Management Consulting
Cost Transformation – Align Cost With Strategy And Focus On Growth
A big part of transforming your business model involves managing costs to enable profitable growth. Our approach is both holistic and customizable, enabling you to cultivate, reward and continually improve a sustainable cost management culture. We help you understand and resolve the specific cost reduction issues that are unique to your institution and business. We then guide and support you through the challenges of implementing strategic cost transformation initiatives successfully.
The proven, measurable and delivered results of an effective strategic cost transformation can include reduced spending, complexity reduction, platforms consolidation, increased operational efficiency (including cycle time reduction) and growth enablement. Our industry experts and specialist subject matter advisors have successfully carried out large-scale complex strategic cost transformations. In turn, the impact of positive transformation has empowered our clients to become industry leaders.
Mergers & Acquisitions – Achieve Higher Returns With A Systematic And Sound Approach
Our M&A consultants help clients create the strategic, replicable merger and acquisition processes that drive successful corporate marriages. We understand that the initial phase looks simple for M&A: choosing the M&A target. We advise our clients across the investment cycle to ensure that the M&A strategy and transaction create value not only on paper but most importantly in reality.
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Our M&A practice is rooted in an in-depth understanding of the conditions for value creation in M&A transactions. We help our clients determine when a transaction is the optimal strategic decision and help them devise and execute the optimal capture plan to realize the value creation opportunity.We are experts in identifying, quantifying and realizing synergy value across commercial, operational and management activities. We work with you to ensure that the total synergy & integration value from the merger or acquisition exceeds the price paid. We capture and determine synergy value by performing a high-quality, accurate assessment, followed by a seamless synergy execution.
Operations – Transforming Operations Strategy Into Lasting Success
Our experts conduct an exhaustive and rigorous analysis of an opportunity, taking a forensic look at a company. With detailed data-driven analysis, we identify areas for improvement and quantification of savings, often providing operational insights and intelligence that gives clients an edge in auctions.
Our Operations Practice sits at the intersection of strategy, technology, and transformation. We connect boardroom strategies to the frontline, infusing technology where and when it matters, and rapidly delivering lasting transformations enabled by capability building.Our team of consultants has a depth of technical manufacturing expertise and a proven track record of leading and implementing successful transformations.
We diagnose areas of waste, variability, and inefficiency in the operating system and then redesign, and implement, not just the new production system, but also the management structure that improves the bottom line and ensures accountability and sustainability.
By working hand-in-hand with our client’s employees, we ensure the buy-in from the senior leadership team all the way down to the front-line employee, leaving behind a new culture, new mindsets and new behaviours.
Private Equity – We Stay With You And Advise You Across The Entire Investment Life Cycle
Our consultants serve private equity and institutional investor clients across the investment life cycle, from deal generation and due diligence to portfolio value creation and exit planning.
We at F1RST advise on buyout transactions across the globe and our work with private equity doesn’t stop with buyout funds. We work across fund types, including debt, infrastructure, real estate and hedge funds. Our services are across major sectors from consumer products and financial services to technology and industrial goods.
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Strategy – We Create Value
In today’s era, strategy is more important than ever. Our team works on providing creative solutions which help in executing winning strategies. We bring unrivalled capabilities, tools, technologies and talent to every engagement, augmented by an ecosystem of best in breed partners that provide specialized expertise. We’ll help you mobilize for change, navigate uncertainty, and flex as needed, so you achieve sustained, profitable growth which only a few companies are able to pull off.
We support organizations and executive teams in defining their ambition and developing innovative strategies that embed the agility, customer-centricity and operational excellence needed to thrive in dynamic markets. But we don’t stop there – we draw on our deep functional expertise to work shoulder to shoulder with our clients through implementation and deliver targeted results by accelerating momentum, locking down value and de-risking both decisions and actions.
Training & Development
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Virtual CXO
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Audit & Assurance
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