IMARI Consulting

The core of our strategy is the belief that successful businesses must maintain a balance between commercial issues (such as brand, channels, innovation, revenue, profit, and efficiency) and cultural issues (such as leadership, values and communication).

Together, we will review your business and explore how commercial and cultural issues affect your ability to take things to the next level. We will design a program for change that addresses these issues and is a blueprint for transformational growth.

Business planning is one of the most crucial parts of starting a business. Get it right, and you’ll earn the trust of investors, distributors, suppliers and staff. Get it wrong, and your business could face huge problems just getting off the ground.

A business plan is a document that sets out in detail exactly how and why you will run your business, including how you will fund it and who your customers will be.

High employee engagement is a primary difference between companies with good results and true market leaders. Our experiences show that organizations with effective communication and change management produce measurably superior business results.

To help you deliver those results, we build support strategies to simplify complex business process changes such as re-structures or mergers and acquisitions.

We use technology and effective communication to seamlessly transition your major business changes to ensure minimal interruption to operations.

Targeted specifically at senior management and executives, we will provide greater clarity and focus assisting you to excel in your overall performance; compress your learning time to work smarter, not harder.

You will gain the ability to translate leadership theories and concepts into useful, practical and highly personalized insights; and further develop your skills in communication, decision making and overall strategic thinking.

Our methods help you build credibility with your team.

Once an idea is formed, a solid financial plan is needed to understand how and when money will be needed to support the operation

Without a financial plan or strategy, with no roadmap in place before capital is committed, an investor is asking for trouble.

We can include a financial plan as part of a business plan or business case offering, or prepare a financial plan as a standalone service for a detailed financial review of your proposed or current product or service offering.

We are experts in HR best practices at each stage of your company’s growth. We understand your business and the talent you need to hire and retain for success. We can provide all of your HR services, or only a portion to suit your needs. With a large and multi-skilled team, we have all levels of human resources expertise.

HR consulting is an effective way of managing your internal HR systems and getting a second opinion on the management and performance of your staff.

Market Research is crucial especially during the development of a marketing plan. They can be undertaken collaboratively or stand-alone, however, both really set the framework for who you will be approaching for sales and what their potential spend would be.

Market Research is required while establishing the viability of a new market for your company to enter if you haven’t had experience in it before, identifying new product/service opportunities and value-added offerings.

A Marketing Plan ensures you communicate a consistent message to your ideal customer. We discover what your customers want and need as well as what price they will pay. The Marketing Plan builds the foundation for sales. It helps to formulate the ideas that will create your sales opportunities.

The plan is ongoing and will serve as a template and benchmark for you to work from as you define your objectives and strategies for the following years. It becomes a living document for measuring sales success, customer retention, product development, and sales initiatives.

A pitch deck is a presentation or overview of your business, often created using PowerPoint, Keynote or Prezi. Pitch Decks are used to give an audience an overview of your business (usually extracted from your business plan). A pitch deck is often required when pitching to investors, or even potential co-founders.

We have designed many pitch decks that have received millions in external funding.

Gone are the days of needing complex, long and verbose business plans. Whilst business plans definitely have their place, for many businesses they get written and put in a drawer never to be reviewed or used again.

This is where the one-page plan is effective. It extracts the most important elements of a business plan so you can focus on key goals. It looks at financial targets, your how and why, as well as your 5 key strategies and how you will implement them. This cost-effective solution is perfect for any business that needs a strategy outlined but doesn’t have an extensive budget.

Policies & Procedures are the strategic link between the Company’s Vision and its operations. But why is that so important?

It’s because well-written policies & procedures allow employees to understand their roles and responsibilities within predefined limits.

They allow management to guide operations without constant intervention. Without them, a business can experience uncertainty from its staff and inconsistency in client management and delivery of services.

Strategic Planning is sometimes misunderstood.

If organizations don’t understand or are not vigilant to the forces that may impact them, they are likely to find themselves ‘positioned’ so that they can no longer compete, or to take advantage of key business opportunities. They may become more susceptible to threats outside of the boundaries of the organization.

We focus on 3-5 key initiatives so as not to overburden the organization whilst still trying to support continuing operations.

A team is a group of people with a commitment to one another, to the team, to a high level of achievement, to a common goal, and to a common vision. We know that team success depends on the work of every member.

Team members need three kinds of skills: functional; problem-solving; and interpersonal. We help find individuals who embody all these skills within your team and aim to set them as mentors amongst their colleagues. This begins the process for opening the internal dialogue that is crucial in any company.