Brooklands Investor Support

In today’s turbulent economic environment, business decision-making is that much more challenging than in more normal times.  Brooklands Investor Support brings together the breadth of skills and experience necessary to address many of the vital decision-making and implementation issues facing investors.

Investors who have relied upon Brooklands Investor Support include banks, VCs and PE Houses as well as major PLCs and Holding Companies.

Brooklands Investor Support focuses on the heartbeat of business – its operations.  Operations are what make a business tick - they are the enablers of profit and cash generation and the key drivers of enhancing shareholder value.  The size, scale and functional nature of business all too often make it difficult to see the end-to-end processes behind delivering value to customers.  This, added to boundary issues and performance resistors, creates barriers to the development and implementation of performance enhancing solutions.

All businesses, whether in service, process or manufacturing industries, have operations.  Brooklands Investor Support adds value by helping deliver ideas, plans and strategies in a pragmatic and effective manner.  Our typical approach is two stage:

Stage One: Analysis and Design.  This gives an independent and objective view of the issues:  e.g.  Where are we now?  Where should we be?  What capability/scalability exists?  What are the drivers/enablers?  What are the resistors/risks?  What needs to be done, how and by when?  Stage One may be a stand-alone project or, if appropriate, can be followed by Stage Two.

Stage Two: Implementation.  Implementation can be a daunting challenge.  Brooklands Investor Support brings experience and maturity to this difficult and critical task.  Our consultants challenge, are pragmatic, hands-on and effective, they "make things happen" and drive strategies into sustainable and profitable improvements.

As Dwight Eisenhower said:  "Planning is everything.  The Plan without implementation is nothing."

Brooklands works with clients, identifying the critical levers for profit, cash and/or performance improvement – and we are then able to help with the all-important implementation phase.

Key levers include:

  • Operational levers e.g. lean, continuous improvement, footprint, costs/overheads, front office/back office, supply chain & purchasing, post M&A integration
  • Commercial levers e.g. products & services, analysing profitability and making pragmatic changes
  • Financial levers e.g. working capital
  • Strategic levers e.g. organisational alignment, people strategy

Brooklands works with high performing businesses that wish to improve further, as well as under-performing businesses.

To ensure sustainability we address and integrate both hard and soft issues i.e. systems/processes, structure and culture/attitude.

Whatever the nature of the assignment, our clients expect us to work with them, challenging their thinking by providing fresh ideas, new perspectives and objective analyses.

Turnaround

Businesses sometimes under-perform.  Whether this is due to having fallen into losses or to breaching (or being close to breaching) covenants, it is at this point that Brooklands’ objective, independent business appraisal adds real value - identifying the causes of under-performance and producing action plans to achieve improvements.  Importantly, Brooklands is expereinced in helping in the key phase - implementation of the action plans.  Read more … …

Cost Challenge

As company profitability and cash flow are hit by the downturn, the challenge is to enhance performance, jack up EBITDA and improve cash flow.  Read more … …

M&A Integration

Many mergers and acquisitions fail to achieve their objective of increasing shareholder value.  These failures are often avoidable. Clients retain Brooklands to underpin success.  Read more … …

Private Equity Support

The challenge is often to understand sustainability and scalability.  How does the business tick?  What are the enablers?  Brooklands helps businesses "hit the ground running".  Read more … …