Services

Strategy & Organisation

Whether your company is in a fast-moving, rapidly growing sector or in a mature industry with limited avenues for growth, Arthur D. Little can help you. Our holistic approach to creative strategy development will let you design a future for your company that is highly ambitious and achievable. And our experience and industry expertise will ensure you use the right tools for the job.

The future success of any company - whether it is a large holding company, a subsidiary, a start-up, or a public administration - depends on how effectively the organisation adjusts to new challenges and continuous change. At Arthur D. Little, we combine our industry expertise and organisational know-how to develop and implement high-performance processes and organisations. Together with you we can mobilise and energise the real change agents in your organisation - your people.

Arthur D. Little helps your company adjust to new challenges and continuous change implementing high-performance organisations today, while also developing creative strategies to desig the future for your company tomorrow.

Corporate Finance

Turnaround Audits  Restructuring Concepts  Restructuring Implementations  Acquisitions and Sales

Merger Support  Project Finance  Private Equity / Venture Capital Financing  Initial Public Offerings

Technical Financial Commercial Due Diligence  Financial Analysis Modeling  Valuation  Synergy Audit

Technology and Innovation Management

After years of cost reduction, restructurings and downsizing, innovation now tops the corporate agenda for growth. Improving innovation ability is today the most important lever to increase profitability and growth. Many companies strive for it, only few get it right. The ones that do get it right, though, demonstrates a deeper understanding of the challenges and the opportunities technology and market trends present and proactively respond by making the best use of available means. In just about all industry sectors the 25 percent most innovative companies have 2.5 times as many new products and get 10 times better returns on their innovation investment than the least innovative ones.

Innovation management is an intricate management process: it is multi-functional, multi-facetted, it involves a partially conflicting mixture of creativity and serendipity, and a well-oiled approach to turn good ideas into new value - be it in the form of new technologies, new products or services, better processes, new business concepts, or even the success of regions / countries. Over the past decades companies have learnt a lot about creating the conditions to foster good ideas and to turn them into value. Yet many companies are deeply dissatisfied with their innovation performance.

Operations Management

Our Operations Management Practice offers its clients the full range of consulting services according to their needs. These services range from the development of Operations Strategy concepts all the way through to Implementation Support of the developed concepts and are offered to a wide range of industries on both a national and international scale. In fact our clients include major companies in TIME industries (Telecommunications, IT, Media & Entertainment), Manufacturing industries (Automotive, Engineering, Electronics, Resources), Process industries (Chemicals, Energy, Healthcare, Utilities & Advanced Energy Systems), Financial Services (Banking, Insurance, Private Equity, Venture Capital) and Consumer industries (Travel & Transportation, Public Sector, Consumer Goods, Retail).

Having spent several years working on various Operations Management assignments for a wide range of industries, our consultants have broad experience and are fully familiar with latest trends and best practices in Operations Management. Additionally by combining our functional Operations Management competencies with specific industry knowledge we are able to serve our clients with customised approaches responding best to their specific requirements and needs. We are recognised for our pragmatic and implementation oriented approach leading to a lasting success of the developed concepts. We are proud that with many of our clients we have established a long lasting relationship and a true partnership working side-by-side with them in developing leading edge solutions.

Information Management

Today, Information Management pervades virtually all business processes, and is the platform for networked business systems. It is therefore also the fundamental prerequisite for the implementation of business strategies - and the basis for enhancing efficiency in companies.

We help top companies to make their IT more effective and more efficient.

IT Strategy: On the basis of your business strategy and your market and technology trends, we develop an IT roadmap, IT architectures and resources planning that will enable you to control both the effectiveness and the efficiency of your IT for several years to come.

IT Co-Management: Complex IT implementation programmes and projects must be professionally controlled. We provide limited-duration project management to ensure that project goals are realised, the necessary quality of results is achieved, and project costs remain within budget.

IT Organisation: To guarantee that the IT requirements of business units can be met, IT processes very often have to be realigned. We provide support in this organisational realignment in large corporations. We also improve IT service quality and help companies to hive off or outsource their IT services.

IT Rightsizing: Against the background of heavy investment in IT and today's stagnating business, IT must also make a contribution to cost reduction. Our IT rightsizing approach enables companies to save dramatically on IT spending.

Environment & Risk

Arthur D. Little's environment, safety, and risk specialists are unique in their ability to apply technical expertise and industry knowledge with a broad business perspective. We help companies manage their environmental, health, and safety risks effectively to maintain their licence to operate and meet the needs of their business in a sustainable and responsible manner.

We don't just "turn the handle." We constantly refine and reinvent our tools and approaches to maximise their effectiveness and respond to client needs as they evolve.

We offer broad range of services across the environmental and safety arena, but we specialise in dealing with critical issues and tough, high-profile challenges of strategic importance to our clients.