Management Consulting
Formulating innovative business strategy and transforming it into measurable performance improvements.
You may be looking to formulate a new business strategy to respond to changes in the marketplace or competitive environment. Perhaps you need to reshape and modernize your finance department, realign your performance management programs, or streamline your operations. Or you may recognize that by taking a deep dive into your business model, you may identify opportunities to improve returns on existing assets. Whatever your specific need is, we are here to help. Together, we can do it.
Financial Management
Is your capital structure optimal? Which of your assets are generating the most economic profit? Are you actively managing working capital? What is your cash cycle? How do you benchmark against leaders in your industry?
Sound financial management function is the cornerstone of excellence in any successful company. Our practitioners can help you to answer the above and many other questions. They will work with you to align financial policies and processes with your stakeholders' values - strategic, social, and cultural.
We can help your finance department to evolve into a modern, value creating function. First, we transform it into a powerful performance management ally. Then, we promote it into a key tool for driving decisions on capital and resource allocation, growth strategy, and marketing. Finally we use it to strategically establish target capital structures and value-maximizing operational and financial leverages.
Strategy
You witness changes in the competitive landscape that are becoming more intense and less forgiving than ever before. Your competitors are getting faster and smarter. Your customers are getting faster and smarter. Are you?
We work with your team to:
- Build strategy focused on sustainable shareholder value creation
- Utilize a structured analytical framework to assess where you are and where you could be
- Help you fully leverage existing resources, and identify core competences you need to develop to better support long-term goals
Once a clear strategy is formulated, we examine and help you refine your policies, functions, and organizational structure to reinforce the overarching strategy.
Operations
Think of your operations as a strategic competence - an asset that you can leverage to increase competitiveness, rather than simply a cost that you need to manage. Our associates bring a proven framework that helps you transform corporate strategy into efficient, reinforcing operations, and:
- Identify cost cutting measures without compromising the company's future business viability
- Improve bottom-line results with lean processes that reinforce your long-term goals
- Optimize your supply chain
- Improve returns on your assets and invested capital with efficiency and optimal operational leverage
Program & Project Management
We understand that one of the key components in cultivating growth and achieving success is the efficient and profitable deployment of firm resources. Our Program and Project Management methodologies are designed to help our clients select, manage and align their portfolios to their strategic goals, ensuring that every activity in the organization is directly tied to increasing value for shareholders.
Through our experienced and certified group of professionals we are poised to help our clientele:
- Perform assessments and rapid recovery of troubled projects
- Establish a PMO (Program/Project Management Office)
- Establish Project Portfolio Management practices
- Plan and execute specific projects
Contact Us
311 N. Aberdeen St., 200C
Chicago, IL 60607
(+1) 312.878.7383 Phone
(+1) 312.878.7385 Fax
Financial Intelligence
Study after study has demonstrated that employees at all organizational levels perform better when they increase their understanding of key financial performance drivers, and how such drivers contribute to the bottom line. Not only did employees become more focused and involved, but also demonstrated measurable performance improvements and frequently contributed with great profit-increasing ideas.
Our team can help you to establish a stimulating performance management processes aligned with your strategic goals and supported by your operations, financial policies, and corporate structure.
Integrated Marketing
Most of the time when you approach a market opportunity, it becomes painfully clear that others are approaching it too. Our team can help you to position your firm effectively, to generate a differentiating message, and to select the right channels.
Companies that grow sustainably are not only good in their core businesses – they also innovate and create the markets instead of chasing them. They weed out bad customers from good ones. They integrate brand management into their structure and operations. And they do it with limited resources on hand. Our associates have helped numerous companies achieve measurable improvements. Be one of them.