Strategic advisory & Business planning

Entering into the export market through an existing business may seem like an obvious way to increase your current revenue. In many cases, it is a viable means of expanding a business and generating greater income. However, it is important to consider the logistics, timing and practicalities before jumping into the unknown.

Exporting can extend your market, boost your turnover and prevent you having too great a dependence on your local-based customers. But it isn’t always an easy option. Entering or expanding presence in a new market involves complex choices, ranging from the mode of entry to appropriate investment levels to local organisational structure design.

Starting to export poses a whole new set of challenges, from identifying promising markets and customers to ensuring that you can fulfil your export contracts. Developing new export markets takes time and money.

Within the context of our international expansion strategy, we support companies entering into international markets so sustainable and profitable growth can be one of their main strategies as they plan to establish production facilities abroad. We also provide services to international companies that operate abroad and plan to enter into the local market.

Strategic Advisory

We have established track records in corporate strategic planning and can significantly contribute to the review of your strategic options and the potential pursuit of growth via an M&A strategy. Our clients often come to us for assistance in finding the right answers to key questions, such as:

  • Should I grow my business further to maximise value?
  • Should I acquire to increase critical mass and reduce costs?
  • Would diversification be the right option to protect from adversarial changes in my core market?

Business Planning

It is a well-known fact: a business with a well-defined “road map” to achieve strategic objectives, address problems and enhance shareholder value will nearly always outperform its plan-less rivals. We take the time to understand the dynamics of our client’s business and industry, as well as the evolving expectations of shareholders, family members and investors.

Aster Growth Partners employs a number of methods from traditional strategic planning processes to programs that use scenario planning and strategic dialog that move beyond the “strategic plan” so that organisations can act and think more strategically.

We will support, stimulate and challenge our clients’ point of view and enhance their strategic decision-making process. Using modeling tools, strategic planning analysis, business valuations, and financial capacity analysis, to name a few, we help to establish the most appropriate growth strategy. We will assist organisations to explore their strategic context in order to maximise competitive advantage, improve perceptions, develop vision, redefine their brand or effectively integrate sustainability.

At Aster Growth Partners, we believe that Strategic Advisory and Business Planning are the foundations of decision-making. Only through envisioning a desired future, your business can improve from good to great.

We have a dedicated team of experts that we deploy to focus on Strategic Advisory and Business Planning. Please contact us to submit a business inquiry.