Business Transformation & Strategy

In today’s world, many businesses are increasingly facing pressures on operational performance and costs. Companies in these situations turn to our experts to help develop and implement strategies that unlock profitability across the enterprise, and to help ensure that they are resilient in the long-term. Our senior practitioners have worked in executive leadership positions in companies across the world and within multiple industries. We bring this experience to evaluate current and planned operational improvement initiatives, resources and capabilities from an impact, timing and achievability perspective.

This customised approach considers the culture, goals and needs of key stakeholders and aligns business operations with these critical operational and financial priorities to deliver company-wide transformation. We unlock profitability by determining the optimal mix of tools, analytics and processes to achieve sustainable impact as well as resilient and efficient operations.

Today organisations must successfully navigate many transformational events, including M&A activities, shifts in strategy, restructurings, transformations and ever evolving ways of working. They must find the right balance between investing in growth, driving an efficient organisational structure and driving continuous improvement while at the same time optimising costs. Processes, structures and people play a critical role in driving the necessary changes and creating value. To achieve the desired outcomes, businesses must consider organisational design, operating models and governance as well as culture shifts, leadership behaviours and talent development efforts. Drawing on our decades of experience across industries and in key geographic market, clients lean on our expertise to assess current and future situations, analyse stakeholder impacts, and use these inputs to develop successful organisational transformation programmes.

Organisations undergoing M&A transactions, carve-outs, mergers and post-merger integration efforts need support that creates value, ensures long-term resilience and mitigates key risk. At many of the world’s top-performing private equity funds and public and private companies, senior executives (heads of corporate development and strategy, chief financial officers, and chief integration officers in charge of a transaction and the requisite integration of corporate entities) rely on our experts for transaction support to complete the deal successfully and efficiently. Clients benefit from the breadth and depth of our service offerings, which support them throughout the entire M&A transaction life cycle, from decision-making and pre-deal efforts through to post-integration.

Chief executive officers are often required to deliver enhanced growth and profitability year after year — and many of them rely on our experts to provide a comprehensive view of the factors that enable their companies to do so. In addition, market, competitive, environmental, social and corporate governance (“ESG”) has become a critical consideration for business leaders, and it is essential that business strategies take into account market and competitive shifts, ESG commitments and changing regulatory requirements. Our advice is grounded in creating long-term sustainable plans, maximising returns on invested capital, and finding the right alignment between revenue growth plans and operational efficiency that, together, deliver profitable growth. Our strategy advisory services help C-level executives and senior leaders identify new business opportunities, review or redefine existing business models, revise go-to-market strategies and value propositions, create sustainable and profitable growth paths for businesses, and understand how technology and digitalisation impact their organisations.

As technology is a key driver of business value and competitive advantage in the digital era, clients across a wide range of industries rely on us to help them develop technology solutions that meet current and future operational demands. Our seasoned digital experts help facilitate your organisation’s digital evolution, safeguard your competitiveness and fuel your growth in an increasingly complex landscape. With a focus on outcomes, we drive value from disruption by combining deep data science capabilities with our wider strategic competencies and sector expertise to solve our clients’ most complex issues and to create and protect value from digital and data. Clients benefit from the strategic and business perspective we bring, as well as our deep expertise and skills in the most advanced areas of technology, including IT modernisation, digital transformation, enterprise data management, robotic process automation, cybersecurity, governance and compliance, and machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Chief Financial Officers (“CFOs”) in every geography and industry are facing increased challenges and demands from boards of directors, stakeholders, and other internal and external sources. To be successful, financial management must deliver on these new demands and drive enterprise value, as well as meet traditional finance responsibilities.

Our dedicated team of cross-border, senior finance professionals provide CFOs and finance leaders with strategy development, performance solutions and operations support. Our solutions focus on delivering impactful results, from strategy and diagnostics to implementation and interim management.

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Effective transformation requires leadership, transparency, clarity and commitment. Anticipating and driving the people side of change are critical to any transformation agenda, whether you’re orchestrating a restructuring, a transaction, a shift in strategy or culture, or any other significant event. Your employees, customers, partners, suppliers, regulators, investors and key stakeholders must understand your strategy and believe in the future you’ve described before they will work meaningfully with you to achieve the desired result.

Our approach is rooted in data. With you, we access and understand essential current perceptions, stakeholder impacts and people processes relevant to your goals. And we use these inputs to design and implement communications, engagement, leader enablement, and learning and mobilization programs that build understanding and enable change from the inside out. By painting a clear picture of the future and being specific about the steps and behaviors that enable our clients’ goals, we inspire commitment, drive productivity, bolster retention and engagement, protect value and enable growth over time.

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