As an approved consultant for Enterprise Ireland’s Strategic Consultancy Grant, Joe Connaughton works with organisations that need support in adopting and developing their strategy. Procloud engaged joe Connaughton, who has huge experience in this sector, to facilitate a review of their strategic business plan. Here is their story. Tech Company Destined for Further Success Procloud…
Improving the leadership skills of a management team can lead to great things in an organisation. As a leadership coach I have worked with many teams recently to help them achieve significant results. Case Study: Attracting Top Talent will Grow the Business ITM Cloud are a successful IT support and digital agency, based in…
As an approved Enterprise Ireland Consultant on the Digitalisation Voucher scheme I work with organisations to identify and implement a digital transformation that brings growth to their business. Case Study: Established Business Looking for Growth Award winning Direct Wholesale Kitchens have a reputation for completing projects of the highest standard, delivered within budget and…
Main issues: The company was a long established distributor of parts for the wood working industry. Up to now all interaction and sales was driven by mobile vans going to the customer sites in the 32 counties of Ireland. This was costly, inefficient and was practically not possible with the pandemic. Project: The lean start…
Main issues: Using lean methodology to get CEO more effective with his time. Due to the highly complex nature of some project requirements and the high growth experienced by the company, the CEO struggled to allocate sufficient time and focus to grow the business further. We used Lean thinking and methodology to design a proper…
Main Issues: Use lean marketing to expand territory. The Lean project aimed to structure a very Lean way of delivering expansion of their very niche business using smart online techniques. Their plan was to set up a virtual office in the UK with a local VOIP phone number and uk web address that allows the…
Main issues: Management wanted the lean programme to stress test the organisation to show areas for improvement to allow it to continue to out-perform its peers. Key area’s for improvement were outlined as debt collection, invoicing efficiency, reducing paperwork where possible and unnecessary work process reduction. Improving the efficiency of the scheduling and administration team…