Performance Improvement Consulting
Performance Improvement Consulting
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We help Nigeria’s most progressive organizations, of all shapes and sizes, to continuously evolve and adapt in the face of a constantly changing and increasingly complex environment. We help our clients react with agility to opportunities and threats by delivering ongoing performance improvements to allow them to gain and protect competitive advantage.
Our pragmatic and focused approach means that we agree scope up-front and stick to it to deliver the benefits our clients want, on time.
Our clients demand real, quantifiable benefits, based on a full understanding of the wider business and commercial implications of their choices. We pride ourselves on our ability to connect an in-depth understanding of the economic environment, industry knowledge and business drivers with our technical expertise to create the right outputs for our clients.
FINANCE
In today’s complex environment, finance executives need to balance four main objectives:
- The creation, maintenance, and protection of value for their organization;
- Operational excellence through efficient and effective processes and controls;
- The identification, anticipation and mitigation of risks to the organization ;
- The development and maintenance of governance and reporting systems in support of the other three objectives.
Our consultants include executives who have held senior positions as CEO, CFO, and Treasurer. They lead the way in current thinking and practices on finance issues, bringing genuine insight into real business issues. We can support finance executives to deliver value and excellence, improve governance, control and reporting, as well as mitigate key risks.
REPORTING AND CONSOLIDATION
We identify key process barriers to performance using activity and priority-based approaches. We design and implement new, efficient and effective processes appropriate to the environment, including the subsequent reporting and consolidation of information about organizational performance.
TREASURY AND WORKING CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
The team advises companies on optimal methods for identifying, evaluating and managing market credit, and operating risk.
We also develop bank and cash management models and structures to improve cash flow. We have specific industry based supply chain expertise that we combine with our strong working capital management skills to deliver integrated solutions to our clients.
We have a dedicated team of specialists experienced in developing specific payables/receivables solutions and implementing new working capital management structures.
BACK OFFICE OPERATIONS
Our team assesses current operations and evaluates the costs and benefits of existing procedures and structures. This includes preparation of business cases for change, including risk assessments and mitigation programmes.
Alternative models, which are typically considered, include shared service centres and outsourced services, including local and offshore options. We are able to manage the structuring and implementation of service agreements with potential vendors, as well as the implementation of internal shared service centres.
OPERATIONS
To grow and improve profitability, organizations need to focus on business efficiency – reducing costs, improving operations and making the best use of assets.
We help clients identify where their major cost and value drivers are, and work with them to assess how they can be better managed.
Our analysis addresses the benefits and risks of optimizing costs and value, in both internal processes and external relationships with customers and suppliers.
Having identified the opportunities for improvement we help clients execute their improvement programmes to realize the benefits and help them develop effective operations.
SYSTEMS AND TOOLS
We are able to define the strategy and develop the performance management requirements for finance systems. We specify and select systems and tools to support all aspects of the finance function.
PEOPLE
Organizational change only sticks when people issues are given the same priority as processes and systems. We help our clients achieve faster, stronger and more sustained change by complementing their own management capabilities with our people change specialists. We help organizations engage their employees in the change process to produce cohesive results and real improvements in performance.
The development, reward and retention of good people are fast rising up the boardroom agenda in the face of a highly competitive recruitment market. We help organizations to position themselves as an employer of choice by developing leading reward and retention strategies, improving HR function effectiveness and creating leadership and learning programmes for staff and management.
We focus strongly on understanding the organizational culture and concerns of employees in order to create the solutions that fit and allow you to attract and retain the best people.
STRATEGY
We provide deep industry and technical expertise, supported by rigorous market, economic and financial analysis, to enable you to deliver the best results for your business in the areas of business unit strategy, transaction services, valuation, economics, brand/intellectual property management and risk management.
We deliver our services locally and through our integrated network of more than 1,300 strategy, valuation, economics and transaction specialists in 30 countries across the globe. Our clients include market leading companies, private equity and venture capital houses, the public sector and law firms.
POLICY AND ECONOMICS
Economic analysis plays a key role both in the commercial world and in public policy. Kcbc Partners prides itself on its track record as economic advisors to business, governments and regulatory agencies. Kcbc Partners’ Economics practice is a large and growing team of professional economists, working at the intersection between economics, policy, strategy and finance, with domestic and international clients.
We work in partnership with our clients in both the private and public sectors to provide rigorous and practical solutions from an independent and objective viewpoint.