Projects

A selection of project examples illustrates the breadth of experience gained from working with multi-national teams for major clients across a number of countries.

Business Process Re-engineering
€36bn revenue multi-national engineering group
Analysed and re-designed business processes for the design, build and installation of production systems, with overall objective to reduce lead times by 50% and costs by 30%.

Main elements of project:

• Analysed current business processes, using detailed process mapping and staff interviews in design and production sites in three countries
• Designed optimised business processes and identified greater scope for standardisation of designs and components
• Identified areas for improvement and defined 11 implementation sub-projects
• Established implementation teams for 11 sub-projects, with membership selected from across functions and countries
• Set responsibilities and timelines for each sub-project team, with reporting and review structure set up for the sub-projects
• Managed first phase of implementation, reviewing performance of the sub-projects

 

Corporate restructuring
€1bn revenue European electrical fittings group
Responsible for the Production work stream of a group wide restructuring project. The other specialist work streams covered Procurement, Product Range, Sales and Marketing, and Business Planning / Financial Modelling.

Main elements of project:

• Evaluated core competences, capacity, efficiency and costs of current production facilities across six countries
• Identified overlaps, over-capacity and efficiency savings
• Constructed financial model of production resources and projected future requirements
• Recommended consolidation of product lines and a reduction in the number of employees and production facilities

 

Strategic review of business units
€11bn revenue aerospace and defence group
A review of non-core business units following takeover of a competitor to identify "fit" with new parent company, or spin-off/ sale potential.

Main elements of project:

• Evaluated core competence, markets, competitive positioning of the business units
• Analysed financial performance and assisted in strategic business planning / budgetary process
• Assessed "fit" with current business units of new parent company
• Recommended repackaging and trade sale

 

Strategic business planning and scenario development
Communications project and infrastructure company
Developed and valued strategic scenarios based on projected markets trends and potential investments.

Main elements of project:

• Analysed market and industry trends and identified potential future opportunities and developments
• Devised potential business scenarios with senior management based on market analysis
• Costed out investment requirements and assessed potential revenues for each scenario
• Developed financial model to analyse performance and value each scenario
• Made recommendations based on scenario valuations and investment requirements

 

B2B e-commerce strategy
UK packaging distribution group
Strategic development of a B2B e-commerce portal, including outlining process integration and business partner recommendation and selection.

Main elements of project:

• Reviewed current business processes, using detailed process mapping and staff interviews
• Analysed performance of current distribution network and recommended efficiency savings
• Evaluated and benchmarked other e-commerce portals operating in the B2B market
• Defined business processes for e-commerce portal and defined interactions with current legacy ERP system
• Developed categorisation of product range to simplify online buying process
• Identified and screened potential business partners for the B2B e-commerce portal to broaden offering

 

Market due diligence
European transport equipment leasing company
Evaluated potential takeover of a specialist rail freight equipment company from a market perspective.

Main elements of project:

• Evaluated potential takeover of company from a market perspective
• Analysed current market trends, drivers and dynamics and mapped out the market future outlook
• Identified and analysed main the target company's main customers and competitors
• Evaluated the market position and relative strength of the target company
• Recommended client proceed with takeover

 

Advertising effectiveness
Japanese automotive manufacturer
Analysed effectiveness of advertising expenditure in six European countries.

Main elements of project:

• Analysed media expenditure, share of media and changes in vehicle registrations over a two year period
• Benchmarked performance and assessed effectiveness of media campaigns in each country

 

Graduate entrepreneur support scheme
Public sector agency
Developed the concept and strategy for a publicly funded graduate entrepreneur support scheme.

Main elements of project:

• Analysed the business start up trends amongst graduates to identify unfulfilled needs in the market
• Investigated the business start-up process for graduate entrepreneurs
• Evaluated current support structures and resources available to graduate entrepreneurs
• Identified main issues to graduate entrepreneurs and gaps in current support provision
• Designed concept for new support scheme, outlined potential costs and proposed implementation strategy