N2 (squared) Consulting specialise in translating strategy into deliverable solutions. Our focus is on
helping clients understand where they are now, where they want to be, the challenges they are
faced with and how they can get there.
Our services cover the following areas:
Business Strategy and Planning - Using the breadth of our experience, we will help you develop an innovative business strategy and plan that encourages growth, but is also flexible and grounded in reality.
Performance Management and Benefits Realisation - To measure success effectively, we can help set key performance indicators (KPIs) so that you can recognise your accomplishments against original business cases.
Programme and Project Management - We can partner with you to put together workable project plans, structures, and tools, taking into account the activities, resource and budget needed to deliver change. For more information please read our critical success factors for Delivering Effective Change.
Organisational Review and Design - If you are setting up a new business unit, planning a merger or acquisition or just reviewing your current structure, we can help identify what divisions or functions are required and the roles and responsibilities that sit behind them.
Business Process Re-engineering - To ensure optimal performance, we can examine your business to identify the inefficient processes and re-design them to be more practical and effective - leading to cost and time savings, and better working practices for your people.
Supply Chain Optimisation - To help you get the right product, to the right customer, at the right time, for the right cost, we apply a structured and disciplined approach to optimise your supply chain through its core components of strategy, process, systems and people. For more information please read our critical success factors for Supply Chain Optimisation.
Cost Reduction - Understanding the relationship between costs, outputs and profitability is critical for any business to survive in today’s climate. Our focused and structured cost reduction programmes will ensure the right costs are reduced in order to sustain outputs whilst increasing profitability.
IT Advisory - We can draw on considerable experience to help you define your IT strategy, trouble-shoot a struggling project, or procure and negotiate outsourced IT managed service - in a language you and your business will understand.
We also offer the following propositions, designed to respond to distinct business problems:
Unlocking the Value of Consultants (UVC) - We act as 'poacher turned gamekeeper' for organisations that may not be getting the best value from their consultancy spend.
Partnership Working in the Third Sector - With public funders putting their trust and money in larger alliances and partnerships over smaller organisations, we use our significant knowledge of public sector mergers and consortiums to help not-for-profit organisations build effective partnerships. For more information please read our Practical Guide to Working with Partnerships.
Volunteering Infrastructure - With increasing competition in the Third Sector, not-for-profit organisations are finding it harder to recruit and retain volunteers. We use our experience in setting up volunteering programmes to ensure that not-for-profit organisations make the most of volunteering, both on a strategic and operational level. For more information, please read our critical success factors for Becoming a Volunteer Focused Organisation.
Delivering Change in the Third Sector - A systemic problem in many not-for-profit organisations is turning ideas into reality. Using our private sector programme and project management experience, we provide the structure, drive and enthusiasm to ensure that change is delivered in the most effective and cost-efficient way. For more information please read our critical success factors Delivering Effective Change.
