The Guidant
§ 01Services · Four practices

Four practices held to one standard.

Audit, training, business development, ERP implementation. Each practice is led by partners with two decades in the discipline, scoped to your business and never to a template.

01
Practice

Audit & Diagnostics

A senior read of where the business stands — and the leverage points that move the P&L.

Most engagements begin here: thirty to sixty days of structured discovery across operations, finance, systems and people. The deliverable is not a 200-page deck. It is a sharp, partner-written document that names what to fix, in what order, and what it will take to get there.

Engagements include

  • Operational diagnostic (30–60 days)
  • Financial & commercial review
  • Systems & data readiness audit
  • Org structure & capability review
  • Pre-investment due diligence
  • Post-merger integration assessment
02
Practice

Training & Enablement

Capability transfer is the deliverable. Your team operates at a higher standard the day we step out.

Training is not a workshop. It is a programme of in-context coaching, structured learning and post-engagement support designed to leave your team genuinely more capable. Every curriculum is built around the work your people actually do — never recycled from a generic catalogue.

Engagements include

  • Leadership & management programmes
  • Functional skill-building (finance, ops, sales)
  • ERP user enablement & super-user tracks
  • Process documentation & SOP design
  • Train-the-trainer programmes
  • Quarterly capability reviews
03
Practice

Business Development

Strategy written to be executed — and executed alongside you.

From go-to-market to org design, pricing to partnership strategy, M&A to investor preparation — we work with leadership teams to make the decisions that compound. Engagements are scoped to deliver a small number of decisions of unusual quality, not a long list of recommendations of average quality.

Engagements include

  • Go-to-market strategy
  • Pricing & commercial model design
  • Org design & operating model
  • M&A advisory & integration
  • Partnership & channel strategy
  • Board & investor preparation
04
Practice

ERP Implementation

Implemented by certified senior practitioners — across every major ecosystem.

We implement the platform that fits the business, not the platform on our partner roster. Our consultants are certified across the seven major ecosystems and have led enough rollouts to know precisely where projects fail — and how to keep yours from getting there.

Engagements include

  • ERP selection & vendor evaluation
  • Implementation & rollout (multi-entity)
  • Power Platform development (Apps, Automate, BI)
  • Data migration & integration
  • Custom development & extensions
  • Hypercare & post-go-live optimisation
§ 05ERP ecosystems

The platform follows the business.

We work across the seven major platforms because no two businesses should be steered toward the same answer. Selection, design, implementation and the long tail of optimisation — all delivered by senior practitioners certified in the ecosystem they lead.

Microsoft Dynamics 365
Business Central · Finance & Operations
Microsoft Power Platform
Power Apps · Power Automate · Power BI
Odoo
Community & Enterprise · v15 → v17
SAP Business One
SMB implementations & migrations
Oracle NetSuite
Multi-subsidiary deployments
Sage
X3 & Intacct rollouts
Zoho One
End-to-end SMB suite
Custom & integrations
API, middleware, reporting layers
§ 06How an engagement runs

A simple rhythm. Held with discipline.

01

Listen

We start with a conversation, not a proposal. Two or three calls to understand the business, the people and the actual problem behind the stated one.

02

Scope

We write a short engagement brief — outcomes, milestones, who does what, what success looks like, and what it costs. Plain language, no surprises.

03

Work

Senior partners on the work, deployed in pairs. Weekly cadence with the sponsor. Tight feedback loops. The standard does not vary.

04

Transfer

We design the engagement so your team owns it on Monday morning after we step out. Hypercare and follow-up are built into every scope.

§ 07Have a brief?

Let us scope it together.

Send what you have — even rough notes. A partner will respond within two working days with a direct point of view.