Our capabilities
Eisicle’s partners have hands-on experience both as executives and consultants on delivery of advice across the whole business cycle
Start-Up
Vision and Strategy
Identifying and articulating the business vision and outlining the supporting strategic choices available. Supporting the leaders to make the difficult selection of preferred strategic options.​
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Market Entry
Identifying the market niches where opportunities lies in relation to the capability and strategy of the existing business or new founding concept. Clearly assessing risks and likely costs of pursing the opportunities and creating comprehensive action and financial plans to pursue the chosen areas.
Product Development and IP
From the initial work to generate clear specifications, to managing on time, in full, to budget delivery of the new product. Ensuring practical and legal protections are in place where applicable to control.
Funding
Providing a clear outline and assessment of potential funding sources and supporting the business to successfully secure the necessary investment, including direct investor contact.
Scale-Up
Operating Model
Mapping the people, processes and technology required to support at scale. Preparing a clear roadmap of how to move the business as it stands today to the future model, including expansion to new geographies and verticals.
Product and Proposition Assessment
Assessing and mapping clearly where significant growth can realistically be achieved from within the existing proposition and product set. Creating a plan and set of measurements and milestones to chart the subsequent growth .
M&A
Where inorganic growth is sought to catalyse the organic growth plans or be a stand-alone source of growth we can support across the whole cycle from deal criteria generation, through to long and shortlisting candidates, negotiating the deal, planning for and executing integration.
Talent
Clearly assessing the existing capability within the business vs. what is required to multiply the revenue performance in the future. Supporting the business to make the resulting changes to the organisation and identify key hires.
Sales and Marketing Effectiveness
Putting in place the tools, structures and incentives to ensure that high impact marketing is generated, which is enthusiastically followed up and converted into revenue by productive sales activity demonstrating end to end Return on Investment.
Maturity
Operational Improvement
Assessing the day-to-day business operation and suggesting areas for improvement which are linked to margin and profit outcomes. Working alongside the teams to ensure realisation of forecasted benefits​.
Sales and Marketing Effectiveness
Putting in place the tools, structures and incentives to ensure that high impact marketing is generated, which is enthusiastically followed up and converted into revenue by professional productive sales activity. Clearly showing Return on Investment of the overall investment.
Talent
Assessing business' talent pool and ensuring sufficient injection of new ideas to keep the business current and market-leading.
Strategy Reinvigoration
Stress testing the business strategy, evaluation of the current market landscape and ensuring these are likely to achieve the company's growth objectives.
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Supply Chain
From the initial work to generate clear specifications, to managing on time, in full, to budget delivery of the new product. Ensuring practical and legal protections are in place where applicable to control.
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M&A
Identification of the role of inorganic growth to accelerate the business strategy and evaluation of the risks introduced. Support in pipelining, deal negotiation through to integration.
Exit
Value Assessment
Providing a clear and unbiased assessment of the potential value of a business across different exit routes – this process also provides a clear assessment of the risks for a prospective purchaser which could harm value and also opportunities to improve valuation before sale.
Evaluation of Exit Routes
Seeking specific ‘off the market’ investors who may not naturally present themselves to the business. In addition, development of options for vendors seeking to release equity but retain major stake.
Marketing Collateral
Building the Investment Memorandum (private) or Admission Document or Prospectus (public) to support the advertising of the business to prospective buyers.
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IPO or Take Private
Evaluating benefits and risks of the public listing and hands-on detailed support through the IPO process. Conversely we are able to support in the opposite direction, advising a public company on moving to private ownership.
Turnaround
Financial Modelling
Developing long term financial models with sensitivity analysis to understand the business value drivers, funding needs and critical inflection points​.
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Value Levers
Developing a series of “quick wins” to improve the near-term trading outlook, either through a reinvigoration of the existing go-to-market strategy or development of a new one.
Execution
Hands-on execution (with or without existing management as necessary) of turnaround plan.
Cost Streamlining
Understanding the opex required to conduct the critical activities which the business needs to operate, evaluating alternative operating models to streamline cost.
Turnaround Plan
Development of multi-phase turnaround plan and mapping of team resources required to execute.
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Sustainable Success
Development of reporting KPIs to allow the business to continue to be successful post turnaround.