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Strategy & Corporate Finance

Strategy & Corporate Finance are important for reaching the desired future and long-term success

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Strategy & Corporate Finance

Montell & Partners has extensive experience of supporting organizations in different industries with issues regarding business plans, reorganizations and corporate finance.

Strategy

A strategy should describe the journey that the company needs to make from its current position to reach the future desired position and is described by main initiatives that will be performed in the coming 3-5 years. To secure fulfillment of the strategy, key activities are monitored in the top management group by using an operational planning tool with a focus on the coming three months. Montell & Partners has experience in developing strategies on both the corporate level and business unit level.

WE CAN SUPPPORT YOUR STRATEGY WORK BY:

  • Creating a new strategy or developing an existing one by acting as strategic advisors and support you throughout the entire process
  • Facilitating and catalyzing your work with vision, mission, and company objectives
  • Breaking down long-term strategic targets into activities and projects on different levels in the organization
  • Challenging the current organizational structure by identifying potential improvement areas and creating an efficient follow-up structure including KPIs and scorecards

Corporate Finance

Corporate finance includes all activities that impact the capital structure of a company as well as activities that influence shareholder value. Corporate finance-related activities are often initiated when a company or business unit is about to be sold or acquired by a third party and the logic reasoning behind the decision of divestment/acquisition needs to be verified. 

We can support your corporate finance related activities by:

  • Developing information memorandum for potential divestment objects
  • Conducting company valuations based on Discounted Cash Flow analysis and comparison with peer companies
  • Identifying potential buyers or acquisition targets
  • Acting as strategic advisors during the divestment/acquisition process
  • Conducting commercial due diligence
  • Initiating realization of identified synergies after completed acquisition

Organization

An organization is often divided into functional divisions and their respective roles and responsibilities need to be clearly defined for the organization to become efficient. The interaction between the functions is controlled by the governance structure in combination with the company’s processes. 

We can support your organization’s activities by:

  • Developing organizational structures including roles and responsibilities
  • Defining governance structure including forums and participants
  • Defining KPIs on corporate as well as individual levels and connecting these to a balanced scorecard
  • Supporting integration activities
  • Optimizing corporate processes

With relevant KPIs for each part of the organization the company will be able to reach its overall goals by a structured follow-up. Montell & Partners often act as a coach within projects, collaborating closely together with you to achieve great results that match your needs.

Process Development

Having well-organized processes that support your operation is crucial to stay competitive on the market. Process development adds value to your organization by being the foundation for continuous improvement of efficiency, reducing lead times, and lowering costs. Montell & Partners are experienced with process development techniques such as Six Sigma and Lean Administration and have also worked with the implementation and improvement of quality management systems.

We can support the need of process-related activities:

  • Establishing a company’s processes from scratch without previous material by acting as project leaders or advisors supporting process managers or quality managers
  • Streamlining and improving existing processes in a company according to proven methods by acting as project leaders or advisors that support process managers or quality managers
  • Establishing a well-functioning process organization with process managers working with continuous improvements

Program Management

Program management is the process of managing related projects, with the overall goal of improving an organization’s performance. It helps your organization to deliver and realize the required benefits, innovation, and innovative ways of working that will ensure success with major projects and programs of business change. Montell & Partners adds value to our clients by keeping the strategic alignment of the different projects included in the program, ensuring that all projects contribute to the program goal.

We can support your program management work by:

  • Structuring the governance model, including follow-up and reporting within the program, to secure the projects’ successful execution
  • Follow up resource utilization and ensure that the resources working in the program focus their efforts on the right things
  • Identifying and keeping track of all program risks

Project Management

Project management is the art of planning, organizing, and controlling resources to achieve specific goals over a specific period. Projects demand a lot from the organization and a challenge is to capture the expected value of the project result. A well-developed project model and a project management office (PMO) can contribute to the success of projects with a cross-functional set-up. Montell & Partners has extensive experience in developing and implementing both waterfall and agile project models. We can support you throughout the entire process, starting with defining your needs and requirements to develop and implement a suitable model.

We can support your project management related activities by:

  • Implementation of a project model that meets your needs and requirements
  • Development of a suitable governance structure
  • Definition of clear project roles and responsibilities
  • Creation of appropriate documentation templates and agendas
  • Training and education of the employees in the new project model

Transformations

Transformation is about imlementing and realize the effects from a change, such as digitalization. Based on experiences from transformation projects in both private and public sectors, we can help our clients in avoiding the most common mistakes and provide tailored support thoughout the entire project; from analyzing the need and objectives of the transformation of evaluating, selecting, and implementing the chosen solution.

Through close collaboration with our clients, we facilitate knowledge sharing and ensure a long-term perspective.

We can support your transformation work by: 

  • Defining objectives and desired outcomes of the transformation 
  • Initiating, planning, and organizing the project in collaboration with key stakeholders 
  • Analyzing company needs and assessing current processes, organization, IT-solutions, information models, and data governance 
  • Gathering and synthesizing requirements and solutions evaluations, and providing support in negotiation and contract drafting if a new solution is to be acquired 
  • Managing the implementation of the new solution, with a focus on change management 
  • Ensuring successful implementation and handover, including training and education for the recipient organization and maintenance team 
  • Measuring and monitoring objectives and outcomes post-transformation to ensure success 
  • Key success factors include close collaboration with the client, where  applicable, system suppliers, as well as tailored implementation plans for each unique situation 

Project Examples

Challenge

The customer requested help in carrying out a company integration of a company of a similar size acquired by the customer with the goal to realize synergy effects and secure operations in the business without risking the existing business. There was a large cultural and operational difference that needed to be considered by both sides. A critical part of the delivery was to establish a synergy log that was run towards all projects & regions where activities were logged and followed towards set goals.

Solution

A program office was set up with participants from both companies and eight subprojects were run in parallel. The program office was run for six months and launched, among other things, a new organizational structure, business processes, and secured operations in the business, as well as realized significant synergies.

Christian Dahlqvist

Christian Dahlqvist

Responsible partner

Phone

+46 (0)709 437 985

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