Business Seminars
Strategic Planning
General Consulting
Business Plans
Computer Consulting
Information systems

• Business Seminars
  
  Sterck Kulik O'Neill Business Seminars show small business owners how to manage and grow their businesses more effectively, profitably and with more enjoyment. 
  
  Current seminars include Business Growth Strategy, Taming the Internet, Building a Winning Team, and Make Your Business Fly.  Click on each link for additional details and to register.

• Strategic planning

A strategic plan is an organization's road map. It shows you where you want to go, how you plan to get there, what to expect along the way, when you expect to arrive, how you'll recognize your destination, and who will be responsible for getting you there. We can serve you best in this area by acting as an outside, independent facilitator for one or more sessions in which key members of your organization develop a strategic plan consisting of:

• A list of an organization's long-term goals
• Opportunities and threats to organization objectives
• Actions necessary to achieve those goals
• Timetables for completing the actions
• Identification of success indicators
• Assignment of accountability

 

• General Consulting

We provide complete consulting services to help our clients improve their organizations and realize their objectives. Our specific services are uniquely designed to meet each client's needs.
 

• Business Plans

Business plans are essential when considering a new product, a new line of products or a new business. We can work with you to develop and write a realistic plan that includes these key elements:

• Executive summary of the major plan points.
• Description of the business or product
• Business environment analysis of the
  • Industry characteristics and trends
  • Market potential
  • Competition
• Strategic plan that includes long-term goals, assumptions, tactics for achieving the goals, and success indicators
• Analysis of management skills and experience in operations, marketing and finance.
• Financial analysis, such as forecasts or projections.

• Computer Consulting

  We help clients determine what they want their computers to be able to do. This can include:

  • Hardware selection
  • Software selection
  • System implement assistance
  • Troubleshooting existing systems
  • Software application training

• Information Systems

This service focuses on the information you need to run your organization and achieve your strategic goals. We start by asking you questions to determine what relevant financial and non-financial information you need to make critical decisions. This information might come from inside or outside your organization. Next, we assess the reliability of the sources and content of the information you receive now. Based on our evaluation, we will help you identify new information sources or alternate performance measures. Finally, we'll offer recommendations for improving the efficiency, practicality or responsiveness of your system.

• Planning, Modeling and Analysis

This service will help you evaluate existing revenue volume, margins, and costs so you can set achievable, measurable targets for critical components of profit or other business activities. Through the use of modeling, we can develop views of possible outcomes based on specified levels of activity, assumptions or other variables. We can also recommend ways to implement and monitor appropriate plans of action.

• Cash Flow Projections

This service identifies how and when cash is generated and used. It is a useful tool when preparing for or considering debt refinancing, business expansion or general business planning.

• Systems Review and Design

The objective of a systems review is to evaluate and recommend improvements in:

• Overall operations
• A segment of operations, or
• Specific processes within a segment

In a typical engagement, which is more than just looking at the financial picture, we start by helping you define your desired state of operations, i.e. where would you like to be. Then we assess the current conditions, i.e. where you are now. Through an interactive process, we help generate ideas for improvements, evaluate the best solutions and provide you with support during implementation of the solutions. To the extent a particular solution requires new training, we can help with that training or offer recommendations for other qualified trainers.

• Design and propagation of a written systems manual. 

• Budgets and Forecasts

Budgets and forecasts are financial pictures of assumed future financial activity.  The terms "budget" and "forecast" are often used interchangeably to mean expected or most likely result.  However, budgets can also be presented in a flexible format that covers a range of potential scenarios. For scenarios that are not the most likely to occur (in other words, "what if" events) a budget is referred to as a projection.  Used properly, these financial tools can signal management that corrective actions may be needed in some aspect of operations.  We can help you prepare or interpret variances between actual and anticipated.

• Financing Alternatives

To grow at a pace that keeps up with business opportunities, an organization may require more capital than can be generated from operations alone. Additional financing can come from any combination of financial institutions, owners, individuals, and other sources. Analysis of the available options provides valuable information for selecting the financing mix that best fits with the organization's long-term goals.

• Mergers, Acquisitions and Dispositions of Businesses

Buying, selling or combining businesses are complex transactions. Structuring the deal is all important to maximizing the economic benefit and minimizing the tax impact. We can not only help you negotiate the price, but can structure the transaction to achieve these ends.