"GPS Consulting Reviews" Posts
GPS Reviews: We’re Now A Team!
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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: 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: 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 …
GPS Reviews: Distributor & Dealer Needed The Culture Changed
Situation
A distributor and dealer of farm equipment, supplies, and services, hired GPS for an enhancement project, so that his business would, in the words of the client, “continue to grow and be viable for the future of our customers, employees, and my family”
Process
From the day that the GPS team arrived, “we have been examining, soul searching, stretching, learning and growing. I find that all of these things are somewhat painful and extremely challenging, but, at the same time, necessary for what we want to accomplish.”
The GPS consultant “has been very helpful in this process. All of …
GPS Reviews: Growth Had Stagnated
Situation
The owner of an auto repair business hired GPS to assist in making the changes to rev back up steady growth. “I had started in 1991 as a one man operation. Now, this facility employs 28 people and repairs 2,500 cars a year. It had grown, exponentially, until about six years ago, when it pretty much has remained the same.”
Process
“What I needed next, to continue growing, was exactly what GPS had to offer–the tools on how to run a business and not just how to fix cars.
That is exactly what I received from GPS and I …
GPS Reviews: Tackled The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
Situation
Husband and wife owners of drug, alcohol, and paternity testing service with three locations, hired GPS for a strategic planning project “concerning our lives, business and future.”
Process
“What an awesome journey,’ shared the wife. “We have looked at the good, the bad, and the ugly. Our GPS consultant has helped us with the ugly, making sure that we realized that it was not all our fault. This means the world to us, because we wanted to take the blame for all of it. You helped us to understand that it doesn’t matter, we just go forward from here …
GPS Reviews: I Have My Excitement Back
Situation
The owner of a RV dealership was contacted by GPS “and asked if they could take a look at our business to see if we could be more profitable. I have to admit that I was a little reluctant about someone coming into my business, which I have lived for the past 40 years, and tell me what I could do to make more money.
I did know that we were not taking full advantage of the opportunities that were blessing our family business. I was ready to call it quits, I had been working 12 or 13 hours …
GPS Reviews: Created Accountability For Change
Situation
Value enhancement, or “to help us achieve greater business success,” was the goal of this construction contractor specializing in catastrophe restoration (i.e. water, mold, fire, and smoke damage) in hiring GPS for business consulting services.
Process
The initial visit by the GPS analyst “was insightful. In less than one day, he had a firm understanding of our struggles. He pointed out several personnel conflicts and billing issues that were impacting the business. His approach and suggestions opened my eyes to solutions that I had not thought of before.”
Next, the GPS consultants arrived and in their review “went further …
GPS Reviews: A Clear Path To Success
Situation
Before GPS, a successful company specializing in petroleum industry equipment with more than 20 years experience was “fumbling along as best we could, and doing quite well, but we lacked the knowledge that we needed to take our business to the next level.”
Process
With their GPS consultant’s guidance, “we now can make sense of our financials because our accounting system is now structured correctly and we know how to read our statements. He has helped us define our goals and set up a system to achieve those goals. We now have divisions clarified, department heads set up and …
