The accelerating rate of change across the business landscape is creating unprecedented opportunities and challenges
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Our approach
Our approach is shaped by having worked with private equity-owned companies across a variety of industries.
Smart: By bringing experienced teams that know and have first hand experience of the client’s industry, but also have top tier management consulting experience, we can hit the ground running, quickly understand and structure the solution and then move into implementation mode
Pragmatic: Our extensive line experience and senior teams ensure that solutions are pragmatic, implementable and tailored to the client’s specific environment
Collaborative: We take a partnership approach with our clients and are normally present on the ground for the duration of the project, and especially during implementation to help ensure successful change. We work together to build our clients’ capabilities and ensure ownership at all levels and functions of the organization
An experienced team
The typical OPX Partners team brings more experience - both of consulting and from the ’real world’ than other top tier consulting firms, and we don’t keep a traditional pyramid structure but rather a team that can engage with senior client managers at their level.
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Crafting resilient supply chains
Alongside the very urgent need to flush out excess inventory, raising supply chain resilience and flexibility has grown into a top objective among surveyed executives. A more unpredictable business environment with, e.g., geopolitical and protectionist policies and macro shocks such as the COVID pandemic, have exposed flaws in current setups, especially among our industrial clients. However, it’s also an area of many conflicting wills and objectives. We work broadly with our clients to unlock the supply chain’s full potential to make it a cornerstone of the company’s competitive edge. We’ve synthesized our experiences into this pragmatic five-step approach.
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Pricing in times of turmoil – A practical framework for actions as high inflation drives up costs
In times of high inflation and rapidly growing direct costs, many companies are under pressure to defend margins through price increases. We have developed a practical framework for short-term action to secure margins through pricing, in times of macroeconomic turmoil. The report also includes techniques for addressing the most common challenges in customer interactions when executing price adjustments.
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Active Ownership in the Private Equity Industry – A Key to Superior Returns
Most Private Equity firms today talk about themselves as ‘active owners’, but the approach to active ownership is still to a large extent based on individual deal teams. We set out to develop a perspective on best-practice throughout the portfolio company life-cycle, and a toolkit to active ownership. Contact us for the full report.
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Partner programs: A commercial tool we love, maybe you would too?
This short memo lays out key questions and considerations when targeting indirect sales through partners. From our experience of implementing partner programs with international B2B companies, we have gathered the most important ones in a pragmatic checklist that can set you up for success.
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The First 100 Days: Crafting a Value Creation Plan
There are two ways of creating a VCP; the thorough top management-driven strategy process, or starting the sprint by focusing on a few well-chosen no-regrets moves. Either way, the VCP process should be started during the first 100 days. And once it is in full swing, our core belief is that it is, at its most basic, a people question. This whitepaper outlines the dos and don'ts
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Responding to COVID 19 - adjusting the cost base to the "new normal" (August 2020)
Whilst the Covid 19 crisis is far from over, a ‘new normal’ is gradually emerging. Though the details differ by sector, the outlines for most companies are becoming clearer: Weaker demand and changed customer preferences. For individual companies, adjusting to this reality will be a journey in several stages: 1. The initial shock to demand, followed by immediate actions to press down operating expenses has, of necessity,been completed 2. A cost out phase to adjust to weaker demand (the topic of this white paper) 3. Lastly, companies will need to transform their ways of working to grow again in a world of changed customer preferences and, ideally, following a lower cost curve
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Responding to COVID 19 - one month into the crisis: From fire-fighting to risk mitigation (April 2020)
When many management teams were in chock mid-March due to COVID-19, OPX Partners quickly shared a pragmatic guide, with ready-to-use checklists for immediate action to handle the situation. Since then, we have followed up with a summary of what management teams do as they move from fire-fighting to risk mitigation, again with practical checklists of actions to handle increased uncertainties in demand and supply.
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Responding to COVID 19 - a short perspective (March 2020)
This short memo lays out a simple three-step approach to respond to the crisis, complemented by a set of tools and examples aimed at enabling quick action.
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