Business Consultant
Business Consulting Services
Many consulting firms focus on one stage of the business lifecycle. Ground Floor Partners is a little different — we work with clients at each stage: start-up, growth and maturity. We also understand the problems small business owners have to deal with every day. Budgets are tight, resources are limited, and abeautiful planning document isn’t worth much if the plan isn’t implemented.
Building a successful, sustainable business is not just about planning. It’s also about execution. Common obstacles to growth are people, technology, and processes. We have experience with all three — getting the right people in place, while using the right technology to execute efficient and effective processes. The following is a partial list of our consulting services. If you have a tough business problem not addressed here, take a look at ourmanagement consulting services, or just give us a call.
- Strategy Consulting
- Strategy Consulting focuses on helping clients establish a clear vision, long term goals, and a road map. We also help clients communicate and execute their plan. This service is primarily for established businesses and non-profit organizations.
- Feasibility Studies
- Feasibility Studies focus on market feasibility, in other words: is there a market for this? We do not perform engineering feasibility studies. We perform a feasibility studies for a wide range of clients, including startups, non-profits, government organizations, and businesses of all sizes.
- Business Plan
- Business Plan services are appropriate for startups and esatblished organizations. Our focus is on consulting, not just writing. [If you just want someone to write down your thoughts without questioning assumptions or proposing alternatives, then you are looking for a business plan writer, not a business plan consultant.]
- Marketing Plan
- Marketing Plan services are most appropriate for established small and mid-size businesses, although we occasionally also work with non-profits and startups. Our marketing planning process is structured to provide real value, yet flexible enough to suit almost any business.
- Market Research
- Market Research is individually tailored to each specific client situation. Most of our market research projects involve interviews or custom panels. We do not prepare or sell standard industry reports.
- Exit Strategy
- Exit Strategy services are appropriate for businesses with at least five or ten employees and/or revenue exceeding one million dollars. Common exit strategies include selling the business, private equity recapitalization, gifting (to family members or others), ESOP conversion,worker cooperative conversions , and others.
- Audit & Assessment
- Audit & Assessment services are designed for small established businesses, but can be adapted to larger businesses (and non-profits) if desired. Business owners often get so close to their business that they see the trees, but miss the forest. Our assessments help business owners identify problems, bottlenecks, risks and opportunities that may be hiding in plain sight. Most of our assessments are customized, but we also have some standard packages.
From time to time all businesses need to stop and ask a few questions:
- Who are you?
- What are you offering to the consumer, and why?
- What makes you tick as a company?
- What dreams and goals do you have as an organization?
- What will it take to get there?
How do we help you to achieve your Goal?
Understanding the Problem or Requirement
Outlining Needs and Goals:
We spend considerable time in clearly outlining your business goals and needs, since only then an effective solution can be developed. Our experts don’t just sit back and listen; we contribute to refine your goals based on current market trends.
Collaboration is the key to innovation
Building Strategy:
After pin-pointing your requirements and goals; we brainstorm to build an innovative solution. We keep you in constant touch since we believe that only by combining your product knowledge an our market expertise we can arrive at something great.
If it isn’t good enough for us, it can’t be good for customer
Execution:
Once we have verified the formulated strategy in a simulated environment and have tested it through & through, we help you execute it while also making sure that you use the right technology and tools.
True evaluation of a product is how customers react to it
Evaluation:
Our job is not done after execution. We stay right beside you while you check the impact of the formulated solution in the real world environment. We help you evaluate its impact and it identifying the scope for improvements.
Change is inevitable. We must learn to adopt
Modification:
Online world is an extremely dynamic market, and no strategy can be timeless. That’s why we have incorporated agile methodology in our approach, so that based on current results we can help you quickly arrive at a more capable strategy.