Strategy consulting
We help owners and boards decide where to grow, what to stop, whether to buy, build or partner, and how to pay for the plan.
Our strategy work starts from corporate finance, so each recommendation comes with the model behind it. We gather the evidence, test the options and set out the course we recommend, with the reasoning in full.
A senior member of the team does the work, and we stay involved while the plan is carried out if the client wants us to.
Questions clients bring us
Most engagements begin with one of five questions.
Where should we grow?
Which markets and products to pursue, and how to enter them.
What earns its keep?
Performance by product, site and customer, and what to do about the parts that lag.
Can we fund the plan?
The mix of debt and equity the plan can carry, and when it is needed.
Buy, build or partner?
The options compared on cost, time and risk.
What should the board see?
The analysis a board needs in front of it before it decides.
What we do
- Growth and market entry
- Where to grow and how to enter a new market, tested against demand, competition and cost.
- Business plans and budgets
- Plans, budgets and forecasts tied to a model the board can test and change.
- Market research
- Demand, pricing and competitors, from official data and evidence gathered in the market.
- Performance reviews
- A review of where the business makes and loses money, and a plan to improve it.
- Board papers
- Decision papers that set out the options, the numbers and the risks.
- Outsourced corporate finance
- Modelling, budgeting and reporting for companies without a corporate finance team of their own.
