Executive advisory
A senior advisor as a sounding board for the CEO and leadership team on strategic and organizational questions.
- Best for
- Ongoing executive support
- Team
- One advisor
Executive consultancy
Strategy is decided at the top. It succeeds through people and process.
Confiance advises executive teams on corporate and business strategy, process automation and digitalization, and human resources. We connect the plan with the organization that has to deliver it.
- Expert consultants & advisors
- 42
- Practice areas
- 4
- Industries served
- 6
Expertise
Four practices. One view of the business.
Most executive decisions cut across strategy, operations and people. Our practices can lead an engagement on their own, and they work together when a decision needs all three.
Corporate Strategy
Decisions at group level: where the company competes, how capital is allocated, and how the organization is structured to deliver it.
What we do
- Portfolio review and capital allocation
- Growth, M&A and divestment strategy
- Group operating model and governance
- Strategic planning and target setting
- Post-merger integration planning
Questions we help answer
- Which businesses should we grow, fix or exit?
- Is our structure helping or slowing the strategy?
- Where should the next investment go?
Business Strategy
How a business or business unit wins in its market: customers, propositions, channels and the plan that ties them together.
What we do
- Market and competitor analysis
- Growth strategy and market entry
- Customer, proposition and pricing strategy
- Commercial and go-to-market planning
- Business plans and performance management
Questions we help answer
- Where is the profitable growth in our market?
- Why are we losing share, and what do we change?
- Is the business plan realistic, and how do we track it?
Process Automation & Digitalization
Making the organization faster and cheaper to run. We redesign core processes first, then choose the technology that supports them.
What we do
- Process mapping and redesign
- Automation roadmaps: workflow, RPA and AI
- Digital operating model and data governance
- Technology and vendor selection
- Implementation oversight and benefits tracking
Questions we help answer
- Which processes should we automate first?
- Why hasn't our digital spend paid off?
- How do we scale what worked in a pilot?
Human Resources
The people side of strategy: an organization with the structure, leaders and skills to carry out the plan.
What we do
- Organization design and workforce planning
- Leadership assessment and succession
- Talent, reward and performance frameworks
- Change management and culture
- HR operating model and HR digitalization
Questions we help answer
- Do we have the leaders for the next stage?
- Is our organization designed for the strategy?
- How do we keep key people through a transformation?
Our name
ConfianceFrench · noun · trust, confidence
Advice you can rely on
Executives share their hardest questions with us. We answer with candour and keep their confidence.
Strategy, process and people together
A strategy fails when the processes and people behind it don't change. We look at all three from the start.
Built to be implemented
Our recommendations come with owners, milestones and measures, so the work continues after we leave.
Industries
Six sectors, each with its own pressures.
Our consultants and advisors focus on six industries. Below are some of the topics on executive agendas in each.
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FMCG
Margin pressure, fast-moving consumers and retailer power.
- Portfolio & brand focus
- Route to market
- Cost & margin
- Supply chain
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Manufacturing
Productivity, automation and a changing skills base on the shop floor.
- Operational excellence
- Industry 4.0
- Plant footprint
- Workforce skills
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Banking
Digital competitors, cost-to-income targets and heavy regulation.
- Digital channels
- Cost-to-income
- Compliance processes
- Talent
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Telecoms
High network investment, flat consumer revenue and legacy IT.
- B2B growth
- IT simplification
- Customer experience
- Network investment
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Defense & National Security
Rising budgets, urgent capability needs and strict security requirements.
- Capability programmes
- Industrial scale-up
- Cleared workforce
- Procurement
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Oil & Gas
Volatile prices, the energy transition and ageing assets.
- Transition strategy
- Asset portfolio
- Digital operations
- Workforce transition
Approach
From question to lasting result.
Every engagement follows four stages. We scale each stage to the decision at hand, from a focused review of a few weeks to a programme that runs for many months.
- 1
Diagnose
Interviews, data and process review to establish the facts and the real question.
Output: shared fact base - 2
Design
Options assessed with the executive team, then one recommended path with its business case.
Output: decision & plan - 3
Deliver
We work alongside your teams on the changes to structure, processes and systems.
Output: changes in place - 4
Embed
Measures, governance and capability building so the results hold.
Output: lasting results
Ways to work with us
Matched to the size of the decision.
Engagements range from a single advisor working with a CEO to a team that supports a full transformation.
Strategic assignment
A defined question, a dedicated team and a clear deliverable: a strategy, a design or a business case.
- Best for
- A specific decision
- Team
- Small dedicated team
Transformation support
Multi-practice teams that design and help implement change across strategy, processes and people.
- Best for
- Large-scale change
- Team
- Cross-practice team
Contact
Start a conversation.
Tell us about the decision in front of you. Every enquiry is read by our team and treated in confidence.
- Confidential from the first message
- A reply to every enquiry
- No obligation