Consultancy Europe on LinkedIn: OC&C Strategy Consultants promotes duo to Dutch partnership (2024)

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Two-fifths of the world’s CEOs believe their business will no longer exist in 10 years’ time. Now more than ever, it is critical that companies have an effective Board that can navigate the multitude of challenges their businesses face, and one that is flexible enough to capitalise on potential opportunities. However just 29% of C-Suite executives rate their Board performance as good or excellent, which suggests improvement is needed.Newgate Compliance Limited, a subsidiary of Ocorian, discuss the process around independent board evaluation and the value it can add for companies > https://lnkd.in/e3ATXym5

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Vertical integration in financial advice is dead – or it should be – but horizontal collaboration is emerging in its place. The Licensee Summit heard how a tie-up between BlackRock, Lonsec and AMP promises to open access to robust and professionally managed SMAs even for small advice practices, while avoiding the conflicts identified by the Hayne royal commission, and in the face of a looming regulatory focus on SMA performance.Chantal Giles 📊 Michael Wright Matt Lawler #financialservices #financialadvisers #financialplanning

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Is robust governance overkill for middle-market industrial manufacturers? Will owners be hogtied and lose control of a board that doesn't have the same emotional attachment to their business? What does effective governance entail and how much does it cost?And what's the potential return on that investment?Let's dig into some takeaways and impressions from MLR Media's recent Private Company Governance Summit.https://hubs.ly/Q02ym-160

I step lightly into commenting on this article by Anjli Raval. I have views (natch): as someone who has worked at two of the firms mentioned in the piece and having helped found Apella, a firm with immense depth and breadth of expertise, but is very different from the behemoths mentioned.In what ways are we so different? I'll just lift the article's final quote from Professor Laura Empson, which aligns with what we hear from so many corporate affairs directors and CEOs:“The client may be getting the reassurance of the brand but not the depth of expertise.” And as Anjli signs off: "Success does not come from being everything to everyone."Particularly if we're talking about success for the client. Which in a service industry is really the point, isn't it?

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This is a spot-on assessment by Anjli Raval. The value of hiring consultants has always been access to knowledge, expertise, experience, and proven methodologies. A one-stop model waters down the value proposition and directly leads to the failed projects we now constantly read about in the news.In some ways, this is an example of consultants eating their own dog food.For decades, consulting firms peddled diversification as a solution to market downturns, slow growth, and revenue cyclicality.Remember, #consultants turned companies like GE into conglomerates that could supposedly build an aircraft engine with the same skills and experience needed to run a television network. Later, consultants advised companies like GE to divest non-core assets and win based on focus, specialization, and excellence.Many consulting firms are diversifying in the same way in an effort to maintain growth. Some consultancies may have started as accounting firms and grown into global consulting powerhouses. However, the leap from accounting to software development is not that different from the leap GE took when it went from designing wind turbines to writing television sitcom scripts.There is no better example of this than every firm's pivot towards #AI. A quick stroll through the Wayback Machine shows how many firms claiming deep AI expertise had precisely zero AI offerings or projects mentioned on their websites just a few years ago. Similarly, according to old bios and LinkedIn profiles, many of the anointed AI experts and thought leaders at these firms were working in unrelated fields as recently as two years ago.Clients are doing more Googling and reference checking, and it's becoming much harder to maintain the "we are world-class experts in everything" veneer. The more firms diversify offerings, the more clients look to proven niche experts.As the larger firms face slowdowns in growth, the smaller, more focused firms are seeing unprecedented demand.

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Solid observations re: how to leverage cross-selling potential on the backside of an M&A.Cross-selling is a big topic for consulting firms. They typically form complex matrixes of services, solutions, practices, and industries which are essentially run like independent businesses with separate P&Ls. This often leads to siloed GTMs, sales, and delivery models. With all of the M&A activity in consulting right now, this is getting exacerbated. Opportunities to exponentially scale certainly exist when looking at the pipeline from a fully integrated perspective, but this siloing tends to keep that growth pocketed. "Fewer than 20 percent of the organizations we polled in the M&A space achieved their cross-selling goals"#privateequity #managementconsulting #b2bmarketing https://lnkd.in/g5PTNxQ2

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Capitalism was born out of the brutal exploitation, dehumanization, and extermination of Black and Native people starting with the onset of the American Slave Trade. How sardonic to now see these Black CEOs/directors fervently defend capitalism. 😩“Slavery was undeniably a font of phenomenal wealth. By the eve of the Civil War, the Mississippi Valley was home to more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in the United States. Cotton grown and picked by enslaved workers was the nation’s most valuable export. The combined value of enslaved people exceeded that of all the railroads and factories in the nation. New Orleans boasted a denser concentration of banking capital than New York City. What made the cotton economy boom in the United States, and not in all the other far-flung parts of the world with climates and soil suitable to the crop, was our nation’s unflinching willingness to use violence on nonwhite people and to exert its will on seemingly endless supplies of land and labor. Given the choice between modernity and barbarism, prosperity and poverty, lawfulness and cruelty, democracy and totalitarianism, America chose all of the above.” - https://lnkd.in/gpi4Xhie

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At a time when investors routinely seek insights on governance, compensation and sustainability from directors, boards must walk a fine line between answering questions and oversharing. #goodgovernance #directors #shareholders #engagement

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Read our latest blog post by Board Benchmarking's Executive Chairman Nicholas Barnett on the recent virtual roundtable held by our UK partner Halex Consulting Limited. The piece explores both Australian and UK perspectives on how to define and implement rigorous board evaluations. https://lnkd.in/gcuaupeS#boardmember #corporategovernance #governance #companysecretaries

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