Business Strategy consulting

Leverage core competencies to formulate innovative strategies, create new business models and ensure successful transformations for sustainable growth and profitability

Overview

Business leaders understand that profit, success and continued growth are all achieved through an intelligent, articulate and well-crafted business strategy.

Markets, competition, industry changes, adapting business models, and mergers, acquisitions and divestitures are just a few factors that your organization must not only keep pace with, but strive to master in order to drive ongoing business success.

IBM's business strategy expertise can help define and understand market drivers, innovative value propositions, risks, technology strategies, globalization, M&A activity and the development of new business models. The business strategy offerings help your enterprise understand and leverage core competencies to drive real value by formulating leading-edge, implementable strategies that result in sustainable growth and profitability.

The business strategy consulting practice can assist in the following areas of your organization:

  • Growth & business model innovation strategies: Continuously innovate to transform your business model, including where and how you compete, in order to spur growth, provide differentiation and increase competitiveness.
  • M&A services: Take your company from vision to value in pursuit and integration of deal transactions—acquisitions, mergers, divestitures or spin-offs.
  • Sustainability strategy: Clarify economic logic of sustainable actions, and set a strategy for sustainability (energy, carbon, water, and corporate social responsibility) within the context of your company's business and operating models.
  • Smarter business: Understand what is needed internally and externally to be interconnected, instrumented and intelligent in order to become more nimble and adept.
  • Cloud enabled business models: Innovative approaches that leverages the dynamic nature of cloud as an enabler of new business models

Business challenges

Business leaders today are addressing many challenges and opportunities in today's growingly digital world, including:

  • Leveraging business insights and technological capabilities to drive innovation in business models, and across customers, markets and channels in order to create growth and sustainable advantage
  • Realizing higher value from critical merger, acquisition and divestiture activities
  • Developing an implementable roadmap for more efficient and environmentally conscious policies and operations
  • Harnessing and leveraging new technology to become more agile and dexterous while optimizing past and existing investments in technology and infrastructure

Why IBM

IBM innovation and growth, business strategy consultants are catalysts for transformation, creating strategies and models that drive innovation from strategy through execution. Acting as focal points for this innovation, we leverage IBM's own unique research and vision across the technology horizon to develop new business models that boost sustainable advantage and increase competitiveness. We do this by working collaboratively with you—offering expert analysis, business planning, scenario envisioning, project planning, and business case development—to build solutions to the business problems confronting your organization.

The IBM innovation and growth practice is part of IBM Global Business Services?, one of the world's leading management consulting practices. Working across all major sectors, IBM has inherent business expertise across more than a dozen industries. Our consultants have demonstrated experience creating value for clients, and together with our proven assets, methodologies, partnerships and research capabilities, we act as trusted business advisors to our clients worldwide.

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Meet the expert

  • Anthony Lipp

    Anthony Lipp

    Partner, Business Strategy Leader, IBM Global Business Services

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