Consultancy

Hi-SPEC offers a range of strategic advice and innovative solutions at both organisational and project levels to meet client challenges. Our consultancy services include:

 

The Business Development Studio (BDS)

The Business Development Studio is a set of services that help or make businesses grow. The key aspect of BDS is to focus and develop sales. This is done in one or a combination of some of the following strategies:

 

·        Expand your reach

o       Create a nationwide sales force, through a network, regional office or agencies/licensees

o       Recruit sales, fulfilment and admin staff

o       Provide interim management

o       Find & kit out new premises

 

·        Generate more leads

o       Create more leads through effective “sales lead generative marketing” (the sole aim of  marketing is to generate sales leads)

o       Train your staff on lead generation

o       Re-branding / New materials

o       Make your website work for you

o       Improve clarity of  your Unique Selling Propositions

 

·        Get more sales

o       Recruit the right staff

o       Sales training at all levels

o       Create the right motivation and drive across your organisation

o       Excel in Customer Service

o       Increase customer spend

o       Increase repeat business

 

·        Improve your customer relationships

o       Customer touch points

o       Magic or Tragic moments

 

BDS is a quick 360 degree assessment of an organisation resulting in a short report and Action Plan. This is followed by focused intervention on highlighted areas requiring improvement or development. The intervention is normally focused on improving sales and marketing, and productivity. BDS' purpose is to make a "step change" to an organisation.

 

 

Strategy Design and Positioning

Formulating a realistic and flexible business strategy that is distinctive yet sustainable is imperative in today’s dynamic environment.

 

Hi-SPEC’s Strategy Design and Positioning Service provides:

  • Business Model Design
  • Capability Realignment (people, processes, resources)
  • Value Chain Strategy

Organisational Restructuring

Improving operational effectiveness requires organisations to frequently restructure, and activities such as mergers and acquisitions of public and private institutions, new service/product and market developments all require the creation of new processes and work-flows for such changes to be effective.

 

Hi-SPEC’s Organisational Restructuring Service provides:

  • Portfolio restructuring analysis (adding to, or disposing of, departments or business units)
  • Culture Change and Management, creating a Care and Dedication Culture
  • Operational framework formulation
  • Commercialisation for educational products (through knowldge and technology transfer)
  • Institution Strategy Design and Positioning
  • Organisation Restructuring, Advice and Consultancy

 

Project Level Consulting

Many Organisations have both large complex projects that require complete focus to deliver on time and within budget, and smaller projects that require a more flexible approach. We understand these needs and deliver accordingly.

 

  • Interim Management
  • Flexible Project Management
  • Project Gateway Reviews

 

Risk Assessment

Predicting, identifying, assessing and managing risks that may have adverse effects on an organisation is imperative to building business confidence, continuity and success.

 

Hi-SPEC’s Risk Assessment and Management service provides:

  • Structured risk assessment and evaluation.  
  • Operational control and recovery analysis
  • Risk mitigation and containment advice.

 

Continuous Improvement 

We help institutions and organisations in the private and public sectors develop successful, well-motivated and dynamic teams focused on high quality through services such as:

  • Institutional improvement solutions including self-evaluation programmes
  • Leadership and management development
  • Provision of interim managers and permanent recruitment solutions
  • Support for workforce reform
  • Information and Communications Technology services and training
  • Change Management
  • Process Design and Re-engineering
  • Training and Productivity (see Productivity4You)

Through our own experience and associate networks we provide consultancy services at both an organisational level and a project level, including:

  • Recruiting specialists to lead and manage institutions in today’s demanding education environment
  • Auditing institutional performance to secure better outcomes
  • Diagnosing ways in which resources can be deployed differently to secure greater impact
  • Introducing innovation and best practice in areas such as performance management, professional development and student recruitment. 
  • Planning and preparing best value reviews
  • Improving the capacity and equality of asset management planning 
  • Assisting in the preparations for OfSTED inspections
  • Undertaking fair funding reviews to improve strategic resource allocation
  • Supporting Private Finance Initiative (PFI) bids, providing technical advice and advising private sector consortia on the formulation of PFI bids.
  • Gateway Project Reviews takes a short sharp look at projects and programmes to see if they.re really on course or what actions need to be taken to put them back on course.
  • Flexible project management and interim managers to provide organisations with flexible project or organisational management to suit them.
  • BPR (Buisness Process Re-Engineering) and Change Management to design and implement more efficient processes and proceedures.

 

Strategic Marketing Operations and Business Growth Consultancy

Having the right marketing strategy makes or breaks any organisation. Staying ahead in business requires future thinking. Organisations need to understand forces that act on their business and in turn harness the opportunities afforded by a dynamic market place.

 

Hi-SPEC’s Strategic Marketing Operations and Business Growth Service provides:

  • Market dynamics and competitor analysis
  • Strategic marketing policy formulation 
  • Intra-organisational performance assessment
  • Product packaging and positioning
  • Improved lead generation and expanding your reach
  • Direct sales force productivity
  • Sales channel improvement - Licensing, Partners, Joint Ventures

The Ideas Factory

A key attribute of the top companies is their "ability to turn ideas into action".

Ask any government or large organisation what they do when faced with a problem and they will say we get a think-tank.

 

With Hi-SEPC’s Ideas Factory you can “rent yourself a think-tank” that will give you access to top experts. Example of sectors supported by Hi-SPEC's think-tank include education, science, engineering and technology.

 

The think-tank sessions are bespokely designed to solve your specific problems.

 

Please contact us now if you would like to discover more about Hi-SPEC’s Consultancy service. 

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