Business strategy
As players around the world expand their role in the A&D sector, and new technologies change customer acquisition priorities, companies must adapt to evolving market conditions and reevaluate their strategic direction. With unmatched industry experience, we help unlock our clients’ growth potential by developing integrated, capabilities-driven strategies. Service offerings include:
- Corporate strategy
- Organic growth
- Portfolio strategy
- Market entry strategies
- International expansion
- Shareholder value strategy
- Strategic planning
People and organization strategy
In a marketplace characterized by intense competition, complex requirements, and tight timeframes, A&D companies must consistently improve quality and reduce costs while maintaining the ability to exploit new opportunities. These demands often require companies to realign their organization, seek strategic M&A opportunities, and use objective- driven change initiatives to steer organizational transformation. We enable seamless transitions, helping clients improve their operational efficiency and competitiveness in an increasingly global industry. Service offerings include:
- Post-merger integration
- Organizational effectiveness and alignment
- Operating model design and implementation
- Strategic communications
Operations strategy
We help clients optimize their operations by focusing on differentiated capabilities for continuous and sustained innovation. We focus on reducing costs to enable reinvestment, while bringing growth rates and returns on invested capital that exceed the performance of their competitors. We have deep knowledge and experience in industry 4.0, lean principles, sourcing, transparency, and tax issues across A&D manufacturing, distribution, and transportation. Service offerings include:
- Customer operations
- Innovation and product development
- Strategic supply management
- Manufacturing
- Supply chain
- Capital assets
- General and administrative operations
- Enterprise-wide operational excellence
- Digital operations
Technology strategy
In the A&D industry, the IT organization increasingly finds itself caught between opposing imperatives—being encouraged to provide greater support to the business and trying to control costs. We partner with our clients to create value in two important ways: by working with clients to reduce the cost of IT by aligning infrastructure, applications, and acquisitions to best practices; and by identifying opportunities to align IT with business strategy to increase competiveness and the ability to integrate with clients and partners, creating new growth opportunities over the long term. Service offerings include:
- Capabilities architecture
- Digital strategy and transformation
- Technology-targeted Fit for Growth approach
- Analytics and data management
Megaprojects
Whether you’re building new aircraft, commercial nuclear power plant designs, or something else entirely, our A&D expertise provides insight into best practices in program management and performance. We work with all types of megaproject stakeholders, including corporate owners, engineering procurement and construction (EPC) firms, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), governments, and major suppliers to improve the likelihood that a megaproject will be delivered safely, on-time, on budget, and with high quality. Service offerings include:
- Assessment and capability building
- Risk management
- Leadership and operating model
- Contracting and procurement
- Design for affordability
- Management outsourcing
