Welcome to james&shanon

Welcome to the james&shanon webpage – a portal through which to gain an understanding of what james&shanon do, and why it is regarded as one of New Zealand’s leading agents for revenue expansion and growth.

james&shanon prefer a personal approach to business, and as such have an affinity for talking to people. For this reason the james&shanon webpage is developed to provide a basic overview rather than the endless rambling pages of unnecessary information.

Please contact either of the Directors, James Robson or Shanon Grainger personally if you would like to explore or discuss any ideas you have – we really do enjoy talking about ideas, challenges and opportunities!

james&shanon in a couple of sentences:

james&shanon:

• Find ways and means to strategically (meaning: building something that is valuable in both the short and long terms - not just a ‘quick fix’) expand an organisation’s revenues.
• Work with the organisation to ensure that strategies are executed effectively and that definite organisation-changing successes are delivered.

james&shanon in more detail:

The success of james&shanon, and more importantly, their client successes, have and will continue to flourish on the back of a few basic tenants. These tenants, when read in order, also explain in general terms what james&shanon do.

The tenants include:

1. An organisation-wide view that the creation and delivery of customer-value should provide the focus and yardstick for everything the organisation does. The only way an organisation can achieve sustained success is by making customer-value-creation its infinite reason for being.
2. Successful organisations, be they large multi-national corporations, or small ‘one-man’ owner-operators, are those who continually look at ideas, opportunities and challenges from a customer-value perspective.
3. Most organisations do not apply the above idea to its full extent. Many organisations apply parts of it to certain elements of what they do, but seldom do they apply it to everything they do.
4. Because the vast majority of companies fail to place customer-value-creation at the centre of everything they do, their ability to develop robust strategies to both expand their revenues, and grow their organisation’s, are severely compromised – resulting in underachievement at one end of the spectrum, and outright failure at the other.
5. Calculated customer-value centred strategy development combined with thorough execution and delivery is the key to creating “CELEBRATED SUCCESS”. Neither strategy (the WHAT?), nor delivery (the HOW!), can function effectively without the other – they are completely interdependent.

james&shanon from a traditional business perspective:

• strategic marketing (and delivery)
• corporate and business strategy (and delivery)
• business innovation (and delivery)
• strategic planning (and delivery)
• growth strategy (and delivery)
• market strategy (and delivery)

Who we work with:

james&shanon work with companies across a wide spectrum of business, from large companies exporting numerous products and services to global markets across Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, to companies focused on ‘domestic domination’, to smaller business with new and highly innovative ideas that are creating something very special and have their sights set on great things.

Despite the breadth and scope of client relationships, there are a few ‘absolutes’ common to each, namely; an absolute desire to achieve success and to build something bigger and better – to give themselves the absolute best shot of success, and an absolute commitment to make it happen.

james&shanon also has a rather unusual rule, at least by conventional industry standards. Over the years the Company has adopted the stance of not working with ‘robotic’ emotionless companies. We believe business should be fun, and that over-the-top formality and so-called ‘corporate behaviour’ stifles success. James&Shanon promotes a relaxed but extremely professional work ethic, and believe that the process of achieving success is as important as the success itself.