Strategy · Transformation · Growth
Clarity for the decisions
that shape what comes next.
We help leadership teams turn complexity into focused action and lasting results.
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Six practices. One of them is usually the whole answer.
An independent partnership of 11 partners and 74 consultants, in London, Amsterdam and Munich. Most engagements run about 14 weeks and answer one of the six questions below.
If the question you have is not one of them, that is worth a telephone call rather than a proposal — it is usually a sign the problem has been described as the wrong kind of problem.
Strategy and market entry
Where to compete, and what it costs to be wrong about it.
Operating model and cost
What the organisation does, what that costs, and which of it is worth keeping.
Transformation delivery
The part most firms leave to the client.
Selected work
Three results, and what sat behind them.
The three figures in the margin of the front page. Client names are withheld because the engagements were confidential; the numbers are not rounded up.
A speciality chemicals maker that had run out of Europe
An insurer with four of everything
One strategy, fourteen countries, fourteen interpretations
How we work
Four commitments, and we will put them in the contract.
Written into the engagement letter, not into a values statement. They are set out in full on About.
- Small teams, senior ones
- A fixed fee, agreed before it starts
- Independent, and structurally so
- We hand it over
A firm that is still there in year three has failed at something.
From the founding note, 2009A working session at the wall. By the time a board sees an answer here, the people who have to run it have already argued with it.
Sectors
Six, and we say no to the rest.
A sector we do not know is a sector where we would be paid to learn it. Where an enquiry falls outside these six we say so on the telephone, and usually we can name somebody better placed.
- Industrial manufacturing
- Financial services
- Consumer and retail
- Energy and utilities
- Health and life sciences
- Infrastructure and public
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