Consulting Services

The competitive pressures on professional service firms are unprecedented. They are many and varied and are here to stay. There is the gradual though relentless shift towards commoditisation. Market consolidation continues to gather pace. Cost represents a challenge as never before with the focus on price, pricing and value sharper than ever. Profit margins are feeling the squeeze.

The threats therefore facing practices are combining to present them with the ultimate opportunity: to deliver their services more cost effectively whilst maintaining high standards of quality and superior levels of profitability.  Successful firms will be required to truly differentiate themselves through a winning combination of strategic clarity, organisational effectiveness, operational efficiency, service excellence and value delivered.

Only those firms which recognise the need to turn these threats into an opportunity - to create ever more value for clients whilst still providing best advice - will maintain a competitive advantage. 

Intelligent Office Consulting Services helps professional service firms to rise to this challenge, enabling them to effect the necessary changes to remain both relevant and competitive.  Our aim is to help our clients deliver services to their clients more efficiently and more cost effectively whilst protecting and enhancing their profitability. We do this by driving out unnecessary waste and cost from within their business infrastructure and by unleashing the real value that can be added to the delivery of those services. Our approach is therefore as much about maximising value as minimising cost.

In addition, we provide strategic advice and practical guidance on the optimum use of resources, skills, processes and systems to achieve radical improvements in operational efficiency.

We see providing sound advice as the beginning of our relationship with our client.  To effect real and sustainable change requires a skilful combination of careful planning, thorough consultation, creative thought and effective communication. The value of our expertise and service offering is on ‘making it happen' and turning strategy into an operational reality.

"At a time when clients are demanding more for less, it is invaluable to have access to such expertise."

Managing partner, UK law firm