Business Advisory Services

Uncertainty poses risks. Apista's experience in risk management can help your business or organisation to build resilience and unlock the opportunities that will come from understanding and managing your unique risk environment. We help to build a positive risk culture where staff at every level appropriately manage risk as an intrinsic part of their day-to-day work. 

Our risk management services include:

• Enterprise risk management
• Operational risk
• Compliance risk
• Regulatory risk
• Business continuity preparedness and resilience
• Developing a positive risk culture

A well-thought-out business plan will be central to how you start, grow and develop your business. It helps you to step back and think objectively about the key elements of your business and informs your  decision making as you move forward.

However there is no one size fits all approach to developing a business plan. That's where we come in. Apista can provide you with the support, advice and tools to develop a right-sized business plan for your new or existing business.

Policies and procedures are guidelines that help shape company culture and employee behaviour. They are important in the workplace because they set the tone for how processes and activities are conducted in an organisation.

Policy and procedure implementation is not a set and forget exercise. As well as ensuring that you get them right for your business at the outset, they require regular review and maintenance to remain effective into the future. 

Talk to us about how we can assist your business to develop and maintain a policy and procedure environment that promotes positive culture and conduct within your organisation. 

• Do you have plans, or appetite, to grow your business?
• Do you have planned, or are currently carrying out, substantive structural or directional changes?
• Do you have a need to lift awareness, or embed consistency, of your strategy?
• Do you have a need to establish or clarify the role or performance expectations of the governance or oversight mechanisms in your organisation?

If any of the above questions apply to you, then Apista may be able to offer the support and tools your business or organisation needs to assess options and to design strategies which improve value. 

Creating sustainable value requires a disciplined focus on the key drivers of value - clarity about the  organisation's direction, outstanding people, operations and systems,  and in delivering desired outcomes. This must be coupled with effective governance and improved managerial decision-making by assessing risk and providing effective internal assurance.

Apista has the expertise to support small and medium-sized businesses and organisations to create strategic opportunities and effective governance by:

• Streamlining operations to be more cost effective and efficient at delivering outputs to customers
• Changing business/organisational models to adapt to external needs, or changes in direction
• Structuring board processes and conduct to ensure the right talent is selected and developed
• Crafting and executing business strategy in line with the strategic intention
• Examining organic and inorganic growth options and providing management with recommendations for sustainable growth
• Reviewing board management and accountabilities and how to measure and reward performance
• Evaluating underperforming portfolios and strategies to address these.