Management consulting

Overview

Achieving your objectives to gain advantage requires experience and foresight. Make the best decisions to move your business forward with confidence.

We can help through a variety of solutions: 

People and Change

Tremendous forces are radically reshaping the workplace. There are new organizational, talent, HR and technology challenges to be faced as business leaders wrestle with disruptive innovation, global trade, skills mismatches and the constant tests of risk and regulation.

Services we provide include:

  • Executive selection and search (recruitment)
  • Skills Assessment & capacity building;
  • Competency Framework Development;
  • Organizational reviews including restructuring
  • Organisation Structure Implementation;
  • Performance Management Framework Development;
  • Human resources due diligence
  • Change management;
  • Change readiness

Organizations need to redefine the way work gets done and create innovative talent ecosystems that build engaged, enabled and agile workforces. And as they face the future we know that every organization is different. Each has a unique history, culture, leadership style and capability set in its employees.

We can help through a variety of solutions:

  • You want to structure your organisation with the right capabilities and leadership to execute the business strategy
  • You want managers to understand, manage and own people issues
  • You need to get the right people with the right skills in the right roles at the right time
  • You want to ensure successful change by involving the people impacted and enabling them to drive and sustain the business change
  • You want the organization’s culture to be a competitive advantage

Strategy and Operations

The face of operations is changing rapidly, driven by global trends, shifting industry ecosystems, and ground breaking digital technologies. This ever evolving landscape presents new challenges and opportunities for operations to move beyond the role of cost-effective business enabler and become a source of competitive advantage.

Operations executives are being asked to change cost structures and increase productivity, and they must make those changes faster, safer, and in a more automated fashion to keep pace with competitors.

Our “manage to growth” strategy thinks through multiple cost implications across your organization and aligns your organization’s priorities to fuel performance in a focused, accelerated way. We help companies achieve strategic and operational excellence through sustainable improvements and more efficient processes that lower costs, increase cash flows and enhance customer satisfaction.

We can help through a variety of solutions:

  • Develop an efficient and sustainable business model that is responsive and competitive • Reduce operating costs and minimise waste to enhance profitability
  • Eliminate activities that do not add value to your business
  • Develop an effective supply chain that supports the efficient flow of goods from suppliers through to customers
  • Reduce costs and improve service through the use of shared service centers and outsourcing (including activities offshore)
  • Improve procurement processes, organizational redesign and working capital reduction

Technology

Our society lives, works, and plays digitally. Around the clock, we rely on technology’s speed, efficiency and convenience. This exciting tech whirlwind continually builds, shifts and innovates.

But with exhilaration comes apprehension - about pace, corporate dynamics, government or industry regulations, and potential threats. All are valid hurdles - they’re also opportunities. Together, we can make technology happen for your business.

We can help through a variety of solutions:

  • Optimize the value from technology spend
  • Align information technology projects and IT organizational structure to business strategy
  • Align maintenance, security and support activities to operational needs
  • Access to independent experts who can provide an objective view of your IT issues

By combining deep business and industry insight with digital innovation, our diverse teams of creative, industry and technology professionals help accelerate the successful impact digital can have.

  • We’re independent. We are not a technology vendor selling a particular solution or trying to sell a pyramid of people to do implementation work.
  • We have a range of skills in People and Change, Finance, Risk, Operations, Strategy as well as Technology.
  • We can partner. If a client wants an adviser to partner with a technology vendor or systems integrator to make the implementation work, we can do so.
  • Additional technology expertise. We now offer a greater level of industry specific process and technology expertise through our strong Global Delivery Centers.

Contact us

Laolu Akindele

Laolu Akindele

Technology, Media and Telecommunications Leader, PwC Kenya

Tel: +254 (20) 285 5000

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