Examples of engagements
Decision description:
How do we out-grow the competition to become a top 10 player within 5 years?
Sector:
Financial services: fund management
Complexity:
Highly complex product offering in competitive market dominated by a small number of players.
Decision description:
Should we, and can we, convert a manufacturing organisation in the small arms industry into a company that sells commercial products?
Sector:
Manufacturing
Complexity:
Gaining an understanding of the core competencies of the business and how they might be leveraged to develop and produce other products.
Decision description:
Which outsourcing partner do we select to manage our parking service?
Sector:
Public – parking services
Complexity:
The short-list of possible partners each had a substantially different product offering that made comparison difficult – all within a highly regulated EU selection process.
Decision description:
How does our decision making process compare to best practices and what needs to be done to optimise it?
Sector:
Cases in a variety of sectors.
Complexity:
Some organisations lack the “organisational maturity” to admit their strategic decision making processes may be less than perfect and find it difficult to open up past decisions to the scrutiny of an independent adviser.
Decision description:
A dominant government appears to be on the verge of failing. What (if anything) can be done now, to prepare for the necessary re-building of the economy that has been damaged by years of corruption?
Sector:
Public – finance
Complexity:
No clear timing to the possible fall of government and limited influence of those “waiting-in-the-wings”.
Decision description:
How may we reduce budget-levels yet maintain high quality services?
Sector:
Public: social care
Complexity:
Several years of cost-reduction had already scaled down the budget substantially. A further 10% reduction was required with no, or limited, reduction in services allowed.
Decision description:
Should we attempt to use a bancassurance model that has been successful in a different region in our own country (which has a substantially different style of banking)?
Sector:
Financial services – banking and insurance
Complexity
To what extent would the bancassurance model need to be adapted to the new geography and what would be the customer reaction.