SME Spotlight: Business systems consultancy drives growth with recruitment and second office launch
A West Yorkshire business systems consultancy has launched a second office and made a senior appointment as it prepares for three-fold growth.
Huddersfield-based All My Systems has recruited business analyst Rob Nightingale. Responsible for devising and configuring process-led technologies for the company’s expanding client base, he will increase capacity in the team as All My Systems prepares for a significant hike in turnover.
The five-strong firm has recorded turnover of £145,000 for the current financial year. The company says early indications show that it is on track to secure £444,000 of work for the 2017-18 period.
The hunt is therefore on for a sixth team member – a second business analyst – to support this next chapter of development, as well as an apprentice.
A second office at The Craggs Country Business Park in Calderdale has also been secured, meaning All My Systems now has a rural base to complement the town centre HQ at the 3M BIC in Huddersfield.
The young micro-company was established in 2014 by IT expert Mark Pullar and offers Microsoft technology and expertise to optimise data and processes that fuel business growth.
A major project last year was a 12-month assignment with KPMG which included the training of 13,000 CRM (Customer Relationship Management) users and the spearheading of a change management programme.
Pullar said: “It’s been a whirlwind time for us, but it feels quite significant that, as we mark three years in business, we’re also projecting three times greater turnover for the next financial year.
“I think the evolution of our company to date is also a result of three key factors. We’ve got a highly specialist team, recruited from the local area, with technical skills that you would normally only find in organisations at least five times our size. We’ve also purposefully designed the business, from the outset, to scale it. This means that as we grow, we become even more productive and efficient than before.
“But, perhaps most importantly, I think there is an appetite among UK businesses, to turn to niche consultancies, such as ours, as they strive to work smarter. Gone are the days of hiring big, multi-disciplined suppliers, purely because of their size. There is a greater tendency to seek out experts – rather than generalists – with a depth of knowledge in their specific field. This has stood us in good stead to expand and is the real reason why our forward order book is strong.”
