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Building Better Businesses

Building Better Businesses is Alcea’s new annual research initiative, launching in 2027. It’s a clear-eyed look at how UK  businesses are really navigating growth, restructuring and transformation and the current challenges and opportunities facing all organisations and businesses. 

This is all about hearing experiences and insights about business from businesses operating across the UK today. 

Building better businesses
01 - Building better businesses 2027

Our work in action

Every year, we talk to Boards, leaders and teams who are trying to solve the same set of problems, where operational pressure is building, what’s slowing growth down, and how to introduce change that actually sticks.

Building Better Businesses is our answer to a question we kept hearing: What does good actually look like, and how do we compare?

It’s a proprietary research initiative from Alcea, built directly from the experience of real businesses navigating growth, restructuring and transformation, not theory, not hype, just real-life insights.

We are in the process of developing our first insights report. 2027 marks our inaugural year the first in what will become an annual benchmark. Each year’s report will build on the last, so the businesses who get involved now are shaping the foundation for every edition that follows.

02 - testimonials

We work hard to ensure we deliver value to our clients, hear from some of our happy customers.

“Consulting to explore the best AI-powered tools to help WebHQ consistently hit our KPIs. The onboarding process was incredibly simple, thanks to the easy-to-follow briefing form. After filling it out Ellen provided a detailed report with a wealth of recommendations. Her thorough research and personalised recommendations were invaluable. I highly recommend her services to all business looking to improve processes through AI-powered tools.”
- Daniel,
WebHQ
“We’d been investigating AI and project management tools for a while and hadn’t come up with anything that suits our business needs, so Alcea Consulting helped us identify the problem and the issue with the current approaches. They went away and researched tools and came back to us with several recommended tools, which we’d not come across ourselves, plus the option to create a bespoke solution that would better suit our needs. We were really pleased with how thorough they were, how easy it was to understand their recommendations, and how quickly they were able to propose solutions to help us move forward. If you’re looking for new AI tools to solve your business problems, we highly recommend working with Alcea Consulting.”
- Ameesha,
The Book Shelf
“I’ve learnt so much from Alcea Consulting! Their knowledge on AI tools has opened up new opportunities for my business and I can highly recommend their services. Ellen is super friendly, approachable and proactive. She’s passionate to help businesses learn more about the positive effects of AI and that shines through in her approach.”
- Eliza,
Eliza Bradley Social Media
“Thanks for this [the AI report] looks incredible! I’ve never heard of any of these [AI] tools, but they offer so many opportunities. I’m especially interested in those that pull together data on resource and finances easily – this really helps drive the project from a top-down approach. I’m really excited to look into these and see how they can help my business, help me to streamline admin and data tasks which leaves me time to get creative with my people engagement, bringing people on the journey in the best way possible.”
- Stella,
Stellar Consulting Ltd
“Rachel is very enthusiastic in all that she does and finds fun and exciting ways to deliver a curriculum. I found Rachel very approachable.”
- Karen
“Rachel was a fabulous mentor… She gave me the opportunities to try new ideas for myself but also gave me guidance and structure to help me when I needed it. She pointed me in the direction of useful resources to use and strategies to implement… I felt supported, respected and listened to.”
- Claire

From startups to the world’s largest companies

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Would you like to take part in our next report? Contact us today and let’s make it happen.