You don’t need someone to tell you the company is headed in the wrong direction. You need someone to turn it around.
Strategic Realignments & More
The first step in getting a business back on track is to establish a crystal clear picture of the current situation, how you got there, and determine what’s working and what’s not. Whether the business needs a strategic realignment or just tactical changes, a baseline assessment is fundamental to establishing initiatives that take into account the current market environment, competitive landscape and pressures from a changing global economy. KH Advisors will assess your business from the following angles:
- Commercial (read more)
- Evaluate the company’s commercial profile, based on customer analysis, competitive position and pressures, trends, margins, new business pipeline, capture rate, where in the cycle business is lost, and the effectiveness of the sales channel.
- Operations (read more)
- Evaluate Operation’s ability to execute according to plan. Operational excellence is often determined by decisions made up-stream in the process. Variables such as realistic delivery commitments, design for manufacturability, supplier performance, and management information set the stage.
- Financial (read more)
- This bottoms-up analysis of the company’s financial performance identifies and models the drivers of each business segment to see the financial ramifications of alternative decisions.
- Quality Assurance (read more)
- Evaluate the overall Quality Assurance System, and its impact on the success of the business.
- Technology & Products (read more)
- Evaluate whether your technology and product strategies are paying-off. Customers want to partner with providers who can serve today’s needs and who have the vision and commitment to be prepared to lead them into the next generation when they are ready. Having a well thought out technology / product road map can facilitate relationship building at higher levels with your customer. It also provides an alternative, other than pricing, to help tip the scale in your favor when customers evaluate bid proposals on new projects.
- Organization Effectiveness (read more)
- Central to the success of any company is the quality of the team and its chemistry. Evaluate whether you are realizing synergy from teamwork or suffering the results of sub-optimization?
Crisis Management
Businesses in crisis face unique challenges, stretching the management team and adding unfamiliar pressures. Maintaining a focus on the business, and not becoming distracted by the mechanics or the emotions of the reorganization, is essential for success. Our expertise is identifying the leverage areas, managing reorganization, and projecting confidence during this period of uncertainty, including:
- Reorganize to stabilize core operations and address liquidity concerns.
- Map out a communication strategy for suppliers, customers, sales channels, employees, and the community.
- Provide customer crisis intervention, help defuse competitive disadvantage and minimize loss of market share.
- Manage the time consuming external interface; creditors, legal, suppliers, union negotiations, and lenders.
- Develop reorganization options and supporting financial models.
- Prepare offering memorandums to obtain additional financing.
- Bankruptcy case administration
- Provide leadership to manage uncertainty and the pressures of reorganization.
Executive Coaching can guide you through sensitive situations & help you stay on point.
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