Organisational Challenges

• Endeavouring to establish scale while seeking to maintain profitability – Often difficult to generate commercial returns.
• Difficulty of investing ahead of the curve to enhance productivity and efficiency – The solution often feels just over the next horizon and remains just out of reach.
• Constant sense of financial pressure - Reliance and dependence on bank funding with few alternative options.
• Chasing revenue to support cash flow, often at the expense of margins and overheads – profitability remains challenged.
• Absence of time and space to focus on systems, policies and process - Reliance and dependence on key people rather than systems.
• Sub optimal resource allocation – People and Equipment.
• Overstretched and under resourced management – Management are stuck working in the business and not working on the business.
• Time poor - absence of planning, review and follow up.
• Unsophisticated accounting and reporting – Reporting is used more for tax and compliance, rather than business analysis and decision making.

STRATOSFEAR Service Solutions

The service solutions for SME’s include, but are not limited to:

• Business Mentoring.
• Budgeting –‘Three Way’ Financial and Economic Modelling.
• Pricing and Margin Management.
• Cash Flow Forecasting and Management.
• Revenue expansion – Business Development and Client Management.
• Financial Literacy Training – Understanding the impact that all staff have on financial outputs through their decision making.
• Establishing basic management processes.
• Assist with Contract negotiations.
• Establishing systems.
• SWOT Analysis and strategic ‘limits to growth’ analysis.
• Assist with funding and establish guidelines.
• Build overall management and staff bench strength.