"GPS Reviews" Posts
GPS Reviews: Back On Course!
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Situation
A construction firm hired GPS to assist their new company president with a turn-around project. “We have been in business 18 years with revenue around $5 million for the past 10 years. In 2008, the market presented our firm with challenges, which brought a lot of our company’s weaknesses out into the light. Since then, this company has struggled to make any profit for the owners, while maintaining our revenues.”
Process
“GPS and our consultant have been able to provide direction for me as a new president in matters of company budget, direct cost of projects, overhead consumption, gross …
GPS Reviews: Tailor-Made For Our Business
Situation
The CFO of a highway and street construction business (in operation for over 40 years) shared that he had some reservations about employing GPS for a value enhancement project due to “a prior experience with a different consulting firm, several years back. The concerns I had, soon went away, as I began working with my consultant.”
Process
“While his knowledge and expertise was vast, I never felt like I was being talked down to, but rather, I felt like I was treated by him as an equal. He listened to what I wanted to achieve and developed programs, processes …
GPS Reviews: We’re Business Owners, Now, Rather Than Our Business Owning Us!
Situation
Married owners of a screen printing shop, opened in 2007, struggled, at first, with bringing in GPS as “deciding to put that much money into this project was concerning as young business owners.” They realized, however, that while they had the artistic vision, their management direction was less clear. “My hope was that we would one day look back and think that it was one of the best decisions that we have ever made…”
Process
“Today is that day!
We are so pleased that we made the decision that we did. Not only have we noticed a renewed …
GPS Reviews: Employees Taking Greater Ownership
Situation
A distributor and installer providing automated doors as well as service and maintenance for commercial clients since 2005, employed GPS “to make the kind of changes to the business that I have long hoped for, but I have been unable to institute, either due to the lack of time or expertise, on my part, or that of the staff.”
Process
Having the GPS consultant on site and interacting with the management team and employees made change possible. She built a “solid foundation,” developing the systems and practices to make operations run smoother and boost revenue.
“Now that some …
GPS Reviews: We’re Now A Team!
Situation
GPS arrived, right on time, for a municipal airport business, which had been in operation for over 40 years, offering fuel & agriculture spraying chemical sales, hanger space leasing, aircraft sales and maintenance as well as flight training. The objective of this project was to put in place a plan to transfer ownership, over time, from the owner to his employees and, eventually, create a new organizational structure.
Process
Over several weeks, the GPS consultant worked closely with the business unit leaders and the owner of the company to develop a feasible plan, some the objectives achieved included restructuring …
GPS Reviews: Prepared For Our Company’s Future
Situation
Client from an oil and gas field services company scheduled a return engagement with GPS Consulting “to try to put us back on track after several years of not carrying out all of the things that our first consultant had set up. Our company was working hard, making money, but not planning. I would say that we were flying by the seat of our pants.”
The future of the company would quickly become the focus of this project.
Process
Moving beyond diagrams and discussions of business practices, the GPS consultant, “took the time to go into the field and …
GPS Reviews: Developed A Sales & Marketing Plan With Real Accountability
Situation
A client offering residential and commercial dry cleaning and general cleaning services, with four locations, engaged GPS Consulting to assist in crafting a plan as well as implementing recommendations to take the business to the next level. “I have been consulting with your representative in regards to a sales and marketing plan that will bring us an additional $300,000 to $500,000 in total annual revenue in the next two to three years.”
Process
“Much of his time and efforts have been spent on reviewing our current financials and how our present marketing dollars are being spent. He spoke with …
GPS Reviews: Offering A Wealth Of Knowledge
Situation
The owner of a company supplying concrete, landscape rock, gravel and sand since 2012, engaged GPS to reorganize the office through enhancing the organization’s bookkeeping and general business practices.
Process
The GPS consultant “is a wealth of knowledge and we are implementing most, if not all, of his suggestions that would further benefit our business, now, and into the future. He has an impeccable knowledge of what he does to assist business owners.
He is quick on his toes and is very passionate of his job. He has the capability to help not only our business, but our staff …
GPS Reviews: Now, We’re An Effective Management Team
Situation
A third generation family farm, growing crops and raising cattle, engaged GPS to “provide business consulting services to increase the long term profitability of our company.” Overall goals of the Value Enhancement Project were to set up “a strategic business plan along with organization and process measurement, upgrade the productivity and reward process, and provide general training.”
Process
The GPS consultant “quickly identified the root cause of the issues within our business. There existed a lack of defined leadership within the management group; there were numerous trust issues within the management group that led to a lack of accountability; …
GPS Reviews: Provided Assistance In Achieving My Goals
Situation
The editor & publisher of a weekly community newspaper decided to engage GPS “after a year of trying to run the paper after my husband died. He was a former banker, as well as a newspaper man, and handled all financial matters relating to the business.”
She had, first, signed up for a seminar for small business owners, but she quickly realized that “I did not have the background to implement the suggestions presented for improving profitability.
I also needed help with developing realistic sales targets to use in comparing our current numbers and what I wanted to achieve …
