The genesis for Fernleaf Consulting came during the first COVID lockdown in New Zealand in 2020. It was clear small business across the country struggled to keep their lights on, continue to pay their staff and quite simply, just survive.
As technologists, we wondered how much expenditure was going towards technology, especially technology that either wasn’t used effectively or simply not used at all. How much of this expenditure could be released to be fed back into the business, the continue to pay staff and to keep the business operational?
We setup Fernleaf Consulting to support small to mid-sized business to improve their investment in and use of digital technology.
Drawing from 30+ years’ experience, we work to optimize digital investment and cost savings we find can be invested back in the business.
Many business owners are forced to spend too much time trying to understand digital technology and this takes them away from what is important – building their business.
Fernleaf Consulting is a trusted advisory that can work alongside all areas of the business to ensure you are getting the best return from the use of digital technology.
Our goal is to help our clients invest sustainably to leverage digital technology as an enabler of great things. We firmly believe that data and digital technology should enable, not hinder or worse still, cripple your business or cost you an unnecessary fortune to purchase, run and maintain.
We partner with our clients to provide independent, cost-effective advice on how to best leverage digital solutions to suit their business without imposing unnecessary overhead.
We take a holistic approach to analyzing how people interact with technology, what business and technology processes are in place, the data and technology that is important to you and how it is managed, accessed and leveraged to run your business.
We also look at your existing digital technology investment and determine whether it is being used effectively. We look at training needs to ensure staff have the skills required to use the technology effectively and in line with your policies and procedures.
We also work with our clients to assess and improve existing commercial relationships with digital technology providers. Often these relationships need to be refreshed or reinvigorated to provide better services that align more effectively with the changing nature of your digital technology environment.
We are also able to act as your Digital & IT Manager. By working alongside our clients in this capacity, we can do the day to day management and we can work with you to develop a high level plan of improvement and to plan and manage the execution of that plan.
We can also offer mentoring and leadership services to current teams to help improve process and rigor around change and implementation of your digital technology assets.
Our goal is to help other small business’s flourish and be successful in a supported, managed and sustainable way using fit for purpose, reliable and cost-effective process, digital technology and training.
We offer competitive pricing structure that will suit your needs. We believe in providing right sized pricing that you can afford rather than high end consulting rates.
Digital technology should not be a barrier to getting things done. It should be the enabler of great things!
If you think we can help and you would like to have an obligation free chat about your business and how you could implement digital technology more cost effectively, please get in touch via our Contact page.
