Advisory

Our Advisory Services are focused on the challenges facing modern businesses and keeping our clients one step ahead. Our advisory teams deliver practical solutions and innovative thinking quickly and effectively, essential in an ever changing and competitive business environment.

Strategy

Strategy is an art. We stretch and focus our clients’ strategic ambitions, whilst ensuring these are grounded in reality and within capabilities. Through our sector and technical knowledge we provide deep insight, supported by rigorous market, economic and financial analysis.

With a team of over 50 professionals, we offer depth and scale in strategic thinking within our chosen areas of business strategy, routes to market, country entry solutions, transactional services, valuations, economics, intellectual property management and risk management.

We work with our clients and bring to bear our knowledge, expertise and know–how to solve strategic challenges, ensure successful execution and provide practical steps to success.

Finance

Our finance professionals help support CEOs, CFOs, finance controllers and treasurers to optimise the structure of their finance functions and improve their business performance metrics.

We structure our support to ensure that the challenges of the finance needs are addressed through the appropriate standards of control, efficient back office opportunities and support to the business through insight and challenge.

Operations

The demand for customer focused, integrated operations and optimal cost management has never been greater. We support our clients to improve value, reduce waste and costs, and to leave behind ongoing sustainable benefits.

We bring the capabilities in management and process improvement to help companies optimise their operating processes and supply chains. We help our clients transform their key value chain functions, from customer management through to sourcing of services and goods. We apply proven cost management methodologies and techniques to facilitate agile responses to changing conditions and to drive business growth.

Technology

Technology enables business transformation and smooth operations.  Our professionals ensure you have the right IT for your business and that you are extracting the maximum value from your investments.  We provide the skills to deliver improvements in processes, strategy, architecture and design, sourcing, project management and operations management.

We can help if:

• You recognise a need to improve IT
• Looking to outsource
• You need to invest in IT and require advice
• Regulatory controls have uncovered operational and security issues
• You wish to assess current IT services

People Change

Getting the best from people can be a key competitive advantage. Business success often hinges on strategic agility and the ability to execute. Our professionals use strategies, processes and techniques to drive performance help people accept, adopt, drive, and sustain change.

We can help if you:

• Need the right people skills in the right roles at the right time
• Want to ensure successful change
• Need a culture that delivers a competitive advantage
• Have to establish the control to manage projects
• Need to motivate a workforce to focus and strive for excellence
• Are seeking effective strategies for people development and growth

Risk Compliance

We support our clients in identifying, understanding and managing risks.  We also assist businesses in designing and implementing governance and compliance programmes that ensure a business operates within the boundaries of relevant legislation and regulations. This includes building a culture of doing the right thing.

We can help if you:

• Have incidents of compliance failure
• Need advice on performance and accountability
• Are exposed to FX, interest rates and commodity prices
• Want to manage processes and mitigate business risks
• Lack clear and measurable KPIs and procedures

Marketing Sales

We bring highly experienced marketing professionals, with know-how and proven track records of delivering outstanding results in pressured environments.  By knowing our clients and their most relevant issues, we can provide a balanced approach between innovation and reliable, tested strategies.  This ensures our recommendations keep businesses ahead of the pack, even in an ever evolving environment.

We specialise in:

• Infusing customer insights into the business
• Go to market execution and integrating marketing into businesses
• Integrating business and brand strategies
• Design and implementation of strategic processes and commercial strategy

Non-Executive Advisory

Through CooperSummors Non-Executive Advisory Services, many businesses appreciate the added benefits of having the right people on their boards.

Our services help to reinforce board and executive management teams, with complimentary expertise, industry knowledge and business intelligence.  In today’s environment of business pressures, legal, regulatory & governance demand, our services facilitate the decision making process that in turn drive corporate competitiveness.

Our people are selected for their extensive business experience, proven ability and know-how. They have the ability, motivation and drive to help identify and execute the most appropriate solutions for your business needs, in key areas such as: Strategy, Performance, Risk and People.