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Case Study 3

A manufacturing company with 2 million pounds turnover...

At the date of the strategic session, there were 4 owners.  The owner managers fitted the classical requirements for a successful SME, being one technical and production, one sales and marketing, one financial and one entrepreneurial non-executive chairman.

The company was well-run, profitable and manufactured high quality products.

All should have been perfectly in order.

However, at the strategic session it became increasingly obvious that the Financial Director wanted to build a much larger group to extend her financial management skills, and the entrepreneurial Managing Director wanted to build a tight owner-managed business.  This now explained the constant bickering over the minor aspects of their work.

After debate and consensus, it was agreed to create a Phase I and Phase II plan.  Phase I was to build the company with everyone ‘bought into’ the objectives of this phase and then, after 2 years, to review the potential for either following the Financial Director’s or the Managing Director’s emphasis.

What actually happened was a very amicable parting from the company by

The company is now on the way to £5 million turnover, very profitable and happily managed by the three people who, needless to say, periodically strategically plan.  


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