• Hello & welcome!

  • About Business Development Solutions Ltd

    Established in 2004, we always strive for the best for you.

    Our Passion

    Is your business not where you know it needs to be? Is someone else in your sector starting to get ahead? Is digital technology, and its impact on people and processes, an issue? Are you and your people wrestling with complexity and challenges in strategy development or execution, transformation, innovation, process improvement, expansion or ownership change in order to respond? Or are you just starting out and need to get your product to market and credible with potential investors? We can help.

     

    We are passionate about bringing clarity and leadership to situations to help organisations like yours to develop and achieve their goals. If you are contemplating your next step in any of the above areas, and would welcome some support, please do give us a call.

     

    We are also an innovation foundry, tackling some of the biggest global issues. We've created a new global healthcare system model and were delighted to work with one of the UK's five largest healthcare organisations to apply it. We've conceptualised a new global citizen-facing digital platform and we are engaged in bringing it about. If you are struggling to find clarity amidst change, ask us.

    Our Strength

    As an independent, boutique advisory firm, we are able to focus on your needs first. Depending on your needs, we have access to an international cohort of experienced fellow practitioners to help undertake assignments almost anywhere in the world. We can work as interim employees augmenting a team with additional skills, as your business partner, or as client-side representatives in more complex multi-party engagements.

    Our Sectors

    We serve business-to-business, business-to-consumer and government-to-citizen organisations primarily engaged either with digital technologies and services, including the Industrial-Medical-Domestic Internet of Things, or in fast-moving consumer goods from design to manufacture to retail across broadband, mobile and in store. We support all sizes of organisation: start-ups, closely-held, PE-backed, listed, charitable or government.

  • How we can help

    We offer services to help you succeed in the following six areas:

    Strategy and execution

    Change achievement

    Innovation

    Process improvement

    Market entry or expansion

    Ownership change

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    Strategy and execution

    Check out our programme AT https://www.succeed.limited

    Direction-setting and execution are processes which require anticipation, challenge, interpretation, alignment, decision-making and learning in an uncertain environment. We bring clarity to and guidance through these processes, and work with Boards to develop the strategy, and with Executive Teams to determine the optimal tactics to execute it.

     

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    Change achievement

    Change initiatives of all types become more manageable and likely to succeed when an organisation's capability to execute is sufficiently developed. We can help you first to build your execution competence muscle and then to bring experience in change that will help ensure that your change initiative succeeds and you realise the planned benefits.

     

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    Innovation

    Successful innovation means capitalising on an opportunity to fulfil unmet customer expectations in a superior way. It underpins organic growth. But innovation requires mastery of exploration and exploitation, and many organisations are configured only for the latter. We can help your people create an exploration culture and an innovation process.

     

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    Process improvement

    Inefficient product and service processes and people who aren't empowered and motivated to make them better lower brand equity and increase opportunity cost. We can help you to explore processes, identify flaws, and design solutions that take advantage of appropriate technology, and leave you with an enduring improvement ethos.

     

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    Market entry or expansion

    Do you need help to get to market? Or are you considering taking your product, service or operations into a new market but don't have time or resources to dedicate to the task? We are proven connectors, able to pave the way to market for you, or help you set up overseas, liaising with specialist partners to enable trials, or establishing or relocating services.

     

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    Ownership change

    Trade sales, IPOs, mergers, management buy outs, succession planning and new investment all have a common requirement of an organisation: an opinion of its value in order for its owners to determine the best course of action. We can help you to undertake a valuation and prepare for a successful transaction.

     

  • Appreciation

    Stephen has a gift for bringing clarity to highly complex situations.

    A Davies, Chairman

    I think you brought some really great challenge to the table in a non-confrontational way.

    R MacNeil, Service Owner

    Not only was Steve able to join up our mission, strategy and vision, but his one-stop design-to-publish service made the process much more convenient and productive.

    M Lambert, CEO

    I've enjoyed working with you. It's always good to work with people who have a different perspective to most.

    R Evans, Operations Manager

    I do like to learn new things, and I learned a few things from you.

    A Walker, Project Manager

  • Connect

    Based in the UK, I can reach west or east to connect with you in the same day:

     

    WWW.businessdeveelopmentsolutions.ltd.uk

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    +44 (0) 797 444 3895

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    Britannia House

    Cowbridge

    CF71 7EG

    UK

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    a strategic clarity consultancy

    to businesses of all types

     

    hello and welcome

    SUCCEED.LIMITED

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    SUCCEED.LIMITED

    a strategic clarity consultancy

    to businesses of all types

     

    hello and welcome

  • SUCCEED.LIMITED

    Do you need help to succeed?

