Owner Managed Businesses

GO-Hi Consulting is a practical solution based enterprise development and management consultancy that draws from 25 years work related experience. Owner Managed Businesses are faced with unique operational challenges and GO-Hi therefore aims to address these challenges in a practical and efficient manner.

GO-Hi services include a broad range of customized consulting services to support management decisions that are typically required to successfully set up a business, operate the business and expand the business in a sustainable manner.

Management and consulting services offered by GO-Hi enable the entrepreneur to focus on the core business activity, be entrepreneurial and seize opportunities.

GO-Hi aims to assist entrepreneurs in achieving their objectives over both the short and medium to long term through increasing effectiveness of processes and procedures within the enterprise, leading to greater operational robustness of the enterprise. Service delivery time is not only impressive, but GO-Hi also guarantees quality of workmanship.

GO-Hi services aim to empower the owners, managers and employees to achieve the ultimate goals of any business – sustainability, profitability, improvement and growth. Knowledge and skills transfer therefore become important with each assignment.

GO-Hi’s portfolio of support services are tailor made for each eventuality, ranging from start-up business support, assisting business in distress with a turnaround plan and supporting management with a growth plan for an expanding business.

Start-up Businesses

Services offered to the start-up OMB’s market include:

• business planning for new ventures
• financial modelling (assumptions and cash flow projections)
• raising capital (debt or equity)
• HR planning, recruitment support, training and HR process design
• developing sales or distribution models for the products or services
• workflow design in general
• policy and procedures development for effective governance
• management systems development for strategy implementation and control
• risk management systems and controls
• financial management systems & internal controls development
• support with general management related matters

Growing & Expanding Businesses

Growing or expanding OMB’s are supported by GO-Hi through multiple services, along the lines mentioned for start-ups. In this market segment, our focus is on profit and growth management:

• Revenue improvement  and cost reduction strategies,
• Improvement of business efficiencies,
• Cost reductions,
• Performance management systems,
• Enabling technologies,
• Expansion plans
• Risk Management Plans, including Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plans
• Quality management systems.
• Improved management methodologies
• Compliance to all applicable laws
• Implementation of international best practices for OMB’s
• Implementation of good corporate governance practices based on KING 3 recommendations.

In general, GO-Hi helps entrepreneurs to seize opportunities and maximise the potential thereof in order to achieve improved profit and growth.

Distressed Businesses

GO-Hi also provides services to business in distress. Turnaround support provided by GO-Hi is typically a management led process whereby management has an informal workout with creditors and develops a plan to trade out of the undesired situation.

GO-Hi assists with identifying the reasons for business deterioration, formulating a way out of the hole of distress, design a pathway to more sustainable business recovery for the medium to long term and in general improve business efficiencies.