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Recent Applications >

• A media company seeking ways to differentiate and grow the business globally
• A telecommunications service provider integrating two businesses to double the combined growth rate
• A leading retailer exploring whether, where and how to expand overseas
• A supply-chain director looking end-to-end for better service at lower cost
• A private equity owner seeking a new direction for an acquisition
• A software company looking for a mass-market application to step-change company value
• A turnaround team needing cash and the fastest path to recovery
• A newly-appointed MD looking for growth and top team alignment

 



Welcome to Stonebeck

 

We specialise in helping managers achieve their objectives in all types of company and organisation:

  • Fast
    • We work closely to build on existing knowledge and ideas
    • Our approach is hypothesis-driven (for more, see SKILLS)
    • We are supported by superior market/ competitive research
  • Commercial
    • Our fee structure is transparent (see COSTS)
    • We understand business and how organisations work (see PEOPLE)
    • Recommendations are founded on rigorous business cases - growth, profits, cashflow and risk
    • We follow-up with detailed planning and resourcing
  • Strategies
    • We believe in creative segmentation and competitive advantage as the cornerstones of effective strategy
    • Optimal strategy takes account of the company's capabilities
    • We work on both strategic opportunities and challenges (see CLIENTS)

Our people have a combination of Board-level consulting and industry P&L experience.

Management workshops, offsites and board meetings bring together executives from different backgrounds to make decisions about complex issues. When done well, they offer one of the highest returns on investment a company can make. Without insightful preparartion and rigorous follow-up, their impact can be diluted or even reversed.

We specialise in complementing management’s knowledge of the business by:
• framing objectives in terms of issues and hypotheses
• preparing the fact base to support logical decision-making
• contributing external strategic and commercial insights
• ensuring transparency to build management alignment
• translating decisions into prioritised, achievable action programmes: