Rationale

There is a real incentive for companies to maximise shareholder value, more recently, with the advent of triple bottom line reporting the maximisation has extended to stakeholder value. That consideration should significantly frame the decision making processes and strategies adopted by management. 

O'Brien (2003)¹, in his assessment of capital structure implications for a firm following an innovation strategy, concludes that managers who fail to realise that an inappropriate capital structure can hamper the effectiveness of their firm’s strategy and thus impede the firm’s ability to compete effectively, may erode firm value. Kochhar (1997)², went on to argue that firms require financial management capability inorder to realise the rents (or potential)present in the strategic assets owned by the firms. He concluded by arguing that the possession of a source of sustained competitive advantage by a firm is not sufficient to obtain improved value, rather, the financial policies of the firm should be in synch with the firms’ source of economic rents. He went on to stress the point that a competitive advantage without such capability can not generate superior performance.

Our service offering is primarily designed to help managers generate and enhance value for stakeholders, it is firmly rooted in helping decision makers to understand the aggregate impact of our recommendations as well as to understand the associated opportunity costs. We do that by developing a strong link between our recommendations and the financial implications.

1 Kochhar, R. (1997). Strategic assets, capital structure, and firm value. Journal of Financial and Strategic Decesions , 10 (3), 23-36.

2 O'Brien, J. P. (2003). The capital structure implications of pursuing a strategy of innovation. Strategic Management Journal , 24, 415-431.

Services

Our integrated service offering coupled with our unique skills set combined with a creative charging model meets a genuine need and gap in the market. Our team of experienced former corporate managers, executives and CEOs are able to deliver the following services to our clients:

• Commercialisation solutions
  
  
  • We help entrepreneurs and corporations realise their vision of creating new businessesby commercialising viable business ideas.
  
  
• Breakthrough-growth solutions
  
  
  • We provide assistance in product and channel strategy development to businesses that are seeking to extend their product lines  and increase channels to market to increase profit.
  
  
• Business rescue and turn-around solutions
  
  
  • We provide assistance to businesses that are struggling or are in distress on practical means to sustainably return them to profitability in terms of chapter 6 of the 2008 companies act.
  
  
• Strategy consulting
  
  
  • We help business leaders to make strategic decisions about key issues such as mergers and acquisitions; investment and capital raising. We help business leaders understand the opportunity cost of their decisions.

Deliverables

All our projects have clearly defined basic deliverables, a feature that makes our service unique in the market:

• Business/investment cases for any and all recommendations made
  
  
  • Our primary aim is to build business and investment cases for our clients.
  • All our recommendations are supported by strong financial rationale solid research and analysis.
  • We combine strategic recommendations with measurable financial objectives.
  
  
• Supporting financial models
  
  
  • Our business cases are based on strong financial analysis generally modelled in spreadsheets.
  • The models help decision makers understand the aggregate impact of our recommendations.
  • Our financial models allow our clients to assess, develop and explore different business scenarios
  
  
• Execution plans and delivery
  
  
  • Our recommendations are brought to life by well planned execution plans that set out the project plans, recommended project teams and budgets.
  • Our team of experienced execution managers are able to provide management oversight and management of the resulting projects to ensure that the projects deliver in-line with the recommendations