Strategy that survives contact with the business.
We work with boards and leadership teams on direction, priorities and the difficult decisions that follow, then stay close enough to help make the plan happen.
Position
We help leadership teams move from ambiguity to a clear plan, then stay close enough to help make it happen.
What the work covers
Direction
- Business strategy
- Growth strategy
- Strategic planning
- Market and category strategy
- Business model review
- Portfolio strategy
Change
- Transformation programmes
- Business turnaround
- Performance improvement
- Operating model design
- Organisational design
- M&A integration
Leadership support
- Board and leadership support
- Strategic projects
- Programme leadership
Great strategy is useless without execution.
In detail
- Business Strategy
A strategy is only useful if the leadership team can act on it on Monday.
- Business Transformation
When performance has to change materially and quickly, the work is sequenced: stabilise, simplify, rebuild, grow.
- When the board becomes part of the problem.
A struggling business does not always have an operating problem. Sometimes the problem is sitting around the board table.
- Growing fast. Running out of cash.
Revenue is climbing, retailers are ordering and everybody thinks things are going well. The bank balance says otherwise.
Engagement
Discuss the situation.
Most engagements combine two or three capabilities. Describe the business and we will be direct about whether we are the right partner.