Specialist Services

Specialist Services

Interim Management...

Are you experiencing a delay in recruiting a permanent manager? Are you thinking about a short-term project? Are you undergoing major change?

We can help you to plug the critical management gap, deliver key projects for a short period of time, manage your change programme and, ultimately, provide value for money.

We have a proven track record in Interim Management and are available to start within days, avoiding lengthy recruitment processes or termination issues. The main benefits to you are that we will bring a great deal of knowledge and experience to your organisation, provide impartial advice and deliver within the agreed time scales. You can assign a critical task to us and measure our performance against it.

Systems Audit / Quality Improvement...

In today's business world the only constant seems to be change itself. We have to embrace change to become more efficient and increase our productivity. We have to improve the quality of our products and services and keep our staff well motivated. If we achieve this we will ensure continued success.

Systems audits help to improve the way you run your internal business. Our consultants offer an initial free systems overview to analyse the efficiency and effectiveness of your processes and procedures. We can then undertake a detailed systems audit, including consultation with your staff, to identify blockages and analysis on the adequacy and effectiveness of your internal controls, proposing improvements to your processes.

We can dramatically improve all your major work processes and in turn help to make your operations more effective, more efficient, and more capable of meeting your customers' requirements. In other words, we can generate quality improvements that unmistakably contribute to your business success.

Risk Management / Business Continuity...

Business risk arises as much from the likelihood that something good won't happen as it does from the threat that something bad will happen. Risk is defined as 'a threat that an event or action will adversely affect an organisation's ability to achieve its business objectives and execute its strategies'.

All businesses will encounter risks regardless of their size or structure. We can help you identify the risks to your business and will work with you to put a plan of action in place to eliminate, reduce and mitigate business risks.

Business Continuity Planning is how you manage and attempt to recover from events/ risks that cause sudden and major disruption to your business, for example fire, explosion or flooding. However, effective Business Continuity Planning can reduce or eliminate the risk of these and other types of events becoming business disasters.

We can provide you with a comprehensive plan to assist in emergency response planning, to facilitate early recovery, and to ensure the continuity of your business should disaster strike. Our aim is to mitigate the effects of any catastrophe that might occur within or adjacent to your business, which could disrupt your core activities to such an extent that it may cause loss of service.

Procurement / Contract Management...

Procurement is one of the fundamental functions common to all types of business because without it you cannot achieve your core aims and objectives. By its very nature, procurement is a basic and integral part of business management. Procurement is not just about spending money it's about working in partnership with others including suppliers, to ensure the provision of cost effective and reliable goods and services to agreed standards.

We can help you by advising on a range of activities such as agreeing the full requirement, liaising and negotiating with suppliers, seeking and analysing bids, agreeing contracts, handling problems and maintaining records.

Drafting contracts takes time. It is important to get the structure of the contract right; understand the roles of the different parts of the contract particularly the schedules; and be aware of other factors in respect of contracts e.g. signing the contract, contract extensions and variations. We can do this for you or, if you prefer, advise and comment on your existing contracts.

HR Management...

Our Associate, Elaine Green, delivers on all HR requirements. You can contact her on www.emmg.co.uk