Consulting

Straight forward Business Consulting:
Take a fresh look at your business. Innovate. Grow. Succeed.

Does your business need to deliver more with less?
There’s no denying that it’s a touch economic climate out there, and it’s more important than ever that businesses act as effectively and efficiently as possible. However, this provides innovative and smart organisations with an opportunity: by looking inwards and making small sustainable changes, it’s possible to innovate and get ahead of your competitors.

• Do you spend too much time fire-fightingurgent issues, rather than innovating and dealing with the strategy of your business?
• Do you need a fresh perspectiveon your existing business?
• Do you feel that your business processescould be improved?
• Do your IT Systems and softwaresometimes seem to get in the way?
• Do you find it difficult to get a complete view of how your business is performing?

If you’ve answered “yes” to any of the core questions above, then we can help. At Shirley we specialise in helping businesses of all sizes become as efficient and effective as possible. We help our clients to solve their organisational problems, increase efficiency and avoid distractions so they can focus on the core business that they know and love. We help business to innovate, build on their firm foundations, and find new ways to succeed.

Our services include
Business Analysis & Improvement  |   Business Consulting   |   Business Model Innovation   |   Process Improvement

If you’d like to find out more about Shirley before making contact, feel free to browse the site. If you have any questions at all, please do not hesitate in contacting us. We thrive on helping out our clients, and will gladly spend some time discussing your needs and establishing how we can help.

1. Business Analysis & Improvement Consultancy:
   At Shirley, we work with our clients to identify their organisational problems and help them to implement solutions that work. We provide an objective and external view.

Our services include

1. • Business Analysis: We can work with you to help you to identify and solve business problems and leverage on opportunities. We can support or lead business analysis projects.
   • Business Analysis: We can work with you to help you to identify and solve business problems and leverage on opportunities. We can support or lead business analysis projects.
   • Business Process Improvement: We can work with you to help you to identify and solve business problems and leverage on opportunities. We can support or lead business analysis projects.
   • Business Change Consultancy: We can work with you to help you to identify and solve business problems and leverage on opportunities. We can support or lead business analysis projects.
   • Vendor Selection We can work with you to help you to identify and solve business problems and leverage on opportunities. We can support or lead business analysis projects.
2. Business model innovation:
   The business landscape is changing. Technology is providing business and consumers with unparalleled access to information. Organisations can communicate, collaborate and sell in new ways to new customer segments. Customers’ expectations are higher, yet they demand lower prices. This changing landscape brings a range of new threats and opportunities.
   • Do you know the threats and opportunities to your business?
   • Would you like to make more of the opportunities the changing business landscape presents?
   • Are you looking for new innovation and a fresh perspective on your business?

We can help you do business differently Business success is built upon creating sustainable competitive advantage. In some industries, the barriers to entry have dropped significantly, creating the real threat of nimble new entrants. Simply keeping up with competitors is no longer enough—long term success requires differentiation and innovation.

At Shirley we can help assess your current business model, and work with you to look to innovate so that you can stay ahead of your competitors. We can apply model patterns from other industries, and we can work with you to ensure your business is efficient, effective and delivering maximum value to your customers.

We believe each and every client is different, and for that reason we don’t have a “cookie cutter” approach. We’ll work with you to establish your exact needs and put together an innovative package just for you.

Our services include
Business Analysis & Improvement  |   Business Consulting   |   Business Model Innovation   |   Process Improvement

1. Meeting and Workshop Facilitation:
   At Shirley, we work with our clients to identify their organisational problems and help them to implement solutions that work. We provide an objective and external view.

Do you want to get more from your meetings and workshops? Do you have an important meeting or workshop that just has to go right? Do you need an independent and creative facilitator for your meeting, workshop or off-site brainstorming session? We can help.

We can offer an impartial and independent facilitator who will set up, execute and write up the meeting. We use innovative creative thinking techniques to help you solve problems. It’ll be engaging, high-energy, fun and you’ll get an awesome result.

We can facilitate sessions including:

1. • Vision & Strategy: Articulating and setting direction for an organisation, project or department
   • Creative thinking Generating ideas, brainstorming, finding solutions or maybe even brand new products or services
   • Problem solving: Understanding the root causes of any business problems you have
   • Project Kick-off: Understanding the real objective of a project, gaining shared buy-in and moving forward with confidence
   • Business modelling: Understanding how a business currently operates and inviting attendees to provide ideas for improvement
   • Requirements elicitation: Working with stakeholders to understand their requirements for a product, service or project
   • Post-project reviews: Lessons-learned sessions
2. Consulting Services for BA Practices:
   Shirley offers niche consultancy for BA practices, including:
   • Business Analysis Training: Bespoke and tailored training solutions for your BA teams
   • Defining the BA value proposition: Helping you to articulate the value of the BA role so that your business colleagues engage you sooner
   • Developing an in-house Business Analysis capability: Working with you to develop or define your in-house BA capability
   • Capability Assessment and Benchmarking: Working with you to take your BA capability to the next level.
   • Development and recommendation of standards: Working with you to develop standards, techniques and a common ‘toolbox’ for use by your BA team
   • Mentoring and peer review: Providing one-on-one mentoring support to individual analysts helping them to progress their career