Experienced hands on help - Business advice and services

West Wales Consulting - Experienced hands on help We help small businessesSmaller businesses to undertake more specialist functions and tasks when they are required.  These include; 

• Business strategy - Larger businesses need to take stock of complex, interlinked problems and then set or revise their strategy.  We can guide them through a strategic planning process and leave them with a prioritised plan which has the support of all key stakeholders. 
• Succession planningwe can help businesses with succession planning to implement a smooth succession - Many family businesses are dependent on the current owners, who in turn depend on realising the value in the business for their retirement, and want to pass the business on to secure the future of their workforce.  We can help to assess the options including preparing to put in place a new generation of owners and/or managers, preparing the business for a sale, and developing the potential of all key people in the business. 
• Mentoring - We mentor the directors and senior managers of our larger, growing clients.  Successful businesses will usually grow and in so doing encounter many new challenges.  We engage with businesses over a period of years to help key managers to understand how their roles change and develop their capability to evolve as the business changes and meets successive challenges.  
• Project managementwe can help with all aspects of project management - Most businesses are good at managing 'business as usual' but few have the time, skills and processes to manage exceptional projects well.  We can help them to develop the skills and processes which they need.  
• Change managementwe can help put in place change management processes - Businesses need to adapt to new circumstances, particularly in the difficult economic conditions.  We can help them adapt their ethos, organisation, and ways of doing things in a practical change management process which encourages and helps managers and staff to adapt. 
• Business survivalwe help businesses to identify what their problems are and then to take steps to cut costs and increase revenues - When a business spots that sales or profitability are falling it needs to respond rapidly, or its survival could be at stake.  We help businesses to identify what their problems are and then to take steps to cut costs and increase revenues.  We also help them to refinance their business and to put in place processes to help make their business more secure. 
• Performance improvementwe can conduct reviews to identify areas where performance can be improved -  More effective and efficient performance can make the difference to any business in difficult trading conditions.  We can help businesses to focus better on the key opportunities which that have, cutting costs and increasing revenue.  
• Cash flow management - Understanding cash flow in real time is rarely done well by social and other small enterprises.  We can help businesses to build and use their accounting and management information more effectively, to identify and manage credit risk, to manage payment collection more quickly, and to agree better terms of trade with customers and suppliers.

• Business plans, and business reviews
• Financial plans and management information ·23 Marketing plans and market research ·
• E-businesswe can help businesses take advantage of the latest e-Business ideas to increase sales and cut costs and website optimisation
• Business strategy, succession planning and mentoring
• Project management and change management
• Grants and commercial finance broker
• Business survival, performance improvement  and cash flow management
• Human resources and training
• Health & Safetywe can help to put in place better health and safety processes, undertake risk assessments, quality management

  The International Organization for Standardization's ISO 9001:2008 series describes standards for a QMS addressing the principles and processes surrounding the design, development and delivery of a general product or service

  and environmental management