What this site is
Northern Business Compass explains business consultancy to the people most likely to buy it — owners and managers running firms in and around Manchester. We don't do the work ourselves. We describe it, honestly, so you can judge whether you need it and what good looks like.
What we cover
We've grouped our guides around the questions people actually ask. A few of them:
- What management consultancy covers, and the moment it's worth calling one in
- How strategy consulting turns a vague direction into decisions you can act on
- The way operations consultants find waste in how a business runs day to day
- What financial management consulting looks at when growth is the goal
- When employers turn to an HR consultant for pay, policy and people problems
How it's written
Each guide leads with the plain answer, then explains it with an example you might recognise from your own company. We try to be specific about cost, scope and limits, because that's where most of the confusion sits. Where consultants oversell, we say so.
Who runs it and who it's for
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