What do management teams do? They guide an enterprise to success. With that kind of responsibility, any distraction from fundamentals can create an unreasonable degree of risk.
That said, ‘black swan’ events — unexpected and tough to predict — can hit even the best-run enterprise. And when that happens, it demands dedicated thinking, even as everyday business must carry on. It makes little sense to maintain a SWAT team of specialists within the business to solve an urgent problem that might happen only once every 10 or 100 years.
How we help
We help senior leaders define and sort out big and difficult problems for as long as they’re an issue. For example, we help our clients:
- Navigate extreme sea-changes in market dynamics
- Negotiate complex agreements
- Defend proposed mergers against regulatory action
- Align incentives among different parties to a contract
- Help to get troubled projects back on track
- Improve major processes
- Estimate the cost, and value, of very large programs
- Develop cost and performance benchmarks of complex organizations
- Gauge the strategic and operational risks of a proposed initiative
- Assess the pros and cons of a joint venture or alliance
- Verify required expenditures of a facility upgrade
- Evaluate the present and future impact of disruptive technology
Your benefits
- Auditable, defensible support for your company’s position
- An information and negotiation advantage over competitors
- A way forward based on evidence rather than opinion