Management Consulting
The Oxley Group is a full service management consulting firm addressing the needs of small and mid-sized businesses. With our innovative solutions, we can help businesses boost productivity, reduce waste, and increase profitability.
Our Services
The Oxley Group's business consulting services span a broad spectrum of business disciplines. Our work is custom designed to achieve the specific goals of our individual clients. All of our projects focus on productivity and profit improvement. We install practical, effective management controls designed to help our management consulting clients meet their business objectives. Our projects typically focus on planning (both strategic and tactical), as well as succession planning -- particularly for closely held businesses. While our work often focuses on specific areas such as marketing, sales, bidding and estimating, production, financial reporting, cost controls, purchasing and inventory controls, we also provide services in many other management facets.
Business Consulting Services Include
- Human Capital Management:
We help business owner’s work with their workers, supervisors and managers to ensure that your company's employees, personnel policies and procedures keep you as successful as possible.
- Value Management Solutions:
We also focus on determining if the company is on track to reach its exit goal.
We examine your sales, expenses and systems that affect the bottom line.
- Customer Relations Management:
We analyze your company's relationship with its customers - the source of sales.
- Operations Effectiveness:
We study your office and production *procedures that affect efficient workflow.
We ensure you meet and exceed customers' demands, factoring in expectations, needs, costs and deadlines.
We make sure your business is using modern technology to the best advantage, including computers, telecommunications and the Internet.
Our Clients
Our clients span the broadest possible spectrum. They range in size from Sole-Proprietors to family-operated enterprises, employing a handful of workers to Companies employing hundreds. They are in businesses as diverse as industry itself, over 3,000 different classifications. They are located in virtually every corner of Northern Virginia as well as Washington, DC and Western Maryland.
Who we can help
Each year The Oxley Group provides practical and relevant management solutions to more and more business throughout the DC Metro area. With more than two decades of experience, we've helped many clients in a lot of industries.The Oxley Group's experience ranges from Insurance to Manufacturers, Wholesalers/Distributors and Retailers to Business-to-Business service providers, Food Producers and Health Care providers. Since the company's founding in 2004, we've helped more than 100 businesses in many different categories.The Oxley Group solves problems with customized recommendations and implementations targeted at specific needs - we don't offer cookie-cutter solutions. Our unique process allows business owners to understand the importance of making changes and the success that follows.The Oxley Group begins with a survey of your business. Only after the results are analyzed and the business owner understands and accepts the analysis do we continue. Our consultants will then develop and implement the solutions to make you more successful.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Won't an outsider disrupt my business and workflow? We're too busy to have interruptions.
A: When you are busy is exactly the right time for us to work with you because problems and solutions will be the most revealing to you. This is when you handle the greatest part of your volume and make your profits. It also could well be the time when you experience your greatest losses. Our experience shows that problems become more evident and more advantageously corrected when you are operating at peaks. This is when you may even see your problems, but you are too busy to do much about them.
Q: We have a very unique business, how can you possibly know how we operate to be able to help us?
A: Every company we work for is different. The fact - that every business is different - is what keeps us in business. If everybody was the same you could easily go out and buy standard procedures for operating your business. We are not interested in the technical side of your business. We are only interested in helping you with the invested dollar as it progresses through the business cycle.
Q: Do you have experts in every type of business there is?
A: Our people are experts in evaluating and making recommendations to business practices and procedures. The technicalities of your business are not our interest. You and your people are experts in that area, so you do not need another expert to state what you already know. Instead, what will be most helpful to you is a fresh perspective on your operation from a person who is skilled at providing companies with an outside viewpoint. This is something that many business owners and their employees find very difficult to do with their own company.
Q: Are you going to come into my company and tell me how to run my own business?
A: We don't intend to run your business. We will provide you with the tools to operate your business more effectively. Typically, it is the business side of an operation that needs our help, not the technical areas where our clients are the experts.
Q: Can you give me some references, the names of other companies that you've worked for, so I can contact them.
A: We provide a confidential service for clients. In fact, we sign a confidentiality agreement that we take very seriously. Some business owners do not want it known that they've used a management consulting firm to assist them. We respect their feelings. Some clients, however, allow us to describe our work with them. These descriptions are included on the Web site in the Our Clients section.
Q: We've been in business for years and we know all about our business. How can your consultants help us?
A: You should know your business very well. However, knowing it so well, you may be too close to the forest to see the trees. In other words, can you recognize your problems? What you need is an outside viewpoint from an impartial organization that will look at your company objectively.
Q: Why should I have you look at my company when I'm satisfied with the profit we're making?
A: Complacency has destroyed more prosperous companies than any other business attitude. Very few people are ever truly satisfied with the money they are making or the level of success of their company. And they shouldn't be if they want to continue to be successful. Are all of the departments in your business making money and contributing to the company's success? Would your employees reject an increase in earnings?
Q: How can you help my company when we don't allow outsiders in our plant because of proprietary methods in use.
A: We are not interested in the technical details of your operations. Our services focus on those portions of your business that typically do not include secret processes. In addition, every one of our employees is bonded. Most important, our interest in maintaining our reputation is your best insurance that all confidences will be respected and maintained.
Q: How can you help my company when our prices are based on our competition and there's nothing we can do about it?
A: Your prices may be set by your competition, but your costs are not. By improving your business practices, you have the opportunity to become the competition that your competitors worry about. With better management, you'll be the one establishing the prices in your industry.
Q: My company is relatively small. Will you be able to help a business our size?
A: Every company, no matter what the size, has some problem areas. In any size company, there should be room for practical ideas that improve operations and make the business better.
Q: If my company has its own in-house consulting and troubleshooting staff how will you provide us with anything of greater value?
A: Your consultants are on the company's payroll and controlled by your company's policies and procedures. Because of these factors, internal consultants are likely to be influenced by the very issues that may need changing.
