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Fractional COO Services for Growing [Your] Businesses

 

If you’re serious about growing your business, get serious about building a healthy operational foundation that can scale up as you grow.

 

We help business owners plan a path to sustainable growth…then put it into action.

KEEP OR DELETE?

Customers are the lifeblood of your business. Your operations should keep that lifeblood flowing smoothly.

At Dunathan Consulting, it’s our goal to help you create a sound foundation that helps your business grow.

That same foundation can help you transition smoothly when it’s time to sell or retire.

Edit: Dunathan Consulting works with business owners to guide them in how to prioritize and focus on the right things to make your company great, as you imagined. We focus on strategies to increase productivity and profitability, all laid out in a roadmap to achieve sustainable growth. We can advise on your business model and your operations, and we guide you in making changes that will help you serve more customers, more easily, with more profit.

1. Assessment

Comprehensive deep-dive into all aspects of current business operations, policies & procedures. Summarized in report utilizing org charts, process maps, etc identifying issues, root causes & opportunities.

[As your business grows, it often outgrows the way you used to do things – whether that’s recruiting and hiring, tracking sales and other financial data, capturing and using marketing information effectively, serving your customers, or any other aspect of your operations. We help you evaluate each area of your business and identify improvements that will help you and your staff operate smoothly and efficiently. We can also help you implement the changes you’ll need to make, to give you a jumpstart for your next stage of growth.]

At the end of the Assessment, Dunathan Consulting will present a final report and answer your questions.  If desired, we can continue to provide COO services to develop step 2, a Roadmap for implementation of the recommendations made in the report. Or you may want to  XYZ. hourly, partial roadmap, etc…

 

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2. Roadmap

[The Roadmap]Propose[d][s] operational changes to address the identified root causes and barriers to growth. The Roadmap will recommend a sequence and timeline for these projects to efficiently move the company forward to achieve defined goals without unnecessarily disrupting operations.

At the end of the Roadmap step, we will meet to discuss the Roadmap and answer your questions.  If desired, we can continue to provide COO services to develop step 3, Implementation of the Roadmap. Or you may want to  XYZ. hourly, partial roadmap, etc…

 

3. Implementation

With a clear plan and prioritization of the proposed change projects, we partner with clients as needed to implement the changes.

At the end of the Implementation step, we will meet to discuss the Roadmap and answer your questions.  If desired, we can continue to provide COO services to develop step 3, Implementation of the Roadmap. Or you may want to  XYZ. hourly, partial roadmap, etc…

 

Meet Andrea

 

Andrea Dunathan helps rapidly growing businesses make the best use of their people, processes, and technology to support the business’s growth and increase its future sale value. Since she founded Dunathan Consulting in 2004, she has worked with a wide variety of clients – from global corporations to tiny non-profits – to improve internal operations and free up the owner and their staff to do their best work. Her client focus is business owners who want to scale up their operations to handle rapid growth. She also helps existing business owners to get their businesses in good shape to maximize the sale value.

 

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Whether you’re getting ready to hand off your business to the next generation, or preparing to sell your business on the open market, the transition will be far easier if your operations are running smoothly. Let us help you get things organized and get everyone up to speed on their roles and responsibilities, so that you can take worry-free vacations now, and transition confidently when the time comes. Plus, if you’re looking to sell, a well-organized “turnkey” business is very attractive to potential buyers.

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[Move to another page?\]Consulting for Exit

Whether you’re getting ready to hand off your business to the next generation, or preparing to sell your business on the open market, the transition will be far easier if your operations are running smoothly. Let us help you get things organized and get everyone up to speed on their roles and responsibilities, so that you can take worry-free vacations now, and transition confidently when the time comes. Plus, if you’re looking to sell, a well-organized “turnkey” business is very attractive to potential buyers.

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