Enterprise & Supplier Development
ESD that outlives the compliance cycle
Compliance is where most Enterprise and Supplier Development programmes begin. It is rarely where their value ought to end. Structured properly, an ESD programme drives innovation and builds real resilience into a supply chain and it does so while opening the economy to businesses that have long been locked out of it.
We build ESD programmes that make SMEs stronger. The value chains those businesses supply are reinforced as a direct consequence and the value created lands with the corporate and the entrepreneur alike.
Our ESD services
Three disciplines
ESD Strategy
Working out where the spend can genuinely create impact, then building the strategy around it.
ESD Strategy
Working out where the spend can genuinely create impact, then building the strategy around it.
We start with a proper review of the business and a detailed analysis of where the spend currently goes. We then map the ESD support landscape sitting around it, because that is usually where the pain points and the real opportunities for impact reveal themselves.
From that foundation we design a strategy that is cost effective and that draws on what you already have. Ecosystem collaboration does a good deal of the work here, as do capabilities sitting inside your business that are presently going unused.
ESD Programme Design
A support programme built around your business goals as much as your scorecard.
ESD Programme Design
A support programme built around your business goals as much as your scorecard.
We work directly with your leadership team to develop an SME support programme that strengthens the competitiveness of those businesses while remaining aligned to what your own business is trying to achieve.
The design draws on what your business can already do and on what we bring to it, together with whatever the wider SME support landscape makes available.
ESD Programme Management
We run the programme and we account for what it delivers.
ESD Programme Management
We run the programme and we account for what it delivers.
Partnering with us connects you to our network of in-house implementation specialists and a curated panel of service providers for technical support.
We draw on our partnerships across the SME support landscape to get the programme implemented properly. Compliance, monitoring and impact reporting are managed throughout, with KPIs measured against what was actually promised at the outset.
Our ESD philosophy
Value Chain Integration
ESD should strengthen the value chain it sits inside. When it works, both sides benefit. When it is run as an isolated impact activity, it benefits nobody for very long.
Sustainable Impact Measurement
ESD investment has to produce a measurable return. Financial and operational, certainly, but social and environmental as well. All of it evidenced rather than merely asserted.
Ecosystem Development
Real transformation is never achieved one enterprise at a time. It requires interconnected ecosystems that carry growth beyond any single business and it requires partnership with organisations that want the same outcome.
Strategic Alignment
ESD delivers most when it is aligned to the core business strategy rather than bolted onto the side of it. Your organisation has particular strengths. The programme ought to be built on those.
Market Development
A well designed ESD programme does more than support individual businesses. It creates markets that did not previously exist and it deepens both the talent pool and the industrial capacity of the sector it operates within.