icircle - The Innovation Circle

Our focus is to always work with the strategic agenda of corporate leaders and shareholders:

• Vision and business model
• Corporate governance
• Growth
  • - See example for the palm oil industry
• IPO (initial public offering)
• Mergers and Acquisitions
  • - Pre-M&A: Market scanning, target identification, evaluation (long list, short list), strategic fit
  • - Strategy, valuation, modeling and deal structuring
  • - Post-Merger Integration (PMI)
• Divestments
• Sales & Marketing strategies
• Distribution & Channel strategies
• Organizational model
• Cost competitiveness
• Innovation
  • - Crowdsourcing, open innovation

 

• Business environment, regulation, fiscal & tax structure, infrastructure
• Strategic sector scanning –  value & supply chains, revenues, costs, margins, investments, players, supply & demand structure, growth drivers,  profitability drivers
• Players mapping and profiling
• Description and analysis of existing business models and trends
• Development of long and short list of acquisition targets, potential business partners
• Development of alternative market entry strategies for Brazil – Greenfield, Brownfield, Hybrid
• Risk mitigation plans, key enablers for success
• Definition and implementation of market entry strategy
• Consulting and management support in pilot/roll-out

Our support can also be in the form of counseling to top executives and shareholders. Among the critical and complex themes are:

• Business risks
• Relationship between executives, shareholders and board of directors
• Leadership and succession
• Corporate governance
• Decision making