Ironwood Services to Management

Managements have many needs:

Simply managing a complex entity. Determining how to deal with a challenge or anticipate soon to be challenges

Looking at a potential acquisition.

Making the company efficient.

Looking for ways to grow a company or, in some cases, turn it around.

Determining what in the company is the core competency or core value and how to leverage on those cores and use energy where best spent (leveraging on those cores)

Looking for ways to divest themselves of the division or product line, especially if the equity ownership is relatively illiquid.

Ironwood can help in all of these categories - and more.

Simply managing a complex entity. Determining how to deal with a challenge or anticipate soon to be challenges.

Ironwood can provide the following services prior to you regarding a the ongoing management of your public or private company.

. Project assistance.
. Interim management.
. Market evaluation and competitive analysis.
. Performance benchmarking.
. Due diligence on departments, divisions or other companies.
. And much more. Please look around our website.

Looking at a potential acquisition.

Ironwood can provide the following services to you in evaluating a potential acquisition or reviewing a roll-up strategy.

. Strategic planning.
. Due diligence including management adequacy review of target companies.
. Market and competitive study.
. Operations review.
. Alternate sources of financing or complementary or leverage financing.
. Board membership (in certain circumstances) on acquisition.
. Monitoring performance.
. And more. Let us know what you have in mind.

Making the company efficient.

. Monitoring performance.
. Performance benchmarking.
. Six Sigma and TQL.
. Lean manufacturing.
. Outsourcing.
. Plant movement.
. And more. Let us know what you have in mind.

Looking for ways to grow a company or, in some cases, turn it around.

Ironwood can provide to you the following services in helping to grow the company if you are dissatisfied with the rate or direction of growth and, in more dire cases, if you are concerned that the company is on the slippery slope and the ship needs to be 'righted'.

. Strategic planning.
. Emergency or urgent assessment of circumstances.
. Management adequacy review.
. Interim management and/ or executive recruiting.
. Alternate sources of financing or complementary or leverage financing.
. Creditor relations.
. Market analysis.
. Project assistance.
. Advice to Board.
. And more. Let us know what you have in mind.

Determining what in the company is the core competency or core value and how to leverage on those cores and use energy where best spent (leveraging on those cores)

Ironwood can assist you in determining what - in a rapidly changing market (both locally and internationally) - your 'value added' and 'core competancy' is. Many companies do not know this or the situation has changed almost without recognition in a fluid marketplace. Knowing this is critical to knowing what your strategy should be for growth - or just to preserve a market position at all.

. Strategic planning.
. Market analysis including 'value added' and core competency research and analysis.
. Advice to Board.

Looking for ways to divest themselves of the company, especially if the equity ownership is relatively illiquid.

Ironwood can provide for you multiple options on both a theoretical basis and a practical basis for you to liquefy your investment in departments, divisions, subsidiaries and other holdings.

. Market analysis - of potential purchasers.
. Strategic sale planning.
. Company, department, division or subsidiary "clean up" and "beautify".
. Interim management during changeover.
. Securing bridge financing.
. Negotiations to complete the sale or diverstiture.
. And more. Let us know what you have in mind.

The areas to which we would direct your attention on our website are: