ENTERPRISE VALUE MAXIMISATION

 The GC Alpha Playbook serves as the ultimate blueprint for executive strategy formulation, providing a comprehensive roadmap for expanding into new markets, growing the customer base, and increasing revenue streams to truly capture maximum Alpha on Strategy. With a key focus to empower executive leadership teams with the mechanics to achieve Alpha, the GC Alpha Playbook outlines the Global battlegrounds of where the play, how to play and how to win across the dimensions of customer value, territory, geography, and ecosystem. 

Being exceptionally Investor Centric, GC Share Price Engineering is an elite GC Financial Engineering capability that partners with executive leadership teams to augment the Enterprise’s ability to outperform the Market and sector peers by enhancing the organization’s “edge” for Total Shareholder Return (TSR) on the path to Alpha. Aligning to our GC Enterprise Value Based Management (EVBM) philosophy, we place the customer at the centre, leveraging our GC Alpha Intelligence capability to seek the Maximum value opportunity and economic value that is created beyond the short to medium term income statement and balance sheet effects, to accelerate Share Price in a data driven manner. Leveraging our highly advanced proprietary GC Financial Engineering tools and technologies, we engineer and facilitate regions of economic surplus in pursuit of economic profit to the point of “deep alpha”. By embedding the financial and operational performance levers required for accelerated the organization’s Price-to-Earnings ratio (PE), we aim to create optimal Shareholder Value, where returns far exceed the cost of capital at the lowest risk levels. 

 In pursuit of Alpha through Customer Value maximisation, GC Financial Engineering applies an integrated approach of Systems Dynamics, Behavioural Economics and Growth Engineering to develop strategies geared towards the maximization of Customer Value. Leveraging GC Sales and Growth Engineering, as well as GC Marketing and Communication Engineering capability, we leverage our deep GC Global Market Analytics technology and proprietary GC Customer Value AI technology to define customer interaction strategies that power significant business growth, profitability and Shareholder Value. In order to achieve Customer Value maximization, our unique approaches to gain deep understanding of the customer needs and behaviours allow for the bespoke design of customer engagement strategies, linking the right customer objectives with the optimal marketing and channel strategy in order to predicably measure and impact Share Price.  

Through our GC Investor Strategy and partnership approach, we seek to unlock the maximum value for our clients across asset classes, sectors and industries, for both public and private market capital. In order to accelerate Enterprise Investor Strategy, we leverage the highly advanced skillsets of our GC Alpha team to establish a GC Investor Management Office (IMO), functioning as a hub for executing the Investor strategy, Investor communication and relationship Engineering. Through our Alpha practice execution methodology, guided by GC Financial Engineering and GC Marketing and Communication Engineering practices, Investor strategy roadmaps are implemented with rapid delivery and real-time value capture measurements, seeking to realize maximum value across the value chain of Shareholder Valuation. Leveraging GC Alpha Intelligence capability, we embed Buy-Side Intelligence to empower Buy-Side and alternative investor desks, to capture the maximum value opportunity and seek ways to capture alpha.

Translated from the Global Enterprise Strategy and the Corporate Finance mechanics that contribute to the organization’s ability to generate surplus economic value, GC Finance TOM (FTOM) leverages the synergy between Shareholder and Enterprise value aligned to Customer Value when reimagining the fundamentals of the Finance Office value chain and ways of working. Partnering with the CFO, we define the efficiency and effectiveness principles that will enable the finance function to capture maximum value even in the harshest of economic conditions. Partnering with GC Organizational Design capability, the people efficiency principles, are defined and translated into optimal organizational structures, designed for optimal people performance. Understanding the significant impact of such business transformation initiatives, GC Strategic Change Management practices are proactively deployed to manage the people and cultural changes associated with implementing a new FTOM, placing excessive focus on People Experience across the change transformation journey. To ensure the Finance Community is skilled and prepared to operate in newly defined ways of working, we leverage GC Learning and Leadership development capability to close the future skills gap and accelerate the reskilling and upskilling of talent, linking talent to value and enhancing the organization's ability to lead and execute on the strategic objectives for Enterprise Value Maximisation. 

In order to develop an Enterprise Finance leadership capability that can drive transformative business growth, GC Finance leadership development interventions take on a value orientated leadership transformation approach, focussing on developing the business partnership skills, leadership behaviours and growth acceleration know-how to drive shareholder value creation. Through immersive leadership development experiences, our leadership development approaches link leadership development initiatives to real business growth strategies, with hands-on executive coaching and guidance to develop the skills required to identify and capture value opportunities linked to Enterprise Value Maximisation. Integrating Finance leadership development journeys with real business value and the execution enablers of the FTOM, business transformation and change adoption are accelerated, and leadership behavioural impact translated to measurable ROI for reskilling and upskilling People.

