Blueshield have established a long-lasting business for many years in different sectors such as oil and gas E&P, trading, Merger & Acquisition, IT/Telecom systems turnkey or BOT in different regions such as Africa, Middle East, and Asia.
The company have teamed up with several selected international and indigenous partners, which have been long time renown professional in Africa, Middle east and Asian strategic advisory, consulting, for government in these continents for decades.
HIGH LEVEL, STRATEGIC ADVISORY & CONSULTING
Strategy consulting is regarded by the majority of consultants and clients as the most 'high-end' and prestigious segment within the professional services industry.
A strategy is defined as “a plan with the aim of realizing long-term goals," and organizations regularly engage with strategy consultants for support in developing and implementing business or country strategies. Our consulting domain focuses on supporting private sector clients with the development of corporate, organizational or functional strategies and helping public sector organizations and institutions with economic, R&D and technical policy.
More than in other segments, the development of the strategy consulting industry is closely tied with overall economic growth, with high growth recorded during periods of prosperity, and dropping growth rates during downturns.
STRATEGY CONSULTING SERVICES
Strategy consulting services consists of several disciplines: Corporate Strategy, Business Model Transformation, Economic Policy, Mergers & Acquisitions, Organizational, Functional, Operations, and Digital Strategy.
Common examples of strategic advisory projects include the assessment of strategic options, support of business planning processes, and the development of growth agenda’s such as market entry strategies (when companies want to enter new regions or launch new products).
Further offerings within the segment include impact assessments, financial valuation analysis in cases of disputes (economic litigation), economic studies, conducted both for corporates or government authorities.
Blueshield is, together with corporate finance advisors, M&A lawyers, and investment bankers, also active in the M&A space, with a focus on strategic and commercial activities in the pre-deal phase, although consultancies are also hired in many cases to manage the initial period of the post-merger integration phase.
Over the past decades, strategic management and operational management have increasingly converged, as topics such as process management, operations and technology have become increasingly important elements of strategy execution.
Consequently, several offerings that were historically centered around strategic advisory have been expanded to include operational considerations, and the Strategy & Operations domain has gained significant importance as a result.
In line with the rise of technology, digital strategies have surfaced to the forefront of strategic work, not just enabling business ambitions, but representing the crux between success and failed strategies more than ever, because of which the market for Digital Strategy has shown unprecedented growth of late.
Strategy consultants are hired by clients to support them with strategic decision making, which includes the development of strategy and, to an extent, also the execution of strategic plans.
As the responsibility for strategic decision-making falls under the mandate of senior management, strategy consultants typically work for executives and high-ranked managers or owners.
Governments and institutions are supported with economic policy setting, while in the case of mergers & acquisitions, strategy consultants typically support the strategic activities of the M&A process such as setting the M&A strategy, executing the commercial due diligence, creating the merger business case and/or designing the integration roadmap.
In light of the rise of digital and technology as an enabler of strategy, or even a key competitive differentiator according to some, digital strategy has grown into a large service area within strategy consulting over the past few years.
Digital strategists support customers with, among others, creating IT strategies, providing plans on how to embrace technology into business strategy, ensuring business functions are well positioned to adopt systems and tools, as well as high-level IT architecture work.