Areas of Practice


Strategy

  • Scenario planning

  • Market analysis

  • Brand development

  • Competitive analysis

  • Alliance & synergies assessment

  • Capability assessment

  • Information strategy

  • Business model design

  • Aligning strategy to investments, management systems & operational planning

  • Transaction modelling & deal support

 

Customers and markets drive business success. Going beyond the obvious to seek new insights, emerging needs, and blue ocean opportunities can create substantial opportunities. Meeting needs with a sustainable business model that leverages assets and working capital provides a successful enterprise for its stakeholders. People underpin the whole. These areas of investigation, guided by standard and proprietary frameworks make for rapid engagement.


Operations

  • Overhead effectiveness

  • Sales effectiveness

  • Rapid operations diagnostic

  • Rapid cost and capital reduction

  • Digital transformation

  • Culture diagnostic and management

  • Strategic sourcing

  • Supply chain optimisation

  • Working capital optimisation

  • Operating model design

 

Leverage of current assets and market positions plus transformative thinking and investment enables business strategy at pace. Drawing from client team insights and best practices, enterprise change plans come to life with prioritised interventions and agreed cadence. Starting with human resources as a critical asset, diagnostics include information systems and analytics, other soft assets like culture, IP, brands and channels, physical assets and their value contribution, and working capital assets.


Implementation and Project Management

  • Program management office

  • Change management

  • Culture diagnostic

  • Post merger integration

 

Change management respects the strategic case, agreed operating model and budget, but with a focus on the organisation buy-in and renewal needs to achieve objectives sustainably and on time. Involving people in the change to their enterprise and the purpose of their working life leads to exceptional results.


Commercial Due Diligence

  • Market assessment

  • Revenue quality assessment

  • Competitive analysis

  • Cost and capital assessment

  • Capability assessment

  • Business model development

  • Transaction modelling

 

Total available market - volume, share, net pricing, given the business and competitive environment helps determine the possible top line. A business model for sustainable competitive position, including building capability while competitors react underpins the view of sustainability of the business.


Management Operating Systems

  • Value driver trees

  • KPI development

  • MOS process diagnostic

  • MOS process design & implementation

  • Change management

 

MOS well designed and executed empowers all levels of the enterprise to make a positive impact. Rapid diagnostic and team-based implementation techniques create near-term and lasting results.


Executive Coaching

  • Nature of leadership

  • Decisions and actions

  • Role of emotions and reason

  • Self improvement

  • Operating in a leadership group

 

Coaching focus is on developing leadership with an emphasis on “leading through emotion”. This is applicable to all levels of the organisation and includes individuals as well as leadership groups.