DK Business growth services
Our unique experience gives us insight into the challenges literally thousands of businesses have faced. It's not theory that we provide through our growth services - it's practical solutions to your unique business challenges.
How do we have this experience?
Because our team has hundreds of man-years of working with businesses of all sizes, across many sectors. You may be surprised to see that the fundamental challenges of building a business - finding and retaining customers, building and motivating a team, creating systems so that the business functions like clockwork without the owner having to be there 24/7, managing the money so that it's profitable, etc. are the same no matter what your business does.
Your business is unique.
Please don't think that the sections opposite describe 'one size fits all' products that we somehow 'impose' in each situation. Your business is unique - every business is unique. And so every service we provide is tailored to your specific circumstances. That's why we always start with a planning session. This is designed to uncover the real issues within your business, so that the action is precisely tailored to ensure that it will work for you.
Benchmarking
Benchmarking is an extremely effective way of short-cutting your business growth targets. It works by analysing what your business does well and where it has fallen behind compared to your key competitors and your industry sector. This point is crucial - your performance is compared to those you know and compete with...
Broadview
Welcome to your sounding-board, non-executive director, business coach - whatever term you prefer. With BroadView, we attend your Board meetings in whatever capacity you wish. From setting the agenda through to taking the minutes, we bring to your company outside business experience and an objective view...
Business review
The Business Review is an intensive half-day programme designed to identify the key opportunities within your business and create practical actions for moving forward. The session starts with a discussion about what you want from your business. We then use software to map out your current financial position...
Business boost
Business Boost is a hands-on programme designed to kick-start your business. Have you ever considered the question ‘How can it be called success if you’re not enjoying it?’ Business Boost takes this as its starting point. We work with you to determine exactly what it is that you want from your business...
Exit planning
Have you thought about how you’re going to get out of your business? Michael Gerber says that the purpose of a business is to sell it. He doesn’t mean tht selling is the only purpose; but he does mean that if you adopt a mindset right from day one that eventually you want the freedom to exit the business...
Time for action
Time For Action is an intensive, hands-on business improvement programme. Lasting typically two years, TFA is designed to - Clarify where your business wants to be, determine exactly the current position, Analyse possible strategies for closing the gap, Implement and monitor those strategies...
Dashboard
Dashboard has the key information you need to keep control of your business on one sheet of A4. A mix of financial and non-financial measures, designed specifically for you. Based on the balanced business scorecard developed by Harvard professors Kaplan and Norton and as used by 70% of the world’s top 500 companies...
Sales and marketing
No business will survive long without an effective sales and marketing function, and yet all too often we see this vital area left to chance - businesses literally waiting for the phone to ring. And many people feel intimidated by it. Yet it's essential to get this right if your business is to prosper...
Strategic planning
Don’t be put off by the fancy, business-school title. Strategic planning simply means taking control of where your business is heading, and not leaving it to chance. This is not just for big business - any business must have a strategic plan. It is possible to have a strategic plan in your head...
Systems
Research recently carried out by our colleagues in Sheffield shows that business owners - people just like you and me - would be willing to pay a staggering 86.77% more to buy a business which differs from its rivals in one crucial way. And that same critical factor could increase the value of your business...
