Corporate Strategy
Oliver Wyman’s Corporate Strategy Practice helps chief executives and management boards of major financial services firms address wide-ranging issues of strategic impact. Our primary focus is to optimize performance in an environment that is rich in both opportunities and challenges.
Value-Based Cost Management
Our approach to value-based cost management avoids the shortcomings of traditional cost-cutting approaches. Through advanced analytics and by taking value-generation into account, we can build healthy growth strategies for companies while reducing overall costs.
Positional & Executional Strategy
We have been highly successful in helping clients generate improved results using a two-pronged strategic approach. Our positional work determines the best mix of business activities, while our executional work helps improve performance, giving companies a competitive edge.
Innovation
Success today can often be reached by introducing innovations that are highly valued by target customers and difficult to replicate. Since major growth opportunities often emerge outside of a firm’s traditional customer base, we focus on accelerating growth with clearly differentiated offerings for non-traditional customers.
Post-Merger Integration
Corporate transactions often serve as catalysts for new business models. We help management teams undertake the changes needed to achieve the target business model after the transaction is completed -- from overall governance, organization and performance management to transformational changes in the business lines.
Value and Risk-Adjusted Performance Management
We develop value-driven programs and analyses that are tailored to manage individual business dynamics while providing risk-adjusted performance comparability at a group level. Our proven, results-driven approach has benefited our clients across a wide range of diverse markets.
Productivity-Based Compensation
The world’s largest financial services firms have worked with us on strategic compensation, making productivity a central driver in their compensation frameworks. Using productivity adjustments based on specific business model factors, companies can identify factors that will have the most impact on their businesses.
Shared Services
Companies can generate tangible efficiency improvements by centralizing support functions and services for their business units. Our expertise has helped many firms improve the cost efficiency of shared services and their ability to react to market movements, resulting in increased productivity.
Growth Audits
By identifying where there is potential for market-beating rates of profitable and sustainable growth, a “growth audit” can drive organic growth for businesses. We work with companies on practical and organizational changes that align funds, staff, and capital to high-impact areas.
