• Business Mentoring Services
  
• Business Strategy
  
• Business Process Re-engineering
  
• Market Research Services

Business Mentoring Services
Alan Associates recognize that many business owners do not desire the involvement of external consultants on the basis that confidential information about their business will need to be revealed.

We respect this desire for total confidentiality and at the same time can offer our specialized mentoring service where offering training and guidance in specific business processes such as time management or financial control systems without the need for any confidential information to be revealed.

This mentoring service is not only applicable to business owners but also employees and is available on a personal one to one basis in all cases.

Business Strategy
Business Planning is a vital part of any business. Alan Associates can help perform a strategic analysis of an organisation which will involve determining the expectations, objectives, resources, and the environment in which it expects, or indeed already operates.

This analysis will lead to the generation and evaluation of potential options with an appropriate selection of final strategy.

Assistance may then be provided to implement the subsequent Business Plan that will be prepared and this will cover resource planning, organization structure planning together with people and systems requirements.

The overall outcome is to formulate a clear written Business Plan which may be used as a tool to oversee projects or as a specific tool to use when seeking finance either from traditional sources such as banks or for grant applications.

Business Processes Re-engineering
Alan Associates' Business Process Reengineering services focus on results that directly have positive impacts on costs. The approach:

• Analysis of existing business processes. (Dependencies, deliverables, and processes)
  
• Define measurements to quantify the value and efficiency of processes.
  
• Map processes to industry best practices.
  
• Develop 'to be' processes that will improve efficiency of operations.
  
• Implement reengineered business processes and measure improvements achieved.

Market Research Services
Alan Associates offers cost effective market research services in the following areas:

• Business to Business
• Competitive Business Intelligence
• Consumer Market
• Customer Satisfaction