Translated from the Global Enterprise Strategy and the Corporate Finance mechanics required for Enterprise Value Maximisation, GC Finance Skills Accelerator focuses on equipping the finance function with the right skills to capture maximum value, even in the harshest of economic conditions. Leveraging GC Learning and Leadership Development capability, GC Finance Skills Accelerator programmes focus on developing bespoke learning journeys directly linked to Business and Finance strategy, taking on a bottom-up and top-down approach for skills and behavior transformation that result in measurable business impact and ROI for reskilling and upskilling People. With the aim to enable rapid skills and behavior transformation, our approach takes on an intensified learning experience, aimed at developing the critical capabilities, skills and behaviors needed to engineer financial performance improvement strategies for Enterprise Value Maximisation. 

The GC Finance Engineering Alpha Team forms part of the primary leading team in GC that is focussed on achieving Alpha returns for shareholders through precision Sales, Growth, Marketing and Financial Engineering interventions. GC Finance Engineering Alpha Team is typically deployed as an elite execution arm of executive leadership to achieve rapid business results in high pressured situations, empowered to operate independently and with a high degree of autonomy. Tasked with the implementation of EVBM interventions linked to Global Enterprise Strategy and Corporate Finance, the team is typically deployed as an elite strategic capability, tasked with engineering the path to Alpha and the facilitation of the GC Alpha playbook implementation. The team comprises of highly elite and specialized individuals with exceptional skill and precision, working collaboratively to operate under extremely challenging conditions and tasked with carrying out high-risk and high-rewards projects. Having a high degree of risk tolerance and a willingness to operate in unpredictable environments, the team is typically deployed as a rapid-response unit to emergent situations, or to prevent/mitigate threats before they escalate. Being responsible for high-priority or confidential projects, the team is equipped with proprietary GC technology and tools that is designed to enhance their performance in challenging environments. 

GC Deal Advisory is an exclusive capability within our GC Financial Engineering practice that provides executive advisory services across the Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Life Cycle for inorganic expansion strategies on the path to IPO. As part of our deep partnership approach to our clients, at the onset of inorganic expansion growth strategy, GC Deal Advisory leverages our highly advanced GC Alpha Intelligence Capability to engineer the path to IPOs and listing, with extensive target scanning, due diligence and IPO Advisory to define the mechanics for capturing maximum synergy benefits post-integration.Through our unique approaches to inorganic growth portfolio optimisation, we embed the Financial Engineering components of inorganic expansion and portfolio optimisation to position the enterprise balance sheet with the optimal capital structure, in order to recognise maximum synergy benefits of inorganic strategies. Partnering closely with our GC Enterprise Engineering and Programme Engineering Capabilities, we establish the Post-Merger Integration (PMI) foundations, through setting up robust integration governance infrastructures, defining integration value realization opportunities through revenue and cost synergies and develop transition plans focusing on synergy paths, target operating models, change management actions and cultural integration for end-to-end business transformation.  

Leveraging highly advanced proprietary GC multimethod scenario simulation tools and technologies across the strategy value chain of the Enterprise, GC Systems Dynamics seeks to determine the optimal sequence of effort between the value driving agents participating within the ecosystem of the organisation, in order to identify opportunities for maximum Shareholder Value creation. 

Leveraging highly advanced statistical modelling, factoring in the principles of consumer psychology and the cognitive, emotional, and social factors that influence economic behaviour, GC Behavioural Economics focusses on the maximization of Customer Value in pursuit of capturing maximum Alpha for the Enterprise.

Drawing on a broad range of highly complex proprietary GC experimentation, analysis and data modelling tools and technologies, GC Growth Engineering implements rapid test and iterate strategies to create scalable and sustainable Customer Value growth models in pursuit of capturing maximum Alpha for the Enterprise. 

Assisting Enterprises in Capturing the maximum Value opportunity pre- and post exit.

Partnering with our clients to ensure maximum synergy benefits are captured and realized post deal conclusion.

Guiding our client’s Investment Strategy at the onset with the right to data to capture maximum Alpha.

Engineer deal activity for maximum Alpha by supporting our clients across the value chain of the different types of Mergers and Acquisitions.