Corporate Strategy Consulting and Growth Advisory Services

Why corporate strategy matters?

As organisations grow, add new businesses, expand into new markets or face disruption, decisions about direction and capital allocation become more complex.

Corporate strategy answers questions such as:

• In which businesses and markets should we play, and which should we exit?
• How should we allocate capital and management attention across our portfolio?
• What is the right balance between growth, risk and cash generation?
• How do we translate high-level intent into actionable plans for each business?

Without a clear corporate and business strategy, organisations often experience:

• Fragmented initiatives without a coherent direction.
• Capital and management bandwidth spread too thin.
• Conflicting priorities between business units and functions.
• Difficulty in taking hard calls on exits, restructuring or diversification.

When to engage a corporate strategy advisor?

Clients typically engage us for corporate strategy and growth advisory when:

• Portfolio complexity has increased – You have multiple businesses, products or geographies and need clarity on where to invest, hold or exit.
• Growth has plateaued – The organisation has grown to a certain point, but further growth is not obvious without a fresh strategic lens.
• You are entering new sectors or markets – You are considering diversification, new geographies, new business models or partnerships and want an independent assessment.
• The environment has shifted materially – Policy, technology, competition or customer behaviour has changed, and you need to re-examine your strategy.
• You are preparing for a major transaction – M&A, JV, PPP or significant capex decisions require a strategy framework to guide feasibility studies and deal structuring.
• You want a structured planning process – The organisation needs a disciplined strategic planning cycle, not just an annual budgeting exercise.

In each case, our role is to bring structure, external perspective and analytical depth while working closely with your leadership team.

corporate and business strategy services

We provide sector-agnostic corporate strategy consulting across a range of situations. Typical service modules include:

1. Corporate portfolio and growth strategy

We help answer “where to play” and “how to win” at the corporate level:

• Assess the current business portfolio, profitability, risk and strategic fit.
• Identify growth themes and attractive spaces aligned with your capabilities.
• Recommend where to invest, consolidate, restructure or exit.
• Develop a capital allocation and growth roadmap, including phases and priorities.

This work often informs board-level discussions on future direction and funding.

2. Diversification and new business entry strategy

When you consider diversification, we:

• Analyse target sectors and adjacencies for attractiveness and fit.
• Evaluate alternative entry routes (organic, acquisition, JV, alliance, PPP).
• Assess regulatory, competitive and capability implications.
• Build strategic and financial cases for shortlisted options.

We focus on disciplined diversification, avoiding “opportunistic scatter” and ensuring each move has a clear strategic rationale.

3. Business unit and go-to-market strategy

At the business or product level, we support:

• Clarifying positioning and value propositions for chosen customer segments.
• Designing go-to-market strategies including channels, partnerships and pricing logic.
• Aligning operating models and capacity with the chosen strategy.
• Linking business-level strategy to KPIs and performance management.

4. Turnaround and restructuring strategy

For stressed or underperforming businesses, we:

• Diagnose drivers of underperformance (market, strategy, operations, capital structure).
• Identify viable strategic options: repositioning, restructuring, partial exit, or wind-down.
• Develop turnaround plans combining strategic focus, cost and capital measures.

The emphasis is on restoring viability and creating a credible path forward for stakeholders.

5. Strategy for PPPs and regulated / public sectors

In regulated sectors and public sector or PPP contexts, we:

• Help define strategic objectives and operating models for entities and programmes.
• Align strategy with sector policy, regulatory frameworks and stakeholder expectations.
• Support design of implementation roadmaps and institutional arrangements.

This draws on our experience across infrastructure, logistics, utilities, development and government-linked assignments.

6. Strategy execution roadmaps and KPI cascades

A strategy is effective only if it can be executed. We help with:

• Translate strategic choices into clear initiatives and workstreams.
• Define milestones, responsibilities and sequencing.
• Cascade KPIs from corporate to business unit and functional levels.
• Integrate strategy with budgeting, performance management and governance forums.

How we work on corporate strategy engagements?

While each client and context is different, our corporate strategy engagements typically follow a structured sequence:

1. Diagnosis and stakeholder alignment

• Understand ownership and governance context (promoters, investors, board).
• Clarify strategic questions to be answered and constraints to be respected.
• Review existing plans, performance data and market context.
• Align key stakeholders on objectives and expectations from the assignment.

2. Strategic options and scenario development

• Analyse markets, competition, capabilities and financial performance.
• Develop strategic options (portfolio, growth paths, entry/exit choices).
• Build scenarios with different levels of ambition and risk.
• Test options qualitatively (strategic fit, capabilities) and quantitatively (financial implications).

3. Portfolio and financial implications

• Assess impact of options on revenue, earnings, capital requirements and risk profile.
• Explore funding and capital allocation implications.
• Evaluate timing and sequencing of major moves (entry, exit, capex, restructuring).

4. Strategy choice and roadmap

• Facilitate workshops with leadership and, where appropriate, the board to choose among options.
• Define the chosen strategic direction, priorities and “non-negotiables”.
• Develop a phased roadmap with initiatives, responsibilities and high-level timelines.

5. Support for execution

• Help define KPIs, governance forums and review rhythms.
• Align related workstreams: feasibility studies, project reports, restructuring, process changes, HR and organisational design.
• Provide ongoing advisory support during early execution and adjustment phases.

Representative corporate strategy mandates

Our team members have led and supported a wide range of strategy-related assignments. Illustrative examples include:

Portfolio and corporate planning

• Corporate plans and strategic roadmaps for multi-business entities, including evaluation of existing businesses, new growth areas and capital allocation priorities.
• Strategy formulation and implementation roadmaps for organisations facing sectoral change or regulatory shifts.

Sector and business strategies

• Growth and market development strategies for businesses in infrastructure, logistics, manufacturing and services.
• Strategy and implementation plans for new initiatives in emerging areas and financial services.

Public sector and institutional strategy

• Strategic frameworks and institutional strengthening plans for public sector entities and government-linked institutions.
• Sectoral strategies and roadmaps for government departments and multilateral-supported programmes.

Who we work with?

We work with:

• Promoters and family-owned businesses seeking structured, external support on growth and portfolio choices.
• CXOs and strategy leaders in mid-sized and large organisations looking to refresh or stress-test corporate and business strategies.
• Boards and investors requiring independent perspective on strategic options and capital allocation.
• Public sector and development institutions needing clear, evidence-based strategic frameworks.

Assignments range from focused strategy sprints around a single question, to comprehensive corporate strategy programmes over several months.