Transformation & Optimization

We assist our clients in their decisive transformation or optimization
projects and develop tailor-made solutions with their teams to impact EBITDA and Cash flow.

We are fully involved with your teams and share the risks with a fee model that includes success fees.

Challenges where we support our clients

1. Strategic stakes

- Align the strategic positionning
to competition and technological
changes (e-commerce,…)

- Succeed in external growth and integration

- Attract new capital partners
or ensure transmission to next generations

- Grow value post-acquisition or before exit

 

 

2. Operational stakes

- Transform the operating model
(organization, process, HR et IT) to align with strategy

- Digitalize Operations

- Onboard and motivate teams

 

 

3. Financial stakes

- Achieve a profitable growth

 

- Accelerate investment or innovation ROI

 

 

Our engagement in Transformation and Optimization include 3 majors phases

1. We perform a quick and 360° analysis
to identify areas of improvement and define an ambition

Strategy
review

– Interviews (Board and C-Suite) to
capture strategic goals, challenges
and company trajectory (desired and
realized positionning)

– Competition quick benchmark

– Financial statements review

Operational
performance review

Interviews (C-Suite and below) and data analysis focused on key operational KPIs :

– Strengths and Weaknesses

– Pain areas and low performance

– Data collection and analysis to assess potential gains on issues detected

Ambition
definition

– Consolidation and synthesis of analysis in areas of improvement

– Ambition setting and first assessment of potential gains

Quick Diagnosis and Ambition setting ~1 month

2. We design and assess a portfolio of solutions
with your teams and launch the most impactful

Detailing Ambition into an initiatives pipeline

– Analysis deep dive and
identification of concrete
improvement initiatives

– Fine tuning of objectives
by initiative and workstream

Initiative
assessment

– Business case development/validation by initiative
(Forecasts, delivery phases
and resources to bemobilized)

– Evaluation of costs / benefits
/ feasibility / risks

Selection of initiatives to be implemented

– Action plans validation for selected initiatives

– Final targets agreement between management
and operationnal teams

15 days-1 month

1 –1,5 month

15 days

Solution conception phase – 2 to 3 months

3. We share the risks with our client with a mix of fixed and success fees

Our methodology applied
to Finance Transformation

The optimization of finance processes and their efficiency are critical for CFOs
who must meet the expectations of internal clients (other departments and functions)
and external stakeholders (investors, banks,..).

We help CFOs and other support functions in improving their performance through a
multi-dimensionnal approach mixing transation costs analysis,
benchmark and organization turn-around through ZBB.

This approach can also be applied in mergers where management aims at
consolidating support functions from different companies (see below).