Jeremy Old is TBD’s lead coach. His role is to help small to medium sized enterprises transform their productivity and profits. And he does this by applying Team Business Development (TBD) which comprises a set of powerful team planning methods. These methods obtain consistently successful results through a unique blend of team planning protocols, applied psychology and systems thinking, as well as Jeremy’s own infectious enthusiasm for improving everything in a business, everywhere and all at the same time.
During the last twenty-five years Jeremy has built a proven track record with TBD in over sixty SMEs and NGOs and in a variety of different industries. He especially likes using TBD, as it always take the stress out of business transformations and turnarounds. At the same time TBD achieves rapid and lasting results for his clients. Read more about natural business transformation with TBD
TBD stands for Team Business Development. And this means all your people working together as a team towards building a better business. The results from this team based approach to business development can be staggering.
Have a look at our case studies. You will see examples of:
- Profits up by 800%
- Capital value up 500%
- Productivity up by 57%
- Production capacity doubled
- Losses turned around in weeks
- Transformed work cultures.
Did you know that the average UK worker wastes 50% of their time at work? This is not because they are idle or even incompetent but because much of the time ‘the system’ gets in the way of value-added working. So, the role of the coach is to use TBD’s unique team-based planning methods to work on the system with you and your people. And the overarching goal is to redesign the system to make it easier for people to do the right work right.
In this way, TBD gets your entire enterprise working as one team towards unified goals. The result is fewer mistakes, less waste, and bottlenecks, the removal of ‘unintended consequences’ and the high energy uptake of new ideas, and improvements. Check out our case studies to learn more.
As a taster of what TBD does, we offer a basic business health check. First off this health check discovers all sorts of hidden problems that are holding you back. But even more important, the health check then gets to the root cause of them. This service is guaranteed to save you thousands.
By the way, we will not take the job on if we don’t think you can make ten times the cost of our fees from potential savings and improvements. Call Jeremy Old on 0845 0945 819 for more information and learn about our money back guarantee.
Read more about our Business Health Check including testimonials and case studies
The art of rapid business transformation
With 70% of major business improvement initiatives failing, is rapid business transformation just a mirage? There is an art to achieving ambitious strategic goals. Toyota calls this open secret ‘Hoshin Kanri’ and they have used it for decades to become global leaders.
The key to Hoshin Kanri’s consistent success, lies in its ability to orchestrate dozens of improvements with overall strategy whilst simultaneously inspiring employee engagement at every level and across the whole organisation; sounds useful? Read more … Or get the full facts: Download our free white paper on Hoshin Kanri.
Our company described in numbers
Business improvement projects
Enterprises helped
Loss making turnarounds
34:1 Average client ROI
Manufacturing & Services industry sectors
Start-ups including R&D projects
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Let’s meet for a chat and establish your areas of growth. We can go through what could benefit your business and how Team Business Development could help you.
The key to higher productivity and organisational success
TBD’s employee engagement programmes are self-funding, as motivated and committed employees can boost productivity by 50% or more. The impact will measurably transform your bottom-line. And we guarantee it.
Hoshin Kanri and the art of business transformation
WARNING If you are contemplating a major change initiative, you need to know that change seldom turns out as planned.
Read our whitepaper and learn about Hoshin Kanri, a simple but holistic approach to business change and transformation, that proves consistently successful in promoting change.
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Testimonials
Clive Elliott, Elliott and Hayward Partnership, agricultural contractors
“… The most exciting thing to have happened since I set up the company… Not only do we now have a much clearer overall direction, but the planning process disciplines us to focus on exactly how we will fulfil our aims."
Ed Taylor, Director
"At the time we really needed help, Jeremy came through and provided invaluable aid restructuring and redirecting the business. He put us back into a healthy profit after a really difficult period when the recession hit us. A year later we are using him again to help refine systems, processes and teamwork"
Jeff Heyes, veteran turnaround specialist in the UK print industry Borcombe Ltd
“TBD has achieved more in three weeks than I normally achieve in six months”.
Jerry Steedman, MD
We have learned a lot from Jeremy’s involvement and now have a clear structure to the way we run improvement projects. TBD has really helped us see the forward strategy, identifying future risks and opportunities in a structured way.
Keith Simpkins FJ Warren
"TBD is the best thing the firm has done for years. It is like a breath of fresh air. We can handle a variety of issues in a fast and practical way without getting bogged down by argument and long-winded discussion. The group planning gives us a much better collective focus on what we have to do next and the simple means to do it as well."
Mandy Williamson, CEO, MIND Exeter
“TBD is just brilliant. The one-day workshop has transformed 100 or so whinges into 14 coherent projects. It has collated, filtered and ordered all the different viewpoints and opinions so that the links have become apparent and we can see where we are and where we need to get to next.”
Marc Allen director Tekne shop fitting Ltd
“Senior managers now make more of a communal effort. We talk a lot more, whereas before we worked in isolation; each doing their own thing, but not really realizing our impact on other departments. Factory workflow is much improved and profitability is up.”
Martin Daniel, production director, BAS Fine Art Printers
“Instead of having departmental rivalry, each department can now see that what they are doing may be causing a problem for other departments. They are now far more supportive of altering their own ways of doing things to assist the needs of other departments.”
Phil Williams, Operations Director, Holloid Plastics Ltd
“The improvement projects set up by the planning team have introduced an array of initiatives including lean manufacturing techniques, such as the 5 ‘S’s, and widespread NVQ training. We are already experiencing reductions in scrap generated and are projecting a 25% savings in the despatch department. Basically the whole place just seems a lot more organised.”