Worldwide, there are about 300 million persons trying to start some 150 million businesses annually. About 35% of these are launched, bringing 50 million new firm births each year; or about 137,000 per day. Very nearly the same number of active firms, approximately 120,000, fold up each day across the world.
In our Advisory Division we develop industry, market, and operational understanding, which we work with our clients to translate into strategic initiatives that define their business and deliver the desired results.
The thousands of hours we have accumulated on client assignments across the world gives us formidable understanding of various complexities and guarantees our ability to consistently deliver advisory that works.
The factors that determine how well an organisation performs are many and varied. Notwithstanding, and in our experience, there are isolatable performance drivers and relationships that determine the degree to which results can be optimized in different circumstances.
These are the patterns we work with clients to create and re-define.
Our Advisory work is based on the amount of knowledge and understanding we have developed, and continue to develop, on different markets, industries and business sectors.
Our well advanced capabilities for market, industry, business and function analysis give us an edge when it comes to isolating performance concerns. In this regard, interpretation of presenting situations typically makes up 40% of our client assignments.
Another 30% of the work we do with clients entails testing of viable options to evaluate viable solutions, and the degree of success with which they can be adopted by the client.
The balance of our work on typical advisory assignments involves close collaboration with the client to provide support for successful execution of agreed strategic initiatives. Through a variety of arrangements, we take due responsibility for the results of our work and especially seek to build our clients’ capacity to independently walk the strategic paths chosen.
We maintain a seamless engagement process in which our clients have free and unrestrained access to consultants and administrative contacts at ARTEMIS Transition Partners, which allows the client to maintain the level of control satisfactory to them on any one assignment.
We may not take credit for the results our work achieves, but we are definitely proud to be associated with our clients' success.
Though specific results on a particular assignment depend on the unique objectives of that particular assignment, our work has delivered a wide range of outcomes including the following:
These are just a few broad outcomes of the work we do. There are lots of other gains at both operational and strategic levels that we work with our clients to achieve, and there is always a starting point.
What area does your advisory engagement seek to address?
Organisational performance concerns manifest in explicit observations: teamwork is replaced with suspicion and a heightened sense of territorial protection, the company's leadership increasingly focuses on processes, growing reference is made to policies and procedures in the conduct of business, good employees leave and competition begins to be felt more. Customer complaints increase, market share drops and the business' profitability dips. If at any time you will engage a management consultant or any other form of advisory, what area will your advisory engagement seek to address...
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To give you some idea of what you might expect from our engagement in Advisory assignments, we have detailed a few client cases in each of the areas we consult. These are only a sample of the work we have done but nonetheless give a fair view of what we do.
Notwithstanding the similarity of circumstances, there are many variables to consider on each client assignment and it is therefore, important to note that these client cases are only illustrative. They are hugely summarized, and their purpose is not so much to give an account of the engagement, as it is to demonstrate what some of our clients have engaged us for, and to offer you some assistance in determining the pitch you may want to give your advisory engagement.
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We see, over the next ten years, considerable gains to be made from investment in advisory around strategy, finance and assurance, especially, through which our clients will be looking to optimize performance and to obtain the greatest return from increasingly scarce resources.
We also expect the changing character of organizations to continue presenting various challenges relating to the management of human resources, and in particular, with respect to management of staff performance and the optimization of latent employee capabilities.
Based on our analysis of performance drivers within the regions we serve, our current five-year plan aims to achieve the following, among others:
Along with these, we hope to continue consolidating our advisory capacity through increased sharing and access to proprietary consulting methodologies, case references, and other resources in our knowledge bank.
To achieve this, we are looking to make significant investment in the technologies on which our practice is based, and in the people that our strategy’s success will depend on.