What is the BlackBook Management Consultancy service?

“This service is designed to help you as a Director or Management Team to have the knowledge and expertise available when you need it, to make good decisions for excellent outcomes.”

How does it work? (DSSS)

DIAGNOSE

We diagnose the nature of the challenge, using our “100 Questions” technique, and other key exercises.

SPECIFY

After our diagnostic findings, we specify the required work and deliver a report on how to achieve your objectives.

SOLVE

With a clear specification, we help you get the work done to solve your challenges efficiently.

SUSTAIN

Once you’ve achieved your goals, we can then help you sustain the benefit of work that you have completed.

How is it delivered?

CLASSIC CONSULTANCY

A ‘classic consultancy’ case is one in which we are commissioned to investigate and report on an issue – but no further. This uses DIAGNOSE and SPECIFY work.

PROJECT WORK

A ‘project’ case is when we are commissioned to DIAGNOSE a challenge, SPECIFY the work required, and then directly help SOLVE the problem.

RETAINED SERVICES

A ‘retained’ commission is when we are required to bring the whole DSSS process to support a client, on an indefinite basis.

Which topics do we Consult on?

One thing is always consistent in running an organisation of any kind – change is never simple. Which is why as a team, BlackBook has a huge amount of experience in specifying, implementing and managing organisational change.

Whether it is designing and launching new functions, or rebuilding and redeploying existing functions, we can make sure that it follows a clear strategy and project plan.

Change is never simple, but it doesn’t have to be painful. Use our management consultancy service to get this right, first time.

The Management Consultancy service from BlackBook upgrades your business model, focuses on the profit, and helps you make the changes necessary to move it forward sensibly and sustainably.

There are no get rich quick promises here, but whether you’re a start-up or a decades old business, we can create a superior model for you to operate to, and help you implement it efficiently and effectively.

Culture is too often a dirty word in organisational management. Simultaneously considered crucial yet somehow irrelevant in failing organisations, it is the ‘dark magic’ that usually defines whether an organisation succeeds or fails.

The BlackBook Management Consultancy Team has a long history of specifying, implementing and influencing the culture of organisations they have been part of or worked with. Yes – we research and design the required cultural template to achieve your strategic objectives.

No, that doesn’t mean Friday Pizza’s and the occaisional Paintballing ‘jolly’. Cultural Templates are mission critical, and we give them the importance they deserve.

We are aware of the growing need for learning development functions within organisations, and the drastic shortage of those with the skillset and experience to deliver that functions. BlackBook can step in to provide both the skills and experience needed to ensure your teams are learning the right things, in the right way, to meet your organisations expectations.

Organisations need leadership. But all too often they dont get it, or they get the wrong kind of ‘guidance’. As a collective, the BlackBook team have been practicing best in class management, as well as teaching others how to do it for decades.

We provide the skillset and knowledge that leaders require to perform better, and help their teams perform better. Yes leadership is a learned skillset, and no it’s not all down to talent alone.

Sales functions provide the fuel for any business – paying clients! Yet, so many businesses are unable to build a sustainable methodology for attracting and onboarding these clients, they struggle to stay afloat.

Which is why you need a sales function that works. An effective sales function has a strategy, a process, a set of standards, and well trained and empowered staff to deliver it all. BlackBook can deliver all of this for you.

Marketing is usually the most difficult and complicated department to get right in any organisation. Typically, most are cobbled together from existing resources, using people who want to ‘try their hand’ in the great game.

Unfortunately, this often results in an expensive failed experiment.

With over twenty years of experience in operating and developing Marketing Functions in a variety of industries and situations, BlackBook can help you build your Marketing function properly from the very beginning, or restructure an existing function so that it works the way you want it to.

Manufacturing Departments are usually the profit-engine of any organisation they feature within. Margin is everything – and any good production manager knows that it is incredibly easy to lose much of it through countless small or large errors.

When you need advice on how to get it right, BlackBook and it’s partner organisations can step in and overhaul or create as new a Manufacturing Department that will power your business to new heights.

With decades of experience in this area, we know what we are doing.

Product Management is a specific business discipline that is usually overlooked, yet incredibly important for any organisation. In short, it covers the research of market need, the justification of market need, the specification of the product or service, and the procurement & delivery of that product or service.

Often delivered by senior staff in an organisation, without the understanding or awareness of the role they’re performing and the best practices associated with it, it is often one of the most effective ways to improve business performance through consultancy.

Contrary to popular belief, ‘purchasing’ is absolutely a subset of ‘product management’, and must not be separated from that discipline.

Finding common ground, bridging gaps, overcoming barriers, creating synergies, gaining perspective… whatever you want to call it – we can help you get hold of it.

Our Management Consultancy team has huge experience in delivering positive outcomes from situations like contractual disputes, important sales account discussions, boardroom dysfunction and more.

Establishing healthy boundaries, understanding what is ‘reasonable’ and what is not, and having a view of what are sometimes harsh realities, are all key to our work in this area.

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Where should you start?

Whatever challenge your organisation is facing… whatever it is that is causing you problems as a manager… there is a very strong chance that BlackBook can help you overcome it. If you’d like to have a conversation about our management consultancy, send us a message via the form below, and one of our consultants will respond quickly.

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