1-TO-1 CONSULTING
1-TO-1 CONSULTING SERVICES
Our 1-to-1 consulting service is designated to the SME’s owners, helping them to define a robust business strategy and look at their own business from a different perspective. What we meant by business strategy includes: company vision and mission, branding, product/service, market, customer, operations, HR, system support, financial support etc.
The program usually lasts for 6-12 months in the first stage and will move into the second stage once the client has significant growth in terms of business scale.
Our clients can range from start-up, one-man-band to companies with 100 staff or more. We can provide different kinds of guidance according to the scale and industry of the client.
In our consulting framework, we have more than 40 different analytical tools that can be deployed to use straight away. All these tools are proven and well-adopted by international consulting firms as well as renowned MBA schools around the world.
Our 4-steps Effective Approach Towards Business Strategy
BRAND, PRODUCT, MARKET
- Use systematic methodologies to conduct a 360 degree assessment
- Focus on data analysis and comprehensive roadmap
- Company vision and mission
- Company value and culture
- Brand story
- Competitiveness analysis
- Unique selling point
- Target market tradeoff
- Product roadmap
- Pricing strategy
- Marketing strategy
- Annual marketing plan
OPERATIONS, PROCESS
- Help to define the most suitable operating model
- Visualize the operational processes and define the roles and responsibilities
- Target operating model
- Process maps
- Human resources plan
- Organization chart
- Roles and responsibilities
- Job descriptions
- Recruitment plan
- People development plan
FINANCIALS, CASH FLOW
- Analyze financials, cost structure and cash flow healthiness
- Define the financial needs that support future growth
- Profitability analysis
- Cost structure analysis
- Cash flow analysis
- Annual business target
- Budget for each department
- KPI for each department
- Compensation and benefits
- Incentive schemes
- Financial need for 3-5 years
- Source of fund planning
PROGRESS MONITORING
- Set up a mechanism to track the progress
- Regularly review
- Adjust to the latest situation accordingly
- Short, medium and long-term targets
- Business data collection
- Data analysis
- Half-year and annual review
- Discuss adjustment plans
- Discuss business target for next year
Our 1-to-1 Consulting Services provide the right solution for your company
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- Objective setting
- Draft development blue-print
- Prepare a holistic strategy plan
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- Formulate the target operating model
- Reorganize the operating process
- Actions planning
- Automation / digitalization
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- Industry competitiveness analysis
- Market environment analysis
- Product positioning
- Customer needs analysis
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- Product strategy
- Traditional and digital marketing strategies
- Brand building
- Customer segmentation
- Pricing strategy
- PR and launch event planning
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- Customer data analysis
- Customer segmentation
- Pricing strategy
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- Customer data analysis
- Customer relationship management
- Customer segmentation
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- All-rounded 360-degree business analysis and review
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- Draft business plan
- Look for angel funds and venture capital
- Recommend business financing options
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- Feasibility study of the target expansion
- Project investment analysis
- Identify M&A targets
- Company valuation
- Analyze the potential synergy from the new business
Success Cases
The following only shows a portion of our successful cases in recent years.
Please contact us directly if you want to know more details or whether your industry is applicable or not.
From One Man Band to Opening 7 Branches
With joint efforts, the dance school expanded from 1 studio to 7 branches within 5 years, and its business expanded to the Greater Bay Area in 2021. The owner was transformed from a one-man-band dance teacher to become a boss of 40 full-time employees; and the number of students increased significantly from 50 to over 1,000.
Driving Traditional Dried Seafood Store to Online Ecommerce
The son inherited the ancestral business, has the courage to make breakthroughs, changing the traditional dried seafood gifts, adding new elements such as western soup packs, tea products, snacks, sauces, etc. However, what had been missing were a comprehensive and effective brand strategy and sales plan. We recommend a brand story that combines tradition and innovation for publicity. In addition, it was suggested to develop the delivery market for young office ladies, as well as corporate customers, to open up new sources of profit.
Turn around from losses in 6 months
There was an inventory of unsellable products, and the company faced a 7-digit loss every year. What could the client do? With our help to develop a clear business and product strategy, the company successfully reduced the business cost by 25% within 3 months, and the turnover changed from a 7-digit annual loss to breakeven within 6 months.
Starting from scratch to pave the way for social enterprises
We started from scratch and assisted the social enterprise from establishment to developing a stable source of income, and successfully achieved more than 7-digit income within 10 months. The social enterprise also received sponsorship from a well-known European brand, which was another major milestone in its development.
Get out of the comfort zone and break through the business bottleneck
After launching the employee management plan, the company successfully reduced the turnover rate by 80%, and the retention rate of junior executives has been greatly improved. After a comprehensive transformation, the company has successfully recognised new direction, and got out of the comfort zone!
Critical first step to success
The children’s educational market is highly competitive, thus word of mouth and location are crucial. After relocation, re-branding and publicity, the number of students tripled in one summer. In the summer after that, the singing academy opened another branch. Currently the singing academy is having more than 200 students, compared to 40 students 2 years ago. The academy has also hosted an annual show in Queen Elizabeth Stadium this year!
Bringing new operating platform to traditional industry
Lack of overall planning and systematic operation model has always been the challenges inherited from the traditional machinery industry. We assisted the successor to redesign front-to-back operational processes, digitize documentation and invoicing processes, and comprehensively improved the quoting and procurement efficiency.
Based on the target customer, build your own brand
Many small-to-medium enterprise owners want to kill two birds with one stone, but it makes confusion in the brand positioning. For this specific yoga client, the target audience are a totally different group of people – adults and children. Therefore, we recommended the client to set up a different brand in a different physical location. We analyze the capital requirements, cash flow situation, manpower needs and the time required to build a new brand.
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