Sales won through tenders whether sole supply or framework agreements are important to many UK businesses. .We have extensive experience in tenders from both sides of the fence, assisting universities and local authorities in getting the best results from their design and printer tenders and helping printers and designers respond to tenders. We can help you improve your responses to both PQQs and ITTs or you might want us to complete a lot of the tender response on your behalf leaving… Show more Sales won through tenders whether sole supply or framework agreements are important to many UK businesses. .We have extensive experience in tenders from both sides of the fence, assisting universities and local authorities in getting the best results from their design and printer tenders and helping printers and designers respond to tenders. We can help you improve your responses to both PQQs and ITTs or you might want us to complete a lot of the tender response on your behalf leaving you to focus on key pricing decisions. Show less

Assisting clients with Business Plans is a key part of our Business. Some Business plans are for internal purposes only, other are created specifically to support loan or grants applications. What most SME owners agree with is that the Business Planning process can get out of hand and take far too much of their time and that of their senior management.This is where we can help by showing the client a business planning template that they can easily adapt and facilitating the… Show more Assisting clients with Business Plans is a key part of our Business. Some Business plans are for internal purposes only, other are created specifically to support loan or grants applications. What most SME owners agree with is that the Business Planning process can get out of hand and take far too much of their time and that of their senior management.This is where we can help by showing the client a business planning template that they can easily adapt and facilitating the creation of the business plan. We can also produce a financial model with integrated Profit, Cash Flow and Balance Sheet. This means that you to look at the sensitivity (what if) of Business Plans by changing key variables. Show less

Managing and sustaining a high growth business is really hard no matter how talented you are. We have assisted many high growth businesses in identifying and implementing their high growth strategy normally as part of their Business Planning process. Our Managing Director Michael Whiteley is registered as a Growth coach with Growth Accelerator. His structured and forensic approach really assists businesses identify the right growth strategy by asking demanding questions as each key… Show more Managing and sustaining a high growth business is really hard no matter how talented you are. We have assisted many high growth businesses in identifying and implementing their high growth strategy normally as part of their Business Planning process. Our Managing Director Michael Whiteley is registered as a Growth coach with Growth Accelerator. His structured and forensic approach really assists businesses identify the right growth strategy by asking demanding questions as each key stage of the processThis programme is part of a £200 million programme set up to assist up to 26,000 high growth businesses. The fund provides proven tools to assist high growth businesses and subsidises the costs of the Growth coach and any management training needs that are identified. Show less

Most SMEs will be used to budgeting and many of you will use tools like Sages Winforecast to produce integrated Profit, Cash Flow and Balance Sheet budgets. If you have the software and the skills internally and are happy with the results read no further. If you want more then read on as we have some really good tools that you can use easily once they are created for youMost of the financial modelling work we do is associated with Business Planning. We create an excel workbook that… Show more Most SMEs will be used to budgeting and many of you will use tools like Sages Winforecast to produce integrated Profit, Cash Flow and Balance Sheet budgets. If you have the software and the skills internally and are happy with the results read no further. If you want more then read on as we have some really good tools that you can use easily once they are created for youMost of the financial modelling work we do is associated with Business Planning. We create an excel workbook that describes your business including the key variables in your business that you will want to change in any what if analysis. Show less

Printers have massive opportunities in Print Management. If they grasp them successfully then they can retain and grow customers accounts; if they do not then they can lose these customers or be a marginal supplier waiting to be picked off.Our Managing Director Michael Whiteley has worked in Print for over 25 years including Managing Director, Commercial Director, Operations Director and Finance Director and since forming Chaos Laboratory over 10 years ago he has worked with printers… Show more Printers have massive opportunities in Print Management. If they grasp them successfully then they can retain and grow customers accounts; if they do not then they can lose these customers or be a marginal supplier waiting to be picked off.Our Managing Director Michael Whiteley has worked in Print for over 25 years including Managing Director, Commercial Director, Operations Director and Finance Director and since forming Chaos Laboratory over 10 years ago he has worked with printers and print managers large and small.Do not think that Print Management is easy; if you do not do it well it will harm your business. Print Managers invest millions in managing their supply chain including investment in really clever tools like instant pricing tools. But you can compete; the large Print Managers are just not interested in small accounts and you can compete with other printers and the smaller Print Managers.We can assist you by identifying new suppliers that will deliver quality and consistently low prices so you can add a margin and still deliver quality, cost effective solution to your customers Show less

Costing sounds dull but it is fundamental to many businesses particularly manufacturers. Yet many companies pay scant regard to costing and lose business or undercharge for their services.Our approach to costing is pragmatic. We look with you at your business, the sector you operate in and create a costing model in an excel workbook that best describes how you actually work and is easy for you to review on a regular basis.Our costing projects have ranged from small engineers who… Show more Costing sounds dull but it is fundamental to many businesses particularly manufacturers. Yet many companies pay scant regard to costing and lose business or undercharge for their services.Our approach to costing is pragmatic. We look with you at your business, the sector you operate in and create a costing model in an excel workbook that best describes how you actually work and is easy for you to review on a regular basis.Our costing projects have ranged from small engineers who have a simple materials plus mark up system to large manufacturers with expensive and complex equipment and many different processes. The approach is the same; how do we improve the outputs of the costing system to maximise your profit? For the small engineer it may be as simple as ranking jobs in terms of complexity and applying a higher mark up for more complex jobs. For the large manufacturer charging an hourly rate for each operation and mark ups we look at activity based costing to allocate and absorb costs in the best way. Show less