The Flame

Finance:

• Implement effective Financial Control.
• Set up Financial and Information Systems to aid informed decision-making and create visibility and transparency that supports profitability.
• Individual and company Performance Measurement linked to company objectives and priorities.
• Set up KPI system to provide insight into the past and future performance.
• Design and document Financial Processes, Policies and Procedures that align with the structure.
• Institutionalise and align the Finance function with other key and long-term functions such as Marketing, R&D and HR.
• Cash Acceleration Strategies – shorten the cash conversion cycle, eliminate mistakes and improve your business model and P&L.

Human Resources:

• Set up and implement employee Reward System that incentivises the right behaviours and motivates, aligned to the core values and the company purpose with focus on quality and profitability.
• Strengthen your leadership team by hiring leaders with competencies that complement the existing ones to enhance the capability of your organisation.
• Employee Engagement.
• Talent Acquisition and Management.
• Systemise the Incentive System and Performance Measurement to strengthen the core value and the purpose of your organisation.
• Employee and Leadership Succession Planning.
• Help you build high performance teams by creating a culture where your employees can quantify if they have had a good day or not.
• Eliminate the power of old employees by capturing their ‘company memory’.
• Coach the new leaders for an effective transition of leadership with the goal of enabling the business to run without its founder.
• Help the ‘Professional’ Manager integrate successfully with the organisation and create positive PR with the leadership team.

Operations:

• Optimise Systematisation and Flexibility capturing vision and the entrepreneurial spirit.
• Align Process Design with Organisational Structure to match the needs of the business.
• Set up and implement Systems and Controls, including effective Quality Managements System.
• Implement Accountability Reporting, financial and non-financial aligned with the responsibilities of the new structure.
• Institutionalise Integrating Functions such as Business Development, Hiring key staff, New Product Development and Marketing to free the organisation from the old leader.

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Organisation:

• Create effective Administrative System throughout the organisation that optimises control and flexibility.
• Develop Support System for transitioning the role from the existing leader to the new ‘Professional’ Manager.
• Help the new ‘Professional’ Manager drive the transition of management by intuition to management by thoughtfulness.
• Help you capture the vision & its driving force and align the teams to your core values and purpose to eliminate politics and inflexibility and institutionalise the leadership management.
• Create resilience and business continuity by documenting the “company memory” from the old employees: that is document important processes, procedures and policies.
• Help the organisation become independent from its Founder by creating an infrastructure and systems to enable delegation and scaling up, as well as integrating all functions and recruiting winning teams.
• Design and implement a new structure centred on Integrating Functions rather than people to support the business expansion.
• Governance: help the leadership team define roles, responsibilities and decision-making authorities for the Board, the old leader and the new ‘Professional’ Manager.
• Build and maintain an efficient Information System so that issues can be resolves quickly and the decisions made effectively.

IT Operations

• Creating a secure, scalable and agile IT Infrastructure to support current and future growth. Identify, procure and implement Enterprise Management System to aid the creation of Accountability Management Systems as one of the business drivers.