We believe in the potential and ambitions of young entrepreneurs across the globe.
As an entrepreneur, you are in a unique position — you not only own the business, but you are its strategist, visionary, cheerleader and fiduciary guardian. With such significant responsibilities, you face many tough issues.
Developing and sustaining a competitive business model, properly financing your business, maintaining successful relationships with personnel, navigating family disagreements, staying ahead of the competition and finally monetizing or passing along the business to the next generation are just a few of your challenges. You face different hurdles depending on the stage of your business and just as the pressure points are different at each stage, the type of support you need changes.
However, one thing is always constant; the need for a true partner and trusted advisor as an objective resource to be at your side along the way. We can help.
As a startup, you have a vision about what you want to become. Your passion gives you the strength to tackle what others see as barriers and turn them into opportunities.
As you start your business, you need to make sure you have a sustainable model – the proper team and equity structure, appropriate funding and the proper tools in place to keep track of where you have been and where you are going while at the same time minimizing your tax burden.
That is a lot to handle and having the right professional advisors are critical to your success.
Focus: Business foundations, strategy, and getting traction.
If you are a high growth company, congratulations! You are admired by the market. However, along with heightened demand for your products and services, comes an increased responsibility to execute and to keep all of your stakeholders happy.
As a high growth company, your financing sources move from Angels, VCs and family to banks and possibly Private Equity Groups (PEG’s), or even an Initial Public Offering (IPO). An entrepreneur needs to continue to focus on profitable sustainable operations as you grow and to keep in mind the various financing alternatives that may be available to you. Keeping your staff happy while complying with the environment of ever-changing rules is another challenge you face – our team is at the forefront of these changes and regulations with tools and techniques, including solid expertise
Focus: Scaling, building structure, and managing rapid growth.
As your company matures and achieves new milestones, your focus begins to shift to what’s beyond the high point of your successful business – what will your next move be? The evolution of ownership is not an if, but a when question. Do you want to keep the legacy alive and pass the business to the next generation of management? Can you afford to retire and are you really ready to “step back?” Is it time to “take some chips off the table” or perhaps sell outright? These are difficult questions and the answers are fraught with emotion as one reaches the twilight of their career. The good news is we have dealt with these scenarios many times and have the processes and resources to help. Let’s explore a little further.
Focus: Sustaining growth, optimizing, innovation, and long-term planning.
Business strategy - the term is discussed all the time, but what does it really mean? At SBC, we believe that no organisation is the same. And that means no business strategy should be the same either. That's why our strategic advisory team takes the time to get to know your organisation and understand its needs. Using this information, we'll provide a completely bespoke set of services that addresses your unique strategic requirements, whatever those might be.
There are several essential strategy questions businesses should (but don't always) know the answer to:
Our strategic advisory team will help you answer these questions.
The first stage of any strategic advisory engagement is to get to know your business or organisation at the deepest level possible. This involves getting to know you and your business, what makes it tick and what success looks like for you. Through in-person meetings as well as sending you a range of questionnaires and other materials, we'll also conduct our own market research, using both our national and global network to assess industry conditions. Often specific issues that your organisation may not have been aware of can emerge.
Once we've developed a thorough understanding of your business and the industry you operate in, we'll work out exactly what strategic advisory services your business will benefit from, with the aim of helping you answer the questions above.
Because no organisation is the same, there are a wide range of strategic advisory services you might benefit from. These include:
We help clients embed and adapt their governance so that the value created by their competitive advantage sustains over the long term . We bring experience of supporting boards and management teams in designing frameworks, team processes and leadership dynamics to support delivery of sustainable value to stakeholders.
Expert guidance that helps you build quality governance structures and improve your resilience.
Insight and technical expertise that helps you evaluate the effectiveness of your board.
Do you need guidance on reviewing and improving your corporate governance best practice?
Expert guidance that helps you build quality governance structures and improve your resilience. The right governance structures are critical to efficient decision-making that delivers successful outcomes.
Aligning your governance framework to your strategy gives you the structure and agility to move forward at the right pace and react to significant change events.
Insight and technical expertise that helps you evaluate the effectiveness of your board
Do you need guidance on reviewing and improving your corporate governance best practice?
Performance metrics and monitoring processes are in place to track progress in advancing sustainable business practice. Help implement and execute your transformation projects, provide high-impact mandatory and voluntary reporting, and tell a credible story through your engagement with stakeholders, regulators and investors.
Communication to external and internal stakeholders offers an accurate and holistic view of the organisation’s sustainability performance.
Enable your supply chains to reduce carbon footprint, risk, build brand equity and ultimately build on a sustainable future for your enterprise.
Plan your business' future
Succession planning can mean different things to different people. It can also be a stressful time if you’re not backed by the right team.
Regardless of your situation, whether it’s protecting your personal wealth or exiting a business, succession decision making is rarely straightforward. But having SBC behind you means it can happen as smoothly as possible. SBC ’s succession planning specialists can provide an objective perspective and support when you’re planning your future.
SBC can help with:
Get ahead of the game with tailored, proactive advice from SBC succession planning experts. to find out more.
Is your business generating the returns you want?
Every growing business can go through phases where profit is minimal or cashflow is strained. How you prepare for and respond to such times is what determines a business’ success and, ultimately, owners’ returns.
Whether your business is emerging or well established, we can help you with a range of services.
How SBC can help:
We support you with optimising your HR function by advising you, guiding you and finding solutions for your HR challenges in matters such as strategy definition, HR audit and effectiveness/maturity assessment, process review or design, job description and job evaluation.
We also develop HR tailor-made policies and procedures fitting your working environment and requirements such as mobility, homeworking, working time, travel or secondment, amongst others.
We also accompany you in adopting your organisational changes through customised change management strategies, action plans and operational support.
In light of this, we develop tailor-made HR & Employment Advisory services to assist our clients in integrating their people challenges with their business strategy.
