Owners
The need
You're juggling strategy, operations and sales, with no senior peer to pressure-test the big decisions.
The outcome
A fractional strategic partner in your corner, on tap, at a fraction of the cost of a full-time hire.
Fractional Business Strategy: Diagnosis to Delivery
Structured, outcome-led strategy for B2B SMEs
For owners, CEOs, managing directors and investors navigating consequential change.
Who we help
Who we help, and what changes
CEOs
The need
Internal strategy capability exists, but it's rarely independent. Decisions get shaped by politics, hierarchy, or blind spots.
The outcome
An outside, senior perspective that stress-tests your thinking objectively & a fresh insight.
MDs
The need
Growth, restructuring, and succession moments rarely line up with the budget for a permanent strategy hire.
The outcome
Senior strategic input that scales up or down with the business, plus a wider specialist network to call on as needs evolve.
Investors
The need
Portfolio companies suffer time critical capability gaps to deliver strategies.
The outcome
Fractional, de-risked strategic support with built-in redundancy and access to a wider network of vetted specialists, rather than a single point of failure.
The Nistalco method
Diagnosis to delivery
Focused projects or an ongoing fractional partnership, shaped around the support your business needs.
01
Diagnose
Understand the health of your strategy & the critical levers to deliver
02
Direct
Choose your markets, partners and a proposition that wins on value.
03
Deliver
Align your organisation and commercial team to deliver the strategy.
04
Sustain
Keep the strategy owned, reviewed and acted on.
Track record
Results, not reports
Energy-services SME
Advisory board · 5 yrs
The challenge
Reactive, early stage service provider. High service, high growth ambitions but over-stretched.
What we did
Competitive landscaping, value-discipline choice, value selling and key account plans.
The result
3×
revenue growth over five years
Industrial SBU
FTSE 250 materials plc
The challenge
Five years of revenue decline in a mature, cash-generative core.
What we did
Built a new SBU from scratch: market focus, target accounts, new team.
The result
£60M+
revenue, up from £12M at a sustained 10% CAGR
Meet the founder
Steve Dougherty
Commercial and operations leadership. Practical strategy. Delivery that lasts.
An independent senior perspective, with leadership experience across FTSE 250 and Fortune 500 businesses. One strategic partner alongside you throughout.
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