Corporate Strategy

We help our clients determine the right strategic priorities to grow profitably and maximise value, and offer support and practical solutions to achieve these objectives. The risk of not changing and improving can be as significant as the risks which may affect your plans to develop your business - your competition is almost certainly changing and moving ahead, and you are likely to be left behind in terms of efficiency, reputation and financial success if you do not learn lessons and appreciate what factors may influence your likely success in delivering your business goals.

How we can support you

Corporate and Business unit strategy

We advise leadership teams on developing their strategies at group or business unit level to drive performance. We help companies make hard choices about what they want to be famous for (ambition), where they want to play (participation strategy), how they intend to win (competitive strategy) and what priorities to focus on (management agenda)

International growth strategy

We work with you to drive international growth in mature and developing markets. We help you navigate the complexity about which countries/clusters to enter, which combination of models to adopt, and what implementation plan to put in place to unlock international opportunities at pace

Strategic planning

We help you set your business ambition, generate and evaluate key initiatives, identify other options to fill any gap versus your ambition, and deliver your plan. This gives confidence to stakeholders that targets will be met and focus to management on what to do and not to do

M&A strategy

We work with you you to identify, screen and evaluate M&A targets to increase share of market, extend share of wallet and/or acquire core assets and capabilities. Our wider firm can support transactions and manage post-integration

Growth

We help you to identify, prioritise and capture sustainable growth opportunities in your core business and from new sources. We work collaboratively with our clients to unlock growth opportunities in a creative but disciplined way

Marketing and Customer Strategy

Idata Consulting focuses on marketing and Customer Service impacts for Business Growth. Satisfied customers can, when approached correctly, be a continuous stream of new customers and referrals. This tends to be the lowest cost growth methodology applied by many successful companies. Where as dissatisfied customers can severely undermine your marketing programs through telling potential customers about their negative experiences with your business.



Finance

Our Financial Services Risk team deal with some of the biggest names in globalized financial services, dealing with some of the most complex issues in business. If you have an ambitious vision for your career, you will find everything you need to realize it here.

Within the Financial Services practice, the iData team delivers sustainable benefits to our clients though tailored services across credit risk, operational risk, market risk, insurance risk and risk technology. Enterprise Risk Services provide our Banking and Investment and Asset Management clients with support in improving their overall risk frameworks, governance and systems.

Guiding Investment Banks in transition

Amid significant global, regulatory reform, banks and securities firms are faced with numerous challenges and sweeping changes. How should banks' operating models evolve? Where are the greatest opportunities for growth? What is the most effective way to raise and manage capital? These are some of the questions banks are wrestling with as they seek to comply with new regulations while meeting the reasonable expectations of customers and shareholders

Our global reach

Our iData team of industry-focused transaction and advisory professionals - with deep sector knowledge and technical experience - can help you address these myriad changes and compete effectively in this dynamic environment.

Our commitment

Whether managing risk, improving transparency, replacing and developing systems or enhancing data quality, we're committed to helping your organization reach its full potential

Business Design

You can find a common belief on the Business side; they can improve their performance by modifying just one part of the Firm. Should they take a broader view and acknowledge the impact that change will have on the whole organisation is far more likely to yield the results they want and see a better return on their investmen. With a wide range of expertise and extensive experience on the subject matter underpins our approach to Business Design. Any successful business has to have best of class IT components in the organisation hence our design brings the Architecture and the core of the businesses together . This would eventually assist the Client to realise the exceptional outcome from the IT change.



Regulation

Demands for greater transparency, regulatory enforcement and consumer protection have created new challenges for regulators and regulated industries. Handled correctly, these challenges become exceptional opportunities. Whether you are a regulator, regulated company or policymaker, we will help you regain control and realise lasting value through regulatory change.

Our teams of industry regulation experts are working with some of the world's largest organisations to challenge assumptions and achieve outstanding results. The main Regulators that we have dealt up to date are: FSA, FINMA, FRB, LAS & SEB. We have expertise in implementing major Finance related regulations in major top tier investment banks.