One of the biggest benefits to acquiring a new company is that someone else has often done a great deal of the groundwork to get things up and running, leaving you to fine-tune and improve processes and operations to make the business as profitable...
Have you noticed that some of the collaborative projects that you’ve tasked your team with aren’t providing the results you anticipated? Perhaps your physical office space could be hindering collaboration without you realising it. Knowing the...
Creating a great team dynamic is something which rarely happens naturally but, when you get the chemistry and the relationships just right, amazing things can happen. Adding new players into an established team, whether that’s because you are...
Training and development isn’t just good for businesses, it can also boost staff retention and job satisfaction rates too. Although we all understand the benefits of training, catering to all of our employee’s training needs can place a real...
The wide scale move to remote working hasn’t just meant that we’re missing out on time in the office, for some it has also resulted in the loss of a support system. Working from home, while a privilege that many have wished for before the pandemic...
We all love a perk – whether that’s a free piece of chicken when our Nando’s card is full or free shipping on an order, getting something that makes you feel valued is guaranteed to put a smile on your face. The same is true in the workplace. While...
No one is born a great manager – as in any other job role, it takes years of development and training to become the type of leader that inspires, motivates and nurtures a team. That’s not too say that there aren’t some natural characteristics and...
An acquisition is very rarely smooth sailing from start to finish but, it is possible to complete the process with positivity and confidence. One of the biggest factors to manage is the human element. If you’re facing negativity from either side...
Have you noticed that key projects aren’t being delivered on time? Perhaps the results of current collaborations aren’t what you expected and you find your staff getting caught up in a blame culture of why things haven’t worked out? Whatever your...
According to recent reports from Harvard Business Review & McKinsey, the failure rate for mergers and acquisitions sits in the region of around 70%. Although the reasons why acquisitions fail are complex and numerous, having your team onboard...
I’m Scott Dylan, Fresh Thinking Group Founder and Partner. I oversee the strategic direction of the company, which I created to help, acquire and invest in both distressed and viable companies together with helping businesses improve their business processes and setting strategic directions.