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 We'll help you grow your revenues and margins

'Great to have them on the team when it really matters'

Martin Toogood – CEO ILVA

 

 

 

You are different, we're different too!

You expect more from yourself than others do, just getting by isn't good enough for you. You don't like to make excuses - you like to control your own destiny and make things happen whatever the difficult situation you find yourself in. You have confidence in your own decision-making ability and judgement - you don't follow the unthinking herd because that's the safe thing to do. Frankly, we're not the biggest firm in the business. We work best with people like you who play to win rather than try and cover themselves for failure.

Are you making unacceptable losses – who can help you tell if it is your market that is structurally unprofitable, your business model fundamentally broken? Or maybe it’s time to change strategy?

You’ve been put in charge of a failing business, losses are mounting. It’s not clear where you should start or what you need to fix first. How do you think through your position to get back to profitability and growth?

Andy Homer is one of the pillars of the UK insurance industry, with a career that has included CEO at AXA Insurance UK, President of the Chartered Insurance Institute and now Group Chief Executive of the Towergate Partnership - an exciting growth business that is reshaping the provision of Insurance services in the UK.

TO LEARN MORE CLICK HERE to listen to Bill Metcalf interviewing Andy Homer (CEO - Towergate) , one of the UK’s most innovative thinkers in Financial Services, on how he has helped reinvent the Insurance business for the benefits of clients, insurers and shareholders.

Our mission: To repay the trust you extend, by delivering the results you need - RAPIDLY

We know how difficult and demanding it is to be a successful executive these days. Whether it's a formal or an 'informal understanding', you are on the hook to deliver results. Engaging outside help is seldom an easy decision. Our mission is to repay your trust by delivering the results you need.

Focus on growing your profitability

Many organisations become obsessed by the latest management fad or fashion and engage external firms to help deliver the latest 'snake oil' that is sweeping the business world. We work with clients who want solid results: more customers, happier and more loyal customers, increased profits and growth, reduced operating costs on a sustainable basis. It's a back-to-basics approach to business that focuses on customers and profitability - "bottom-line" we help you put profits and growth back into your business.

Improving your performance on a long-term sustainable basis

'Slash and burn' may be appropriate in the most desperate of circumstance. Clearly businesses in risk of going out of business need to take difficult decisions to protect the interests of shareholders, employees and loyal customers. Whilst delivering tangible results quickly, we want to work with clients who value improving the longer-term capabilities of their organisation: its employees, core business processes and their relationships with key business partners including both customers and suppliers.

Delivering results for you now!

We believe in helping you deliver concrete, tangible results sooner rather than later. Many of you may know the quotation from the economist John Maynard Keynes, 'in the long-term, we are all dead'.

At CloseQuarter we don't want you to wait until you're in heaven to see great results. We believe that we should be delivering tangible improvements to business performance within 30 to 90 days of starting any engagement.

CONTACT US - To learn more about how we can help you

If you would like to talk through some of the issues and opportunities that you face and explore how I might be of potential assistance to you - then please call me, John Corr, on: +44 (0) 20 7748 2225.

Our initial meetings and consultations are on a FREE, CONFIDENTIAL and NO OBLIGATION basis. If you would like to contact us by email or receive more information from us, please see our CONTACT US section. We'll help you grow revenues and margins.

 

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