Turnaround management and business rescue practitioners

Act on early warning signals of decline or distress

"It is easier to tread on an acorn than an oak tree."

World-wide, it is an established fact that recognising the need for turnaround action takes place too late and that provisional turnaround measures accomplish too little. 

Companies tend to act to late to adverse trends in industry drivers of a political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental nature.

The best time to talk to us about pre-emptive turnaround solutions is when you notice adverse movements in industry drivers, or at least when you notice early signs of decline or distress in your business.

Are your sales, market share, profit margins and working capital starting to decline?  Are debt levels and management turnover increasing?

Are you starting to experience a general air of financial stringency, poor communication and housekeeping, low morale, managerial stress and organisational inertia?

Before a crisis develops, you should talk to us about reversing the downward trend, stabilising, funding and fixing your business, increasing your leadership effectiveness in managing the turnaround, and retaining stakeholder support for the turnaround strategy.

Is your business already under performing or facing a crisis?

"It is not too late for remedial action."

Perhaps your business is already facing a profitability, solvency or cash flow crisis.

Your situation may already be as serious as not being able to meet your financial commitments to creditors, or having breached loan covenants.

It is not necessarily too late to embark on a turnaround.  Drastic emergency action, however, may be required.

Who should talk to us about turnaround solutions?

"Talk to us if you are under performing or in distress."

If you fall into one or more of the following categories, then you should talk to us about turnaround solutions.

Management of under performing and distressed companies needing professional turnaround expertise or business rescue to guide them through the turnaround process.

Management of government departments requiring a turnaround approach to improvement in service delivery and financial performance.

Boards of directors wishing to restore value to their their under performing or distressed companies when management cannot cope with turnaround requirements.

Investors that are stuck with under performing or distressed assets and requiring improved results or profitable exiting.

Banks and other lenders that are stuck with under performing or distressed loans and seeking restructuring solutions, workout plans and debt repayment programmes as part of a business recovery process.

Turnaround managers in the hot seat that will benefit from turnaround mentoring.

Companies that wish to kick-start their turnaround process by means of a turnaround workshop.

Companies in a turnaround process that will benefit from turnaround coaching.

Small businesses that need a turnaround but face an affordability problem.

Turnaround expertise

"We pride ourselves with being at the cutting edge of turnaround methodology."

We utilise turnaround tools and methodologies developed and honed over many years of successful practical application.

We keep up to date with the latest turnaround approaches world-wide, amongst other things by virtue of our membership of the Turnaround Management Association - Southern Africa.

Turnaround experience

"We helped both industry giants and small businesses."

Our past turnaround experience include clients representing a variety of industries in the private sector with annual turnover ranging from as small as R10m to as large as R5bn, as well as the public sector.

Our turnaround experience includes working with boards of directors, management, banks and government as clients since 1999.

See past turnaround projects for an overview of past turnarounds completed.

More about CRS Turnaround Management

Go to turnaround consulting for more information about our turnaround workshops, and turnaround situation assessment, turnaround implementation, turnaround coaching and turnaround mentoring services.

Our turnaround management principles describe turnaround situations, turnaround stages, turnaround components, turnaround strategy and the turnaround plan.

About CRS Turnaround describes our turnaround experience, turnaround clients and past turnaround projects.

To learn more about our turnaround consulting services, download our CRS Turnaround brochure in the box in the left.

Go to About Corporate Renewal Solutions for our contact particulars and information about our team, associates, resources and networks.