Gestaldt Strategy Consulting Services
Often referred to as Gestaldt Strategy Consultancy, Gestaldt Strategic Advisory or Gestaldt Boardroom Consulting, it is the most 'high-end' and prestigious segment within our specialisation. We define strategy as “a plan with the aim of realising long-term goals," and organisations regularly engage with our strategy consultants for support in developing and implementing business strategies. Our strategy consulting domain focuses on supporting private and public sector clients with the development of corporate, organisational or functional strategies and economic policies.
Gestaldt™ Strategy Consulting
Our Strategy Consulting Services consists of eight disciplines: Corporate Strategy, Business Model Transformation, Economic Policy, Mergers and Acquisitions, Organisational Strategy, Functional Strategy, Strategy and Operations, and Digital Strategy. Our Corporate strategy, also referred to as strategic management, involves the formulation of enterprise-wide and business unit strategies and goals. Our Strategy Consultants are regularly brought in to support, among others, the design of vision and mission statements, the development of strategic plans, and the setup of implementation roadmaps (which outline activities and resources required to implement the plans).
Common examples of our strategic consulting projects include the assessment of strategic options, support of business planning processes, and the development of growth agenda’s such as market entry strategies (when our clients want to enter new regions or launch new products). Similar to corporate strategy and turnaround strategy, our Business Model Transformation (BMT) also focuses on the design and development of future-proof strategies, with the key difference being that it spans fundamental changes in how business is conducted, often triggered by major changes in the external environment.
Our Business Model Transformation, in addition, has a wider span than strategy, looking at a range of organisational and operational elements and how they interact to achieve a common goal; such as value propositions, customer segments, cost structures and organisational structures. Due to the disruptive nature of technology in recent years, our consultants who support BMT engagements in many cases work at the intersection of digital design and IT strategy.
Our Economic Policy service area involves a range of economic advisory services that support our clients. Most offerings cover fiscal policy; which deals with government actions regarding taxation, budgets and spending, monetary policy; which deals with central banking actions regarding the money supply and interest rates, or government interventions across areas such as the labour market, national ownership, housing and many other areas. Further offerings within our department include impact assessments (such as a socio-economic benefits study), financial valuation analysis in cases of disputes (economic litigation), economic studies for antitrust cases, or competition investigations and merger proceedings, conducted both for corporates or government authorities.
Our Strategy Consultants are, together with Corporate Finance Advisors, Merger and Acquisition lawyers and investment bankers, also active in the Merger and Acquisition space, with a focus on strategic and commercial activities in the pre-proposal phase, although we are also hired in many cases to manage the initial period of the post-merger integration phase. Our firm serve companies and investors, for instance, with building business cases to understand the economic drivers of mergers or acquisitions and, further down the line, support our clients with due diligence work on potential targets. Other areas in which our Strategy Consultants play a role in Merger and Acquisitions include supporting the establishment of alliances and joint ventures, managing divestitures/carveouts and facilitating Initial Public Offerings (IPOs).
Our Organisational Strategy looks at the levers an organisation needs to influence in order to, over time, deliver the strategy of the enterprise. Foremost propositions include designing organisational structures and corporate governance, assessing organisational competitiveness, developing human capital strategies and supporting strategic change management programmes. Our Functional Strategy involves the development of strategic plans and roadmaps for organisational functions, which can range from sales and marketing to finance, HR, supply chain, R&D or procurement.
Our strategic management and operational management have increasingly converged, as topics such as process management, operations and technology have become increasingly important elements of strategy execution. Consequently, several offerings that we have centred around strategic advisory have been expanded to include operational considerations, and the Strategy and Operations domain has gained significant importance as a result.
Since the 4IR, the lines between strategy, operations and technology are blurring. In line with the rise of technology, our digital strategies have surfaced to the forefront of strategic work, not just enabling business ambitions, but representing the crux between success and failed strategies more than ever, as a result of which the market for Digital Strategy has shown unprecedented growth of late. Our service area brings together elements from strategy and IT Organisation, and spans offerings such as developing a strategy for digital operations, the design of a corporate IT or online strategy, drafting approaches for analytics or cloud transitions, as well as high-level work for technology areas such as architecture, governance and application management.
Common examples of our strategic consulting projects include the assessment of strategic options, support of business planning processes, and the development of growth agenda’s such as market entry strategies (when our clients want to enter new regions or launch new products). Similar to corporate strategy and turnaround strategy, our Business Model Transformation (BMT) also focuses on the design and development of future-proof strategies, with the key difference being that it spans fundamental changes in how business is conducted, often triggered by major changes in the external environment.
Our Business Model Transformation, in addition, has a wider span than strategy, looking at a range of organisational and operational elements and how they interact to achieve a common goal; such as value propositions, customer segments, cost structures and organisational structures. Due to the disruptive nature of technology in recent years, our consultants who support BMT engagements in many cases work at the intersection of digital design and IT strategy.
