Services
Range of advisory engagements
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Plan and facilitate executive offsites and workshops
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Multi-month advisory engagements, from strategy to planning to execution
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(Fractional) Chief Strategy Officer, to ensure changes get embedded
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Executive coaching
Starting point can be a "project" with clearly delineated scope and deliverables
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a set of exploratory discussions to identify and prioritize key levers for success
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Below are some examples of engagements
Creating a Strategic Plan
Based on a deep understanding of your business, we deliver a well-articulated, actionable strategic plan, to unlock maximum value. To ensure success, we identify any change initiatives needed and key success factors for implementation.
Scaling the Business
Leveraging our deep experience across multiple companies, we advise you how to get to the next level of growth. With you, we identify levers for success and create a roadmap to achieve scale. The scope typically includes process and organization design, resources and capabilities planning, etc.
Enhancing Decision-making
One of the most critical levers for success is making high-quality, timely decisions often under significant uncertainty. With increasing scale and complexity, more decision discipline is required to ensure management teams stay agile.​
Managing the Portfolio
Strategy is about what you need to do but also what you need to not do / deprioritize. It is critical to decide which assets will create the most value (in which timeframe). Leveraging a rigorous analytical approach, we partner with you to make sure the portfolio is assessed objectively, critical trade-offs are identified and decisions can be made.
Launching a Product
Launching a product requires careful planning. The commercialization of a first product can make or break the company. We provide launch planning and analytical support, ensuring you're set up for success by building out the right organization, capabilities in the right sequence with the required resources.
Fractional Chief Strategy Officer
Act as a though partner to CEO and management team to develop and execute strategic change. Transform the organization through people, process and often special projects. Support change with analytics and proven methodologies, to ensure the whole organization moves towards its North Star.
Clients & Results
Clients range from early stage private companies to established public companies as well as foundations and non-profits.
With one of the key areas of focus being preparing for scale, a significant proportion of our development stage biotech clients has been acquired by big pharma.
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Respecting client confidentiality, here are a few examples:
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Private AI-enabled company: assess promise of best-in-class asset in its market
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Public Oncology-focused company: portfolio assessment and R&D governance
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Public CNS-focused company: identify and assess strategic choices for the portfolio
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Public Immunology-focused company: support for scaling up from 50 to 400 FTEs
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Private Foundation: facilitation of workshops to define strategic direction