Supporting the success of business owners and CEOs by improving their Organisation Performance and Value.
Strategic Business Mentoring.
acorro Organisation and Performance Framework
Using our Organisation and Performance Framework we help you to improve your business by only focusing on the #CriticalFewActions™ that matter.
Over my career, I’ve learned from a combination of DuPont analysis, balanced scorecard and my experience as a business owner and working in 100s of organisations, that there are six levers you can pull to improve your business and its value. These six levers we work through together include, setting your strategy and vision, building revenue, delivering profitability, supporting people performance, driving asset returns and developing organisation learning.
If you are a leader of an organisation without a strategy for growth – we’re here to help.
We bring an outsider’s view to challenge when necessary; tweak the good; and, provide practical-common-sense perspectives to enable more success and satisfaction from improving your organisation performance.
The acorro mission is to enable your success to the best of your ability; to be the conscience of your strategy and to be there in the tough times and to celebrate the victories. Using our Organisation and Performance Framework we work with you to;
- ESet the vision of your organisation and plan how to achieve it:
- EBuild your businesses with the resources, skills, and capabilities to deliver your vision
- EFocus on doing the right things right and achieving your vision/s by measuring and managing your performance
- EFace your growth challenges.
About John Downes
BEco FCA FIMC CMC Managing Director, Strategic Mentor.
As a 30 year experienced professional business advisor and former Deloitte Partner, I support business owners and CEOs to achieve pleasure, fulfilment and to earn a sound financial reward from their businesses. That’s it.
I have gained significant experience as a business mentor from serving over 400 organisations (big, medium and emerging) across 15 industries in Australia, the United Kingdom, Asia and the United States of America. In 2009, I retired as a partner from the global consulting firm, Deloitte, to establish this Strategic Mentoring business. I aimed to get much closer to a few business owners and CEOs rather than drive significant projects and teams as I had done for the previous 20+ years around the world. Along the way, I founded a successful, 25 person start-up with two partners and offices up the eastern seaboard serving some of Australia’s largest distributed businesses. This taught me so much about the realities of business ownership!
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Success Stories
We engaged John to assist with the development of a 3-year business plan and the strategy to get us there.
He has been particularly good at asking us challenging questions and hence getting us to think differently about our business. The ideas generated as a result have been excellent. One specific area where he has been particularly helpful was with the adoption of Strategic Account Management, and writing detailed customer plans. Another has been facilitating our thinking about a possible new JV with an outside party. John has been a particularly useful business advisor, and we will engage him again.
With John’s assistance, we have achieved 20% month on month growth since he began in his capacity as a member of our advisory board.
John has been an incredibly valuable member of our advisory board over the past 9 months. John’s natural leadership skills and expertise in reading people has been critical in guiding the development of Business Planning HQ from a technology looking for a market to a thriving consulting business. I would credit his skills, direction and leadership qualities with facilitating this extraordinary level of growth. I could not recommend John’s expertise in any advisory capacity highly enough. His advice has been invaluable to me
We’re now building our business in a sustainable manner, with solid foundations and focus.
John has worked with us to improve the foundations of our business. John’s mentoring has ensured that we focus on building our business in a sustainable manner. He does this by regular meetings and laser-like focus on the pressing issues we need to deal with, but also the long term goals of the business through a rigorous planning process.
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