Montague Dobson is a business consultancy that offers straight talking, experience based practical advice to all kinds of businesses from owner managed corner stores to multinational corporations, irrespective of industrial sector or financial position.
That means we help entrepreneurs, business owners and management teams to:
- Launch new businesses
- Manage and expand successful businesses
- Save failing businesses
How do we do that?
- We help businesses build sound strategies and clear actionable business plans based on what the market wants, what the business can sensibly deliver and what competitors might do in response
- We help businesses get their cost base right
- We help businesses increase their selling potential by building the capability of their people and enhancing their product or service offerings
- We help businesses to negotiate and communicate successfully with creditors, financiers, customers and other key stakeholders
Specific Products and Services we Offer
Business Planning and Cost Base Related
- External Research focused on Products, Pricing, Promotional strategies and Competitor activity
- Internal Research - do you have the resources to deliver, in terms of Money, Management Capability and Skills/Processes in the areas of selling, producing, delivering and servicing
- Due Diligence Research - should you buy that business?
- Building the Business Plan - focus on inputs that lead to achieving short and longer term goals.
Capability Building Related
- Assessing the skills, aptitude and willingness of your people in relation to the tasks required of them
- Training those with the will and aptitude to succeed
- Recruiting where existing people are not suited to the needs of the business
Negotiation and Communication Related
When a business is in trouble, how it manages relations with financiers, creditors and customers is critical to its survival. We will help you to :
- Understand your options
- Build a financial recovery plan so that you understand what undertakings you can deliver on
- Present proposals to key stakeholders in a way that wins their support
- Retain the confidence of key customers through effective communication
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