SANDFORD.SOLUTIONS
SANDFORD.SOLUTIONS is a one-stop-shop for the identification and resolution of the full range of challenges facing any enterprise.
We can provide an initial analysis of your overall enterprise to identify areas for improvement and recommend solutions to bring those improvements to life. Alternatively, you can tell us where you have concerns and we will identify improvement options and recommend solutions.
SANDFORD.SOLUTIONS provides most value by working with you across the full spectrum of your enterprise. We can help you identify and activate improvement solutions.
SANDFORD.SOLUTIONS is an advisory practice. We work alongside clients both in the identification of improvement options and the implementation of them.
SANDFORD.SOLUTIONS is an advisory business. We collaborate with our clients, working closely to find and develop solutions to challenges.
We believe that enterprise advice and guidance needs to be pragmatic, collaborative and, always, value-adding. Our approach is to guide, mentor and work closely alongside clients to enable efficient implementation of agreed solutions.
- Keep it simple and straightforward
- No hassles
- No surprises
- Courtesy
- Respect
- Honesty
> Our mark is a wing. A wing to help us take flight and achieve great heights. A wing to take us to better things.
> A wing also symbolises the mythical Roman god, Mercury. Mercury is the patron god of financial gain, commerce, eloquence (and thus poetry), messages/communication.
> The three ‘feathers’ that comprise our wing symbolise the three key elements for organisational success: Engagement; Excellence; Innovation.
Our colour is green.
- Green is the colour of balance and harmony; critical in both business and life.
- Green means go. We’ll help you set the wheels in motion.
- Green mean growth. We’ll look to assist in in the growth of your business – the objective is to add significant value to any enterprise.
John Sandford – Principal
Objective:
My primary objective is to add significant value to any enterprise with which I’m involved across all enterprise spectra; financial, economic, cultural, environmental and social.
Profile:
A Chartered Member of the Institute of Directors of NZ, (CMInstD) and a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Management, (FNZIM), I am also a graduate of the Executive Development Programme – Stanford University, CA, USA.
- john@sandford.solutions
- +64 21 926 942
Support Advisors
Sandford.Solutions provides all-of-enterprise solutions at a strategic level helping owners and senior management create sustainably successful enterprises.
From time-to-time when enterprises don’t have access to their own specialist advisors or consultants, Sandford.Solutions provides access to the services of pre-qualified, highly reputable and capable specialist consultants. Sandford.Solutions has a range of qualified and trusted experts to call on for clients who have deeper more tactical requirements in the realms of;
People
- Individual management
- Organisational structure
- Team performance
- Customer service and sales
Financial
- Finance
- Accounting
- Systems and processes
Global Trading
- International trade
- Importing
- International sales
- Exporting
Property
- Real estate
- Property development
- Management
- Leasing
- Acquisition and sale
Manufacturing
- Engineering
- Industrial design
- Production
Consultant or Advisor? There is a difference.
Sandford.Solutions is an advisory practice. Where there’s a necessity, we bring in consultants to work in specific sections of an enterprise.
Here is clarification of the differences between advisors and consultants:
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ADVISOR |
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Call on consultants when you have a clear cut problem in need of solution. |
The job of the advisor is to serve as an impartial sounding board, a sparring partner to help test ideas and then identify the pros and cons of proposed courses of action. |
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Consultants are solvers of specific problems. |
Good advisors, provide their clients with new and often broader perspectives. Advisors are better problem-definers than solvers. At their best, they contribute to strengthening their clients’ capacity to solve their own problems. |
Advisors can provide an early-warning about emerging problems, signals often missed by a consultant’s sharp focus on eliminating the problem at hand.
Advisors and consultants carry out two very different roles. It’s hard for one person – or firm – to act well in both capacities at the same time. Sandford.Solutions works from an advisory standpoint.