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Strategic Consulting
In the competitive 21st Century environment, no company is immune from the need to navigate an increasingly complex and changing business environment. These challenges include not only the typical competitive nature of business to business rivalry, but often also include the ramifications resulting from geopolitical tensions. In this ever changing environment, companies must have new and innovative methods to meet and mitigate these challenges – this includes strategic thinking and implementation, managing the increasing complexity, and effectively implementing operational, self-correcting systematic approaches to achieve true operational excellence.
Our experts are skilled at developing the necessary linkages to effectively manage these 3 critical interconnected areas:
Strategy: analyze the environment to identify the critical strategic factors and develop / implement an effective, winning strategy for the 21st Century.
Complexity: understand the inherent complexities and devise methodologies to mitigate and manage those complexities.
Operations: using a holistic approach that integrates all functions, develop a self-correcting operational system to achieve true, long-term operational excellence.
Strategy
It can be considered axiomatic that a perfect business plan today will be imperfect tomorrow and will become increasingly less perfect as time passes. The speed with which the plan diminishes in viability has quickened in the past century and is rapidly quickening as this new century unfolds. Therefore, success in this environment requires a strategy that embraces and encourages constant, nimble adaptation and the ability to rapidly analyze incomplete data and derive sound business decisions in an ambiguous setting.
Our services include Strategic Direction relative to:
Corporate Strategy
- Overall portfolio analysis
- Individual Business Unit analysis
Marketing & Sales
- Business Development and entry into New Markets
- Revenue Optimization
Operational Modeling – Optimization
- Operating Cost Structure
- Operating Income
M&A Due Diligence
- Valuation of target acquisition and all pertinent, material aspects of the target
- Integration to effectively merge diverse company cultures
- History demonstrates that mergers often fail to deliver expected results even when there are clear market benefits. This under performance is almost always the result of a failure to manage cultural change and the inherent complexities of merging diverse company cultures.
Complexity
The need to effectively manage complexity in a constantly changing world is one of the most challenging obstacles that many companies face. Market demands often dictate a degree of complexity in business operations, but that complexity must be reduced where possible and the costs associated with complexity must be managed and mitigated.
We are prepared to help you develop and implement unique, company specific solutions for your organization to reduce complexity and streamline business operations. If your organization suffers from product proliferation, process complexity, or organizational misalignment – or simply from the burden of trying to be “all things to all customers,” we can help.
The experienced professionals at Oxburgh Row can help identify and quantify the complexities in your business, and can also assist with the effective implementation of strategies and tactics to manage and mitigate complexity and the associated costs. Furthermore, we can help you build the capabilities to develop self-correcting systems to manage and mitigate complexity on an ongoing basis.
Our services include Complexity Management and Mitigation relative to:
- Identification and Quantification of factors that create and / or intensify complexity
- Organizational and process simplification
- Product mix and profitability
- Customer profitability
Operations
Effective organizations develop a clear synergy among the various operational functions and the management of these functions to meet the 21st Century challenges requires a collaborative and holistic approach. The nature of a collaborative and holistic approach integrates all functions and focuses on reducing complexity by identifying and managing points of friction between functions. This goes far beyond merely mapping processes and requires cultural change at all levels to truly identify all factors that impede organizational objectives and then to develop and implement deep, long lasting changes to overcome organizational obstacles.
Our services include Operational Direction relative to:
- Process Transformation
- Supply Chain Management
- Operational Excellence
- Use of Lean / Six Sigma and company specific applied statistical methodologies
- Conduct of Operations
- Customer Retention
- Risk Management