     

    Is thinking through recovery from the impact of COVID an issue? Is your business not where you know it needs to be? Are you and your people wrestling with complexity and challenges in order to respond?

     

    Or are you just starting out in the middle of all this, and need to get your product to market and your business credible with potential investors?

     

    I can help.

    What

    SUCCEED is the distillation of 25 years' experience in solving the problem of organisations not achieving their goals, and making them fun to run for everyone.

     

    In a period of constant challenge, when what’s simple seems complicated, clarity is the prized currency. A laser focus on clarity to guide momentum and pace defines and differentiates the leaders.

     

    I bring clarity to help you and your team to create, connect and coordinate board strategy, executive team tactics and operational activity, and impetus and momentum to achieve your goal.

    How

    SUCCEED provides you with:

    • clarity, using my proprietary methodology to join everything up
    • impetus, using a one-stop design-to-publish service to start at pace
    • momentum, using purpose-built software to continuously keep track

    I'll work remotely and online with you, or safely run interactive half day or whole day sessions that you and your team will leave with clarity, impetus and momentum to act. If you are contemplating seeking help to succeed and would welcome some support, please do give me a call.

    Who

    I can support all sizes and types of organisation: start-ups, closely-held, PE/VC-backed, listed, charitable or government. I've served business-to-business, business-to-consumer and government-to-citizen organisations primarily engaged either with digital connected technology and services, or in fast-moving consumer goods from design to manufacture to retail, online and in store.

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  • How to get started

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    Diarise

    Book below and I'll call you, or call me or email

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    Discuss

    We'll discuss your needs and I'll ask for information

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    Delivery

    We'll collaborate online or work safely face-to-face

  • 1. Diarise

    Choose a time that suits you in the diary below and I'll call you. There's no obligation.

     

    Or call me any time on 0797 444 3895 or email me at steve@succeed.limited.

  • 2. Discuss

    I'll listen to your concerns and aspirations and we'll agree the programme content and duration according to the complexity of your needs. I'll review your current documents from the lists below, then plan next steps for you and your key people - often not just the people who report to your direct reports. I'll help you gain the clarity you need to improve results.

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    Purpose

    Values

    Mission

    Vision

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    Strategy

    Governance

    Goals

    Objectives

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    Tactics

    Engagement

    Initiatives

    Projects

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    Actions

    Culture

    Benefits

    Performance

  • 3. Delivery

    I'll work remotely and online with you, or safely run interactive half day or whole day sessions that you and your team will leave with clarity, impetus and momentum to act. We are curating safe venues across the UK as they reopen which you can choose from, or use your own meeting space and I'll come to you.

  • Purpose

    Bringing clarity to help your organisation succeed.

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    Stephen Magowan

    Founder

    How much do you invest in making the simple complicated instead of clear?

     

    Through systems thinking I've been helping organisations address the issue that question raises since carrying out my first strategic review in 1991.

     

    Fast forward to 2020, and I've started SUCCEED.LIMITED to combine clarity of thinking with the impetus from new decisions that it enables and purpose-made software that maintains your momentum towards your goal despite day-to-day distractions.

     

    Sydney J Harris said "Happiness is a direction, not a place". If direction really is the key to happiness (organisational health), then it makes sense to give your team as much clarity about your direction as possible, and help them achieve.

     

    I look forward to meeting you and hearing about the challenge you are facing, to see how I can help you succeed.

  • Giving back

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Everything I aspire to do in SUCCEED is enabled because of the learning opportunities I've had throughout my life. Therefore I choose to give part of the business profits to support educational initiatives for those less fortunate. The current beneficiary is Effective Aid International, an Australia-based charity which is dedicated to providing education to children in Northern Thailand and Myanmar.

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    hello and welcome to SUCCEED

  • Mission

    Bringing clarity and leadership to help your organisation succeed.

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    Stephen Magowan

    Founder

    During my formative years in multi-national organisations, the process of finding solutions to problems convinced me that there was an unfilled need for a network of appropriately experienced and genuinely interested external support that leaders of all types and sizes of organisation could call on to help address complex strategic, tactical or operational challenges. As a result, Business Development Solutions Ltd was born in 2004.

     

    The acceleration in the application of technology to every product and service and the potential created by entirely new products and services has made external support with relevant experience even more valuable in helping companies develop.

     

    We've moved forward too, renaming as SUCCEED LIMITED to reflect our purpose. Through our network developed over the last decade, we are able to bring experienced, like-minded practitioners from many fields to assignments almost anywhere in the world to help you.

     

    I look forward to meeting you and hearing about the challenge you are facing..

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