Starting up a new business is an exciting but demanding experience, whether the venture is part of a large corporate group or a new independent business.

The former has the advantage of being able to draw upon existing resources and experience from within the wider corporation. Sometimes however, there can be disadvantages too. The things that work for the mature corporation including the provision of HR services may not work so well for the new business; they may be too slow; too cumbersome; too risk averse and lacking in entrepreneurial flair.

Of course, whilst the requirements of setting up a new business from scratch may be very similar, the appropriate means of doing so may need to be very different. Independent start ups will not by definition have access to corporate services, or procedural or process templates.

From an HR perspective business start-ups will therefore need particular help with at least some, if not all of the matters shown in this table.

Our track record

1994 - set up from scratch new HR Department to service growing retail business; this included carrying out work under all the above headings

1995 - provision of HR services to new Gas Retailing and IT Services businesses

1996 - Provision of all the above HR Services (except Payroll) in support of establishing a new Customer Services function on a green-field site

2006 - Supporting the establishment of a start-up supplier qualification business for the rail industry

2009 - Provision of advice to a SME start-up in the semi-conductor industry.