Business Consulting Services
Allan Gasson Services
Allan Gasson Ltd works with businesses and organisations to help them develop and implement projects to drive strategic growth.
Whether it’s with the ambition of entering new global markets or diversifying your product/service range, make changes internally or evaluate projects, or to troubleshoot underperformance, Allan has the skill, extensive knowledge and years of experience to guide you through every step of the process.
From managing strategies and troubleshooting performance issues, to facilitating workshops, business plans, business units and teams, focusing on the corporate centre, Allan evaluates and learns about your company from the top down. He analyses all aspects of the business, including financial and operations, to develop an effective, executable (or actionable) strategy working alongside you to implement your decisions.
“Strategy allows the best allocation of scarce resources to provide competitive advantage” Allan Gasson
Strategy
A strategy is a plan of action created to achieve a specific goal.
Developing a strategy of action allows everyone in your company or organisation to focus on reaching business goals. It sets out how success and growth will be achieved, the actions that will be taken to get to where you want to be in a specific period of time.
There are three principal levels of strategy:
- Corporate level strategy – focusing on the overall goal you want to achieve.
- Business unit level strategy – focusing on your position in comparison to your competitors and how you will compete at a higher level.
- Market level strategy – focusing on how the business is going to grow in the future.
Strategy
Allan works with all parties and business stakeholders in developing effective business strategies in these areas, covering:
- Strategically review business portfolios
- Growth strategies
- Turnaround strategies
- Market entry strategies
- The role of the corporate centre
- Organisation design
- Purpose, vision and mission development
- Project evaluation – cash flow, IRR, NPV, payback and more.
“Resilience is the ability to bounce back from challenges and unforeseen difficulties.” Michael Rutter
Troubleshooting
Every business faces challenges, internally and from the impact of external forces.
Some of the biggest challenges facing companies and organisations today include inflation, supply chain stability and security, higher customer expectations, exponential digital transformation, data and device security, as well as securing the best talent.
But if your business is not resilient enough to withstand these challenges; does not have the right processes and procedures in place to adjust smoothly to changes, and doesn’t have an ongoing strategy in place for sustainable growth, meeting and combating the issues becomes a serious problem.
Troubleshooting
Allan uses is extensive knowledge and experience to work with you in identifying, analysing the root cause of the problem and assessing how you are performing against your competitors to develop long-term resiliency. He covers:
- Root cause analysis of enterprise or business unit underperformance
- Customer satisfaction assessment
- Competitive assessment
- Stress testing plans and strategy
“The driver of change is a desire to improve and it starts with every person in your organisation.” Enee
Facilitating
Whether it’s creating a strategy to implement change within a business or organisation, adjusting organisational structures to facilitate expansion and growth, understanding the how, why and when for individuals and teams to maximise performance and utilise their best skills, or working with you to evaluate and implement business plans and strategies. Allan is an excellent facilitator and has worked with organisations ranging from FTSE50 to family businesses.
Facilitating
He will work with you in:
- Workshop facilitation – the design and management of strategy away days
- Team evaluation (based on the Rocket model)
- Organisational effectiveness
- Individual assessment (based on the Hogan model)
- Evaluating business plans and strategies by working alongside your teams