Spread services across regions
Cross sell more effectively
Improve BD capability
Improve brand awareness
Buy clients
Develop
Aquire
Hire
Partner
Acquisition/ Merger of key competitor in space?
Joint ventures
Diversification outside of construction markets
Hire talent in regions
Relocate existing advisory staff to regions with holes to provide the same service to the same clients
Educate existing staff to improve opportunity tracking and conversion
Improve thought leadership to increase brand awareness in advisory
Improve understanding of existing clients
Training for key staff
Level of support - new BD model?
Invest in BD technology
Increase volume of bids
Increase quality of bids
Increase marketing spend
Increase thought leadership output
Change commercial model
Acquisition of competitor in space
Partnership with competitors in space
Training
Innovation
Acquisition of company within same value chain
Acquisition of company outside of core value chain
Can we hire key stakeholders to bring in new knowledge?
Can we partner with non-core companies to provide value in non-core markets
e.g. we are a PM company - can we leverage this in different industries?
Sustainable?
Economic consultancy
Funding consultancy
Manufacturing
Asset Management
Management Consulting (Trad)
Procurement consultancy
Operations consultancy for capital asset industries
By hiring team members with skills aligned to our current advisory offering we can leverage our global capability to expand advisory
What is impact to core business
By dedicating x amount of time to development of thought leadership we can increase opportunities by x.
Create report for each client of key issues they are facing and how we can tailor a solution to address this
Influencers may be provided with training in opportunity generation and key frameworks in advisory
Hub and spoke model is currently being used - reach back to London in all cases.
Decentralization may yield better results due to better understanding of markets
Can we increase touch-points with clients
CRM capability
Knowledge management
Can we turn out more bids more quickly
How do we make sure we win more work?
By increasing marketing spend on advisory in key regions we will increase the amount of advisory work won
Increase regional thought leadership initiatives to increase brand awareness in markets.
“An output of x articles a quarter will increase lead generation in advisory by x.”
Commoditize outcomes
By changing commercial model to create products that clients buy we can make it easier to buy our services. This will require a change in pricing mechanisms to price driven costing from cost driven pricing
Identify and cost small competitors who provide similar services to clients we desire
Allow targets to leverage our global presence/ capability in order to share in their client contacts
How can we reshape current efforts to support growth and transferable skills.
Innovation engine
Develop go-to-market strategies
How can we sell?
Where on the value chain
What is benefit outside of current value chain
Can we learn from other industries?
Costs?
Who/ where?
What value do we provide?