About us

Northern Strategy and Operations is a young, dynamic organisation with a wealth of experience in researching, reviewing, analysing and improving business. It was created my Mike Cline-Hughes to deliver high quality service to clients in all sectors, linking the profit motive with the not-for-profit ethos.

Our reports are straight to the point and easy to read. We have high academic standards and our research will be careful, thorough and referenced, but we will always cut to the chase and summarise the improtant bits so you get the information that need to move your business forward.

We provide an integrated portfolio of services that can be tailored to your needs, helping organisations to develop with bespoke solutions. Working with associates who have specialist skills including marketing, retail, psychosometric testing and common sense we can ensure you have all the skills you require in one place.

By working with organisations and understanding your ethos we can much more easily ensure that our work delivers what you want and in a way that works with the organisation rather than a one size fits all solution.

We cut our teeth in both the not-for-profit and the commercial world. Managing Museums, heritage sites and visitor attractions as well as multimillion pound turnover high street stores, not forgetting academic research. We blend all our inlfuences together and offer you the outcome. We are a learning organisation that not only gives high quality results, but also learns something from each client and that too becomes part of our data bank for the future.

If you were to ask what is the most important aspect of what we do it is undoubtedly to make a difference to the world by improving other peoples lives. It's rarely easy and there can be individuals that find it difficult to see the bigger picture positives when they themselves are adversely affected, but overall we work to improve the picture.

Mike Cline-Hughes

Managing Director