In order to succeed in the fast changing TIME industry, companies must understand technology and market trends together with the opportunities and threats they bring, in order to develop the strategies and internal resources necessary to capitalise on these trends and create value.
Arthur D. Little is recognized as the most innovative top-tier strategy and operations consulting firm globally. Arthur D. Little’s Telecommunications, Information Technology, Media and Electronics (TIME) Practice provides services focused on strategic growth and innovation, and performance improvement. Specifically, the Global TIME Practice focuses on identifying new technologies that could present a disruptive change to operators’ current business models, and assessing the threats and opportunities these new technologies present to market players. Arthur D. Little often receives mandates from investment banks and financial institutions to evaluate business plans for new ventures.
Energy companies form a key part of Arthur D. Little`s client base worldwide with a focus in the oil, gas and power sectors. Our reputation derives from our success in advising clients to overcome the political, economic, technological and environmental challenges facing the global energy industry - this at a time of great change for both the regulated and unregulated energy business.
Arthur D. Little has worked with all the world`s major oil and gas companies throughout its long history covering a wide range of business sectors. These include upstream oil and gas, downstream refining and distribution, gas and power, and transportation. Among the firm`s clients are the global energy companies, investors, law firms and policy makers. We employ industry specialists and professionals with first hand knowledge and experience in the oil and gas industry. With these professionals we are able to apply our industry knowledge creatively to enhance the value of our services and provide a complete consulting solution to our client`s business and operational challenges.
Arthur D. Little works with clients on a wide range of issues driven by new strategies to meet the challenges facing the energy industries. We help shape the future through our comprehensive range of services covering strategy, market studies, project development, performance improvement, organisational change and dispute resolution.
Our Global Health Care Practices serve pharmaceutical, medical technology and biotech companies, as well as financial institutions. More than ¾ of our health care consultants have medical industry or clinical experience and advanced degrees. Many have held executive management and research positions within the health care sector that we serve.
Industry and public sector clients choose us because of our unrivalled market insights, our analytical skills and the integrity of our people. Lenders and investors select us for our: technology understanding, objectivity, due diligence expertise and global network of staff.
Arthur D. Little is well qualified for international client engagements.
We have worked extensively in the chemicals sector from our earliest days. Our clients include many of the world's prominent chemicals companies. Our recent work in the chemicals sector includes:
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We work with the chemical industry's leading companies. Our clients value our extensive industry knowledge; 75% of our consultants in this area have working experience in the chemical industry.
Our chemical competence centers are located in Boston (USA), Wiesbaden, D¼sseldorf (Germany), Brussels (Benelux), London (UK), Sao Paulo (Brazil) Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan) and Singapore.
Our Travel & Transportation Practice offers its clients a wide range of consulting services according to the industry needs. These services range from consulting on asset-based strategy development and business process optimisation all the way through to implementation support in major change initiatives, management of sustainability and safety issues. Our clients include major companies in the transport and logistics sector. By combining our competences in four competence centers we are able to operate as close as possible to the markets and maximise our client orientation:
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Banks, insurance companies and financial services companies have once been the driving forces in the economy. However, recently they have come under severe market pressure and the industry dynamic has increased for various reasons. The consolidation process within the industry, increasing customer demands combined with decreasing customer loyalty, shrinking margins, increased performance pressure, Basle II or Solvency and technological developments characterise the current financial services environment. Integrated sales channels, ultimate knowledge about the customer, continuous innovation abilities, the capability to bring the value chain in an ideal shape e.g. via partnering or in/outsourcing and the constant need to deliver at low cost reflect some solutions to these challenges.
We provide strategic and operational services in a range of areas to inform government policy making, evaluate programme effectiveness and assist in implementation. Our success in the public sector lies in our broad range of specialist expertise, our ability to clarify complex, multi-faceted issues and our objectivity and integrity in forming conclusions. Our work in the public sector stretches from research and policy work in safety, environmental and regulatory issues, through to industry benchmarking, competitiveness improvement, R&D and technology studies, and project management.
Our Consumer Goods Practice offers its clients the full range of consulting services tailored to their needs. Our experienced staff members work in integrated teams with client experts to develop winning solutions. We work with clients from strategy to distrubution offering end-to-end solutions if necessary and requested. We take pride in working for leading Consumer Goods companies worldwide (Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Heinz, Kraft, Kellog's, Nestlé, Unilever, among others) and we have worked in nearly every category of consumer packaged goods (fresh products, beverages, condiments, food, personal care products, among others).
We can give advice on how to deal with burning issues in the Consumer Goods Industries: growth strategies, globalisation / alliances, marketing, sales service excellence, quality management, supply chain excellence, organisation design, operations excellence, branding and innovation and consolidation / M&A.
Our expertise is based on three pillars:
Profound knowledge of the Automotive and the Manufacturing industry
we employ a high proportion of consultants with industry background, complemented by former CxO´s as advisors and freelancers
we regularly perform studies on industry trends and special issues related to innovation and complexity management
We provide tailored solutions
through various partnerships with leading research institutes and universities
by leveraging the vast technology expertise of the ALTRAN group with more than 16.000 consultants in 40 countries globally
though partnering with selected service providers with a complementary "best-of-breed" know-how and skill-base
We make it happen
by leveraging our Global Advisory Networks
by our pragmatic work style and high social competence of our consultants
by sound conceptual work, based on profound and proven methodologies, combined with the know-how to enable organizations (in over 80 percent of our projects we also play a role in the final implementation)