Ricoh Europe acquired the ADA-Das IT services organisation based in Germany Following the acquisition all IT services & solutions were to be integrated into the Ricoh Group
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Delivered business function, service & process improvements with cost savings within an organisation wide Digital Transformation programme
Croydon council setup an organisation wide Digital Transformation programme to deliver service improvements & cost savings via effective use of Digital/IT services & solutions The scope was to identify & deliver service improvements & savings across all business functions
Founder – Collection Mobile App Build & Launch
True shop revenue is limited by physical capacity. Lack of tech opportunity for smaller businesses who are met with widely costly options that meet more than what is really needed for small businesses. For Independents to compete against larger brands, wider spread applications diluted their brand image and message by comparing apples for apples rather...
Successfully creating a new business unit from a new global acquisition plus 4-5 earlier acquisitions that were never properly integrated.
My client was negotiating the purchase of a global technology business from private equity and wanted to create a new business unit from this acquisition, plus 4-5 much smaller and earlier acquisitions which had never been integrated and largely ignored. The overall strategy was to create a new Hospitality technology business to become a strategic...
The successful acquisition of a global technology ”carve-out”
The client had just agreed to acquire a global technology business (it’s largest acquisition todate) but had no clear M and A methodology and a history of failing to integrate prior acquisitions.
Redesigning a global travel technology company
CEO initially needed to “fix” the global R and D organisation but this expanded to ”how do we get further ahead of both our existing competitors and future potential competitors.
Possibly The World’s most Effective Business Growth Strategy …
Managing Director asked Trade Association to recommend or help him find a Solution …. to his retail business losing millions due to the build up of a mountain of stock that sold too slowly or not at all, customers disengaging in droves and to turn a loss into a profit on a revenue 3 times...
The House of Ideas – Expansion And Diversification In A Recession
“Recession is looming, we are threatened by international brands and imports. We must innovate but how?” The above is a direct quote from the client, a major manufacturer of mattresses in Central America. They had 3 factories and 800 employees and produced what was regarded as a premium product in that region. Their turnover was...
A brand new corporate purpose for a troubled pharmaceutical firm
Mundipharma is the international division of US company Purdue Pharma, based in the UK, with presence across most of Europe, and annual revenues of €1 billion. Having specialised primarily in pain relief – benefitting from the global sales of the opioid Oxycontin and related products – Mundipharma had, several years prior to this project, begun...
Digital marketing transformation at global level – Bacardi Global Brands, Diageo plc and SABMiller
As the digital revolution rolled across marketing, beginning in earnest around 2000, first websites, then social media, then content, then mobile, then data and analytics in turn disrupted how brands are built and grown, and how consumers are engaged and sold to. International consumer brand owners needed actionable thought leadership and entirely fresh insights to...
