Lets Innovate the Way You Look at Your Organization and Projects
Service Summary
Will help you grow more effectively and efficiently.
Typical Benefits
The Benefits of Hiring Someone Like Me
- 30+ Years of executive experience in private equity, business development, and corporate finance across global markets.
- Successfully managed organizations and portfolios across industries, such as, technology, hospitality, ecommerce. energy and gaming.
- Proven M&A expertise, having led acquisitions. restructuring and turnarounds with consistent ROI and value creation.
- Delivered operational efficiency gains, including reducing overhead and financial reporting accuracy.
- Negotiated high impact contracts internationally.
- Deep international experience throughoutΒ the Americas, Europe and SE Asia.
- Hands on leadership mentoring talent and developing high performance teams across sectors and cultures.
- Strategic insight into digital transformation, innovation and emerging technologies like blockchain and digital analytics.
- Broad industry perspective, blending finance, operations, marketing and compliance.
Overview
- Improve commercial awareness across business
- Identify cost, quality and innovation improvements through development and delivery of an aligned sourcing strategy
- Objectively find and engage with the right partners quicker and easier
- Better outcomes from supplier negotiations
- Make more informed decisions, quickly, objectively and transparently
- Provide guidance on improvement and development measures and priorities
- Reduce time and uncertainty in decisions and planning
- Reduce control issues from information, knowledge and tools gaps
- Reduce conflict & bias in discussions & decisions
- Reduce poor decisions and process inconsistencies outside of procurement
- Improve low peer credibility
- Reduce facilitation burdens
- Reduce risks & time overheads in market research
- Relieve subject matter expertise gaps
- Help smooth departmental capacity challenges
- Improve access to skills, capabilities and expert availability
- Improve clarity of responsibilities and capabilities to deliver against them
- Identify, agree and prioritise new ideas and opportunities to generate business value
- Ability to demonstrate, socialise and communicate concepts, outcomes and business cases
- Validation and endorsement of decisions and approach
- Enhanced cross-business collaboration, communication and buy in
- Improved internal satisfaction, loyalty and customer value
- Agree and define actions and a feasible roadmap
- Gain context and insight to enable faster, more informed decisions and actions
- Clarify initiative dependencies and definition of success
- More perceived objectivity without political bias
- Improved clarity, accuracy & confidence in documentation or in decision making
- Reduce time in delivering change from skills gaps or capacity issues
- Reduce ambiguity around vision, goals, strategy and roadmaps
- Understand weaknesses and capability gaps to better plan for structured, feasible improvement
- Reduce uncertainty around performance and time to delivering effectively
- Reduce time in proving concepts, hypothesis and business case creation
- Reduce blockers to progress due to personal and structural agendas
- Reduce or remove resistance to change & innovation
- Reduce political bias and credibility challenges across silos
- Reduce ambiguity around ownership and responsibilities
- Reduce time and errors in decision making, learning and adoption
- Reduce inconsistencies in approach, communications and associated reputational damage
- Improve access to skills, capabilities and expert availability
- Improve clarity of responsibilities and capabilities to deliver against them
- Identify, agree and prioritise new ideas and opportunities to generate business value
- Enhanced cross-business collaboration, communication and buy in
- More perceived objectivity without political bias
- Improved clarity, accuracy & confidence in documentation or in decision making
- Reduce time in delivering change from skills gaps or capacity issues
- Reduce ambiguity around vision, goals, strategy and roadmaps
- Understand weaknesses and capability gaps to better plan for structured, feasible improvement
- Reduce uncertainty around performance and time to delivering effectively
- Reduce time in proving concepts, hypothesis and business case creation
- Reduce blockers to progress due to personal and structural agendas
- Reduce or remove resistance to change & innovation
- Reduce political bias and credibility challenges across silos
- Reduce ambiguity around ownership and responsibilities
- Reduce time and errors in decision making, learning and adoption
- Reduce inconsistencies in approach, communications and associated reputational damage
- Improve access to skills, capabilities and expert availability
- Identify, agree and prioritise new ideas and opportunities to generate business value
- Validation and endorsement of decisions and approach
- Enhanced cross-business collaboration, communication and buy in
- Agree and define actions and a feasible roadmap
- Gain context and insight to enable faster, more informed decisions and actions
- Reduce time in delivering change from skills gaps or capacity issues
- Reduce ambiguity around vision, goals, strategy and roadmaps
- Understand weaknesses and capability gaps to better plan for structured, feasible improvement
- Reduce uncertainty around performance and time to delivering effectively
- Reduce time in proving concepts, hypothesis and business case creation
- Reduce blockers to progress due to personal and structural agendas
- Reduce or remove resistance to change & innovation
- Reduce political bias and credibility challenges across silos
- Reduce ambiguity around ownership and responsibilities
- Reduce time and errors in decision making, learning and adoption
- Reduce inconsistencies in approach, communications and associated reputational damage
Our Requirements of You
Ensuring an executive sponsor from your organisation is allocated to the engagement, communicates the rationale behind it and signs off any ‘Terms of Reference’. * Assisting in all possible ways to ensure that a contract, (and confidentiality agreement where necessary) is in place, in advance of any work commencing. * Ensuring all support is in place and access is granted for all and any required data, processes, policies, meeting rooms and nominated resources to enable successful delivery of the engagement. * Ensuring sponsor availability within the agreed timeline, to resolve any significant issues that may impact the timely completion of the engagement, if not resolved in a timely manner.
