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What we do.

We advise owners, boards and executive teams, and we stay to deliver. Strategists, engineers, economists and lawyers work as one team, led by a managing partner.

Most mandates combine several practices: a growth decision becomes a question of capital, and a technology choice changes how the company works.

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Strategy & transformation

A direction worth committing to.

We help owners decide where to compete and what it will take to win, then turn the decision into an operating model, a programme and a budget.

Services

Corporate and portfolio strategy
Where to compete, what to own and what to exit.
Transformation programmes
Design, launch and steering of change across the group, with clear owners.
Operating model and organisation
Structure, roles and decision rights that fit the strategy.
M&A and integration
Target screening, due diligence and the first hundred days after a deal.
Strategic planning
Three-to-five-year plans with targets the board can follow.
From strategy to working capital
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IT & digital

IT the board understands and the business can rely on.

We make complex IT estates understandable at board level, decide what to keep, replace or build, and then deliver it together with your team.

Services

IT strategy and roadmap
A plan for systems, people and budget, tied to business goals.
IT audit and due diligence
An independent view of state, risks and cost before a decision or a deal.
Enterprise architecture
A target architecture and the order of migrations that reaches it.
Cloud and infrastructure
Migration to public or private cloud, Kubernetes platforms and automated operations.
Cybersecurity
Risk assessment, access and network hardening, monitoring and incident readiness.
Data and AI
Data platforms, management reporting and AI assistants built into daily work.
ERP and core systems
Selection, implementation oversight and recovery of stalled programmes.
Interim CIO and CTO
Experienced technology leadership while you hire or rebuild the team.
A clearer technology estate

IT, from audit
to operation.

Our engineers design, build and run the platforms we recommend, and hand them over when your team is ready. One partner answers for the result.

  1. Audit

    2 to 4 weeks

    Systems, contracts, security and the team: what you have and what it really costs.

  2. Architecture and roadmap

    4 to 8 weeks

    A target architecture, the order of migrations and a budget the board approves.

  3. Build and migrate

    3 to 12 months

    Cloud and data centre migration, Kubernetes platforms, integration and automation, delivered with your team.

  4. Run and secure

    Ongoing

    Monitoring, security operations and support at agreed service levels, or a clean handover to your team.

Recent results

  • An industrial group moved 400 servers to a private cloud and cut infrastructure costs by 28%.
  • A bank removed 30% of duplicated applications from its target estate and funded a modernisation programme.
  • A retail chain brought 2,000 workstations and 120 stores under central management within six months.
  • A payments company moved from monthly release windows to several releases a day by automating build and deployment.

Platforms we work withAWS · Microsoft Azure · Google Cloud · VMware · OpenStack · Kubernetes · SAP · Microsoft Dynamics · Power BI

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Supply chains, seen whole.

Operations & performance

More from the business you have.

We release working capital and improve the rhythm of daily decisions, working with management where plans meet production.

Services

Working capital
Inventory, receivables and payables released without disrupting supply.
Cost and productivity
Process redesign, spend control and capacity planning.
Supply chain
Sourcing, logistics and resilience to disruption.
Production and quality
Throughput, quality systems and maintenance.
Performance management
KPIs, dashboards and a management rhythm that leads to action.
Capital back in the business
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A residential development study.

Growth & marketing

Ambition with a commercial foundation.

We choose the customers and markets that support the next stage of growth and connect positioning and pricing to the economics of serving them.

Services

Market entry
Market sizing, entry route and a launch plan for a new country.
Positioning and pricing
Value proposition, price architecture and discount discipline.
Sales and channels
Sales organisation, partner channels and key accounts.
Customer experience
Customer journeys, service standards and loyalty.
Commercial strategy for real estate
Unit mix, pricing and sales plans for developments.
A proposition that sells
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Corporate & legal advisory

A sound structure for what comes next.

We align ownership and governance with the future of the business, weighing the commercial, legal and tax position together with local counsel.

Services

Holding and group structures
Set-up and restructuring of holdings across jurisdictions.
Governance and boards
Board composition, reserved matters and family charters.
Cross-border tax coordination
Structures reviewed with local counsel in each country.
Succession planning
Ownership transfer and leadership succession on a timetable.
Transactions
Support on acquisitions, disposals and joint ventures.
Built for the next generation

How we work
with you.

Every engagement starts with a conversation with a managing partner, followed by a written proposal with scope, team, timeline and fee.

Describe your situation

Diagnostic

2 to 4 weeks

An independent view of the issue, the options and the first decisions, presented to the owner or the board.

Strategy and roadmap

6 to 10 weeks

A plan with owners, budget and milestones that the board can approve and follow.

Implementation

3 to 18 months

Our consultants and engineers work inside your team until the change runs without us.

Interim leadership

From 3 months

An experienced CIO, CTO, COO or transformation director while you hire or rebuild.

Transactions

To the deal timetable

Due diligence before an acquisition and integration after it, including IT.

One decision.
The right people around it.

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