Strategic Consulting

Business Research and Analysis for a Technology Corporation

Requirements:
North America’s largest technology (SaaS- Software as a Service and outsourcing) company required an expert to perform research and analysis on their most complex business operational and procedural issues. Every year, a list of issues and key risk areas concerning different departments of the corporation is handed over to our team, by the leadership committee of the organization. Each department leader’s issue may vary. For example, recruitment to employee engagement, or analyzing the reason for inflating costs of operation of certain processes vis-à-vis its benefits, etc.

Solution:
In response to the above, we:

• start by analyzing a function/process leader's issues/objectives, followed by
• interviewing key client stakeholders to develop work plans,
• performing root cause analysis of each of the issues or problem areas, and
• developing recommendations and presenting a customized solution, which supports process/function improvement by gathering industrial best practices.
• Last and most important, facilitate client teams to implement recommendations.

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Business Continuity Planning (BCP) with a Real-Estate Developer

Requirements:
One of the large real-estate construction companies requires to make huge investments and risks (such as monetary, environmental, social, and political); expected to deliver high quality concerning several regulatory requirements and quality standards, and have to perform within the boundaries of timelines for each project. Amidst the above aspects of the business that requires more prioritization, the business owners didn’t want to neglect the Business Continuity Planning (BCP) for their business.

Solution:
For this business, we support by:

• Preparing a project-based funds/cash flow budgetary analysis for the project period,
• Identifying major cost centers/drivers for each project, and Tracking project costs, progress, forecasts, and completion status with the appropriate team
• Performing variance analyses, facilitating the tracking against budget to ensure cost aligns with funding, and providing early warnings when variances are outside of set thresholds,
• Assessing the robustness of the current reserves, and the need for revision of the reserves funds twice a year through the project period, in a rapidly changing growth environment,
• Last and most importantly, encourage educating all the project managers and corporate functions to consider BCP aspects in their respective roles and responsibilities.

We look forward to businesses that like to stand strong and be resilient.

Business Expansion of a Professional Services Firm

Requirements:
One of the world’s largest Professional Consultancy giants was considering expanding its operations to a new country. The firm wanted to understand the growth potential in the new market, as they were considering tying knots with a few local firms in that country. Certain types of services provided by that professional firm were mandated by the laws of that country. In other words, many business entities were obligated to take such consulting services because of the legal requirements.

Solution:
In this situation, we:

• Understanding the macroeconomic factors and legal requirements.
• Researching the industrial data and the current level of competition in the market.
• Filtering the information relevant to the area of study and analysis.
• Presenting the research report to the stakeholders for their consideration.
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