Strategic Change

With in the Strategic Change practices we have three core areas where we support our clients to improve their business performance. We have particular experience strategic planning supported by financial value modeling to resolve shareholder value questions and strategy implementation to realize modeled value targets; we call this Value Based Management. We also have experience in redesigning and implementation of industry 'best practice' organizational structures and processes to support operational excellence, supply chain and maintenance planning processes. Apart from these two distinctive areas our Advisory Service department has also the expertise to manage radical change programs, such as Business-turn-around.

Corporate strategy

With in the corporate strategy expertise we help organizations to understand: What business they should be in? How should it coordinate activities across the business? What role should the corporate office play? How should the corporation measure and control performance? And how to put this strategy to action? Our support has benefited many small and large businesses to improve their proposition to their customers, increase there competitiveness in the market, run their business more effectively, and accelerate their profitable growth areas to ultimately improve shareholders value. Apart from our portfolio companies we have experience working with large multinationals such as, Rouch, British Airways, TPG, DSM and AKZO.

Organizational and process redesign

Within the Organizational and process redesign expertise we help organiszations to understand: Which people are responsible for the various roles in the business? What is the Delegation of authority and who will report to whom, what and when? What are the required behaviors, skills and characteristics that the people working within the business should display and have? How does this process run most effectively? What key Performance Indicators are used to manage and measure the performance? And what Decision-making & Information systems are required to support this? With the aim to operate the organization more effectively at a lower cost to grow operating margin, and ultimately improve shareholders value. Apart from our portfolio companies we have experience working with large multinationals such as, St Gobain, Diago, DSM High Performing Fibers and ProRail.

Business turn-around

Within the Business turn around expertise we support organizations to understand: Which product/service are the most profitable? (Regardless your core business or what they thought it was) Which mangers or sales managers that are not generating any profitable sales? (And make a limited impact of the day-to-day management of the business) Which expenses are NOT contributing to our profitability or our customers delight today? What marketing campaigns have worked in the past? (And likely work again) What part of our business can we be best in from tomorrow onwards? With the unprecedented objective to turn the red figure back to black figures and push profitable growth harder then ever.

Members of the Battersea-park's Advisory Service team have recently supported DSM in their efforts to turn their 42mln annual lose making business division DSM Elastomers around to a 6mln annual profit, over a period of fourteen months.

If you want to understand more of these Strategic change expertise or like to speak to one of our professionals regarding a particular business issue you have, realize it Your Turn to contact us.