Our work revolves around three pillars
Most assignments draw on more than one. Start with the pillar closest to your question.
Strategy and management
Planning, change, risk, performance and transactions for governments and organizations setting long-term direction.
Strategic planning
Strategy development, long-term national and county development plans, scenario planning and M&E.
Organizational transformation and change management
Change programs and seminars, policy alignment, soft systems methodology and change laboratory sessions.
Knowledge management
KM strategy, frameworks and repositories, assessment and audit, and lessons learned.
Risk management
Enterprise and regulatory risk, leading-edge models and frameworks, organizational risk assessment and risk strategy.
Performance management
Performance management frameworks, best practices and performance contracting.
Leadership and capacity building
Leadership development, training needs assessment and capacity building.
Mergers and acquisitions
Financial due diligence, evaluation of financial models, negotiation support and advice on transaction structure.
Transaction advisory
Financial structuring, due diligence, tax structuring, IPOs and capital market transactions, alliances and joint ventures.
Tax
Policy, administration, compliance and representation, for the authorities that collect revenue and the taxpayers who owe it.
Tax and customs policy
Legal and regulatory frameworks, national and county tax policy, and the Medium-Term Revenue Strategy (MTRS).
Tax administration
Design, structuring and operationalization of tax administrations, their transformation and digitization, and technical support in fragile states.
Tax and customs compliance advisory
Annual returns and liabilities, tax incentives, real estate taxes, transfer pricing, tariff classification, valuation and customs procedures.
Tax representation
Support through tax audits and investigations, assessment objections, alternative dispute resolution, and the tax appeals tribunal and courts.
Research
Surveys, policy research and economic analysis, shaped around the context in which the findings will be used.
Baseline surveys
Establishing the starting point against which a programme, policy or investment can later be measured.
Developmental work research and practice-based activity systems
A way of studying how work is actually done in an organization, and developing better ways of working together with the people who do it.
Trade and investment research
Evidence on markets, trade and investment conditions to inform policy and commercial decisions.
Policy research
Independent analysis of policy options, grounded in evidence and in how policy works once it is implemented.
Economic analysis
Quantitative and qualitative analysis of the economic questions facing governments and organizations.
Context-specific research
Research designed around the setting in which the findings will be used, rather than adapted from somewhere else.
Bridging the industry-skills gap
Research into what employers need and what education and training currently deliver, and how to close the difference.