Spectra Consulting Group
Spectra Consulting Group
Consulting Services
Consulting Services
Business Management
Business Management
Having owned, managed and led businesses gives us experience beyond accounting and scorekeeping functions. In addition, we have seen many popular consulting "fads" come and go over the years while meanwhile the business challenges remain the same. We won't sell you a high priced one-size-fixes-everything model, but instead use our experience with what works to help you problem solve and expand creativity. We can adapt established and documented best practices to fit your particular business needs. , thereby resulting in more efficient processes that save time while delivering optimized results.
Change is occurring faster and faster today. Yesterday’s brilliant strategy may be today’s liability. If a company is slow to adapt, even business viability may be at stake. When a problem is identified, a company must ride above the internal dissension and politics that nearly always accompanies a lack of performance and focus on the future. Often having third party management at the table can quell dissension and allow management to keep moving before it is too late. Spectra Consulting professionals have extensive experience in serving as interim and long-term senior management in companies ranging from start-ups to large enterprises. We help focus on eliminating the mistakes of the past, preserving the best of the company’s culture and getting the organization focused on the key issue; restoring business value in the shortest possible time.
Business Development
Business Development
If you are starting a new business or thinking of growing your existing business, Spectra Consulting can help you think through, and model various scenarios to understand the potentials and possibilities.
We offer connections to solutions to help businesses succeed including business strategy development, market research, feasibility studies, market analysis and selection, market entry strategy, lead generation, partner search, brand development, and product launch and trade show support services.
Startup Consulting
Startup Consulting
Starting a new business requires completing a monumental number of tasks, all on a compressed time frame, and a budget! comes with a vast amount of steps. The difficulties are usually not around what you know, but what you don't know! Wise business startups hire consultants to help them with the early steps of an enterprise. We have already made all the mistakes, let us help you avoid them.
Spectra consultants offer unique expertise that blends diverse entrepreneurial experience, real business insight and practical solutions. We will work directly with you to identify the most critical next steps and help them get executed.
By working with us you will understand much better all the issues required in the early stages of forming a business and venture. Instead of trial and error, you will gain expertise faster, which gives you an advantage in getting to the next phase quicker, avoiding costly mistakes and wasted time.
CFO Services
CFO Services
Today companies need financial solutions, but often don’t need or can’t afford a full-time CFO. Spectra Consulting professionals can play a key role in the growth of your business, whether you need a part-time finance professional, help solving a particular problem, or merely a once-a-month consulting conversation to help you vet your plans. We offer a free consultation so that you can get to know us in person, hear what our ideas concerning your needs might look like, and get some suggestions from us.
CFO services goes beyond bookkeeping or accounting. Accountants are usually good at informing management about the past and documenting business results, good or bad. Spectrsa professionals providing CFO services have the practical, hands-on experience to not only provide historical financial information, but they have the business savvy to really understand how the various components of the business fit together to show you where the business is going financially.
You will now have the ability to look forward so you can anticipate events before they happen and plan for the future. Business climates change every day and Spectra can give you the tools you can use yourself.
Capital Formation
Capital Formation
Growing a business requires money, and money is less and less easy to come by. Spectra Consulting has assisted numerous ventures to raise many millions of dollars of investment financing and is experienced in designing capital structures and creative investment strategies. We can help you prepare to get the capital you need to grow. Whether you are looking for angel investors, bank financing, venture capital, or other alternatives, we can help you understand the landscape.
We will help develop detailed, forward-looking financial forecasts to assist in determining the required financial capital. We will work with you to define the appropriate capital structure and will support your capital raise or refinancing strategy. This includes financial pro forma development, due diligence oversight, vendor management and document negotiation. Our services also include the development and implementation of short- and long-term cash flow forecasting processes to ensure cash availability.