Strategy & Operations Consulting

“When the world changes, we need to change our mental models. We have to rethink marketing (and buisness) if we are to be relevant to the challenges of this transformed world and produce rigorous solutions to address these challenges.”

Yoram Wind

Practical Breakthrough Strategy and Operations Consulting

We specialise in strategy and operations consulting for small and medium businesses internationally in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. We work with ambitious leaders, entrepreneurs and teams who want to achieve breakthrough growth and performance improvement.

We take out the hype and jargon from the latest insights and best-practices in management consulting and focus on adapting the most practical and high-returns potential management and leadership concepts, analytical models and implementation methodologies to your particular situation.

We can do this thanks to our extensive and transformational industry experience we acquired across both start-up and large multi-national corporations environment.

All our activities are underpinned by our core management beliefs of what constitute sound foundations for businesses that have the ambition to grow and compete without boundaries. These business principles are shown in the diagram on the right.

We do not work on strategy and operations in isolation but we integrate the two to achieve a successful strategy execution. And we focus relentlessly on the human side of change because it is the hardest to move in the desired direction and at the desired speed that is necessary to achieve a successful transformation and build a competitive advantage.

Strategy and Operations Consulting Overview

Our Value Proposition

We have the right skills and experience to help you succeed on your transformational journey, and the determination to do everything possible to exceed your expectations. We help establish open and effective horizontal and vertical communication to produce a vision and a strategy that everyone understands and is enthused about as shown in the diagram on the right. So everyone in the organisation takes ownership and drives initiatives towards the successful execution of the strategy, ultimately minimising risks and maximising the rewards for all stakeholder groups.

In our VUCA world characterised by volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity, for businesses to remain relevant and create value and wealth for both stakeholders and the society, they need to be agile and strategize, innovate, and execute better than competitors.

We offer both local and global insights, extensive international industry experience, and a rich network of executives and academia to help you achieve tangible improvements to your company’s results and competitive position in the long-term.

We focus on adapting to your particular needs and work collaborating very effectively with all key stakeholders to help you identify gaps and build real strengths across the following dimensions.

Creative strategic thinking capabilities supported by rigorous world-class Total Strategy and Scenario Planning frameworks to identify significant new sustainable profitable growth opportunities and allocate the right resources to the right activities at the right time.
Disruptive innovation to create new business models, new products and services offerings and new markets supported by world class marketing capabilities that take full advantage of the insights of Big Data and Analytics.
“Light Footprint” strategies to continuously adapt to the fast-changing global context and compete effectively.
High Performance Leadership and Cultures to engage, motivate and align the company’s human capital to produce above industry average growth and returns on invested capital.
World-class Change Management and Business Execution capabilities to embed strategy in day-to-day operations.
Operations that embrace the Lean Start-up model and develop significant performance improvement tactical abilities to identify new ways of doing things to create more value with less resources.

Companies that develop strengths in all these areas not only they succeed in creating wealth for their shareholders but they are able to disrupt the global economy and society to make people’s lives better and the future brighter. They produce a tangible net positive impact.

Our approach?

We follow a systematic holistic and practical consulting approach to help your team build an agile businesses. We absorb what your business is about, how it works and how it’s performing. We strive to exceed our customers’ expectations by rigorously deploying the six phases framework described below:

Develop the Strategy – Define exactly what business and markets you want to be in, and how best to compete. Identify the strategic gap, develop and select options.

Translate the Strategy – Translate and breakdown the strategy into projects and initiative with clearly defined objectives, measures, targets, and resource allocation.

Align the Organization – Adapt the organisational structure, operating model, incentive plans, and governance model to best support the execution of the strategy. Cascade strategy maps and balanced scorecards. Align everyone and enable collaboration.

Plan Operations – Integrate long-term strategy with day-to-day operations. Implement world-class management practices and business processes. Adapt them to the particular problems at hand. Deploy world-class rolling forecasting, dynamic budgeting, activity-based costing, quality systems, risk management, and change management best practices.

Engagement Process

Why work with us?

Our sharp attention to details enables us to understand every aspects your organization that drive innovation, collaboration, efficiency, growth and profitability.
Our work is firmly grounded in a deep business acumen, a broad managerial experience and a thorough understanding of managerial economics and quantitative methods.
We offer an independent, comprehensive and objective interpretation of what the global economic, political, social and technological trends and future outlook applied to your company’s particular context.
We produce in-depth industry and market insights, developed through gathering the latest research from world renowned academia and consulting firms and organising it into actionable high returns strategies and practical analytical and operating models.
Real world world-class management and operational experience across several industries with a relentless attention to details that makes a difference between successful and mediocre strategy formulation and business execution.
We apply a set of proven frameworks for analysis and innovation to assist leaders at all levels to formulate successful department, business unit or corporate strategies aimed at establishing sustainable competitive positions.
You will be able to leverage our rigorous data-driven approach. We uses a number of hands-on tools and methodologies that can be adapted by strategic managers to their particular situation in all areas of your business. These tools are important for gaining short- to medium-term competitive advantages, particularly when long term sustainable competitive positions are difficult to create.

We work for your future.