How Do We Help?

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Working with DNC, helps you acquire a clearer sense of direction for your business and a greater peace of mind for yourself.  This new state of being is the direct result of a collaborative effort by you, your staff, and your Advisor.  This collaboration of forces enables your Advisor to explore all facets of your business by comparing your business practices to the best business practices employed by successful companies.  This benchmarking analysis highlights the areas of your business that need more attention for you to realize increased profitability and to enhance the value for your business. 

With advice and assistance, you no longer must go it alone.  The days of managing your business in isolation are outdated.  We provide you with a well-seasoned sounding board that offers you impartial, practical business advice. 

Rather than operating from a reactive stance, your management style takes on a more proactive posture. This proactive management style puts you in a position to better realize and seize opportunities. The results are measurable performance improvement for your company regarding growth, profit, cash management, ease of operations, enhanced company value, and return on investment.

We only recommend solutions and implement actions that are in the long-term best interest of our clients.  Our experience, skills, and knowledge, as well as our ability to gain a total understanding of you and your business, ensures that we can provide you with valuable solutions and implement actions that produce improved results. 

Our focus shifts to your business.  The consulting engagement, with you and your company, is one that is based on a written agreement of confidentiality, non-disclosure and non-compete.  This agreement establishes the foundation of trust, openness, honesty, professionalism, and commitment that is necessary for our relationship and the engagement to be successful.  We believe this policy ensures client confidence and integrity.

The approach is a systematic process of getting you, our client, from Point A, your status of your business, to Point Z, your future situation.  Point Z reflects the vision that you have for the future of your company and the goals you wish to achieve.  To effectively accomplish this transition, your Advisor must have a clear perception of the current process and their rationale.  Your Advisor will be assessing issues, internal as well as external, to determine how they are impeding your business. 

The approach focuses on 5 different components of your business and evaluates how each component impacts your revenues and your business value.  A business is a system, and any one component within the business is inextricably linked to other components elsewhere in the business.  To effectively improve the performance of a company, it is necessary to facilitate incremental improvements in all aspects of a company's activity rather than concentrating on any one single aspect.   Your Advisor looks at the big picture of your entire company and sees exactly how the various 5 components of planning, profit, people, product, and process are working together. 

The approach develops a strategic plan, the roadmap, for you and your business. Entrepreneurs and business managers are often so preoccupied with the immediate issues they face that they lose sight of their ultimate objectives.  It is for this reason that a business review and preparation of a Strategic Plan is a virtual necessity.  This may not be a recipe for success; but without it, a business may fail.  Your Advisor will help you prioritize your opportunities and suggest practical cost-effective ways to achieve your goals.  The result of this process is your Strategic Business Plan, a top-level document that focuses on your destination (the where), your road map (the how), and your means of getting there (the what) for your future business development. 

The approach assists you with hands-on implementation and execution of needed action.  Like you, most small business owners--who employ fewer than one hundred employees--do not have the support of a professionally trained management team or large staff of employees to take on peripheral project(s).   Outsource specific tasks and functions, thus affording you and your staff additional time to concentrate on the primary reason that you are in business. . . to service your customers.

The approach creates a series of checks and balances to effectively measure your business progress.  Businesses need controls. Without these controls, businesses run the risk of slow leakage of financial resources.  Internal controls are an essential part of keeping your business healthy.  We review, recommend, and help implement several checks and balances to maintain productivity and efficiency, and optimize resources and capital. 

The approach positions you, the owner, the entrepreneur, the leader, in a more proactive management stance to better realize and seize opportunities.  A truly proactive entrepreneur has a realistic vision, can communicate that vision, and surrounds himself with talented people.  The key to your entrepreneurial success is your ability to plan, implement, execute, measure, and adjust. It is exceedingly difficult to do all these things on your own.  With our help you architect your business future, chart a course, develop strategies, and provide you with the resources necessary for successful implementation and execution of your plans.

If you have concerns and doubts about your business, or you just wish that you had someone to talk to about what you're doing in your business, then we can help. Seeking business advice is a good thing.  The importance of aligning yourself with a trusted business advisor is the best piece of advice you can be given.  The biggest mistake many entrepreneurs make is employing business advisors only when they are in serious trouble.  As your trusted advisor,  let us provide advice and guidance, as well as a helping hand when doubt and concerns about your business surround you.