Are you looking for business growth advisors in Birmingham, UK? The Oakwood Partnership has a proven track record of helping businesses to grow in the Birmingham area.
If your business turns over between one and 20 million pounds, we are here to help. Our services include business strategy, financial modelling, raising funds, marketing support, business development and selling your business.
Birmingham and the West Midlands offer business resources that can provide you with help, guidance and support. Oakwood is well connected and we can introduce you to people who can help you to succeed. We can also provide hands on help, where required.
OUR BUSINESS GROWTH SERVICES INCLUDE:
STRATEGIC REVIEW
- Oakwood can help you to identify potential business challenges, before they become pressing problems.
BUSINESS STRATEGY CONSULTING
- Creating a vision for your business, which can help you to raise funding.
- We have developed a methodology and collaborative approach that we call Making Strategy Pay. This comprises a programme of workshops, projects and consultative sessions where we co-create a path to realise your vision.
Start your business growth journey with business strategy consulting from Oakwood.
GOALS
Talking to a trusted mentor and reviewing performance against goals is essential for keeping your business on track. As the market moves with changes in customer requirements and your industry shifts with new competitors emerging on a continual basis, the board review process gives you regular checkpoints to look outward and adjust your approach.
ASSESSMENT OF GROWTH MARKETS
- Have you and your team worked out where the most profitable growth is going to come from?
- Assess products / services, sectors, geographies and customers.
- Have you prioritised the options available to you?
Oakwood can support you with this process.
ENHANCED PROPOSITION TO TAKE TO MARKET
- What is it about your proposition that gives potential customers a compelling reason to buy?
Oakwood can support you with the enhancement of this proposition, increasing the likely success rate.
CAPABILITIES AND CAPACITY
- Does your team have the right capabilities and skills to deliver on your business vision?
- Do you have the capacity (funding, locations, equipment, workforce etc) to create your business vision?
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Oakwood has extensive experience of working with high growth companies. They have a particular requirement regarding understanding their finances, especially as things are changing so quickly. We can help with:
- Financial modelling: what are your sales and costs? Is investment required?
- Raising investment funds: we have long standing connections with investors; we know how to put the best case forward for funding.
- Understanding your profit margins.
- Financial processing and compliance.
- Management accounts.
- Cash flow forecasting.
- Board reporting.
Find out more about our business finance services.
MARKETING: HANDS ON HELP
Oakwood’s practical support can help you with:
- Marketing strategy & branding.
- Marketing planning and budgeting.
- Understanding your target market.
- Competitor analysis.
- Compelling reasons to buy.
- Proposition development.
- Customer opinion surveys.
- Digital – Website development & SEO.
- Production of sales collateral.
- Establishing a lead generation process.
- Event planning and delivery.
- Social Media i.e. LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram.
- Designing and implementing the use of systems such as a CRM.
Oakwood has a network of industry experts to help with sector specific research and an agency partner to help with brand development. Discover our marketing services.
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Business owners can’t do everything. As business growth advisors in Birmingham, we can help you to create a business development structure. This would include systems and processes in order to make selling more predictable. Creating a trained sales team that uses professional selling techniques can help you to cross the chasm and reach the next level of success. Our service include:
- Growth market analysis
- Proposition enhancement.
- Pipeline management and CRM systems.
- Customer account development.
We work with businesses to develop the techniques and processes to enable consistent high-performance and sustainable growth. Find out more about our business development services.
ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL, GOVERNANCE (ESG)
Environmental: The impact your business has on the environment is important to customers, investors, employees and other stakeholders. Investors look for business opportunities that not only provide a financial return on investment but are also ethical in their approach to environmental impact. Customers look to build sustainable relationships and work with businesses that are aligned on environmental targets.
Social: It is essential to communicate with employees and in addition to find ways to genuinely engage with everyone. We share methods that give people opportunities to contribute to shaping the direction of the business and how it performs. We support you in the process of ethically sourcing materials and being a positive member of the community, all of which are now more important than ever.
Governance: The Board sets priorities and a company’s culture. We can support you with a structure for regular board meetings and review processes to ensure coherence and joined up actions. This will give you an opportunity to think about short-term and long-term goals together, with an overview of the business so that you can select the initiatives that will have the greatest impact. Standing still is not an option. As environmental social governance consultants, we can help.
PREPARING TO SELL YOUR BUSINESS
If you are thinking about selling your business, we can help you develop a business exit strategy. Entrepreneurs want to get the best possible value from their business. To achieve this, we can support you with the development of a compelling equity story involving revenue, EBITDA, quality of earnings and other factors.
Potential investors or purchasers must have a clear idea of what underpins the return they will receive from their investment. We work with you to develop your equity story and translate the efforts of building your business into maximum realisation of value.
If you’re looking for business growth advisors in Birmingham, let’s talk. The Oakwood Partnership offers strategic business advice, access to funding as well as hands-on help for growing businesses in Birmingham. Whether you’re looking for business growth, increasing the value of your business, investment, support in executing a strategy or selling your business, let’s talk. We have a proven track record of working with entrepreneurs to execute their vision, goals and strategy in the West Midlands.
LET’S TALK
For an informal discussion regarding sustainable business growth advice in Birmingham, let’s talk on: 01789 867686
Alternatively, start the conversation today via our Contact form.