Strategic Tools and options

The best medicine for Business aches and pains

Our goal remains constant: every time you look at your products and services, you see yourself and your ideas.
We offer one single service, our strength to realise your ideas, your vision, more completely, effectively and enduringly.
The greatest impediment to success is the loss of the idea: It starts the moment it leaves your hands and flows through the executive to senior management into the organisation and out into products and services.
So, we have to change the way we change… from leadership culture, through high performance organisations, to create and deliver high value products and services.
And, we have leverage in tools and methods, where there is a need, to reinforce the high performance organisation and the creation of high value products and services.
Here are some of the options we have:

Solutions Groups: Total Value Management, Full Service Supplier, Strategy and Governance.
Intelligent Methods: by corporate departments including the executive
Design Excellence: critical evaluation and precise resolutions
Interim Management: board-level intervention

One note: This is not a laundry-list of ‘packages,’ to sell to you.

Strategy consultancy in solution groups

Pain Points

You know the customer is king, but your workforce doesn’t believe you
You have great products and services, but your customers are buying from the competition
Your products are making money, but not as much as you expected
Your company is making good profits, but you are bleeding 30-50% of those profits
Marketing and Sales are not getting through to R&D and Production
Your products are too expensive and costs are too high

Solution

We increase your profit margin by understanding and leveraging customer intelligence and refocusing your investments on features that customers value. All departments will use value analysis and value management to contribute; interdepartmental teams will have joint goals to leverage cooperation and co-opetition: more focused products will drive corporate turnover and profits.

We don’t cut costs and features and call it “value improvement,” because short-term profiteering destroys brand value, lowers workforce moral and reduces long-term profitability.

Benefits from actual cases

Product of the Year
Number one in Quality
Multi-billion dollar savings over five years

Pain Points

You want to satisfy a market need, but lack the right abilities
You see the product you want, but another company already owns it
You want to deliver best in class, but need to avoid recreating an existing offer
You realise your product would benefit from best in class components, which you do not make
Working with suppliers can be a pain in itself
You integrated suppliers, but your workforce continue to do the same jobs

Solution

We offer customer-focused expertise and cost structures. By building trust and integrating suppliers, you free-up your workforce to focus on higher value delivery.

We actively develop communication with your suppliers, and ensure that key skills remain within your company. By not unduly crushing the profit margins of your integrated suppliers, we ensure future value gains for your company.

Benefits from actual cases

Substantial improvement to OEM product value for your customers
Reduced product cycle times
Reduction in warranty and unexpended warranty costs
Increased profit margins
New marketing and sales opportunities

Pain Points

You signed off a project budget, but the customer benefit was not clear
You hired specialists, but their expertise is not being used to help you
Your projects are delivered late
The returns on your investments are not met
Your strategy should be better, but falls short
The information basis for key future decisions is not supported by bottom up expert field knowledge
Your five year future sales volumes are based on target setting rather than analysis of concrete advance planning by your sales executives

Solution

We coach your executives and support your management decisions for projects and investments with in-house expertise. The structures we develop with you are key to developing trust. Pertinent information is critical, defined by both its quality and timely availability.

Sales and marketing focused solutions such as Key Account Management and Territory Planning can provide business intelligence and further white-space planning. These tools are both push and pull in nature, and require adequate resourcing and strategic framework to deliver on their promise.

Benefits from actual cases

More accurate sales forecasts
Improved exec access to corporate data
Increased ROI
More realistic project forecasting and delivery
Improved financial forecasting
Less volatility of your stock on the exchange
Improved investment decisions
Improved deployment of company resources
Greater employee loyalty.

intelligent Methods

Every department can contribute…

Trusted Advisor

is our peer-to-peer unbiased “sounding-board” and confidential partner for corporate owners and board members. For executives, we seek to strengthen adaption to new challenges and improve the environment they leverage to better deploy their skills and talents

Teams

represents a collaborative approach and cultural change, moving away from departmental deliverables to the achievement of key strategic company goals

Purchasing

changes the target of the purchasing organisation, making it a “go-to!” department, capable of enhancing technical ROI and increasing total company cost effectiveness

Digitalisation

This programme is a complete restructuring, beginning with line-executives and their management teams redefinition of roles & responsibilites and addresses changes in HR, Purchasing, IT and corportate security

IT

is our programme for IT experts and business users that transforms IT Project delivery: enhanced usability; better workforce information available to senior management for bottom-up decision making

e.g.

Form and function review for Visual Interface and User Interaction Experience
Intelligent use of data sources. Right information to right people at right time; software infrastructure
Intelligent Security for Access Rights and Information
Global-Local sourced IT and Negotiation with tier-one suppliers

New Business Development

leverages your business and technology strengths with our Fresh-Eyes approach to identify and evaluate new market and product opportunities for profitable growth in new business areas

Sales

pulls forward revenue generation, leverages brand values and enhances customer feedback to the marketing and development organisations and roadmaps future customer business effectively, to enable bottom up management planning

R&D Management

brings a new focus to operative R&D, reinforcing the bridge to product development to bring high quality innovation to the market, faster and more manageably

Product Development

increases customer retention and increases profit margin by interacting with the intelligent market to better target technical investment and resources

Market

enables Marketing to determine and model the key physical attributes that influence the customers’ perception of your company and its products, their willingness to buy and probable spend

Supplier

reduces cost and enhances innovation, moving beyond a supplier sales organisation to a supplier value chain, seamlessly integrated, into your own organisation (leverage your tier-one suppliers’ key core skills as if they were your own valuable non-core skills)

Design Excellence

Sometimes we have to focus on form and function and often on design and execution. Design excellence starts by asking the question, “can you see the key elements that define what your company represents, mirrored in this product or service?” Simplicity and elegance? Ease of use? Dynamic and active? Valuable and luxurious?

Design excellence then seeks to identify the elements of a product or service to improve, determines the improvement necessary to ensure that the new design lives up to the design promise and finally either confirms success or honestly goes back to the drawing board, with you, for a clean start.

We critique business, process, technology and design
We target whatever disturbs the clarity of the message with detailed resolutions
We ensure that your products and services live up to your message- to develop customer trust

Our design excellence experience covers products and services, evaluations through customer clinics and even through to presentations and new product roll-outs.

Because of strategic work for software giants, we have also supported them to improve IT Applications, tools and user interfaces and experiences.

IT and Digitalisation can go hand-in-hand to reinforce a strategic initiative and to ensure robust adoption throughout a company.

Theses are some example of large-scale IT initiatives. Autark works with both corporate internal technical partners as well as selected business partners. The results speak for themselves.

Interim Management

We will step in at board level, if required.

We can also co-staff a special programmes or special projects executive.

Typical interim executive services

fire-fighting
launch management
restructuring for high performance organisation

Why Autark Ltd?

We start with you and your idea. We engage with you and your executive team to ensure that your idea is firmly supported in a strategy for real-world success, rather than a strategy created in a vacuum. And, we broaden the support for the tactical deployment of your strategy, with roll-out teams and digital support.

What You Get

Successful change in your organisation