Business optimisation involves strategic growth advisory to fine-tune activities and improve efficiency, productivity and performance. Benefits range from improved profitability and cash conversion to happier, more loyal customers and employees.

The most successful businesses consider their target operating model, interweaving technology optimisation and data analytics services with people and processes to deliver the biggest benefits and address security and data privacy risks.

Now, more than ever, is the time to review and optimise your business through the changing and challenging economic climate.

Making your business transformation a success

Get to the root of the problem

One of the critical reasons why more than 60% of business transformation programmes fail to achieve the planned return on investment is a lack of a clear understanding of a problem’s root cause.

With the advent of data analytics services, as well as process and task mining tools, identifying inefficiencies is now cheaper and more accurate than using manual process maps and workshops.

Successful business optimisation combines people, processes, systems and data in problem resolution, requiring a fairly broad skillset.
Clearly articulate your target operating model

A target operating model can be a good strategic target point to visualise and prioritise the elements that form the foundations of the organisation in order for the business to be optimised – people, processes, technology, data, physical footprint and commercial agreements.

With new technology comes new business models. Competitive advantage is quickly becoming being able to match the speed of change to keep ahead of the competition.
Focus on people and culture in communication and change management

Since change impacts everyone in the organisation, it’s important to bring everyone along the journey with consistent (and repeat) messaging throughout the process, visible buy-in from the leadership team and showing you have listened to people at all levels of the business.

This can be achieved by creating communication plans, objection handling and feedback trackers to make this more tangible. Often this can be the difference between success and failure.
Use dedicated project management

While the results of business optimisation are impressive on paper, there is a need for dedicated project management to ensure success given the multiple interrelated workstreams and dependencies. Far too often, projects are managed by individuals that have other jobs.

Managing bandwidth strains through the use of temporary contractors or advisors is often a good strategy when considering the time it would take from existing staff that have ‘business as usual’ pressures.

How we can optimise your business together

Our experts are on hand to assist with every aspect of business optimisation, business planning, business transformation and simplification. Our advisors possess a proven mix of consulting, senior and industry experience, having been CFOs and FDs in fast-growth sectors.

Our specialists in business advisory, value creation, corporate tax, employee benefits, technology and automation, cyber risk and project management collaborate seamlessly to give you the tangible benefits your business deserves.

We also work with our third-party technology partners to leverage the best-in-class technology solutions to deliver business transformation and optimisation to the scale that your business desires.