Our Team
  Strategy & Organization
  Technology and Innovation
      Management
  Corporate Finance
  Internal Controls Reporting
  Achieving Market Leadership
  Enterprise Risk Management
  HR Services Service Offerings

  

  Our core competencies reflect The priorities of world-class senior management in terms of setting strategy, managing change and delivering growth. This is why the capabilities of IGBS are centered into three key areas: strategy consulting, change management and investment advisory.
IGBS offers our clients a tailored service across a broad range of functional areas, from strategy through to full implementation in the field. Each of our main service offerings is supported by a worldwide practice network of expert practitioners, dedicated to continuous evolution and enhancement of our functional knowledge capital. Through our global knowledge management infrastructure, we can bring to bear a vast shared resource of methodologies, tools, best practices and case examples for the benefit of our clients anywhere in the world.

  Our Team
The most distinctive feature of our team is our pioneering and entrepreneurial drive. This is the key force behind our excellent reputation for offering creative consulting services. We turn ideas into action, closing the gap between strategic planning and improved performance via hands-on implementation.

The basis of our approach is the combination of high-caliber business experience with top academic credentials. Our team members hold MBAs and PhDs from reputable universities and were outstanding performers in large consulting and investment banking institutions such as McKinsey & Company

In addition to traditional global consulting experience, our team members contribute insights from a diverse range of backgrounds covering numerous industries and management positions. From the founding of successful start-ups to the management of large multinational corporations

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  Strategy & Organization

Whether your company is in a fast-moving, rapidly growing sector or in a mature industry with limited avenues for growth, IGBS 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 organization adjusts to new challenges and continuous change. IGBS we combine our industry expertise and organizational know-how to develop and implement high-performance processes and organizations. Together with you we can mobilize and energize the real change agents in your organization - your people.

IGBS helps your company adjust to new challenges and continuous change implementing high-performance organizations today, while also developing creative strategies to design the future for your company tomorrow.

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   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.

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.

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  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

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  Internal Controls Reporting

Regulations vary a great deal around the world. However, there is a clear trend toward requiring greater transparency in financial reporting and more accountability to investors coming from the European Union’s Company Law Directives, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in the U.S., and comparable initiatives in other jurisdictions.

CEOs and CFOs of listed companies are being held more accountable for the integrity of their financial statements and the effectiveness of internal controls. Directors and audit committees are taking on greater responsibility for overseeing management and for the relationship with the external auditor.

In the near future, investors will see new reports from management and auditors about whether adequate internal control over financial reporting is in place. This information is important to investors because good internal control over financial reporting is one of the most effective deterrents to fraud and a key factor in preventing financial misstatements

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  Achieving Market Leadership

At IGBS we recognize that it is the fast growing private and public businesses of today that will become the global market leaders of tomorrow.

You may be leading a dynamic mid-cap company, challenging for a place on one of the world’s principal indexes, or an entrepreneur with ambitious plans for international expansion. Whatever your stage of growth, if you think that your business has what it takes to become one of the next generation of leading businesses, then our worldwide network of strategic growth market professionals can help.

We draw upon our extensive experience, sharp insight and global resources to help your business reach its full potential. We understand your challenges and we know what it takes to drive sustainable growth.

• Accessing markets at home and abroad through market research and analysis, as well as development of marketing plans and marketing materials.

• Developing strategic plans for long-term corporate growth and development.

• Identifying strategic partners for joint ventures, marketing, distributing and manufacturing.

• Analyzing and developing distribution channel opportunities.

• Preparing evaluations on potential joint venture partners.

• Gaining access to government and business decision makers through relationship building and policy analysis.

• Providing cross-cultural, business and political insights into foreign markets.

• Screening and selecting service providers, such as advertising and public relations agencies.

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  Enterprise Risk Management

Companies face a wide range of risks in the normal course of business. But not all risks are equally important. Enterprise risk management (ERM) helps managers focus on the risks that have the biggest influence ¾ both positive and negative ¾ on their ability to achieve strategic goals and to add shareholder value.

IGBS recognizes that there are multiple perspectives that need to be considered when establishing ERM goals and metrics. Our analytics embed actuarial and other risk management techniques in a corporate finance setting. We also work with our clients to create a risk-minded corporate culture that nurtures the most effective forms of enterprise risk management.

We enable our clients to implement ERM in four stages built around risk identification, quantification, solution development and execution. This “modular” approach can enhance and expand a company's existing risk and capital management practices with our suite of ERM services that include:

Risk Identification
Rating Agency Support
Operational Risk
Economic Capital
Hedge Effectiveness
Legacy Pension Solutions
Insurance Portfolio Optimization
Risk Financing
Health Care Professional Liability
Reinsurance Optimization
Consultative Placement

From its base in the banking and insurance industries, ERM has gained traction across all major industry segments in the wake of Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulatory developments, rating agency pressures and shareholder demand for improved financial performance and earnings stability.

Taking a comprehensive view of risks provides an understanding of the accumulations of exposure and the correlations between the risk factors that can help minimize surprises and mitigate corporate liability. Looking across the risk silos can also help to better evaluate the risk/reward tradeoff and to help make decisions that create value for an organization.

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  HR Services Service Offerings

Drive measurable improvements in profitability and performance.
Build an effective and sustainable cost management structure
Define the agenda of virtually every senior business and HR leadership team today.
 

Our client service teams, under the leadership of a Lead Client Service Partner, help create powerful business solutions for organizations operating anywhere in the world. This integrated approach combines insight and innovation from multiple disciplines with business knowledge and industry expertise to help our clients exceed their expectations.

Whether your company is just starting up or is on the verge of becoming a global powerhouse, our growth services can help you manage and sustain your company’s growth.