Make the decision
clear enough to own.
Independent advisory support for small service businesses at a point of choice.
Sometimes a team has enough information and still cannot decide. The options are framed differently by different people. A concern has become an assumption. An opportunity has become a commitment without anyone quite naming the change.
We help put the decision back into a form that can be discussed.
A short framing conversation.
Identify the decision, who owns it, what is known and what remains uncertain. Establish whether independent advisory support is the right fit.
Working output: a single agreed decision question and a scope for the next step.
An opinion you can challenge.
Examine the alternatives, assumptions and tradeoffs. Bring relevant people into the conversation and distinguish observations from interpretations.
Working output: a concise memorandum with evidence notes, a provisional view and the conditions that would change it.
A record the team can use.
Translate the chosen direction into a next action, an owner, an open question and a point for review. Preserve disagreement where it remains useful.
Working output: a decision record that can be updated when the facts change.
A view of the actual work.
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What belongs in the room?
A change in the offer. A recurring delivery problem. An unclear division of responsibility. A partnership whose expectations need to be made explicit.
We begin with the business decision and the people responsible for it. Legal, tax, investment and regulated technical questions require the appropriate qualified advisers.
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