Business Strategy Services

World-class organisations constantly challenge their business models to maintain a competitive advantage and deliver incremental value to their customers and stakeholders.

Our Business Analysis & Value Targeting Approach

WDE Consulting has developed a full suite of business diagnostic and analytical techniques to assist organizations in identifying, validating, and prioritizing value creation opportunities. We have worked with small and middle-market organizations, as well as within divisions of large Fortune 100 companies, to assist with business analytics and value targeting efforts. Our experienced management consultants bring a strong mix of industry, strategy, operations and financial experience to assist our clients.

Our capabilities in this area include:

• Market Analysis and Competitive Benchmarking
  
• Voice of Customer Analysis
  
• Cost Structure and Value Driver Analysis
  
• Internal Business and Operational Assessments (Processes, Organization, Technology)
  

Enabling business across channels with feasible solutions.

Using design to create experiential solutions is no longer just a customer problem-solving exercise. Organisations must understand how to continuously add value for customers, which means not only creating better experiences, but also more feasible and intelligent operations.

They must create holistic systems that work harmoniously to benefit both sides of the value equation, cost and value. Far too often, new experiences increase the cost to serve customers, only to achieve the same outcome.

Today’s modern organizations succeed when they put understanding their customers at the forefront of decision-making. They use customer intelligence to influence how their operations and organisations design and conduct everyday business.

But other influences can help illuminate the right solutions or paths organisations can take. By looking up and down the value chain, businesses can use more systems thinking to uncover additional value-based opportunities. This is how effective organisations will grow in the future.

Vision and strategy development are critical business functions that allows a business to assess issues and opportunities, set future direction, discuss priorities and ensure strategic alignment throughout the organisation.

A strategic plan is a living document that is managed and should evolve as market conditions change. Our experience tells us that companies who are unable to make strategic decisions, communicate direction and turn strategy into action suffer slow reaction time, poor accountability and under-performance.

Our experience in strategy development can help you solve those problems.

Social change and the rapid development of technology creates many opportunities and risks for incumbent businesses and startups alike. The difference between those who leverage opportunities and those who succumb to risk depends on who sees, understands and acts best in the face of uncertainty.

The most effective organizations align their policies, processes, and culture to maintain a continuous flow of innovation that drives top-line growth and bottom-line efficiency. These successful innovators also engage partners to continuously acquire knowledge and to find new opportunities.

Our consultants use their broad industry expertise and deep knowledge of process and tools to enable you to optimise your innovation capabilities by

• Gaining a better understanding of your customers and markets
  
• Developing new products and services
  
• Moving into new markets
  
• Creating new business models
  
• Optimizing existing value chains
  
• Developing methods and skills for sustained innovation
  

We work with you to assess, define and manage the complexities associated with business and technology integration.

Merger, Acquisition and Divestiture activity can be a defining force and a key strategic lever for successful corporations. Despite this knowledge, few organisations see business integration or separation as a core competency.

At WDE, we are uniquely qualified and experienced in business integration and separation. We understand the complexities of managing the integration and separation process. We partner with companies to maximise the value of the deal through a dedicated focus on meeting objectives.

While theoretically, the steps are not complicated, M&A integration and divestiture separation should not be underestimated. Focusing on vital integration components can greatly improve a company’s chances of delivering on targeted benefits.

Business and technology strategy and execution are critical for enabling growth, enhancing profitability, and reducing risk. We can serve as a key member of your team or as a coach to support your team.

For most companies, information technology strategy and execution are critical for enabling growth, enhancing profitability and reducing risk. Today, even organisations large enough to have their own chief information officers (CIOs) still need strategic guidance to keep their businesses aligned with their technology.

Our CIO Consulting Services team brings deep IT skills and experience to help with strategy and execution. Comprised of seasoned IT professionals, many of whom are former WDE clients, they use our remote-work technology to deliver services that will help you be ready for continuous renewal.

Our team is a working example of the “gig economy” that enables us to tailor our involvement specifically to meet each client’s strategic and tactical needs. We can either serve as a key member of your IT team or coach and support your internal CIO or IT team. Either way, our CIO Consulting Services team is committed to working with you to deliver better, together.