Business consulting is the practice of systematically analyzing the operations of a firm to determine optimal practical suggestions that lead to improved performance and growth.
Within a constantly shifting operational and regulatory context, modern business consulting requires up-to-date knowledge of theoretical and technological developments, as well as a full oversight of the relevant sectors and regulatory contexts.
We provide our corporate clients with services in:
Feasibility studies evaluate objectively and rationally a project's potential for success and provide information upon which decisions are based.
Such studies constitute a determining factor in the investment decision__making process and precede the technical development and implementation of a project.
Within the scope of FS, we examine relevant factors and provide a great variety of advisory services:
With our customer's needs in mind, based on financial and operational criteria, we analyse alternative investment scenarios to determine the most effective investment strategy.
We support our customers in :
Using our team’s extensive skills, experience, expertise and know-how, supplemented by modern tools and techniques, we provide the following services to meet specified investment goals for the benefit of the investors:
Furthermore, for projects seeking funding from the Greek State under the Investment Law and NSRF 2007-2013, we provide the following services:
Development funds are intended to financially support new start-up enterprises, or stimulate existing businesses. Such funds are typically drawn from the European Community or the Greek State.
We provide advisory services to companies interested in using state funds (Greek Investment law) or EU funds (NSRF 2007-2013) to finance investment projects. Namely, we will:
- Alert our clients about available Grant opportunities
- Help investors utilize the optimum funding resources (EU and/or state funding)
- Prepare investors and ensure all submission requirements are met and all funds are used within the grantor’s compliance
- Design the investment program and determine the most favourable and effective funding model
- Gather all necessary documents (balance sheets, financial offers for equipment, lay-outs, drawings, etc.) and prepare all the formal applications
- Carry out a financial analysis and feasibility study of the investment.
- Monitor and support each investment project until its final approval by the relevant authorities.
down to the level of business planning and marketing. Modern enterprises should adapt to changes in their external environment to secure their competitive position in the market. Depending on the market, we undertake:
Development of Strategic Business Plans
Strategic and business planning must be an integral part of a company's sustainability effort. It should define the necessary actions and resources needed to achieve long-term, as well as short-term, goals.
A Strategic Business plan serves the following main purposes:
- Determine a general corporate strategy,
- Provide a road map for a business.
- Define the resources needed for the implementation of the road map.
- Help in obtaining outside financing.
To create an appropriate and stellar BP for a given business we:
- Get to Know it
- Determine the scope of the business plan
- Determine its target audience
- Asses its market
A business plan typically consists of:
- A Mission Statement
- A Product or Service Offerings
- An Analysis of company’s position and company’s environment
- A Target Market
- A Marketing Plan
- A SWOT Analysis
- A Strategic Goals
- A Industry and Competitive Analysis
- A Pro-Forma Financials
- Resumes of the Company Principals
- An Assessment of alternative business scenarios
- A Proposed action plan in Marketing, Production, Operation etc.
- A Definition of indicators to monitor the performance of the business and assure delivery.
Business Process Re-engineering (BPR)
BPR aims at helping organizations to fundamentally rethink how they do their work to dramatically improve customer service, cut operational costs, and become world-class contenders.To help organization and their customers achieve the greatest possible benefits, we offer specific advice on how to improve their internal environments. Namely we offer:
- High-level assessment of the organization's mission, strategic goals, and customer needs
- Analysis and decomposition of workflows and other existing business processes
- Definition of critical performance measures
- Redesign of business processes and resource usage.
- Monitoring the implementation of BPR proposals and process improvements.
Support in the Development of ERPs, E-Business and MIS Systems
One of the most important aspects of building a healthy, growing business is the creation of systems that support growth. Organizations must develop IT systems to meet important business objectives, such as improving competitiveness, increasing productivity and efficiency, accelerating growth, supporting innovation and reducing costs. In this regard we offer advice on the following:
- Thinking about business steps and procedures from day one as a vital aspect of the business ultimate success.
- Creation of records of processes
- Determination of a company’s needs and scope for adaptation.
- Market research on available solutions
- Seeking funding opportunities for Information and Communication Technology projects
- Monitoring the implementation of ERPs, E-Business and MIS Systems
Total Quality Management System Development (EFQM Business Excellence Model).
Design and implementation of Total Quality Management Systems to understand how cause and effect impact the organisation’s actions and outcomes, with emphasis on:
- Assessing culture, customer satisfaction, and quality management systems.
- Understanding customer needs
- Identifying core values and principles, and communicating them.
- Developing a master plan
- Identifying and prioritizing customer demands and aligning products and services to meet those demands.
- Understanding competitors’ customers
- Predicting future customer behaviour
- Integrating customer knowledge with other information and using the planning process to orchestrate action throughout the organization on a daily basis.
- Continuously collection, analysis, and acting on customer information. Daily process management and standardization.
- Evaluating progress and revising course of action as needed.
- Maintaining employee awareness and performance feedback and rewarding/recognizing achievement.
Weaving together business and information technology strategies has often been problematic. IT used to be the province of specialists. While IT Systems critically supported financial and backroom function, IT directors were not the sort of people you would usually find around executive tables.
Today, the business significance of information and technology is higher than ever. IT is something virtually every executive task depends on in some form, and business executives are generally much more involved in IT decision-making. Cash flows develop on-line, as are many customer channels and supply chains. Information security, customer privacy, and compliance are now IT-influenced business risks. Assessing information systems has become a key part of due diligence in mergers and acquisitions. The success –or failure– of large IT-enabled business projects will now make or break a business.
To integrate IT and business demands, we typically take the following steps:
Παρακολούθηση και συντονισμός των εσωτερικών λειτουργιών επιχειρήσεων
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