Are you concerned about adding value to your business portfolio?

Managing a portfolio of businesses presents several dilemmas. For example, corporate managers have to add value to justify their existence but they can only do this through intervening in the activities of the businesses. These interventions although well intentioned are often resisted by business managers. The dilemma is then how hard do corporate managers push - do they have superior insight? Or are business managers resisting for ‘good’ reasons?

Catalyst helps clients address challenges like:

• Which range of businesses should we be in? And why?
• How can the centre add more value to the business units in its portfolio?
• How can I accelerate my key corporate initiative?
• Where does value get lost?
• How can we improve the presentation of Corporate’s value added?

We work with Clients to resolve such complex strategic questions - to enable them to make decisions with greater certainty and to help build the consensus in their teams which leads to results. We add value through developing the clearest possible data-driven picture of the opportunity for maximising value coupled with a pragmatic assessment of its feasibility.