Business Consulting

Businesses in all industries can benefit from working alongside a business consultant. Many new companies understand the importance of hiring a consultant right off the bat. Consultants can help new businesses set up their accounting, develop business processes, and hire talented staff. Established businesses can also gain many advantages from hiring a consultant, especially when trying to grow their business or expanding into other industries. When problems occur that affect a company’s finances or reputation, a business consultant can help find a solution before it is too late.

Professional business consulting services can have a major impact on your business in a positive way. The right consultant can bring information, advice, and effective solutions to the table using their unique skillset and specialized experience.

Many companies are struggling to navigate today’s challenges for several reasons:-

• A lack of understanding of business and customer insights
• Uncertainty about current or future market realities
• A misaligned vision and strategy
• Difficulty innovating or quickly launching new capabilities
• Poor strategy execution and value realization
• A culture of complacency or change fatigue
• An overall lack of business agility across people, process and technology

Successfully navigating these complex business challenges means being prepared to dive deep into your business and market to gain clarity on issues and opportunities. Then, you can establish a compelling and inspiring vision, develop world–class capabilities, build a culture of agility, and deliver value in a rapid, agile fashion.  

But you don’t have to do it alone — we’ll work with you as an extension of your team to ensure you can improve productivity, scale your organization, stay ahead of the competition, and more. 

ISF as Business Consultants are a professional group who provides professional or expert advice in a particular area such as security (electronic or physical), management, accountancy, law, human resources, marketing (and public relations), finance, engineering, science or any of many other specialized fields.

Our consultants are an expert or a professional in a specific field and has a wide area of knowledge in a specific subject. Our consultants can save clients time, increase revenue, and maintain resources.

The role of our consultant fall under External Consultant, who is employed externally (either by a firm or some other agency) whose expertise is provided on a temporary basis, usually for a fee. As such this type of consultant generally engages with multiple and changing clients.

The overall impact of a consultant is that clients have access to deeper levels of expertise than would be feasible for them to retain in-house, and may purchase only as much service from the outside consultant as desired.

Our Business consultants provide management consulting to help organizations improve their performance and efficiency. These professionals analyze businesses and create solutions while also helping companies meet their goals. Business owners should consider hiring business consultants when they need help or perspective on their chosen path or a catalyst for change in their companies.

Our Consultants offer a wide range of services, including the following:

• Providing expertise in a specific market
• Identifying problems
• Supplementing existing staff
• Initiating change
• Providing objectivity
• Teaching and training employees
• Doing the “dirty work,” like eliminating staff
• Reviving an organization
• Creating a new business
• Influencing other people, such as lobbyists

The first step for any business consultant is the discovery phase, where the goal is to learn the client’s business. A good business consultant takes the time to learn as much as possible about the business from the owner and employees. This can include touring the facility, meeting with the board of directors and employees, analyzing the finances and reading all company materials. During this process, the business consultant will uncover the details of a company’s mission and what operations are in place.

Once the business consultant has developed an in-depth understanding of the company, they enter the evaluation phase, where the goal is to identify where change is needed. This phase includes identifying the company’s strengths and weaknesses, as well as current and foreseeable problems. These issues can include problems that ownership and management have already identified, as well as new problems the business consultant discovers as a result of their objectivity. A business consultant should also identify opportunities to grow the business, increase profits and boost efficiency.

In addition to identifying these problems and opportunities, a business consultant should develop solutions to problems and plans for capitalizing on opportunities. Perhaps a company has a particularly strong sales department but a weak marketing department. This is an opportunity for the company to increase marketing resources and capitalize on the sales staff. During this phase, it’s important for the consultant and the company’s employees to maintain open, clear communications.

It’s important for a business owner to take the business consultant’s advice at this stage as constructive criticism. The owner should not take this criticism personally, as the business consultant brings objectivity and a fresh viewpoint. The owner may be personally close to the business, which can be an obstacle to positive change and growth. The owner should have feedback and provide opinions to the business consultant, which the business owner should consider and revise plans as necessary.

Once the owner and the consultant agree on a plan, the consultant should enter the third phase of consulting. This is the restructuring phase, or the implementation of the plan. In this phase, the consultant builds on assets and eliminates liabilities. They also monitor the plan’s progress and adjust it as needed.

It can be difficult to make the choice to hire a business consultant. However, the rewards are often worth the investment. Some of the most common reasons why businesses work with business consultants include:

1. Gain an Outside Perspective

Sometimes management is not able to see existing problems. After working in the same conditions for an extended period of time, it is easy to overlook issues or make up excuses why they exist. A business consultant acts as a neutral third party who can provide your company with an outside perspective about what you are doing wrong and where you can improve. With a fresh pair of eyes, business consultants can quickly spot the challenges that may be holding a company back. This can result in essential changes that have the potential to highly benefit a company.

2. Take Advantage of Valuable Resources

As upper management, your day is likely filled with a variety of tasks which leaves little time to focus on changes and growth. When you have a business consultant in your corner, you can take advantage of a wealth of resources. The main objective of a business consultant is to help make your business run more efficiently. To achieve this, most consultants have established processes and tools in place that can be used to evaluate business practices. This prevents you from having to hire extra employees.

3. Bring in New Business Skills

While you probably already have a solid understanding of business practices and all of the areas that go with it, it is not possible for one person to know everything. What makes a business consultant so useful is that they specialize in business strategies, trends, and methodologies, allowing you the opportunity to focus on your work while they do what they know best. These skills can be beneficial in the short-term as you try to implement new changes. They can also be useful in the long-term as existing employees learn new tricks of the trade that can be used long after the consultant’s contract has expired.

4. Save Time, Money and Stress

Juggling numerous tasks can be stressful for anyone. However, when you are forced to take on even more management functions or hire new people to take on these jobs, your business can suffer lost time, money, and stress. As hiring a business consultant is often a temporary investment, you do not have to worry about putting another employee on the payroll permanently. While a business consultant is often a bigger upfront investment, these professionals are not full-time employees, which can save you money in the long-run.

5. Prompt Employees to Reach Goals

With guidance from a professional business consultant, you can encourage your employees to reach short-term goals and objectives sooner. When employees are presented with a challenge that may be outside of their expertise, there may be some hesitance or delay in achieving this goal. Short-term goals often require a lot of time, effort, and skills and some employees may feel as if these objectives are burdens. A business consultant knows how to get employees motivated about achieving objectives on deadlines which can be highly beneficial to the growth of a business.