Advisory delivered by the people you were sold
Harrowfield Co works with mid-market and owner-managed organizations across Southern California on strategy, operations and commercial decisions.
Strategy and Planning
Where the business should focus and what it should stop doing, sequenced against the capacity to actually execute it rather than presented as a list.
- Named senior hours committed
- Sequenced to real capacity
- Stop-doing list included
- Documented for your team
Operating Model Review
How work actually moves through the organization, observed rather than described in workshops, with the gap between the two reported plainly.
- Observed, not workshopped
- Gap to stated process reported
- Costed remediation options
- No mandatory follow-on work
Commercial Due Diligence
Assessment of a market, a target or a major commitment, reported to you unedited including the findings that argue against proceeding.
- Findings reported unedited
- Walk-away advice given
- Fixed fee, not contingent
- Model handed over to you
Performance Improvement
Margin, pricing and cost work with the baseline measured before anything changes, so the result can be assessed rather than claimed.
- Baseline measured first
- Same method used after
- Claimed savings reconciled
- Finance sign-off sought
Interim Advisory
Short senior engagements for a specific decision, priced by the named individual and capped in hours so the scope cannot quietly expand.
- Named individual only
- Hours capped in writing
- No scope creep billing
- Weekly hour statements
Board and Executive Support
Preparation and challenge for boards and leadership teams, including asking the question the room has been avoiding.
- Independent of management
- Written before the meeting
- Dissenting view recorded
- Confidential to the board
What sits inside a fee
Named hours by individual, at each person's rate, so you can see exactly what seniority you are buying rather than a blended figure.
Research and analysis time, separated from meeting and presentation time, because the ratio between them tells you what kind of engagement you are actually purchasing.
Your own team's time, estimated honestly. Engagements stall waiting on internal input more often than on anything we do.
Documentation and handover, included rather than quoted as an extra, since work your team cannot continue is not finished.
Ask who will actually do the work
If the answer is not a list of names with hours beside them, that is worth establishing before you sign anything, with us or with anybody else.
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