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Who We Are
Strategic Management Partners is an independent consultancy. We provide strategic planning advice, training, coaching and support to organisations both large and small, across a wide range of sectors. We are based in South East England and provide services to an international client base.
We are certified by accredited professional bodies to advise on:
- The Business Excellence Model
- The Strategic Balanced Scorecard
- Coaching and mentoring
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Innovation
We have active membership of:
- The Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
- The European Mentoring and Coaching Council
- The Institute of Management Consultancy
- The Institute of Personnel and Development
- The Institute for Global Ethics
These provide access to current best practice across a wide range of sectors for research, design, manufacturing, marketing, sales and customer service.
Founded in 1989, Strategic Management Partners operates as a consortium of professionally qualified and highly experienced business managers. We are supported by innovative specialist experts, selected per project. This allows us to offer a wide choice of services so clients can avoid the problems of multiple supply sources. It also reduces costs since consultants are not an ongoing fixed overhead, which means clients pay only if and when they are contracted for delivery on site.
Clive Bonny
Our founder and principal consultant is Clive Bonny. He has over 25 years commercial experience in delivering bottom line benefits for client teams from the MD to the receptionist. Ten years advisory experience for Investors in People has produced many national award winning projects and he has delivered over 50 government funded business growth schemes for small to medium sized businesses through enterprise support programmes.
A recent short project brought the client a 40% increase in turnover and 100 new customers per month. SMP's associates are qualified and experienced advisors.
Clive is a founder of a not-for-profit Innovation Forum and delivers consultancy funded by government bodies to bring innovative products and services to market. Previous roles have included Director of a risk management company, Chairman of a national business consortium, and Course Director for the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
His business research on best practice has been published by The Economist and endorsed by industry leaders including the Director General of the Institute of Directors, Chairman of Investors in People and Sir John Harvey-Jones, past Chairman of ICI.
Clive's Business Writing and Salesperson's pocketbooks, pictured here, can be purchased online from Management Pocketbooks.
Clive has delivered Alliance Partnering programmes for the Institute of Management and his alliance partners include:
- Advanced Media Associates
- Benchmarking Networks linking businesses for Best Practice
- The Institute for Global Ethics advising on Ethical Fitness at www.globalethics.org.uk
- The Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce as a Fellow
- Enterprise Networks as developers of Showcase innovations.
He has supported the national launch of the Wellness At Work toolkit which helps organisations reduce their exposure to workplace risks, and promotes employee health and motivation.
Clive has a particular interest in:
- New product and service development
- Finding funding for high growth organisations
- Managing risk and sustaining reputation