Our Commitments to You
Provide support throughout service delivery using our World Class Professionals and Subject Matter Experts * Provide high quality deliverables in a timely manner and in line with agreements upon engagement with the client [Any changes to this will be mutually agreed in writing, in advance, between all involved parties] * Provide deep insights and genuine value-add in all possible areas throughout the engagement * Provide progress updates and feedback at regular intervals, agreed in advance or at the engagement ‘kick off session’ * Respect all personal and professional development of client team members throughout the engagement
Deliverables
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π Strategic Growth Planning β Design and implement scalable strategies to drive revenue, profitability, and market share.
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πΌ Mergers & Acquisitions Advisory β Lead due diligence, negotiations, and integration for successful acquisitions or exits.
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π Corporate Turnaround & Restructuring β Revive underperforming businesses through operational, financial, and structural reforms.
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π International Market Expansion β Identify and execute market entry strategies across Europe, Asia, and the Americas.
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π Cost Reduction & Efficiency Programs β Optimize processes and supply chains to reduce overhead and boost margins.
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πΈ Capital Raising & Investor Relations β Advise on equity/debt funding, pitch strategy, and securing government incentives.
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π§ Executive Coaching & Talent Development β Build leadership pipelines and improve decision-making across management teams.
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π§Ύ Financial Modeling & Performance Analysis β Deliver robust forecasting, valuation, and KPI tracking tools.
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βοΈ Digital Transformation Strategy β Guide companies through innovation adoption and tech-driven operational upgrades.
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π€ Stakeholder Engagement & Negotiation β Manage high-stakes negotiations and align diverse interests for sustainable outcomes.
Available Service Engagement Models
*This service may be engaged via multiple engagement model options to provide maximum flexibility.
Project Based Engagement
Project based engagements operate on the basis of agreeing work and any outcomes or milestones for delivery in advance of commencement of any engagement in a ‘Statement of Work’. Prices are fixed for the agreed deliverables and should changes be required, these may incur changes to delivery costs. Payment for Project Based Engagements are agreed on a case-by-case basis, giving consideration to risk, contract value, client payment history, relationship longevity and duration.
Subscription Service
A HiveMind Subscription Service enables clients to flexibly engage with HiveMind Expert(s) in line with the subscription purchased. Subscriptions typically run for 12, 24 or 36 months or can also be arranged on a rolling 6 monthly basis. Subscriptions for 6 or 12 months are billed at the commencement of service, with billing for 24 or 36 month contracts taking place on the annual anniversary of subscription commencement.
Network Units
Network Units enable complete flexibility around any engagement. When using Network Units, clients can swap and change delivery experts, scope and duration of engagements in a frictionless manner with very little notice, in line with the quantity of Network Units purchased. Network Units can be purchased in blocks of any size and at any time and are billed in full at point of purchase.
Focus In On: Responsible for Innovation
New Areas of Value:
Enabling positive behavioural change
Effective delivery against financial targets
More satisfied and engaged employees with increased retention and productivity
Improved business agility and ability to rapidly respond to change and opportunity
Successful, timely delivery of evidence based transformative change
Fostering a human centric, transparent, trustworthy and agile culture
Increased credibility, confidence and influence across the business
Enabling competitive differentiation and increasing market share
Increase customer acquisition, advocacy and lifetime value
More consistent and sustainable profitability and business growth
Gain access to additional budget through success
Viable, scalable and actionable roadmap to deliver innovation and change
Direct positive impact on internal and external customer satisfaction
Better employer brand recognition from improved environmental sustainability and CSR
Improvements around:
Inefficient or misaligned operating model and lack of business agility
Lack of exec sponsorship and track record
Lack of appropriate capabilities, skills, tools and methods
Unclear business strategy and requirements
Unclear or inefficient internal communications
Disconnect between culture and future vision
Misaligned goals across business and silos
Lack of clarity around the internal business ecosystem
Lack of clarity around market landscape
Poor asset management
Lack of customer insight
Budget availability and changes due to external change drivers
Poor data strategy resulting in siloed, incomplete and poor quality data