One of the joys of our work is transforming a business or an NGO into a business manager. Strengthening the business skills of NGO’s in areas such as planning, fundraising and marketing can greatly assist them to implement Multilateral investment Fund projects. Our capacity building takes a partnership approach that blends our technical assistance with local knowledge.

Business development tools

Our underlying skill is to adjust the complexity to match the business and stakeholder skills. We can shift from a simple site visit that just ‘kicks the dirt’ and express a first impression, to more detailed assessments that analyse financials and perform risk analysis and mitigation. We have prepared feasibility studies, market appraisals and business plans all over the world, so are used to adapting the content and sophistication to match the client.

We use tools to analyse a business and present the results. Our clients really appreciate that we can convert all our tools and analysis into clear, pragmatic recommendations.

One of our favourites is the life cycle analysis where we plot varying products or businesses on a graph that shows that nothing stays the same.

We use tools like the product life cycle to analyse businesses and their markets, and our clients really appreciate learning how to use them for themselves

We also use financial planning tools that help to systemise information, such as cost analysis by percentage of revenue and feasibility assessments such as the break even analysis.

During consultation when we use our Growth Share Matrix, our clients enjoy the simplicity to categorise some products as ‘dogs’ and others as ‘cash cows’

Our competitor mapping uses a simple and interactive approach with our client that produces strong visual conclusions.

Feasibility assessments

We coordinate all of our own development feasibility assessment, keeping us fresh and in touch with the latest opportunities and risks. We offer to assess the feasibility of projects at varying scales – from a site visit to just „kick the dirt? and express a first impression, to more detailed assessments that often involve identifying or examining forecast development costs and contingency, and analysing and proposing mitigative measures for risk as part of due diligence, coordinating valuations and making clear, pragmatic recommendations. Our underlying skill is to adjust the complexity to match the client?s requirements. We can shift from a simple site visit that just „kicks the dirt? and express a first impression, to more detailed assessments that analyse financials and perform risk analysis and mitigation. We have prepared feasibility studies, market appraisals and business plans all over the world, so are used to adapting the content and sophistication to match the client.

We helped transform the public sector business that manages the famous dolphin interaction at Monkey Mia, Western Australia