Our Economic Policy service area involves a range of economic advisory services that support our clients. Most offerings cover fiscal policy; which deals with government actions regarding taxation, budgets and spending, monetary policy; which deals with central banking actions regarding the money supply and interest rates, or government interventions across areas such as the labour market, national ownership, housing and many other areas. Further offerings within our department include impact assessments (such as a socio-economic benefits study), financial valuation analysis in cases of disputes (economic litigation), economic studies for antitrust cases, or competition investigations and merger proceedings, conducted both for corporates or government authorities.
Our Strategy Consultants are, together with Corporate Finance Advisors, Merger and Acquisition lawyers and investment bankers, also active in the Merger and Acquisition space, with a focus on strategic and commercial activities in the pre-proposal phase, although we are also hired in many cases to manage the initial period of the post-merger integration phase. Our firm serve companies and investors, for instance, with building business cases to understand the economic drivers of mergers or acquisitions and, further down the line, support our clients with due diligence work on potential targets. Other areas in which our Strategy Consultants play a role in Merger and Acquisitions include supporting the establishment of alliances and joint ventures, managing divestitures/carveouts and facilitating Initial Public Offerings (IPOs).
Our Organisational Strategy looks at the levers an organisation needs to influence in order to, over time, deliver the strategy of the enterprise. Foremost propositions include designing organisational structures and corporate governance, assessing organisational competitiveness, developing human capital strategies and supporting strategic change management programmes. Our Functional Strategy involves the development of strategic plans and roadmaps for organisational functions, which can range from sales and marketing to finance, HR, supply chain, R&D or procurement.
Our strategic management and operational management have increasingly converged, as topics such as process management, operations and technology have become increasingly important elements of strategy execution. Consequently, several offerings that we have centred around strategic advisory have been expanded to include operational considerations, and the Strategy and Operations domain has gained significant importance as a result.
Since the 4IR, the lines between strategy, operations and technology are blurring. In line with the rise of technology, our digital strategies have surfaced to the forefront of strategic work, not just enabling business ambitions, but representing the crux between success and failed strategies more than ever, as a result of which the market for Digital Strategy has shown unprecedented growth of late. Our service area brings together elements from strategy and IT Organisation, and spans offerings such as developing a strategy for digital operations, the design of a corporate IT or online strategy, drafting approaches for analytics or cloud transitions, as well as high-level work for technology areas such as architecture, governance and application management.
What do Gestaldt™ Strategy Consultants do?
Our Strategy Consultants are called in by clients to support them with strategic decision making, which includes the development of strategy and, to an extent, also the execution of strategic plans. As the responsibility for strategic decision making falls under the mandate of CXO's and (senior) management, our strategy consultants work with executives and high-ranked managers. By doing so, our strategic consultants help companies with the definition of their vision, mission and strategy, support them with market entry into a new market or with a shift towards a new business model.
We support Governments and institutions with economic policy setting, while in the case of mergers and acquisitions, our Strategy Consultants support the strategic activities of the Merger and Acquisition process such as setting the Merger and Acquisition strategy, executing the commercial due diligence, creating the merger business case and/or designing the integration roadmap.
At the same time, the work of our Strategy Consultants can cover all major functional strategies, spanning strategic work across the full value chain. For example, our Strategic Consultants can be asked to define commercial strategies in the Sales and Marketing domain, Draft Pricing, Customer Channel and Product Market combination strategies. In the case of HR, our consultants can contribute to Human Capital Strategies, including Talent Management business cases. While in the field of operations, our Strategy Consultants are picked to draft operating models and tie those with higher-level business objectives.
In light of the rise of Digital Technology as an enabler of strategy, or even a key competitive differentiator according to some, Digital Strategy has grown into a large service area within our strategy consulting over the past few years. Our Digital strategists support customers with, among others, creating IT strategies, providing plans on how to embrace technology into business strategy, ensuring business functions are well positioned to adopt systems and tools, as well as high-level IT architecture work.
We support Governments and institutions with economic policy setting, while in the case of mergers and acquisitions, our Strategy Consultants support the strategic activities of the Merger and Acquisition process such as setting the Merger and Acquisition strategy, executing the commercial due diligence, creating the merger business case and/or designing the integration roadmap.
At the same time, the work of our Strategy Consultants can cover all major functional strategies, spanning strategic work across the full value chain. For example, our Strategic Consultants can be asked to define commercial strategies in the Sales and Marketing domain, Draft Pricing, Customer Channel and Product Market combination strategies. In the case of HR, our consultants can contribute to Human Capital Strategies, including Talent Management business cases. While in the field of operations, our Strategy Consultants are picked to draft operating models and tie those with higher-level business objectives.
In light of the rise of Digital Technology as an enabler of strategy, or even a key competitive differentiator according to some, Digital Strategy has grown into a large service area within our strategy consulting over the past few years. Our Digital strategists support customers with, among others, creating IT strategies, providing plans on how to embrace technology into business strategy, ensuring business functions are well positioned to adopt systems and tools, as well as high-level IT architecture work.
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