Interim Management

This broad category of specialist services ranges from supporting companies which need short term help to run a one-off project, to managing their business as they recover from serious downturns or special circumstances.  With strong relationships with specialists, and vast experience of our own, we have been able to provide interim management for several clients, offering services such as:

Strategic advice: Sometimes, all that is needed is a confidential discussion with someone who understands your business but is not involved in the pressures or detail of its day-to-day operation.  You can use us as a sounding board for your ideas and seek help as you consider difficult decisions and options.  This need not be expensive – and certainly not as expensive as some of the well-known consultancies whose staff have had no hands-on experience or personal involvement in running a business.  And it saves you the costs and other implications of employing full time staff.

Specialist support: Alternatively, we can provide specialist staff to provide you with skills and expertise you need in the short term, including:

• interim managing directorships
• interim financial management
• outsourcing financial solutions on a profit sharing basis
• interim sales and marketing staff or expertise
• quasi executive directorships
• outsourcing other specialist skills
• networking

If you think you might need interim management help please contact us.

Business Advice

For some clients, discussing finance reveals an underlying concern about the way their business is run.  They might have uncertainties about their financial management skills or be unsure about which direction to take for future success.  Others have systems that have failed to adapt as their business has changed but lack the skills or knowledge – or time – to see what needs to be done differently.  They need broad business advice.

Others might be unable to run their business while fulfilling contracts; for them, interim management might be the answer.  For some, finance and leasing deals do not adequately address their needs; they need adventurous ways of raising money for their new or expanding venture.

In businesses such as yours – specialist or niche, with competitors or unique, extensive or close-knit – it is often hard to know who to turn to for advice.  Conventional advisers don’t always understand the conventions of your industry or its inherent risks; they might recommend an unrealistically cautious route or simply be unable to advise you.  Tracking down venture capital can seem like being lost in a maze.

With over 30 years of running businesses and with extensive and experienced contacts in all aspects of business management in unconventional businesses – and having raised money unconventionally for ourselves – we can advise you on the routes you can take – for the short or long term – to run your business effectively.

Our clients have been faced with the same dilemmas as you and rely on us not just for our specialist knowledge of funding but also for our financial management, interim management and management consultancy skills to get them started as they set up, keep going as business builds, develop as they grow and expand, and as they merge or take over other companies.  They value us for our fresh, dynamic, individual, customer-focused, knowledgeable approach.

In the list above, click on the subject most relevant to your needs, or find out more about us, or contact us for advice.

* banking facilities * business advice * commercial property finance * confidential invoice discounting * credit management * debtor management * factoring * financial management * financial restructuring * funding for short term projects * insolvency advice * interim management * management consultancy * process design * project management * re-engineering * venture capital