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Why Do Companies Pursue a Business Transformation?
Typically, companies pursue Large Scale Business Transformation when they have determined that their existing Business Model is not sustainable. They require large scale changes to their
- Internal Operating Model
- Customer Relationship Model
Most Companies are Reacting to External and Internal Pressures
- External
- Shareholder expectations - Trade concentration - Industry consolidation - E-Business - Mature markets - Parallel Imports - Free trade zones |
- Internal
- Sales Growth - Profit Margin - Working Capital - Fixed Capital - Cost of Capital - Tax Rate |
Business benefit of a business transformation
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The majority of the benefits come from business operating model changes, not process improvement or technology implementation
- Cross-country optimization
- Shared service centers
- Exploiting economies of scale
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However, process improvement and technology implementation are absolutely necessary
- To enable the business operating model changes
- To create a sustainable solution
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At Lodestone we have conducted a multitude of assignments in different industries to help clients design and implement full scale business transformations or elements thereof