How we can help

At Cepia we specialise in making new businesses happen.

This could mean a new start-up enterprise delivering against an entrepreneur's great new idea. Equally, it could be a new venture within a huge, existing multi-national business. Or it could be anything in between.

The common denominator in all of these situations is a universal set of vital needs that we can assist you with or deliver for you:

• a clear business vision with a sensible overview as to how to achieve it
• the right organisational skills, structures and disciplines to design, plan and then build it
• the ability to manage and overcoming the inevitable issues that will arise along the way
• the insight necessary to move successfully from launch to operational mode

Our forte is helping new and existing businesses to rise to each of these challenges as efficiently, effectively and successfully as possible.

A key strength of our offer is the ability to apply the required level of resources for the task in hand. This could be pure consultancy from one or both of the senior partners working with your own development team. Alternatively, if you do not have right people resources readily available, we can provide these for you as part of our service.

Start ups

For new start-ups we can become a vital part of your team, helping to add the skills, experience and real-life know-how that can make all the difference between enviable success and costly failure.

We understand the challenges involved in a new business start-up and delight in delivering the drive, business insight and project design and management skills necessary to turn your dream into a successful, operational reality.

At the centre of this service is the ability to design and manage the optimal programme to build all that is necessary to launch your business successfully - on time, on budget and to the agreed specification.

Existing businesses

For established businesses facing the challenge of building a new venture within or alongside its existing structures, systems and culture, we can again add unique and invaluable insight and ‘premier league’ program management expertise and advice to make it happen:

• We can review your existing launch programme against a set of documented criteria which we know to be factors critical to success. These include both hard and soft measures, all essential to realising your vision.
• Such a review will provide a number of recommended actions to ensure you can work towards the best possible results.
• Our review process will work with any recognised methodology because it is generic and based on the most valuable benchmark of all - first hand experience of getting it right. Our review has been proven time and again in successfully realigning major programmes in the past.
• Beyond these advisory services, we can go much further by providing a complete hands-on programme management and delivery service. We have a proven track record of rolling up our sleeves and getting stuck in to make things happen!

Solving your business problems

Whether your business is big or small, old or new, there are a variety of business problems we can help you to overcome:

• You may have a solution in mind for a business problem or a plan for achieving business growth, but feel ill-equipped to make it happen. We can provide the assistance you need as either advisers or hands-on resource to do it.
• You may need help in finding the right business with which to partner or the best software solution for your new venture. We can run the selection process for you, and even see it through to implementation and integration with your existing business processes and systems.
• You may have a change programme team in place and want to provide it with better organisation, structure and direction. We can provide the leadership this requires and fill the gaps for you.
• Or you may have some other business unit that would benefit from the support and guidance that our broad and extensive experience can provide. We are very happy to help with these wider management challenges too.

Whatever you business development needs may be, chances are we can help and add unique value to your business in the process.

We take pride in making a big difference - in making change happen. Why not get in touch so we can discuss your specific challenges and how we could help?