Enterprise Doctor

One of our key skills is the ability to dig down through a mass of information to identify the nub of a problem.  We do this by exploring how your business got where it is, where you want the business to go and how you intend getting it there.

With your help and input, we can guide you through this process, identify your real goals and the challenges stopping you achieving them, and then work with you on how to overcome those challenges.

Given our broad experience, we can personally assist with a range of areas of your business, but the general area of sales is one of our key strengths, as is the ability to plan and implement strategic and operational change.  If your business is really struggling, our proven track record of business turnaround in both the public and private sectors will be of great value to you.

Some of our achievements

We have been where you are: running our own businesses, answering to boards and budgets, and working alongside owners who were too busy working in their business to work on it.  Some key factors in our past of relevance to the work we do at Enterprise Doctor are:

• Ran a business for 12 years, building it to a turnover of £1.4m with 10 staff, and then successfully sold it to a large competitor
• Started up the Thames Valley branch of a Midlands business, and within 2 years it was generating more net profit than the long-established head office
• Recruited to manage a division of the UK subsidiary of a US company – took it from the status of being about to be closed (including a full complement of staff ready to leave) to becoming a thriving division with happy staff and even happier customers and senior managers
• Recruited by a major IT wholesaler to start a new division – inherited a small product group, generated a 500% increase in sales inside the first year and took on two new brands – then promoted to run the printer division with a sales target of £30m
• Sought out by a local Council to define, set up and run an Investor Development programme, enabling the Council to understand businesses within its area and to communicate effectively with them
• Managed an Enterprise Agency providing help for pre-start and early-stage businesses – rescued it from imminent closure by persuading key partners to continue the funding in return for a meaningful Service Level Agreement and the success of a number of new initiatives described within it
• Turned around the sales and marketing offering of a further education college, massively raising its local profile, initiating a series of highly successful networking events and ensuring targets for the delivery of training were exceeded
• Led a small team at a regional Chamber of Commerce and built it from a virtually non-existent group to a thriving organisation, to the benefit of all of its members
• Hired by a college to significantly raise its profile with local businesses, specify & introduce a CRM system, develop & introduce a new range of business-focussed training and attack targets for "Train to Gain" and Apprenticeships – all objectives exceeded
• Volunteering as trained business mentors for young entrepreneurs and university graduates (very fulfilling work – to be recommended – ask us for more details if you’re interested)