The Lodestone ValueCompass - Banking on Cash for Success

As credit markets continue to flounder, companies are forced to reduce their reliance on external capital, optimize internal operations and bank on organic growth more than ever. Free cash flow generation is the key to self sufficient organic growth and the newfound reality of corporate sustainability in the face of volatile capital market moving forward.

Future free cash flow is also reinstated as the reference point for a compan's value. As such free cash flow - more than ever - will be the master key to strategy realization, talent reward and retention and affordable acquisitive growth. The ethical management of sustainable free cash flow growth is taking center stage as the number one priority of management.

In response this management priority, Lodestone has developed the ValueCompass; a proprietary tool to diagnose shareholder value dynamics and identify opportunities to accelerate free cash flow growth in a sustainable manner.

The Lodestone ValueCompass offers a comprehensive outside-in review on Shareholder Value accretion opportunities. At the heart, the ValueCompass is a financial valuation of your company, benchmarked and simulated against your peer group from a shareholder value perspective.

The ValueCompass is based on annual reports, analyst reports and research information on the market in which your company operates. The primary financial analysis drives out a number of priorities and themes.

On this basis Lodestone brings together a selection of consultants, with industry-specific or functional expertise relevant to your company's situation. This team of "best & brightest" brainstorm strategic and operational opportunities to accelerate free cash flow growth.

The most promising opportunities are sense-checked with the leading analysts and external industry experts where necessary. After market sounding, tentative solutions are detailed in full consideration of the market and competitive context in which your company operates. This helps ensure identification of realistic, value-creating solutions that can be implemented in the near term and present manageable risk.

One of the exciting things about the ValueCompass is that it is a truly issue driven approach. You know where it starts but you don't know where you are going to end up. The range of opportunities and solutions that emerge from each project is simply amazing. It mirrors the breadth of skills that Lodestone and its extended network put to work in the ValueCompass. I cannot imagine doing something more inspiring.  Strahil Christov, Lodestone analyst

The ValueCompass is a Lodestone upfront investment to lay the foundation for a value-added dialogue with your company's management team; insightful, straight to the point, solution focused and collaborative.

It was refreshing to see a consulting company making a genuine investment to understand our issues. The precision with which Lodestone put the finger on the sore spots was simply amazing. Less than 15 minutes into our first meeting we started addressing the core issues and we haven't stopped since. CFO, global industrial company

Tired of sweet talking consultants? So are we. You want people to speak up that have real solutions to real issues? So do we. If you want further information on the Lodestone ValueCompass or are interested in running a ValueCompass on your company, please contact Lodestone in your territory.