1. Top Management Agenda:

We work with you, focusing on the critical agenda items of Board of Directors or top management meetings. We help address the issues that require immediate attention and deliver results over:

--- 2-3 months time horizon and usually before the next quarterly review.

--- 12-24 months time horizon and usually becomes part of annual review.

--- 36-60 months usually part of long range planning 

 

2. Consulting Model:

Future is inherently unpredictable. Every organization goes through various phases and only those organizations that constantly and consciously re-invent itself to changing landscape, remain ahead in the game, succeed and survive. Adapt Or Die. The best approach any organization can take is to take advantage of this unpredictability - like in Ju Jitsu, you turn your weakness into your strength. 

 

Consider us your mutating gene - the one that will help you adapt and master the new environment. We differ from the traditional management consulting firms that provide band-aid solutions or a menu card of silo services. That does not work, as it assumes that problems occur in isolation.

We take pride in standing by our clients all the way as they ride the ‘Upward Spiral’ all the way to the top by re-inventing themselves. The “Upward Spiral Model” we created and perfected over the past many years is a holistic but analytical approach to achieving and exceeding desired results. Our model helps us work with the top management to emerge from any crisis, develop competencies for growth, execute and build systems/processes to bake in predictability and then finally, as the inevitable change happens, renew the cycle again. 

 

3. 3-S Engagement Approach:

The 3-S Engagement approach, which we developed and honed over the past several years of experience in advising our clients, enables us to dispassionately diagnose the problem and create a specific solution for our clients. It is based on a simple formula that all successful initiatives comprise of three key ingredients - rational decision making, compelling plan and excellent execution.

 

At Excolatur Consulting, every consulting initiative is divided into 3 engagements: scan, strategy and support. 

 

Scan Engagement: In today’s world of information tsumani, the top management constantly finds it challenging and under immense pressure to make rational decisions. Despite being a good business intuition, best intentions and business insights, they find themselves in situation where they need objectivity and advise before they take the next BIG step and invest in strategy formulation and execution.  The challenge is the find out what to focus on - separate chaff from the wheat.

Scan Engagement is the answer to this challenge. We at Excolatur Consulting believes that starting without making fact-based decisions leads to wrong strategy and unproductive implementation leading to an unsuccessful initiative. After all, no wind is right wind if you don’t know which port you are headed to.

During scan engagement, our consulting teams work with your key stakeholders and leverage our  Center for Business Intelligence and Decision Making (CBD) in gathering, analyzing and interpreting information - components of effective decision making. All this effort is to enable you in making two critical decisions that will serve as the guide forward:

--- “Where we stand today”?

--- “Where we can stand tomorrow”?

 

Strategy Engagement: It is all about gaining unfair advantage. Strategy is not an abstract thought, an Idea. It is a living idea that anticipates moves and counter moves, which enable organization to adapt to the changes in environment and above all, plan to be what we want to be tomorrow.  It is about wining - whoever said wining is not everything certainly never worked at Excolatur.

Excolatur consultants merge insight with experience, leveraging talent with our clients to forge the tools for the future. We start with the BIG picture, derived from the Scan Engagement, and then delve into the details of the solutions.

We know that success needs multiple paths - real world is not a closed mathematical solution - and hence we execute multiple small projects which deliver quick results, make the necessary mid-course corrections and do what it takes to win. We do not quit till you have moved up through all the stages of the Upward Spiral and reached the top.

During this engagement we enable our clients address another two questions:

--- “Where we want to go?”

--- “How we can reach there”?

 

Support Engagement: We realize that reality has an annoying habit of interfering with the best laid plans. We stand behind our recommendations and program-manage the implementation of the strategy.

We realize that reality has an annoying habit of interfering with the best laid plans. We stand behind our recommendations and program-manage the implementation of the strategy.

Through the support engagement we not only provide strategic continuity but also dramatically improve the success of the project. This final phase of our engagement model ensure following:

--- Time: reduces the timelines.

--- Leadership: bring in much require focus and leadership skills.

--- Alignment: align top bottom and bottom top views.

--- Sustainability: support our clients through coaching / mentoring so that they can take the work forward after we have left.

--- Transparency: ensure a transparent process to management

 

4. The multiplier effect:

The most heard question by management consultants is “So how can you help us” and the least heard answer by consultants is ”We multiply your shareholders value”

Excolatur measures success not in terms of fancy reports/presentation and nor in the brilliance of our analysis and strategy. Excolatur was founded on the principle that consulting firms must measure their success in terms of their clients’ financial results. The “multiplier effect” is our commitment to our clients and the pride that we take in creating measurable value – We will create shareholder value that is several multiples of the engagement fees.

Consider us as your force multiplier. We talk the same language as you, track the same financial metrics and hold us accountable to them. Our relationships are very long term and we consider our work done only when our clients outperform the market. Therefore our fees are linked to the financial success of our clients. We stand by our analysis, recommendations and support and ‘own’ the results.

No excuses - period.