreased his time to market, training of staff and the reduced the time to start earning income.
Social Enterprises
The social venture, either charity, NGO, community company, or similar, is focused on delivering social change to a disadvantaged sector and have had funding to cover the activity costs. You may be looking at the ability to run a self-sustaining operation or increased funding.
We can help you organise and structure a way forward to: