Consulting Services

Branding Mergers & Acquisitions
Pricing Financial Services
IT Healthcare
BPO Media
Strategy Non-profit & Public Sector
Supply Chain Management Retail

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Branding

In a world where products, markets, and industry boundaries are in a flux, a well-managed brand can be a source of strategic direction and competitive advantage.

Brands are a critical driver of economic performance. Increasingly, the most powerful brands deliver more than just a product or even an image; they deliver a coherent customer experience. Winning companies are developing "experience" brands in a broad range of industries, including retailing.

A company must develop a carefully coordinated approach to make sure its operations are aligned with its brand promise. We help corporates manage their brands.

Pricing

In many industries, pricing can be used as a powerful driver of company performance. We work with companies to develop a more strategic approach to pricing. We help our clients collect the data they need to make informed decisions about pricing and to understand the dynamic impact of those decisions on profits and growth. 

BPO

We have identified the best BPO vendors after a rigorous screening process. We have entered into a collaboration with some HDT Communications in Australia. We have been instrumental in execution of many inbound and outbound call campaigns for Australian and US clients.

We recognize the unique needs and challenges of different industries, business models and corporate cultures thereby developing effective corporate-structure selection for our clients.

Strategy

Strategy is the science and art used by leaders to acquire resources and apply them to solving a problem. In business, strategy is often incorrectly defined as part of the array of specific tactical decisions made by a firm, such as setting prices or choosing suppliers. In fact, strategy is the comprehensive, corporate vision defining the means by which a firm will deliver value to its customers and shareholders. This vision then drives the operating approach implemented at all levels of the firm, influencing the day-to-day decision-making processes.

Our goal is to help senior executives take new perspectives on competitive strategy that build on their own market and competitive insights. 

Strategy engagements may involve assessment of a corporation's position, comparison of the value of the firm, determination of the best places to allocate resources, Potential for value creation , Identifying strategic shifts and Positioning a firm.

Supply Chain Management

Supply chain management considers the economic functions of the entire value chain of a product or service. It is increasingly important to analyze the information-flow requirements between stages of the chain. Starting with the needs of its customers, a company must analyze how its supply chain is enabling or hindering its efforts to meet those needs.

Firms must identify high-value opportunities for improvement through partnership, value-managed relationships or vertical integration.

We start with a thorough economic diagnostic of existing methods used by the client and its industry. We follow it with accurate measurements of costs-to-order requirements, inventory accumulations throughout the chain, defects, delays and returns.

Finally, opportunities for integration or partnership may be assessed and valued, such as real-time information sharing as an enabler of cost reduction, manufacturing flexibility and increased customer responsiveness. 

Information Technology

Business and Information Technology (IT) are increasingly intertwined. IT can support and enable, or constrain and impede, major business initiatives and thus business results.

Few companies are realizing the full potential from their IT investments and activities. The gap between value realized and full potential is evident from the number of stalled and cancelled systems initiatives, those failing to deliver a fraction of the expected benefits and the high level of executive dissatisfaction. 

Our IT capability area is focused on helping our clients realize the full potential of IT by successfully managing the four core IT processes.

Business alignment: We help our clients to ensure that business strategy and business initiatives are driving the direction and priorities for IT investments. IT capabilities must enable innovative business strategies and business capabilities.

Complexity management: We help organizations deliver value in the existing complex environment and to define and manage the transition to a less complex environment.

Strategic sourcing: We enable clients to ensure sourcing decisions are based on business strategy and to help set up sourcing agreements to deliver value now and flexibilty for the future.

Value assurance: is the process of insuring that maximum business results are realized from IT investments, beginning with requirements definition all the way to systems retirement. Our role is to help clients maximize the business results from IT initiatives.

Mergers & Acquisitions

For a corporate buyer, an acquisition involves merging one or more independently owned businesses with its own. The acquisition can be justified by economies of scale or scope - both enhancing the core business - or it may be a new platform, representing a diversification from the core business.

In any deal, the goal obviously is to create and capture value that more than offsets whatever price premium the buyer had to pay. Sometimes, this can be achieved through financial engineering, e.g., tax benefits, using leverage, or divesting non-core assets.

Increasingly, however, acquirers are finding that financial engineering opportunities are slim and they must create value by cutting duplicative costs, transferring best practices, and taking advantage of revenue opportunities like cross-selling products.

A disciplined approach to the acquisition process is vital to ensure sustenance of shareholder value. 

Financial Services

Financial services represents a large, diverse and increasingly complex sector of the worldwide economy.

We help our clients to explore new ways to start new relationships-or deepen existing ones-with their best customers. They can then develop innovative products designed to meet the precise needs of their most valuable customers.

We give our clients cutting-edge, tailored advice that produces concrete results. We advise companies on how to generate growth, manage existing markets, assess and enter new markets, improve performance and deploy resources profitably. 

Healthcare

Health care is being rocked by change. Traditional business models are being overturned. The stakeholders are the doctors (who care about quality), the payers (who care about cost) and the activist consumer.

Rapid changes are affecting pharmaceutical firms. They have started shifting gears. Rather than developing blockbuster products, they're focusing on treatments that target specific populations.

We work in all segments of the industry- hospitals and physicians, insurance companies, pharmaceutical and biotech companies and sellers of medical equipment and supplies. Our capabilities encompass corporate strategies, growth strategies, mergers and acquisitions, customer and loyalty management, and sales and distribution strategies.

We help clients enter new markets and improve operations. 

Media

Trends show that media industry is undergoing rapid change. We work areas such as acquisition integration, IT strategies, corporate and organizational strategies, and content and rights negotiation.

We help our clients launch new channels, find new ways to lower costs, and develop media strategies. 

Non-Profit & Public Sectors

Ranging from grassroots groups to big charities we provide our expertise to develop effective and workable plans to justify the investments made.

There is an intense competition for donor money. A movement toward "venture philanthropy" is seen, in which donors view grant making as "investments" that reap "social returns". We help donors, Non profit organizations in fine-tuning their operations and manage and allocate their resources efficiently and effectively. 

Retail

In today's brutal retail world, there are no safe havens. Discount stores are experiencing rapid growth; consolidation is furious. New formats and channels are maturing rapidly. Malls are proliferating. The customer is unpredictable but expects predictable shopping experiences. Retailers must grow revenues while slashing costs.

How does a retailer succeed? Get the right merchandise to the right customers in the right places at the right times, with the right service levels at the right prices. We help in Implementing sophisticated information systems, streamlining their supply chains, improving customer interactions and developing multichannel marketing programs to attract and retain loyal and profitable customers.

We work in the areas of store expansion, acquisitions and alliances. We work with firms to strengthen and refine their customer loyalty, pricing and supply chain management strategies, and to reduce costs and improve asset turnover. 

We provide retailers cutting-edge, customized advice that works. 


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