Services
Wired-minds partner with you to build your business:
- Executive Coaching
- Business Re-engineering consultancy services
- Training leaders to lead leaders
- Website management focused on customer growth
Business Services We Have Delivered
- Conflict Resolution and Leadership
A standoff development between parties of different education and culture. A need to improve credibility of leadership combined with financial urgency to resolve issues. Leader given one-to-one coaching by reviewing personal reaction to each goading behaviour or issue, and replaced with positive responsible behaviour able to generate desired outcomes. Result - conflicts resolved, increase in leadership self-confidence, credibility and professional status.
- Unstable Platform - Lack of Data Integrity
Ever had that problem where management reports from different divisions dont add up ? Marketing developing their own financial information from lack of source data. Investigation and communication discovered non integrated software; information on different platforms in different countries. Non-stable hardware platform causing data integrity faults in software data input. Lack of regular back up of complex system. Systems and hardware management by personnel experienced in other systems and not the one in question. Chaos at backend. Solution go back to source data and rebuild on modern platform capable of network structure. Bring in economies of scale, systematic IT management, transparency. Upskill Directors on impact of IT engineering. Result - integrity of data, reduction in costs, ability to plan with confidence, upskilled workforce, management improved confidence.
- Cost Benefit
Assessment of range and impact cost/benefit issues was completed, mitigation possibilities identified, and reported accordingly. Results may have been palatable, timely, immensely helpful, or politically expedient. Full costs and benefits were picked up early, and time shows all costs and benefits do eventually come to light, regardless of decisions at the time. Specific contract delivered client request unattached to outcome enabling decisions to meet Director legal compliance and stewardship responsiblities.
- Sales Development Multinational
Never think your sales team has all the territory covered when you are the biggest player. After years of double digit growth complacency can set in and hunger can be missing from the sales force. Huge opportunities can exist in market segments which don't know they need the solutions on offer. Multinational introduction was delivered with customised pilot project derived from researched understanding and knowledge of target industry player. Why did it work ? Technical knowledge combined with personal relationships built up over time with CEO Sales company and key personnel in new business opportunity segment.
- Problem Venture Capital Investment
Plenty of spin and smokescreen to cover subterfuge on both sides. Many words, meetings, and phone calls later, key obstacle to obtaining value of £100m investment was uncovered. An old culture of knowledge is power was toppled by skilfully handled moves. A shift of knowledge ownership and control was engineered from employee to company. The first challenge is to figure out what is going on behind a group smokescreen. The second is to break the bank so to speak.
- IT and Telecoms Sector Business Development
Built database of 8,000 current prospects and many new fee paying customers over three month period from nil start. Created by reading the industry sector international news, attending networking events, understanding technical developments in the sector, and using intelligence.
- Deriving Value From Mergers and Acquisition
New enterprise established on foundation £40m budget. Details encapsulated in initial complex programming by young turk with no line management responsibility. Year two required Directors to sort out conundrum of how to deliver on incomprehensible projections. Answer lay in breaking down complexity of programming, and hearing heads of department perspectives on their budgets. Numbers added together dont make sense unless you add apples to apples. This bought integrity to new budget, greater understanding of all parties, and management confidence in the data going forward.
- Adding Value Marketing Strategy - New Investor 45% Shareholding
Review of Sales and Marketing Strategy ($800m Sales Revenue, 350 Branded Products). Sales driven focus out of balance with production. Significant profit margins underutilised and converted to cash by decreasing product range; daily machine downtime to constantly set up new production runs reduced. Brand awareness market research identified a target market focus unexpected by Directors and influenced product selection. Data rich and strategy savvy sales personnel argued competitively for shares of manufacturing production resource. Successful takeover by global brand. Stimulating project.
- Over Capitalised Manufacturing Plant In Receivership
Initial capital investment model faulty by underestimating raw materials transport cost to door. How to rescue what could be available for banks' investment? A specialised production plant capable of producing high value manufacturing product. Found specialised international product buyer, and negotiated annualised put option on production to add credibility to cash flow projections. International search through grapevine of trusted former business colleagues for Assets buyer. Meantime, study of every widget of plant operations and preparation of Sales Documentation. Successful international sales negotiation occured due to one chance to present data to potential offshore buyer, and ability to answer all technical questions on the spot about this $100m operation. Deposit on purchase secured. Competition then began between two potential buyers. One was successful. Syndicated banks received payback on investment.
- Mitigation of Engineering Construction For Legal Compliance
Major diversion motorway roadworks causing politicians to be publicly embarrassed by locals causing havoc. Mitigation funding made available. Brief to work with businesses as an independent consultancy to assess impact and recommend mitigation expenditures to meet requirements of Resource Planning Law. Successful implementation.
- Interpretation BackOffice Support - Leading Global Bank
On one side frustrated management facing increasing IT costs as proportion of transaction costs. On the other side back office and desk support staff working harder and harder and their complaints unheard. A drill down on hardware machine outputs and development of subsequent statistical interpretation, shifted review from finding fault with proven productive staff, to looking at hardware and software choices for added cost impact, ranking information and archival requests, pricing customer support tickets to reflect backoffice resources used, and motivation of departmental heads to control their internal spend on help support. Communication of information created an opening for more informed debate and planning.