STRATEGY

Assessing market potential and identifying the most suitable strategic options requires gathering and analysing a huge amount of data. External support can be extremely helpful: to give access to competitor benchmark indicators; to size the market; to identify trends through interviews with customers, competitors, suppliers and industry experts.

Company leaders often feel alone when they have to make touch strategic decisions. We act as a sparing partner, helping clients make the right choices by being an independent, external, expert and fact-based advisor.

OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY

The company’s strategic vision, financial and operational targets and performance measurements should be embedded in the company’s day to day operations. Often however, strategy is not aligned with operations.

Lack of initial investment for achieving sustainable costs reduction and operational improvement is also a common mistake made by companies. We believe that finding the right levers to reduce employee or procurement costs without damaging business performance requires deep and fact-based analyses. Simply freezing budgets and salaries, or cutting staff homogenously across the entire organisation destructs value in the mid to long term.

Our external support enables you to identify areas with the highest improvement potential, set realistic targets and get managers committed to those targets. We use deep client data and external benchmark analyses as well as independent reviews from our pool of sharp managers for this kind of projects.

MODELLING & ANALYTICS

The (exponentially) greater availability data and growing processing power are opening amazing new opportunities for Financial Institutions to make strategic decisions based on big data and improve daily activities.

Data analytics is a very powerful tool that is reshaping the consulting industry by making some historical approaches obsolete. Used appropriately, it also increasing the impact consultants can have on their clients’ businesses.

We have with our partners a dedicated team of modelling specialists who have mastered the latest technologies and who have developed proprietary algorithms that can be leveraged on various projects.

FINANCE, RISK & REGULATION

We believe that a greater convergence and integration of the Risk and Finance functions is inescapable for Financial Institutions to effectively (and at a limited cost) satisfy growing regulatory and compliance requirements.

From a regulatory perspective, Financial Institutions should permanently struggle to anticipate future constraints and requirements rather than launching projects lately which increases the level of risk and total investment.

Our clients leverage our regulatory monitoring, our access to international regulations benchmark and our detailed understanding of the Risk and Finance functions to optimise their regulatory book of work.