Business Value Creation - The business context
Business is all about creating value – for the founders/investors, your customers, your employees and the society as a whole. However, driving sustainable business growth is only part of the picture. Business innovation, operational and management effectiveness are also key aspects in creating long term business value.
I understand the six levers of business value creation, what is involved in each of them and how businesses can assess them to better understand and optimise them for the creation of value in their business.
Business Value Creation Framework

This programme helps you create value in your business when you are:
Succession planning
Growth planning
Productivity improvement planning
Enabling Innovation
Reviewing management effectiveness
What do I offer?

I can undertake a detailed structured audit of your business across the six levers of business value creation to identify value leakage. This is where the value of your business is reduced because a buyer attaches risk to areas of weakness in the business. I can then work collaboratively with senior stakeholders in your business to fix these issues, creating value in your business.
The initial audit can be undertaken as a project and completed within one month. The programme of work to increase business value works as a retained model, where I work with the leadership team for 12-18 months for 1-2 days per week, depending on the scope of the programme of work.
I provide valuable guidance, independent advice and support to help you plan and implement a Value Creation programme within your business. I not only help you identify which levers of value creation your business needs to optimise but also the corrective measures and improvement programmes you need to implement in order for you to get the maximum value for your business.
This Business Value Creation programme will enable you to:
Assess your current growth strategy and how it creates value
Review your operational effectiveness and identify areas to increase value creation
Assess the business management and its impact on business value
Assess risk management in the business and any threats to eroding business value
Identify and execute a Value Creation programme to increase business value
Realise the business value through an appropriate exit strategy
I can help you to increase your business' value so that you and your fellow shareholders can realise the value in your investment.
Within a month, Shaping Business identified all the key business issues and facilitated our management team discussions to help us get aligned on a plan, when we have not been able to reach this ourselves in over 3 years.
Director, Architectural Practice

