Welcome

This is the official web-site of Genesis Management Consulting Limited.

Our vision, mission, credo … call it what you like is:

Improving lives through better decisions!

This is what we get out of bed for every morning, it drives our activities and is a key element to our value system. Steve Jobs wants to make a dent in the universe – that’s a great rallying call. At Genesis, we believe that every major decision has a “circle of influence” – that is the implications of a decision potentially impact on a great many people directly and indirectly and are far wider than simply the financial impacts. Our aim is to help individuals and organisations improve their decision making and, in so doing, have a positive impact on peoples lives.

The way we do this is two-fold: either working directly with organisations in specific decision making activities or building competencies through lecturing, training and workshops. Both these activities are based on an approach developed through the almost 3 decade experience of Simon Gifford, the founder of this company – and enhanced with research and the latest thinking on decision-making, borrowing from behavioural science and management science.

We happen to be based in Europe and operate out of Spain and the UK – but through travel and harnessing the massive power of the internet, we have broken free of geographical boundaries and are able to operate globally. Further capitalising on the technology, we have a virtual organisation which allows us to tap into the vast expertise and tools of our Associates around the world.

This web-site is aimed at giving you a better idea of what we do and how we do it and also has links to our blog where we publish our research, articles, thought leadership and other useful information around the topic. We really hope that you enjoy surfing around the site a little and would really like to hear from you if you think there may be a way that we are able to help YOU improve peoples lives through better decisions!

 

Cases

Examples of engagements

Decision description:
How do we out-grow the competition to become a top 10 player within 5 years?
Sector:
Financial services: fund management
Complexity:
Highly complex product offering in competitive market dominated by a small number of players.

Decision description:
Should we, and can we, convert a manufacturing organisation in the small arms industry into a company that sells commercial products?
Sector:
Manufacturing
Complexity:
Gaining an understanding of the core competencies of the business and how they might be leveraged to develop and produce other products.

Decision description:
Which outsourcing partner do we select to manage our parking service?
Sector:
Public – parking services
Complexity:
The short-list of possible partners each had a substantially different product offering that made comparison difficult – all within a highly regulated EU selection process.

Decision description:
How does our decision making process compare to best practices and what needs to be done to optimise it?
Sector:
Cases in a variety of sectors.
Complexity:
Some organisations lack the “organisational maturity” to admit their strategic decision making processes may be less than perfect and find it difficult to open up past decisions to the scrutiny of an independent adviser.

Decision description:
A dominant government appears to be on the verge of failing. What (if anything) can be done now, to prepare for the necessary re-building of the economy that has been damaged by years of corruption?
Sector:
Public – finance
Complexity:
No clear timing to the possible fall of government and limited influence of those “waiting-in-the-wings”.

Decision description:
How may we reduce budget-levels yet maintain high quality services?
Sector:
Public: social care
Complexity:
Several years of cost-reduction had already scaled down the budget substantially. A further 10% reduction was required with no, or limited, reduction in services allowed.

Decision description:
Should we attempt to use a bancassurance model that has been successful in a different region in our own country (which has a substantially different style of banking)?
Sector:
Financial services – banking and insurance
Complexity
To what extent would the bancassurance model need to be adapted to the new geography and what would be the customer reaction.

 

Contact

Contact us

Genesis Management Consulting Limited has offices in the UK and Spain but we operate throughout the world – although Europe, UK and South Africa are admittedly our favourites.

Easiest way to contact Genesis, is drop me (Simon) an email at:
sgifford@genesis-esp.com
Or call me at:
UK +44 (0) 7914 622467
Spain +34 607950562
Skype: simongifford
Web-site: www.genesis-esp.com