Phase 01Understand
We listen, then we prove we heard you. The phase ends with the problem written down in a form you recognise and would defend in front of your board.
- Internal analysis
- External analysis
- PESTEL
- Benchmarking
- Data analysis
- Strategy
- Finance
- Operations
- Design
Four phases. Four decisions. All of them yours.
We diagnose the problem, cost the options, deliver the one you choose, and measure what it returned. Each of those is a phase, priced on its own.
Where the work has been
The model
Four phases, four decisions
Most consulting asks you to buy the whole programme before anyone has proved they understand the problem. We break the work at the four points where you would naturally want to stop and think.
Phase 02Design
Options, not an option. Costed at three budget levels and sequenced short, mid and long term, so the choice you make is a real choice.
- SWOT
- Process mapping
- Financial modelling
- Budget scenarios
- Phased plan
Phase 03Execute
The design leaves the page. You pick the level of help, from a handover guide you run yourself through to us running the programme.
- Know-how guide
- Light touch PMO
- Full PMO
- Agile or traditional
Phase 04Review
Did it do what it was designed to do? We measure the return, capture the learning, and say plainly what we would do differently.
- ROIC analysis
- Survey & feedback
- Lessons learned
- Light to full audit
Services
How we can help
Everything below comes from operating roles rather than from a framework deck. Between us we have run finance functions, launched lending products, opened new markets and shipped the interfaces customers actually touch.
Business strategy
Where the business is going, what has to be true for it to get there, and what to stop doing. Internal and external analysis, PESTEL, competitive position, and a strategy someone can actually be held to.
Financial outlook
Planning, forecasting, measurement and reporting. Scenario models that show what each option does to cash, and a closing cycle that does not take three weeks.
Operations review
Systems, process and supplier management. We map what actually happens, not what the procedure says happens, then take the waste out of it.
Project & programme management
Agile or traditional, whichever the work demands. Governance, reporting cadence and the discipline that stops good recommendations dying in a drawer.
Business risk & contract review
Commercial contract review processes, risk registers that get used, and due diligence support when someone is buying, selling or raising.
Growth, brand & design
Go to market planning, revenue growth, partnerships, and the design work that carries it: brand identity, web presence and product interfaces.
The commitment
What if the first phase tells you not to bother?
Then we say so, you pay for one phase, and you have saved yourself the other three. That is the point of splitting the work.
Each phase is scoped and priced on its own. You see the hours, the rate for each person on the job, and the fixed margin on top before anything starts. Nothing rolls over automatically and nothing is billed against a phase you did not approve.
It is a slower way to sell consulting. It is a much easier way to buy it.
Proceed to the next phase only if you are satisfied with the last one.The FourPhase principle
The team
Who you would be working with
Four people, named, with the hours on your job attributed to them individually. No pyramid, no bench, no one you have never met writing the report.
BF
Brendan Fox
Finance, strategy & leadership An accomplished CFO who has spent eighteen years across manufacturing, wholesale and retail operations in Asia Pacific, and who cut one company's financial close from three weeks to five days. RHRhys Henderson
Strategy, commercial & leadership Fifteen years as an entrepreneur and intrapreneur in technology and financial services, including leading a market entry that reached AUD 200 million in assets inside three years. JPJohn Psarras
Strategy, marketing & analytics Go to market planning, commercial analysis and project governance across fintech, retail and sport, with a focus on turning analysis into decisions that hold up commercially. JLJoseph Leaf
Product design, brand & web Eight years of UX, UI and product design across logistics, finance, eLearning and commerce, translating strategy into brand identity, websites and interfaces people can use.Track record
Where we have worked
We have used the phased approach across health, automotive, financial services, mining, sport, infrastructure and consumables, with engagements running from a single consultation through to full delivery of the recommendations.
Health
Automotive
Financial services
Mining
Sport
Infrastructure
Consumables
Technology
Next step
Start with a conversation
Tell us the problem in your own words. The first conversation costs nothing and commits you to nothing, and you will leave it with at least one thing you can act on.