Strategic Advisory
Make Better Strategic Decisions. Build a Stronger Business.
Experienced strategic guidance for business owners and executives navigating growth, change and important business decisions.
The service
Direction, priorities and the decisions that shape the business.
Strategic Advisory focuses on where the business is going, what it should prioritise and how it makes its most important decisions.
It is the right fit when the question is bigger than improving today’s performance: whether to expand, where to compete, what to stop doing, or how to organise the business for the next stage.
Business Growth Advisory improves commercial performance and growth. Strategic Advisory sets the direction, priorities and major decisions that performance work then serves. If your priority is revenue, margin and systems, Business Growth Advisory may suit better.
Challenges addressed
When this kind of advisory helps.
- A major decision is coming: expansion, a new market, an acquisition or a restructure.
- The business has more opportunities than it can pursue and needs to choose.
- Competitors are changing the market and your position is less clear than it was.
- There is a plan, but it is not translating into priorities people act on.
- The leadership team does not share the same view of where the business is going.
Areas of advisory support
What we work on.
Business direction and long-term strategy
Where the business is going, and why.
Strategic planning
Turning direction into a plan with clear priorities and owners.
Competitive positioning
Where the business competes, and why customers should choose it.
Market opportunities
Assessing which opportunities are worth pursuing, and which are distractions.
Business model development
How the business creates value and makes money as it grows.
Expansion and growth decisions
New locations, markets, services or acquisitions, tested before you commit.
Organisational priorities
What the business focuses on now, and what waits.
Strategic execution and accountability
Making sure the strategy is carried out, with clear ownership.
Expected outcomes
What the work is aimed at.
- A clear, shared view of where the business is going.
- Major decisions tested properly before money and time are committed.
- Priorities the leadership team understands and acts on.
- A stronger competitive position.
- A plan with owners, timelines and regular review.
Results depend on the business, its market and how the advice is implemented. No particular commercial result is guaranteed.
How engagements work
Clear scope from the start.
- Enquiry. Tell me about the business and what you want to change.
- Conversation. We discuss the situation and whether this is the right kind of advisory.
- Review. I look at the business across the six core areas of the Business System to agree the priorities.
- Agreement. Focus, level of involvement and fee confirmed in writing.
- Ongoing advisory. Regular working sessions, with progress reviewed against the agreed priorities.
Strategic Advisory often begins with a focused period on direction and priorities, followed by regular sessions to keep execution on track and test decisions as they come up.
Advisory engagements start from $5,000 AUD per month + GST. The structure varies with the level of involvement and what the business needs.
Enquire about advisory
Enquire About Advisory
Tell me about the business, the decision or direction you are working through, and what is at stake.
I read every enquiry personally and will tell you plainly whether, and how, I can help. Scope and fees are confirmed in writing before any work begins.
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