Making cost savings last: a breakfast roundtable for CFOs

Services

Six practices, staffed as one team

We build each engagement around the question, not the practice. Most draw on two or three of these, led by one partner who answers for the result.

01

Strategy & Growth

Corporate and business-unit strategy, portfolio choices, pricing and market entry for leadership teams that need a plan they can fund and defend to the board.

  • Our core market is flattening. Where does the next decade of growth come from?
  • Which of our businesses should we fund, fix, or sell?
  • Are we priced correctly, and how much margin are we leaving with customers?
+4.2 ptsAverage revenue growth over plan, three years on12 weeksTypical time from first meeting to board-ready strategy
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02

Operations & Performance

Cost transformation, procurement, supply chain and service operations, designed with the people who run them and tracked against the P&L rather than a slide.

  • Our costs grew faster than revenue for three years running. Where did the money go?
  • We have run cost programs before. Why did the savings come back?
  • How much are we overpaying our suppliers, and how do we fix it without breaking supply?
15–25%Typical reduction in addressable cost88%Of committed savings still visible after 24 months
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03

Digital & AI

AI and analytics use cases, technology strategy and data foundations, selected on business value and delivered into the workflows where people make decisions every day.

  • We have twenty AI pilots. Which ones should we scale, and which should we stop?
  • Our technology budget keeps growing. What are we actually getting for it?
  • Is our data good enough to support AI, and what would it cost to fix?
3.1xMedian return on AI use cases we have taken to production14 weeksTypical time from use case selection to live operation
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04

Transformation & Change

Enterprise transformation design, program leadership and change management for leadership teams taking on multi-year change with real financial targets.

  • We have launched a transformation. How do we know whether it is on track?
  • Our programs keep slipping. Is the problem the plan, the people, or the governance?
  • How do we run a transformation while still hitting this year's numbers?
92%Of transformation milestones delivered on time across recent programs2.4xAverage return on program cost by month 18
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05

Mergers & Acquisitions

Deal strategy, commercial and operational due diligence, merger integration and carve-outs for corporate acquirers and the boards that approve their deals.

  • Is this target worth the price, and what does the seller's plan leave out?
  • How much of the announced savings can we actually deliver, and how fast?
  • What should happen on day one, and what can safely wait?
112%Average delivery against announced cost savings140+Transactions supported since 2009
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06

People & Organization

Organization design, leadership effectiveness, workforce planning and culture for companies whose structure has grown faster than their clarity about who decides what.

  • Our organization has too many layers. How many do we actually need?
  • Who should decide what, and why does every decision end up with the executive team?
  • Is our leadership team set up to run the strategy we just agreed?
-20%Typical reduction in management layers and spans below five35%Faster decisions, measured on major approvals
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How we work

From diagnosis to delivered results

Every engagement follows the same four steps. What changes is how long each takes and who from your side is in the room.

  1. 012–4 weeksDiagnoseWe take the business apart with your numbers, your customers and your front line, and agree what is really driving the problem.
  2. 023–6 weeksDecideWe put two or three real options in front of the board, each with its cost, its risk and what it asks of your people.
  3. 033–12 monthsDeliverOur team works inside yours to land the plan: owners, milestones, a weekly cadence and a scorecard everyone can read.
  4. 04OngoingSustainWe hand over the tools and the habits, then check in at six and twelve months to make sure the gains have held.

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